Epson Stylus Color 900 Manuel utilisateur

Users Guide

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transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or

otherwise, without the prior written permission of SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION. The

information contained herein is designed only for use with this EPSON printer. EPSON is not

responsible for any use of this information as applied to other printers.

Neither SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION nor its affiliates shall be liable to the purchaser of this

product or third parties for damages, losses, costs, or expenses incurred by purchaser or third parties

as a result of: accident, misuse, or abuse of this product or unauthorized modifications, repairs, or

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CORPORATIONs operating and maintenance instructions.

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use of any options or any consumable products other than those designated as Original EPSON

Products or EPSON Approved Products by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION.

EPSON and EPSON Stylus are registered trademarks and EPSON Stylus RIP is a trademark of

SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION.

AcuPhoto and EPSON FaxAdvice are trademarks and EPSON SoundAdvice is a service mark of

Epson America, Inc.

Adobe, PageMaker, Illustrator, PostScript, and the PostScript logo are registered trademarks of

Adobe Systems Incorporated.

PANTONE is a registered trademark and PANTONE CALIBRATED is a trademark of Pantone,

Inc.

General Notice: Other product names used herein are for identification purposes only and may be

trademarks of their respective owners. EPSON disclaims any and all rights in those marks.

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Introduction

Do You Need PostScript? 1

Special Features 2

Macintosh System Requirements 3

Windows System Requirements 4

How To Use Your Manuals 4

Cautions, Notes, and Tips 5

Where To Get Help 6

1Installing EPSON Stylus

RIP for Macintosh

Checking the Printer 1-2

Determining Your Configuration 1-3

Standalone Configuration 1-3

Direct Connection Network Configuration 1-4

Typical Network Configuration 1-5

Installing EPSON Stylus RIP on

a Standalone or Print Server Macintosh 1-6

Installing EPSON Stylus RIP on a Client Macintosh 1-8

Contents

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Contents

Color Matching 1-9

Press Simulations 1-9

ColorSync 2.x Support 1-10

PANTONE Color Support 1-10

2Printing with EPSON

Stylus RIP for Macintosh

Setting Up the EPSON Stylus RIP Server 2-2

Configuring EPSON Stylus RIP Preferences 2-4

Setting Up the Chooser and PostScript Drivers 2-5

Printing from an Application 2-8

Sending the Print Job 2-9

Setting Print Job Options 2-10

Starting the EPSON Stylus RIP Server Software

Automatically 2-14

Drag and Drop Printing 2-15

Managing Print Jobs 2-16

Using the Stylus RIP Monitor 2-17

3Installing EPSON Stylus

RIP for Windows

Checking the Printer 3-2

Installing the EPSON Stylus RIP Software 3-2

Installing the PostScript Driver 3-4

Installing the PostScript Driver on Client Computers 3-7

Color Matching 3-9

ICC Support 3-9

PANTONE Color Support 3-10

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4Printing with EPSON

Stylus RIP for Windows

Printing from an Application 4-1

Starting EPSON Stylus RIP 4-2

Printing with the Default Options 4-3

Printing and Setting Printer Options 4-4

Managing Print Jobs 4-9

Batch Printing 4-10

Network Printing 4-11

Enabling File and Print Sharing 4-11

Connecting the Client Computers 4-12

Sending Print Jobs from Client Computers 4-13

Configuring EPSON Stylus RIP 4-15

Setting EPSON Stylus RIP Preferences 4-15

Starting Stylus RIP Automatically 4-16

5Troubleshooting

Printing High Quality Color Images 5-1

Solving Problems 5-2

You see a Printer cannot be opened or Printer

not found error message (Macintosh) 5-2

You see a memory or VM error

message (Macintosh) 5-3

You see a communications error message when

you try to open Stylus RIP 5-3

Stylus RIP does not run (Windows) 5-3

Your saved files dont print (Windows) 5-4

Stylus RIP takes a long time before printing starts 5-4

Your printouts contain incorrect fonts or jagged type 5-4

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The printer is producing pages containing

illegible type or characters 5-5

Images and type look bitmapped and jagged

on your printouts 5-5

You see Font not found or Find font error

messages (Macintosh) 5-6

One or more colors are missing in your printout

or it prints in black ink only 5-6

Your printed output has white lines 5-7

Bitmap images or clip art looks jagged 5-7

Youre having trouble printing from

PageMaker 6.0 or 6.5 (Windows) 5-7

EPS and TIFF files do not print 5-7

Your printout has misplaced images or type 5-8

Printed images are clipped at the edges 5-8

Your Macintosh freezes when you try to print

from QuarkXPress 5-8

Your Macintosh loses custom page sizes when

selecting PDF file output from QuarkXPress 3.3x 5-8

Index

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The EPSON Stylus®RIP software lets you use your EPSON

Stylus COLOR or EPSON Stylus Photo ink jet printer as a

PostScript®3 (Macintosh®and Windows NT®) and Level 2

(Windows®95/98) compatible printer. It reads the Adobe®

PostScript files automatically created by the EPSON Stylus RIP

printer driver, seamlessly converts them into raster images, and

automatically prints them on your printer. You can use the

EPSON Stylus RIP with both Macintosh and Windows

systems, in standalone or networked configurations.

Adobe PostScript is the industry standard for high-quality

graphic output. All the elements in a documentincluding

text, graphics, and other imagesare processed and reproduced

using PostScript code. Then, when you print from an application

such as QuarkXPress,

®the RIP software creates a raster image

from the PostScript code and sends it to your printer.

Do You Need PostScript?

In many cases, you may not need the ability to print in

PostScript, and for these occasions you should use the standard,

non-PostScript driver that comes with your printer. Using the

standard driver is also a good way to ensure that your computer

and printer are connected and working properly, so make sure

you install the non-PostScript EPSON driver following the

instructions in your printers setup guide.

Introduction

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Introduction

Heres what you can use the EPSON Stylus RIP for:

◗Printing documents with placed or imported EPS images

◗Printing from complex PostScript-based drawing and

publishing applications like Adobe Illustrator,

Macromedia®Freehand,

®Adobe PageMaker,

®QuarkXPress,

and CorelDRAW

◗Matching PANTONE®spot colors

For all other printing applications, especially photography, use the

standard, non-PostScript EPSON driver. In many cases, you will

get better performance with the standard driver than with the

EPSON Stylus RIP.

Special Features

To make the most of your printers photo-quality output, the

EPSON Stylus RIP software includes these special features:

◗EPSON error diffusion software, the same high-quality

AcuPhotohalftoning technology used in EPSONs

non-PostScript printer drivers

◗PANTONE professional color palette filescalibrated for

your EPSON Stylus COLOR or EPSON Stylus Photo

printer using a variety of media at various resolutionsto

give you PANTONE colors when you use PANTONE

licensed applications

◗Support for ColorSync®2.x on the Macintosh and Image

Color Matching (ICM) for Windows through

International Color Consortium®(ICC) profiles

◗Press Simulation, which adjusts your EPSON printers

color gamut to more closely match the output of

SWOP-coated printing devices

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Introduction

Macintosh System Requirements

To use EPSON Stylus RIP with a Macintosh in either a

standalone or network environment as a print server, your

system should meet the following minimum requirements:

◗Power Macintosh,

®iMacseries, or Power Macintosh G3

series

◗At least 16MB of available RAM for the EPSON Stylus

RIP software (20MB or more is recommended), in

addition to the RAM needed by your operating system and

other applications

◗

At least 52MB of free hard disk space to install the software

and at least 150MB of hard disk space for processing large files

◗Macintosh Operating System 7.6.1 or later

◗CD-ROM drive

◗Serial, Ethernet, or USB (SC900/SP1200 only) connection

to the printer

To set up a Macintosh as a client on a network using the

EPSON Stylus RIP, your system must have the following

minimum configuration:

◗Macintosh Centris,

®Macintosh Quadra,

®Performa,

®iMac

series, Power Macintosh G3 series, or Power Macintosh

◗EthernetAppleTalk®connection with the Macintosh set

up as the EPSON Stylus RIP print server

◗8MB RAM

◗

At least 2MB of free hard disk space to install the software and

at least 150MB of free hard disk space for processing large files

◗Macintosh Operating System 7.6.1 or later

◗CD-ROM drive

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Introduction

Windows System Requirements

To use the EPSON Stylus RIP in either a standalone or

peer-to-peer network environment, your system should include:

◗IBM®-compatible PC with 486 or higher processor

(Pentium®133 MHz or higher recommended)

◗Microsoft Windows 95/98 or Windows NT 4.0

◗At least 16MB of RAM (32MB or more recommended)

◗At least 50MB of free hard disk space to install the software

and at least 150MB of free hard disk space for processing

files (more for large files)

◗CD-ROM drive

◗An available parallel port configured as LPT1

You can print with the EPSON Stylus RIP on a peer-to-peer

Windows network by using file sharing, with the printer

connected to the print servers parallel port. In this networked

environment, you install the EPSON Stylus RIP software on the

print server only, and install the PostScript printer driver on all

your other networked computers. See page 3-4 for instructions.

How To Use Your Manuals

Before you install the RIP, make sure you set up your printer and

install the standard EPSON non-PostScript driver that came

with your printer, following the instructions in your printers

setup guide. Refer to your EPSON printers users guide for

instructions on using and maintaining your printer.

If youre familiar with software PostScript interpreters, you can use

the EPSON Stylus RIP Quick Start Guide to get started with the RIP.

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