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RW-470
C L I E N T S
Final Version 11/12/2001

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  • Page 1 RW-470 C L I E N T S Final Version 11/12/2001...
  • Page 2 Trademarks Adobe  , Acrobat  , PostScript Adobe Systems Incorporated. Apple, Macintosh, Mac and TrueType are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Incorporated. AutoCAD  and DWG are registered trademarks of Autodesk, Inc. HPGL, HPGL/2 and HP-RTL are registered trademarks of Hewlett-Packard Com- pany.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Contents RW-470 PLOTCLIENTS ...7 Manual conventions... 9 Part I – RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN ...10 Introduction ...11 Installation ...12 System requirements ... 12 Installation of the RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN... 13 Start and quit program ...15 Program window ...16 Program sequence...17 Name conventions ... 17 From the drawing to the job ...
  • Page 4 Edit or delete stamp ... 41 “Settings“ tab... 42 “Data“ tab... 44 Pen settings ...47 View the changes... 47 HPGL/2 - Pens... 48 HPGL/2 - Colors... 50 HPGL/2 - Misc... 51 Calcomp - Pens ... 55 Calcomp - Colors ... 56 Calcomp - Misc ...
  • Page 5 Configuration...83 Configuration for AutoCAD 13/14 via configuration tool ... 83 Settings for AutoCAD 13/14 in print dialog... 84 Settings for AutoCAD 2000 in print dialog ... 85 Presets for print jobs ...87 “Main menu“ tab ... 87 “Extended“ tab... 89 “Options“...
  • Page 6 CONTENTS Query current job status (queue status) ... 120 Plotter status (plotter status) ... 120 Incomplete jobs ... 121 Corrective maintenance...122 Part V – RW-470 PLOTCLIENT MAC ...123 Installations ...124 Installations on Server PC with Windows 2000 ... 124 Installation on the Macintosh computer... 124 Print jobs and presets...126 MainOptions1 ...

  • Page 7: Rw-470 Plotclients

    RW-470 PLOTCLIENTS This manual explains the installation and operation of RW-470 PLOTCLIENTs as well as two networks. You find out how you can use the RW-470 PLOTCLIENTs or network protocols to produce print jobs, set print parameters and to send the print jobs to the RW-470 PLOTBASE server program.
  • Page 8 WIN program or directly to the RW-470 PLOTBASE server pro- gram. • RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WEB The RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WEB enables you to send print jobs to RW-470 PLOTBASE both via the Intranet as well as via the Inter- net. You can stipulate numerous print parameters. Successful processing of the print processes in RW-470 PLOTBASE can be controlled via a status message.

  • Page 9: Manual Conventions

    Manual conventions In the text, you can come across two possible terms, which are intended to point out special circumstances or advantages or even to warn you against certain work steps: Note: You are free to decide whether you wish to fol- low the recommendation given in a note or not.

  • Page 10: Part I - Rw-470 Plotclient Win

    Part I – RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN RW-470 CLIENTS...

  • Page 11: Introduction

    INTRODUCTION Introduction This part of the manual describes the program RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN. RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN is available for Microsoft Windows NT, for Microsoft Windows 95/98/ME as well as for Microsoft Windows 2000 and is a program for preparing plot jobs, which it then sends to the server program, RW-470 PLOTBASE.

  • Page 12: Installation

    Installation In this chapter you can read about which system requirements have to be fulfilled and how to carry out the installation. Fur- thermore, all the new [sub-] directories and file types that you will find on your harddrive following the installation are listed in their own section.

  • Page 13: Installation Of The Rw-470 Plotclient Win

    Installation of the RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN This section describes the installation of the program and which file types and directories you should find on your harddrive fol- lowing the installation. To install the program, please proceed as follows: 1. Start Windows NT as a user with administrator rights and open Windows NT Explorer.
  • Page 14 18. Answer the query about preparing a job example. 19. If you answer with “YES“, RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN pre- pares a job example, which you can send off straight away as the first print job. RW-470 CLIENTS...

  • Page 15: Start And Quit Program

    Start and quit program • Start program The installation program sets up its own program group with program symbols towards the end of the installation. To start RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN, open it via the “Start“ bar or double click on its program symbol. Your first sample print is easy to manage and will already be started at the end of your installation.

  • Page 16: Program Window

    PROGRAM WINDOW Program window RW-470 CLIENTS...

  • Page 17: Program Sequence

    Program sequence This chapter provides you with an overview of how the drawing gets into the job list of RW-470 PLOTBASE and is then printed. At the end of the chapter you will find a graphic, which illustrates the job flow. Together with the introductory chapter, this chapter is intended to help you to bet to know the environment and the embedding of the program in it.

  • Page 18: From The Drawing To The Job

    The entries or drawings can have the following file formats, which RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN recognizes from the file exten- sion: • Calcomp • CALS MIL-STD 1840B,28002A • HPGL/2, HP-RTL • Intergraph • • • • • TIFF G4 • Windows Metafile •...
  • Page 19 With the help of this section, the following graphic and the first chapter of the manual, you should be able to grasp the task and possible applications of RW-470 PLOTBASE and the environ- ment. 1. PRODUCTION: The [technical] draftsman/draftswoman produces the drawing using an EDM, CAD or similar system and saves it in one of the following formats, which are identified by RW-470 PLOTBASE from the file extension:...

  • Page 20: Job And Entry In The Chart

    using the program command, “File – Print SSL“, thereby making them available for RW-470 PLOTBASE to print. 5. COLLECTION: RW-470 PLOTBASE regularly reads the directories and thus checks whether new jobs are ready for printing. As soon as a job is ready, it is loaded by RW-470 PLOTBASE and immedi- ately appears in the job list.
  • Page 21 PROGRAM SEQUENCE PROGRAM PROGRAM PROGRAM RW-470 CLIENTS...

  • Page 22: Tools

    Tools This section gives you a brief overview of the program’s tools. You can blank out and insert the toolbars using the menu item “view“. You work in the job editor with the main symbol bar, and use the icon bar for the file preview. Main symbol bar Send job to the SSL spool folder Open view information for the current plotter...

  • Page 23: Icon Bar

    TOOLS TOOLS TOOLS TOOLS Icon bar Rotate drawing 90° to the left Rotate drawing 90° to the right Rotate drawing through 180° Drawing in original position Successively enlarge drawing Successively reduce drawing Switch drawing to zoom all Switch drawing to view 1:1 Multipage document: View first page Multipage document: Back one page Multipage document: Enter destination page...
  • Page 24 TOOLS Display drawing in preview lighter, if gray display – has no effect on printing Display drawing in preview darker, if gray display – has no effect on printing RW-470 CLIENTS...

  • Page 25: Presets

    Presets Before you begin with the work in RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN, you must first set a few presets as e.g. determine the SSL paths or enter the SSL default values. Setting the SSL defaults Setting of the SSL default values is automatically called up fol- lowing installation, in the very first program start.
  • Page 26 PRESETS • Working directory: This is the folder, in which RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN temporar- ily caches the jobs, before they are finally sent to the folder that RW-470 PLOTBASE looks through for jobs. The working folder should always be a local folder, so that the program can quickly access the data.

  • Page 27: Set Up Ssl Spool Paths

    To do this you must activate the option “Collect jobs in one ar- chive” above the two “SSL Spool path“ specifications. This option can only be activated when “path for compressed jobs“ has been activated. If you want the path displayed, in which the zip file is cached, activate “Show ZIP path after plot“...
  • Page 28 PRESETS 3. Click on “Set“ if you want to enter several paths consecutively or on “OK“ to quit the plot path input. You can obtain information about the print job recipient con- nected with the selected SSL spool folder by clicking on the fol- lowing info button once: RW-470 CLIENTS...

  • Page 29: Format" Tab

    PRESETS “Format“ tab Open the “Format“ tab via the menu item “Settings - Options“. On this tab you set the size unit that is to apply for all work with RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN. You can choose between “Pixels“, “Millimeters“ and “Inches“. The current valid size unit is always displayed in the status row at the lower edge of the screen.

  • Page 30: Job Editor

    Job editor In the job editor you can change the settings for jobs and the entries included in them. Furthermore, you can also delete jobs or entries. The individual possible settings range from the format size to the selection of the print medium and the output shaft through to details of the position of the drawing header.
  • Page 31 • Account In this field the account number of the client is entered. This can be an account number, which you assign in-house or the re- ceiver of the invoice in-house. • Notes This field is free for your notes. You can enter up to maximum 60 characters.

  • Page 32: Default Settings Area

    • e-mail Use of the email function must be switched on in the presets. To be able to use the email function, Microsoft® Outlook must be installed. Furthermore “Internet Mail“ should be installed. Here you can instruct the program to automatically send an e- mail or a message to the user following successful job comple- tion.

  • Page 33: Default Specific" Tab

    JOB EDITOR “Default Specific“ tab On the “Default specific“ tab you enter the basic setting for all new entries of a job. Note: All basic settings apply for newly added entries except for the number of copies. • Formats In this section of the tab you select the drawing format, in which the drawing is to be printed.
  • Page 34 Scale DX Scale DY If you want to scale the drawing smaller, set the format to “per- cent“. In this case the “Scaling” input field becomes active and you can enter a value between 1.00 and 999.00. If you choose one of the standard formats ISO, ANSI or ARC, you can accept the dimensions or freely change them according to your requirements: You can use the “Window“, if you set a standard format e.g.
  • Page 35 JOB EDITOR if the image is to be printed on a larger paper format. E.g. if you have a ISO A4 drawing, which is printed in original size on ISO A1, you can fix here where the drawing is to be positioned on the larger sheet.
  • Page 36 Position of the title block unknown, i.e. there is no optimized folding of the drawing Title block in the top left-hand corner Title block in the top right-hand corner Title block in the bottom right-hand corner Title block bottom left-hand corner With this setting, you inform RW-470 PLOTBASE, on which side the title block is located.

  • Page 37: Default Additional" Tab

    JOB EDITOR • Border If you want a white border around the drawing, activate the “ON“ field and enter the required spacing for all side borders. The current dimensional units are given in the status bar at the bottom of the screen. •...

  • Page 38: Entry" Area

    • Mirror In this area you can set whether the drawing is to be mirrored or not during plotting. The individual fields mean the following: OFF: The drawing is not mirrored during plotting. The drawing is mirrored horizontally. The drawing is mirrored vertically. The drawing is mirrored about both axes simultaneously;...
  • Page 39 JOB EDITOR If you want to make entries in the “Specific“ tab, read the infor- mation given for the “Default Specific“ tab from Page 32. If you want to alter the settings on the “Additional“ tab , read the details for the “Default Additional“ given on Page 37. You can open a tab for the pen settings on the “Additional“...

  • Page 40: Stamp Editor

    Stamp editor The stamp settings can be altered on two levels. To configure a stamp for an individual entry, select the “Additional“ tab under “Entry“. Now click on the “Settings” button under “Stamp“. The same button can be you in the “Defaults“ area on the “Extended Defaults “...

  • Page 41: Stamp Configurations

    this configuration for the defaults or the entry by clicking on the button with the same name; i.e. “Save“. This configura- tion is now saved under the marked stamp name in the “Select Stamp “ window. 4. You can produce as many stamps as you wish for a draw- ing.

  • Page 42: Settings" Tab

    To delete a stamp, first mark it and then delete it by clicking on the following button: “Settings“ tab General details, e.g. on mirroring, rotation, stamp type and stamp position are made in the “settings“ tab: • Mirror The standard orientation of the text is always the reader direc- tion.
  • Page 43 • Rotation The standard orientation of the text is always the reader direc- tion. Here you can alter the text rotation of in 1° steps. • Stamp mode The standard setting for the type of stamp is always “covering“. There are three possible settings: Covering The stamp overwrites the area of the drawing beneath it.

  • Page 44: Data" Tab

    • Frame Activate the “Enable frame“ field if you want a stamp frame to be printed. Three default settings can be set for the stamp frame. Here too, the settings refer to the currently valid size unit, which you can see in the status bar: Upper setting - stamp border: With the upper of the three set- tings you set the distance of the stamp to the edge of the draw- ing.
  • Page 45 colored symbol you let the program know that there is a logo and activate the “Logo orientation“ field. • Text In this text field you can enter the text to be “Printed“ with your stamp. In the text field you can edit in the same way as in com- mon word processing programs.

  • Page 46: Text Color

    Computer name: The computer name is the PC at which the stamp was inserted. File name: This macro inserts the whole file name of the drawing or the entry, including the path and prints it on the drawing. File title: This macro only gives the actual file name of the drawing or of the entry without the path details.

  • Page 47: Pen Settings

    Pen settings You can change the pen settings on two levels. On the one hand in the “Defaults“ area of the “Extended defaults “ tab and on the other in the “Entry“ area on the “Additional“ tab. The settings in the “Defaults“...

  • Page 48: Hpgl/2 - Pens

    4. Make your changes. 5. Now change to the “General“ tab and activate the pen source as “user“. 6. Quit the pen settings. 7. Double click on the entry that has just been changed. The changes are visible in the file view. You may have to en- large the view if e.g.
  • Page 49 PEN SETTINGS • Pen size Enter the pen size directly in the first column under “Size” using the keyboard. The maximum values that you can enter depend on the size unit, which you set in the configuration program. The current valid size unit is given in the status bar at the lower edge of the screen.

  • Page 50: Hpgl/2 - Colors

    HPGL/2 - Colors To assign the required gray scale to each of the individual col- ors, open the “Colors“ tab: In this window you can change the gray scale, which has been assigned to each color. If you do not want to change each color, you can set all pens to “Gray”...

  • Page 51: Hpgl/2 - Misc

    PEN SETTINGS HPGL/2 - Misc • Pen Source: If you activate the “File“ field you instruct the plotter to use the pen width details when plotting, which are entered in the entry’s SSL file and that it should not use the settings in the “Pens“ tab. If no pen widths have been defined, the program uses your set- tings.
  • Page 52 PEN SETTINGS in size and at least one maximum pen width if the drawing is to be enlarged • Clipping: The clipping command removes the white edges on the border of the drawing. Most plotter languages differ from each other in many ways to a greater or lesser extent –...
  • Page 53 Should one of your settings not cover the plotter circumstances and no longer guarantee the printout of a drawing object, RW- 470 PLOTCLIENT WIN automatically adjusts the pen widths. − Max Using the keyboard, enter the maximum pen widths. The entry affects all HPGL pens.
  • Page 54 PEN SETTINGS • Dither mode / RTL Here you can select gray value patterns for bitmap graphics. You can choose between the gray value patterns “Symmetric pattern“ or “diffusion pattern“. Test them and see which pattern best suits your graphic. To do this, you have to reload the drawing in the preview file after each change.

  • Page 55: Calcomp - Pens

    PEN SETTINGS Calcomp - Pens The pen attributes are set on the “pen“ tab: • Pen size The pen sizes are entered directly using the keyboard in the first column under “Size“. The maximum values that can be entered depend on the size unit, which you set in the configuration pro- gram.

  • Page 56: Calcomp - Colors

    • Fill The “Fill“ option allows you to set the pen attributes for all 16 pens simultaneously. To do this, first set the pen widths, the pen color and the gray scale value and then click once on “Fill“: Calcomp - Colors To assign the required gray scale value to each individual color, open the “Color“...

  • Page 57: Calcomp - Misc

    PEN SETTINGS Calcomp - Misc • Pen Source If you activate the “File“ field, you instruct the plotter to use the pen width information in the entry’s SSL file when plotting and not the settings from the “Pens“ tab. If no pen widths are de- fined, the program uses your settings.
  • Page 58 • Pen Limits (mm) − Min Enter the minimum pen widths using the keyboard. The informa- tion entered here affects all Calcomp pens. As there are plotters in which even at the finest resolution the in- dividual pixels are not reliably reproduced, a minimum pen size is indispensable in these cases.
  • Page 59 PEN SETTINGS • Pattern Style Three types of patterns are defined for Calcomp drawings, in which the “Pattern“ command is used. “Round“ means that a certain colored area is filled with a certain number of filled circles, which are given a certain arrangement on the area, to achieve an intended color saturation.
  • Page 60 to make a change or to find out more on the topic, compare the settings with those in your CAD system or read the following sec- tion in the “Calcomp Inc.“ manual: “CALCOMP - ONLINE REFERENCE MANUAL“ in the section “Data Message Format“.

  • Page 61: Collate Jobs

    Collate jobs Your main task with RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN is to collate [Plot- ] jobs for RW-470 PLOTBASE. You are free to choose whether you compile a job with one entry or with several entries. You can prepare fully new jobs or open existing jobs and add further entries.

  • Page 62: Add Entries

    Add entries Newly inserted entries can have the following file formats, which are identified by RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN from the file exten- sion: • Calcomp • CALS MIL-STD 1840B,28002A • • HPGL/2, HP-RTL Intergraph • • • • TIFF G4 •...

  • Page 63: Add Using The Right-Hand Mouse Button

    3. Select the required file, which has one of the above file for- mats and confirm with “OK“. You can now mark several files to insert lots of drawings in one go, as in the File Manager. Add using the right-hand mouse button To add an entry using the right-hand mouse button, proceed as follows: 1.

  • Page 64: Add With Drag & Drop

    If the new entry is to be inserted in front of the marked entry, select: The program opens a file selection window. 3. Select the required file, which has one of the above file for- mats and confirm with “OK“. You can now mark several files to insert lots of drawings in one go, as in the File Manager.

  • Page 65: Delete Entries

    However, the program only physically inserts an entry once and if you add an entry several times, it simply sets a reference to the first entry. Example: You insert the file “ABC.tif“. This file is to be printed in format A0. For the second print out in format A1, insert the file “ABC.tif“...

  • Page 66: Entry Information

    After you have inserted or appended the entries, adjust the set- tings for the jobs and individual entries in the job editor. To do this, read the following chapter. Entry information Before you can begin with a possible change to the settings, you can view a summary of all the currently loaded settings.

  • Page 67: Part Ii - Rw-470 Winprint

    Part II – RW-470 WINPRINT RW-470 CLIENTS...

  • Page 68: Introduction

    Introduction The Windows printer driver RW-470 WINPRINT allows print jobs to be recorded from Windows applications, to then pass them directly to RW-470 PLOTBASE as a plot job. So you use your printer driver RW-470 WINPRINT as any other printer via your Windows application menus „file – print“. The RW-470 WINPRINT will be installed on the server PC where the server software RW-470 PLOTBASE is running.

  • Page 69: Installation

    Installation Before you can use the RW-470 WINPRINT, you have to install it on your client PC as a „network printer“, as you have already done with every in-house network printer on your PC before. To install RW-470 WINPRINT as network printer, please proceed as follows: 1.

  • Page 70: Configuration

    Configuration This section describes the set up of the print parameters. After entering these settings, your RW-470 WINPRINT printer driver is ready for printing. The following chapters only differ in the user interfaces that de- pend on the different operating systems. Nevertheless it will be the same RW-470 WINPRINT for all operating systems.

  • Page 71: General Settings" Tab

    • Print using the following driver If the printer driver RW-470 WINPRINT does not automatically appear in this list field, you have to set it yourself. “General Settings“ tab • Media Source You can select one of the plotter rolls offered. In addition, you can also choose the “automatic“...

  • Page 72: Job Processing" Tab

    ommend that you find the optimum settings for your work using test plots as it is not possible to give a definitive recommenda- tion. • Intensity Set the brightness of the print here. “Job Processing“ tab • Sample Print Activate this option, if you wish to test the quality of a print. Only the first set of copies is printed.
  • Page 73 All the settings categories are listed in the upper section. If you wish to specify a more precise setting, choose one of the catego- ries. The actual setting options then appear in the lower section. You have the following setting options: •...

  • Page 74: Sample Print

    roll, which corresponds to the given format. The “manual“ op- tion means that you feed the print medium in the input tray your- self. • Output You have two possible ways to have your plots issued by the plotter: Front (output at the front), rear (output at the rear). •...

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