Epson Stylus COLOR 3000 User manual

User’s Guide
Printed on recycled paper with at least 10% post-consumer content.
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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
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from the 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 StylusRIP is a trademark
of SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION.
Adobe, PageMaker, PostScript, and the PostScript logo are trademarks of Adobe Systems
Incorporated, which may be registered in certain jurisdictions.
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.
Copyright © 1997 by Epson America, Inc. 4007399 / CPD 5150
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User’s Guide Update
Pantone®professional color palette files for EPSON Stylus®
printers are not currently available as stated in your User’s
Guide. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
They will be available in August of 1997, free of charge, on
EPSON’s World Wide Web site at http://www.epson.com or
by calling [phone] and asking for diskettes.
EPSON and EPSON Stylus are registered trademarks and EPSON StylusRIP is a
trademark of SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION.
PANTONE is a registered trademark of Pantone, Inc.
Copyright © 1997 by Epson America, Inc. CPD 5151
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Contents
Introduction
Special Features 2
Macintosh System Requirements 3
Standalone and Network Environments 4
How To Use Your Manual 6
Cautions, Notes, and Tips 6
Where To Get Help 7
Electronic Support Services 7
1Installing the StylusRIP
Software
Checking the Printer 1-2
Installing StylusRIP Standalone or Print Server Software 1-2
Preparing for Standalone Installation 1-3
Installing on a Standalone or Print Server System 1-4
Installing StylusRIP Client 1-6
Installing the StylusRIP Software License in Your Printer 1-7
Color Matching 1-9
PANTONE Color Support 1-10
ColorSync 2.0 Support 1-10
QuarkXPress Support 1-10
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2Printing with the StylusRIP
Software
Setting Up the StylusRIP Server 2-1
Starting the StylusRIP Server Software 2-4
Starting the StylusRIP Server Software Automatically 2-7
Printing from an Application 2-8
Setting Up the Print Job 2-8
Setting Print Options 2-10
Drag and Drop Printing 2-12
Managing Print Jobs 2-13
Using the StylusRIP Monitor 2-13
3Troubleshooting
Printed images are clipped at the edges 3-1
The printer is producing many pages containing
garbled characters 3-2
One or more colors are missing in your printout or
it prints in black ink only 3-2
You see a memory or VM error message 3-3
You see Font not found or Find font error messages 3-3
You see a Printer cannot be opened or
Printer not found error message 3-4
Index
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Introduction
The EPSON® StylusRIP™ software lets you turn your EPSON
Stylus®ink jet printer into a Level 2 PostScript®printer. It
reads the Adobe®Level 2 PostScript files you create on your
Apple®Macintosh,
®turns them into raster images, and prints
them on your printer.
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 andreproduced
using PostScript code. Then, when you print from an
application such as QuarkXPress,
™the StylusRIP software
creates a raster image from the PostScript code and sends it to
your printer.
EPSON StylusRIP includes a useful “drag and drop” function
that allows you to print just by clicking on a PostScript file icon
(.PS file) and dragging it to the StylusRIP software icon. You
can use StylusRIP with a standalone Macintosh or in a network
environment, as described later in this Introduction.
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Special Features
To take maximum advantage of your EPSON Stylus printer’s
photo-quality output, the StylusRIP 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 EPSON Stylus printers using various media at various
resolutions—to give you process versions of PANTONE
colors when you use PANTONE-licensed applications
◗ColorSync™2.0 support through International Color
Consortium (ICC) profiles, providing total ICC and
ColorSync compatibility for software applications
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Macintosh System Requirements
To use the StylusRIP software with a Macintosh in either a
standalone or network environment, your system should
include:
◗Centris, Quadra, Power Macintosh,
™or Performa series
Macintosh (standalone only)
◗PowerPC™or 68040 CPU
◗At least 16MB of RAM for the StylusRIP software (20MB
or more is recommended), in addition to the RAM needed
by your operating system and other applications
◗At least 8MB 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 7.5 or later
◗CD-ROM drive
Note:
You cannot use a Performa series Macintosh computer with a
CD-ROM drive as a print server.
To set up a Macintosh as a client on a network using StylusRIP,
it must have the following minimum configuration:
◗Centris, Quadra, Power Macintosh, or Performa series
Macintosh
◗LocalTalk™or Ethernet™connection with the Macintosh
set up as the StylusRIP print server
◗Macintosh Operating System 7.5 or later
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Standalone and Network
Environments
If your Macintosh is not connected to a network, you are using
it as a “standalone” system, with your EPSON Stylus printer
directly connected to your system. Before you install the
StylusRIP software, you must set up your printer and test it
fully; see Chapter 1 for complete instructions.
IfyourMacintosh is connected inanetwork, there are twoways
to use the StylusRIP software, depending on how your network
is configured.
Note:
It is best to choose a Power Macintosh with a fast processor and
ample RAM as your print server, allowing you to devote its
resources to printing the data sent over the network. LocalTalk
networks are not recommended for use with EPSON printers.
In a “direct connection” configuration (as shown below), the
Macintosh that is connected to the printer acts as the print server,
with the StylusRIP Server software installed on it. The other
computers in the network are “clients” of the server, with the
StylusRIP client software installed on them.
serial cable
printer print server clients
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In the direct connection configuration, the client
Macintosh sends a print job to the print server, which puts
the job in a print queue and then sends it to the printer.
This speeds up transmission of the job because it is sent
over the network only once.
◗In a “typical” network configuration, the print server and
client Macintosh computers are all connected to the printer
via an optional interface card, with the StylusRIP software
(server or client version) installed on all the computers.
In a typical configuration, the print job is sent over the
network twice before it is printed: once from the client to
the printer server and once from the printer server to the
printer.
Note:
You may experience problems if you have more than one printer on
the network in a “mixed” configuration. For example, if you have
one EPSON Stylus printer connected to a serial port and set up as
remote only and another connected via a network interface card on
the same network, you cannot set the network/AppleTalk®control
panel for remote only and Ethernet at the same time.
clients print server
printer optional interface card
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