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Xerox FreeFlow 665 Software Manual

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Version 6.0, Sept. 2007
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  • Page 1 Customer Software Release ® for FreeFlow Makeready, including the ® FreeFlow Scanner 665 Version 6.0, Sept. 2007 701P47161 Document...
  • Page 2 While every care has been taken in the preparation of this material, no liability will be accepted by Xerox Corporation arising out of any inaccuracies or omissions.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    X-PRESS FAX ........1-17 Xerox FAQ web site ....... . . 1-17 Xerox Welcome Center .
  • Page 4 Hardware not supported in FreeFlow 6.0 ....2-11 Xerox FreeFlow® Scanner 665 ......2-13 Using custom ICC profiles .

  • Page 5: Introduction

    The CSRD is designed to provide a high-level description of hardware and software associated with FreeFlow Makeready. In this chapter, you will find charts describing the compatibility requirements for using third-party software and Xerox print servers with your FreeFlow Makeready system. ® M...

  • Page 6: Overview Of Freeflow® Makeready

    With FreeFlow Makeready, you can edit PDF files within an RDO, format the document, and modify document and page characteristics. You can print RDOs to supported Xerox production printers using advanced job-ticketing features. FreeFlow Makeready supports enhanced PDF capabilities such as rotation, scaling, and shifting at the page level.

  • Page 7: Freeflow Makeready Optional Components

    – Add data merge text objects from an external database to • Color Scanning — This optional component enables color scanning on a currently installed Xerox Production Scanner. • Copyright Management — This optional component provides the ability to interface with the Copyright Clearance...

  • Page 8: Supported Document Repositories

    Process Manager, FreeFlow Web Services, FreeFlow Output Manager, and FreeFlow Print Manager Advanced Print Path support connecting to the following document repositories: • Xerox DocuShare — version 5.0 (must reside on a non- FreeFlow machine) • SharePoint — (requires Windows Server 2003. Therefore, cannot reside on a FreeFlow Makeready machine.)

  • Page 9: Hardware Components

    USTOMER OFTWARE ELEASE OCUMENT Hardware components This section contains the minimum hardware components and optional hardware components available with FreeFlow Makeready. Required hardware components This section lists the minimum hardware components for the FreeFlow Makeready client platform. Workstation platform Table 1-1 lists the minimum hardware components for the workstation platform for the FreeFlow Makeready client.

  • Page 10: Optional Hardware Components

    SafeStor 1 TB RAID, Model Number XRX-2PSQX-651-U4- NOTE: For more information on any of the optional high capacity RAID devices, contact your Xerox representative. A maximum of two RAID devices are supported with FreeFlow. This Autoloader tape library is used for high capacity backup needs, such as backing up the RAID devices.

  • Page 11: Supported Scanners

    OCUMENT Supported scanners FreeFlow Makeready supports the following scanners: • Xerox FreeFlow Scanner 665 — The next generation Xerox color scanner with significantly improved image quality that interfaces with FreeFlow Makeready. • Production Scanner — The first Xerox scanner with black and white also, that interfaces with FreeFlow Makeready.

  • Page 12: Software Components

    Locator – Network Agent – Security Certification OFTWARE ELEASE OCUMENT Optional offerings Optional applications include: • Set Labeling/Data Merge • Color Scanning (optional only for the Xerox Production Scanner) • Copyright Clearance Management Service (US only) ® M EROX AKEREADY...

  • Page 13: Third Party Software Applications

    Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, or Adobe InDesign CS3 third party software applications. You are responsible for ensuring that your use of third-party software and other products with Xerox FreeFlow products is in full compliance with your contractual obligations to such third- party licensors/suppliers, including all applicable use restrictions.

  • Page 14: Embedding Fonts

    NTRODUCTION Embedding fonts The components of FreeFlow products may be used to embed fonts into PDF files. You may embed fonts or outlines of fonts into your PDF files to the extent that your license from the font vendor copyright owner allows for such font embedding. You may embed any font owned by Adobe.

  • Page 15: Print Server Compatibility Matrix

    This section provides a list of supported production printers and Digital Front Ends for use with FreeFlow Makeready. Supported production printers Table 1-7 lists the supported production printers, including the digital front end and scanner support for use with FreeFlow Makeready. Table 1-7. Supported production printers Printer...
  • Page 16 DocuPrint Server (TCP/IP) DocuSP 50 (TCP/IP) DocuSP 51 (TCP/IP) DocuSP 4.2 (TCP/IP) DocuSP 51 (TCP/IP) Fiery EX2101 2.0 LPR (TCP/IP) AccXES 10.2 (TCP/IP) Xerox Wide Format Color RIP 4.0 (TCP/IP) Document Centre Controller (TCP/IP) OFTWARE ELEASE OCUMENT Scanner Support * and DocuImage...
  • Page 17 EX2000D 3.0 (TCP/IP) EXP5000 2.0 (TCP/IP) CXP6000 4.1 (TCP/IP) DocuSP 50 (TCP/IP) DocuSP 51 (TCP/IP) DocuSP 51 (TCP/IP) Xerox FreeFlow Print Server 60 (TCP/ CXP50 1.0 (TCP/IP) EXP50 1.0 IPP (TCP/IP) EXP50 2.0 IPP (TCP/IP) DocuSP 50 (TCP/IP) DocuSP 51 (TCP/IP) EXP5000 2.0 IPP (TCP/IP)
  • Page 18 DocuSP 51 (TCP/IP) EXP6000 3.0 IPP (TCP/IP) EXP6000 3.0 (TCP/IP) CXP6000 4.1 (TCP/IP) DocuSP 51 (TCP/IP) Xerox FreeFlow Print Server 60 (TCP/ CXP8000 3.0 (TCP/IP) EXP8000 2.0 (TCP/IP) EXP8000 3.0 (TCP/IP) DocuSP 51 (TCP/IP) Xerox FreeFlow Print Server 60 (TCP/ CXP8000 3.0 (TCP/IP)

  • Page 19: Supplemental Print Paths

    Windows operating system as a local printer. If you experience problems printing to a local printer through any FreeFlow application, the Xerox Welcome Center will try to replicate the problem on a DocuTech 75 printer. ® M...

  • Page 20: Compatible Printers

    DocuColor 242/252/260 with DocuSP 51 • Xerox 4110/4590/4595 with DocuSP 51 • DocuColor 242/252/260 with EFI Fiery EX260 v2.0 • Xerox 4110 with EFI Fiery EXP4110 v1.1 IPP • Nuvera 100/120/144 EA Digital Production System with DocuSP 51 1-16 USTOMER Table 1-9.

  • Page 21: Obtaining Additional Support

    X-PRESS fax system. Xerox FAQ web site  Xerox provides a FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) web site for customers who have FreeFlow. To access the Xerox FAQ web site: 1. Go to http://www.xerox.com from your web browser.

  • Page 22: Xerox Welcome Center

    Xerox Welcome Center: • In North America, call 1-800-821-2797 • In Canada, call 1-800-939-3769  NOTE: When placing a call to the Xerox Welcome Center, have your FreeFlow system serial number available. 1-18 USTOMER OFTWARE ELEASE OCUMENT ®...

  • Page 23: New Features

    Overview This section describes the new features and functionality of the software components in FreeFlow Makeready. ® M EROX AKEREADY New features...

  • Page 24: What's New In Freeflow Makeready

    EW FEATURES What’s new in FreeFlow Makeready? The following FreeFlow Makeready enhancements have been made: • FreeFlow Makeready now preserves page sizes and automatically programs them as page exception for imported PDF files with mixed page sizes. When importing a PDF file, FreeFlow Makeready automatically preserves the page sizes of the PDF pages by: –...
  • Page 25 NOTE: To enable Specialy Imaging printing, customers are required to purchase Specialty Imaging fonts and install on the FreeFlow Print Server. For more information on purchasing Specialty Imaging fonts, contact your Xerox representative. • FreeFlow Makeready now supports Tumble in N-up documents to enable tumble jobs to be duplicated using the N-up duplicate job types.
  • Page 26 EW FEATURES – Distributed access to CMS — enables Instructors and USTOMER Librarians the abiltiy to access the end user search functionality in CMS remotely OFTWARE ELEASE OCUMENT ® M EROX AKEREADY...

  • Page 27: Document Repositories

    Document repositories • Document Library is no longer available with products starting with version 6.0. Supported document repositories in FreeFlow 6.0, include Xerox DocuShare and SharePoint.  NOTE: Any previous version of FreeFlow Makeready, FreeFlow Process Manager, and FreeFlow Web Services using Document Library, must migrate to a supported repository.

  • Page 28: Freeflow File Conversion Tool

    EW FEATURES FreeFlow File Conversion Tool The File Conversion Tool supports converting RDO documents to JPEG for viewing and PDF for printing. This utility, the File Conversion Tool, can be used for on-demand conversion of RDO, PDF, TIFF, and PS document types. FreeFlow Print Manager - Advanced Print Path Quick Print has been removed and replaced by FreeFlow Print Manager - Advanced Print Path.

  • Page 29: Production Printing

    • Job Setup — allows you to specify the Job Ticket settings for the printing and finishing options supported by Xerox production printers. • Preferences — allows you to specify a default Job Ticket, custom paper size units, image shift units, job note settings, and printer stock library preferences.

  • Page 30: Other Production Printing Enhancements

    • As of FreeFlow 6.0, the DocuSP product is now known as Xerox FreeFlow Print Server. • FreeFlow Makeready, FreeFlow Process Manager, and FreeFlow Web Services provide added printer support for new production printers.

  • Page 31: Freeflow Scanner 665 And Production Scanner

    Xerox Nuvera 100/120/144 EA DPS • Xerox 650/1300 CF • Xerox Nuvera 288 DPS The Xerox 240/250 printer selection now includes the Xerox 242/ 252/260 The DocuTech highlight color printers have been consolidated to include the following printer selections: •...

  • Page 32: Backup Strategy

    EW FEATURES Backup Strategy In FreeFlow 6.0, the customer is ultimately responsible for backing up and restoring the FreeFlow systems. Whereas in previous versions of FreeFlow, a backup strategy was recommended.  NOTE: The Yosemite TapeWare software application has been used for backing up the FreeFlow system is no longer being provided.

  • Page 33: Hardware

    Platform Independence FreeFlow 6.0 supports FreeFlow application software on a customer-supplied platform (hardware and operating system) meeting Xerox specifications for FreeFlow Process Manager and FreeFlow Web Services server platforms. Hardware not supported in FreeFlow 6.0 The following hardware has gone end of life and is not supported in FreeFlow 6.0:...
  • Page 34 EW FEATURES – If using an ExaByte tape drive to read DJO objects at the • Baydel SASTOR RAID Solution 2-12 USTOMER DocuTech and use a FreeFlow product to manage the DJO object you must use the current release of Tape Tool (prior to upgrading to FreeFlow 6.0) to move the DJO objects onto the FreeFlow system.

  • Page 35: Xerox Freeflow® Scanner 665

    OCUMENT ® Xerox FreeFlow Scanner 665 The Xerox FreeFlow Scanner 665 is the next generation Xerox color scanner that interfaces with FreeFlow Makeready. • The Xerox FreeFlow Scanner 665 now provides customers the ability to attach custom ICC profiles to scanned images.

  • Page 36: Using Custom Icc Profiles

    EW FEATURES Using custom ICC profiles  NOTE: Xerox does not guarantee that making and using a custom profile will produce any improvement in color accuracy, relative to the default sRGB profile that is supplied with the product. This procedure describes the recommended steps and documents known issues and caveats that should be observed when using custom profiles.

  • Page 37: Scanning The Test Pattern(S)

    2. Set up the Scanning Parameters. It is recommended that you set up the scanning parameters as follows:  NOTE: It is important that scanner settings be precisely the same when measuring the custom profile as when using the profile later for production scans.

  • Page 38: Building The Custom Icc Profile

    Installing the Custom ICC Profile  To install a custom ICC profile: 1. Store the profile in the scanner-specific profile directory. 2. Ensure that the profile file name describes it in the language desired by the user. Embedding the Custom ICC Profile in scanned TIFFs ...

  • Page 39: Hints And Tips

     NOTE: The content contained in this section is current and is subject to change as new releases of software become available. Contact your Xerox representative for updated Hints and Tips pertaining to your FreeFlow system. ® M EROX...

  • Page 40: Freeflow Makeready

    INTS AND FreeFlow Makeready Automatic Image Enhancement (AIE) Limitation Automatic Image Enhancement (AIE) only supports images that are 8 or 24 bits per pixel. The image must be converted to conform to this limitation prior to using the image in FreeFlow Makeready.

  • Page 41: Freeflow Scanner 665

    The following steps should be used to clean this part: 1. Apply “Xerox Lens and Mirror Cleaner (XPN 43P81)” to a clean, lint 2. Lift up the ADH.
  • Page 42 INTS AND Table 3-1. FreeFlow Scanner 665 Hints and Tips Feature/Function Hints/Tips “Automatic” Original Detected windows < 0.5” x 0.5” are categorized as “background” and Type subsequently, may be processed differently from other areas of the page. Typically, these smaller areas are rendered with error diffusion, as opposed to conventional halftones.
  • Page 43 62-125, 62-145. System calibration The scanner image quality may vary slightly for the first 20 - 30 minutes of operation if the scanner has been turned off for an extended period of time.
  • Page 44 “Found New Hardware” message, despite a full installation of the message scanner hardware. Assuming the devices were rebooted in the proper sequence (scanner first, until the “Ready” light is lit, then the PC), this message can be ignored by selecting “Cancel” from the “Found New Hardware” dialog.
  • Page 45 Rebooting the PC When rebooting the host PC that is connected to the scanner, be sure ALL scanning applications are closed. This includes applications that may be open, but minimized. If ALL applications are not closed, the scanner may produce a “51-09-99”...
  • Page 46 350% to 400% can cause a fault and lock up the scanner. If this fault occurs, the user must press <ctrl>+<alt>+<del> and issue an “End task” of the scanner TWAIN driver to unlock the system. Platen Scanning of...
  • Page 47 If the scanner is in a faulted state, power off the scanner and the workstation, and then power on the scanner and wait for the “Ready” (green) LED. You can then boot up the workstation.
  • Page 48 INTS AND Table 3-1. FreeFlow Scanner 665 Hints and Tips Feature/Function Hints/Tips Potential loss of When scanning with the “Fine Halftone” Original Type and the “Optimize highlight regions Image For” control set to the “Generic write black” printer, highlight regions...
  • Page 49 USTOMER OFTWARE ELEASE OCUMENT Table 3-2 lists errors that are in the FreeFlow Scanner 665 help documentation. Table 3-2. FreeFlow Scanner 665 Help Documentation Errors “Help” section Errors in the FreeFlow Scanner 665 Help documentation Deskewing Pages This section should contain information about lower deskew effectiveness Scanned Through with small paper sizes, particularly 5.5”...

  • Page 50: Automatic" Mode Line Screens

    INTS AND “Automatic” mode line screens When changing the resolution in “Automatic” mode, it is recommended that you also change the line screen. Line screen selections are listed in the “Pictorial Rendering” list box (found in the “More” button on the “Image Quality” tab). Table 3-3 lists the default values for the specific selections and the recommended alternative selections.

  • Page 51: Docutech Original Types

    DocuTech 135. You can then use scan tickets to save any or all of the DocuTech settings and recall them directly.  NOTE: For each desired DocuTech mode be sure to select “Xerox DocuTech 6135” as the target printer (“Optimize image for”). Table 3-4. FreeFlow 665 Scanner settings FreeFlow...
  • Page 52 INTS AND Table 3-4. FreeFlow 665 Scanner settings FreeFlow DocuTech Scanner 665 Mode “Original Type” Halftone and Using “IQ Text Windows”: Set window 1 (Entire page) to: Text and line Set Window 2 (etc.) to: Fine Halftone 3-14 USTOMER Brightness or...

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