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All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of SEI...

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2 Contents Introduction Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 Chapter 1 Installing StylusRIP Professional in Your PC System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

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3 Paper Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43 Print Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43 Using Color Manager Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

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4 Printout has misplaced images or type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57 PPD in PageMaker 6.0 is missing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58 Color matching differs during offset printing with Windows Application despite the fact that th...

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5 Notes contain important Information and useful tips on the operation of your printer. ...

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6 Introduction EPSON ® StylusRIP Professional is software for use with Windows ® 98 Second Edition, Me, 2000 or XP that turns your EPSON Stylus™ printer into a PostScript ® printer. StylusRIP Professional processes raster images for your...

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7 Chapter 1 Installing StylusRIP Professional in Your PC Before you install the StylusRIP Professional software in your PC, make sure your PC meets the system requirements listed below. System Requirements Your PC needs to meet the following confi...

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8 Note: StylusRIP Professional can use all the interfaces supported by EPSON Standard Windows Driver. Before installing StylusRIP Professional, it is necessary to connect the printer you want to use and install EPSON Standard Windows Driver. Howev...

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9 What to Check Before Setting Up StylusRIP Professional Before setting up StylusRIP Professional, make sure your system meets the minimum hardware and software requirements listed above, and install any necessary fonts and printer drivers in you...

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10 Installation Note: ❏ Before installing StylusRIP Professional, it is necessary to connect the printer you want to use and install EPSON Standard Windows Driver. For how to install the driver, refer to your printer’s user’s guide. ❏ Sty...

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11 4. Select English and click OK. 5. Continue installation by following the instructions that appear on your screen. 6. When the InstallShield wizard appears, select the printer attached and click the Next button. 7. Continue installation by fol...

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12 8. When the installation of StylusRIP Professional is finished, the following dialog appears. Click the Finish button. The installation of PS Driver begins. 9. The Add Printer wizard starts and the installation of PS Driver begins. Click the N...

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13 10. Check Local printer in Local or Network Printer. Do not check Automatically detect and install my Plug and Play printer. Then, click the Next button. 11. Select a printer port. Check Use the following port, and select StylusRIP Professional...

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14 Windows 2000/XP: english\win2000-xp\ps_setup When you finish selecting, click the OK button. 13. Model names of printers appear. Select the printer attached. Then click the Next button. 14. Continue the installation by following the instructions...

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15 15. If you are sharing the printer on a network, check Share as: and enter the network printer name. If you are not sharing the printer, check Do not share this printer. Then click the Next button. 16. If you are sharing the printer, enter Loc...

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16 17. In Print Test Page, select No, and then click the Next button. 18. When Completing the Add Printer Wizard appears, click the Finish button. ...

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17 Note: After the Finish button is clicked, the following dialog box appears in Windows 2000/XP. Click Yes. 19. The installation is now complete. Click the Finish button and restart your computer. You can use StylusRIP Professional after you rest...

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18 3. The Choose Setup Language dialog box appears automatically. Note: If the dialog box does not appear automatically, double-click Setup.exe in the Setup folder on the CD-ROM. 4. Select English and click OK. 5. Continue installation by followin...

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19 7. Continue installation by following the instructions that appear on your screen. 8. When the installation of StylusRIP Professional is finished, the following dialog appears. Click the Finish button. The installation of PS Driver begins. 9....

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20 10. Check Local printer in Local or Network Printer. Then, click the Next button. 11. Select a printer model. Click the Have Disk button and specify the location of the INF file. The INF file is saved in the following location on the CD-ROM. e...

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21 12. Model names of printers appear. Select the printer attached. Then click the Next button. 13. Select a printer port. Select StylusRIP Professional from the port list. Then, click the Next button. ...

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22 14. Continue the installation by following the instructions that appear on your screen. 15. When the following dialog asking you to print a test page appears, select No and click the Finish button. ...

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23 16. The installation is now complete. Click the Finish button and restart your computer. You can use StylusRIP Professional after you restart your computer. To Share a Printer in Windows 98 Second Edition/Me: If you want to share a printer in Wi...

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24 2. Click File and Print Sharing button. 3. Check I want to be able to give others access to my files if you want to share the folder. Check I want to be able to allow others to print to my printer[s] if you want to share the printer driver. 4. ...

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25 7. Restart your computer. 8. Select the printer you want in the Printer window. Then right- click and click Sharing in the menu that appears. 9. Click the Shared As radio button, and select options you want. ...

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26 10. Click the OK button. Installing a Printer Driver to the Client Computer To print from computers connected to a network using StylusRIP Professional, it is necessary to install a printer driver on each computer. Install the printer driver on ...

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27 2. Then right-click the printer and click Sharing in the menu that appears. The Printer Properties dialog box will appear. 3. On the Sharing tab, check Shared as: and enter the name of the printer you want to share. 4. To install a printer drive...

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28 5. On the displayed dialog box, check the box adjacent to the version of Windows you want to install, and click OK. 6. Continue the setup procedure by following the on-screen instructions. Select the location of the printer driver when prompted...

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29 For Windows 98 Second Edition / Me 1. Insert the CD-ROM shipped with EPSON StylusRIP Professional into your CD-ROM drive. 2. Click Start, then Settings, and then Printers. 3. Double-click the Add Printer icon. 4. The Add Printer Wizard will be di...

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30 4. The Add Printer Wizard will be displayed. Follow the on- screen instructions to add the printer. 5. Select Network Printer once “How is this printer attached to your computer?” appears in order to proceed to the next step. 6. Either enter ...

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31 Uninstalling Procedure The StylusRIP Professional installer has installed the following programs: ❏ EPSON StylusRIP Professional ❏ EPSON StylusRIP Professional Monitor ❏ Printer drivers These programs must be uninstalled separately. To unin...

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32 8. If you are using Windows 98 Second Edition or Me, click the Add/Remove button. If you are using Windows 2000 or XP, click the Change/Remove button. 9. When the uninstallation of EPSON StylusRIP Professional Monitor is complete, a message app...

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33 Color Matching StylusRIP Professional has a function to simulate printing of CMYK colors on a printing press. By using this simulation function, printing can be performed by matching colors with the final colors on the printing press. Because S...

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34 Chapter 2 Printing With PSserver The PSserver is software that can play the role of print server. When you send a print job (when you save a document as a file, the file extension must be “.ps”) from your application program, the PSserver r...

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35 3. If you are starting StylusRIP Professional for the first time, the Select Printer dialog box appears. Select the printer attached and click the OK button. 4. A dialog box asking you to enter a license key appears. Enter the license key and ...

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36 Exiting the PSserver Close the PSserver by clicking the close box on the top right corner of the PSserver window. Keep in mind that you need to open StylusRIP Professional every time before printing. Note: Unless your PC is low on memory, you d...

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37 Pages : Displays the total number of pages you are printing and the number of the page currently being printed. Copies : Displays the number of copies you are printing. Status : Displays the processing status of the current print job. Progress Ba...

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38 Starting the PSserver automatically Follow the steps below if you often use the PSserver. This procedure causes the PSserver to start automatically every time you turn on your PC. 1. Right-click the PSserver icon (which is in C:\StylusRIP Profe...

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39 Turning on raster image spooling is recommended to get the following benefits: (1).Faster ripping of multiple copies. When 2 or more copies of one PostScript print job are sent to the printer, StylusRIP Professional only rips the job once. This ...

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40 Printing a File Directly StylusRIP Professional is capable of printing directly from a PS (.ps) or PDF (.pdf) file you select. Since you will directly select a file, it is not necessary to open any application. Select and print a file according...

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41 Using TaskTray Icon When StylusRIP Professional starts, icons also appear on the tasktray. Right-clicking an icon on the tasktray displays the following menu. About : Displays the version information of StylusRIP Professional. Preferences : Ope...

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42 Open : Opens a file you want to load into StylusRIP Professional. Exit : Quits StylusRIP Professional. Using Printer Setting Dialog Box In the Printer Setting dialog box, you can perform print setting when you are printing a PDF or other file by ...

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43 Paper Setting Perform settings related to paper. Paper Size : Specify the size of the print paper. Paper Source : Specify the location of the paper source if the printer has multiple paper feeders. Print Setting Perform settings related to printi...

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44 Using Color Manager Dialog Box You can adjust print colors by changing any of the color profiles of CMYK, RGB and various print media. The Color Manager dialog box is displayed by selecting Color Manager on the Edit menu. CMYK You can change th...

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45 Tone Curve Dialog Box : This dialog box is used to change the tone curve of each color of cyan, magenta, yellow and black. Select the color you want to edit from the pull-down menu, drag the pointer of the tone curve with the mouse, and then ed...

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46 ICC Profile : Displays the ICC profile to be used for the selected media. To change the ICC profile, click the + button and select an ICC profile. Be sure to select the profile for the media to be used as the ICC profile. Calibration : You can ...

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47 Paper Configuration Dialog Box : This dialog box is used to change the print setting for the media. The items that can be set up vary depending on the printer attached. Using the Device Options Menu You can set the following Device Options in th...

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48 Resolution Set the print resolution. Note that not all resolution settings may be selected, depending on the setting of Media Type. Ink Specify to print in color, or black and white. High Speed Specify whether or not bi-directional printing will ...

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49 Auto Rotate Specify to auto rotate the print direction according to the width of the rolled paper set in Paper Source. Print Page Line Specify to print a [page separation line.] when printing is completed. Super MicroWeave Specify the setting fo...

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50 Changing the Graphics Resolution setting On the Device Option menu, a symbol appears beside the Media Type setting you want to select in the Change settings for drop-down list, follow the steps below. 1. Select the media type in the Change se...

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51 2. Click the Graphics tab . 3. Select setting that does not have a symbol beside it the resolution in the Resolution drop-down list. 4. Click OK. ...

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52 Note: ❏ When using ink other than Photo black+Light black in a printer with a replaceable black ink cartridge, or after changing the ink set, you must make the necessary changes to the printer driver settings. (Photo black+Light black is the ...

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53 Windows 2000 4. Select the black ink for the optional Black Ink Combination setting. 5. Click the appropriate button and then click OK to close the dialog box. ...

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54 Chapter 3 Troubleshooting This chapter lists possible solutions for common problems. Please refer to the troubleshooting hints before calling technical support. When calling for technical assistance, be ready to identify your system and its con...

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55 Getting the Best Possible Print Quality The StylusRIP Professional is a true Adobe PostScript3 raster image processor, which means it can utilize color rendering dictionaries when the RIP is driving a color printer. Adobe Photoshop automaticall...

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56 ❏ Perform a print head cleaning; then print a few lines to check the output. Printer prints out illegible type or characters ❏ StylusRIP Professional can only to print to a file. In the printer driver, check that StylusRIP Professional is se...

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57 Bitmap images or clip art looks jagged ❏ Bitmap images and clip art are processed for a set resolution and size. When enlarged, they tend to look jagged. EPS files produce higher-quality images. TIFF images and simple text files do not print ...

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58 PPD in PageMaker 6.0 is missing ❏ To install the StylusRIP Professional PPDs for PageMaker 6.0, follow these steps: 1. Select Start, Find, Files or Folders. 2. In the Named box, type in *.ppd and click Find Now. 3. Click the appropriate PPD nam...

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59 Glossary CPSI Configurable PostScript Interpreter. This Adobe Level 3 PostScript Interpreter runs on a Macintosh server rather than on a hardware peripheral device. StylusRIP Professional uses this interpreter to render a raster image. EPS Encap...

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60 RIP Raster Image Processor. An application or device that translates PostScript data into dots that can be printed. PSserver A PC running the PSserver application. TIFF Tagged Image File Format. A standard image file format consisting of labeled...

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61 Index A Adobe PostScript, 6 B Bitmap, 57 E EPS, 56 P PSserver, 34 S System reqirement, 7 T TIFF, 57 ...

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