Roland PC-600 User manual
Roland COLORCHOICE®for ColorCAMM
for Macintosh
Version 3.1
User Guide
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Welcome .............................................................................................................. 4
System Requirements .......................................................................................... 4
Macintosh Installation ........................................................................................... 4
Uninstalling the Software (Macintosh) .................................................................. 8
Outputting a Test File ........................................................................................... 8
Getting Started ..................................................................................................... 9
Working with Setup Properties ............................................................................. 9
General tab .......................................................................................................................... 9
Port tab ...............................................................................................................................10
Print tab ..............................................................................................................................10
Cut tab ................................................................................................................................13
Color Adjust tab ..................................................................................................................14
Printing with Roland COLORCHOICE ............................................................... 14
Printing Already Prepared Jobs .........................................................................................14
Sending Jobs Directly from an Application ......................................................................... 14
Working with Jobs .............................................................................................. 15
Adding Jobs to the Print Monitor ........................................................................................15
Deleting Jobs from the Print Monitor ..................................................................................16
Printing Jobs ......................................................................................................................16
Pausing and Resuming Printing .........................................................................................16
Aborting a Job ....................................................................................................................16
Saving Jobs in Native Format ............................................................................................ 17
Setting Preferences ............................................................................................ 17
Setting Job Properties ........................................................................................ 18
The General tab .................................................................................................................18
The Print tab .......................................................................................................................19
The Cut tab ........................................................................................................................19
The Color Adjust tab ..........................................................................................................20
Advanced Printing Procedures ........................................................................... 21
Illustrator 7 .........................................................................................................................21
PageMaker 6.5 ...................................................................................................................23
Photoshop 4 .......................................................................................................................24
Photoshop 5 .......................................................................................................................27
QuarkXPress 3 ...................................................................................................................29
QuarkXPress 4 ...................................................................................................................31
Contour Cutting and Spot Color Printing ............................................................ 34
Adobe Illustrator 7 ..............................................................................................................34
FreeHand 8 ........................................................................................................................34
QuarkXPress 4 ...................................................................................................................35
PageMaker 6.5 ...................................................................................................................35
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Welcome
Welcome to the documentation for the Roland COLORCHOICE Software. We believe that you will find the
information useful and the software easy to learn.
System Requirements
Macintosh Installation
This section describes how to install the software, and how to configure it for common application scenarios.
1 Insert the Roland COLORCHOICE CD into your computer’s CD-ROM drive.
2 Double-click the ColorCAMM Installer icon.
3 You are prompted to select the language of the software.
4 Select the language you wish to install and click OK.
You are prompted for your User ID.
5 Type “1000” in the entry box and click OK.
Minimum Recommended Recommened
Processor 90MHz 601 Power PC 233MHz G3 Power Macintosh
RAM 64MB (virtual memory set to 128MB) 128MB or more (virtual memory set to 256MB)
Install Space 100MB 100MB
Working Disk Space 1GB or more 2GB or more for storage
Operating System Mac OS 8.1 or later Mac OS 8.1 or later
Video 14” Monitor, 256 Colors 17” Monitor, Thousands of Colors
Other CD-ROM Drive CD-ROM Drive
MAC/PCI Card MAC/PCI Card
USB-PIA (requires Mac OS 8.5 or later) USB-PIA (requires Mac OS 8.5 or later)
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You are asked to re-enter your User ID.
6 Type in “1000” again, and then click OK.
The Installation Options dialog appears.
7 Click OK.
The next screen prompts you for the type of installation and the location to which you want to install the software.
8 Accept the default selection of Easy Install and specify the location to which to install the software. Click Install
when you are finished. A status window displays the progress of the installation.
Toward the end of the process, you are asked if you would like to clear preferences.
9 Click Yes.
10 The following screen asks you to launch the Adobe PS Driver Installer.
11 Click OK.
12 Explore the CD.
13 Open the folder labeled AdobePS Installers.
14 Open the folder for the language you are installing.
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15 Double-Click on the AdobePS Installer Icon. The Adobe Printer Driver installer is launched.
16 Click Continue.
17 If you accept the terms of the License, click Accept.
The next window prompts you for a location to install the Adobe PostScript Installer.
18 Select a location and then click Install.
The necessary files are installed to the location that you specified.
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After the installation finishes you are asked whether or not you want to restart your computer.
19 Click Restart.
The software installation is now complete. Before printing, however; you will need to add a setup and then go to
the chooser and select the appropriate printer description.
20 Double-click the RCC for ColorCAMM icon to start the software. The Add Setup dialog appears.
21 Select your printer in the list and then click Next. You are prompted for the port to which the selected printer is
connected.
22 Choose the appropriate port and click OK.
23 Open the Chooser from the Apple menu and highlight AdobePS.
24 Locate your computer. It should say ColorCAMM PC-600@computer, where “Computer” is the name of your
Macintosh.
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25 Click Setup. You are prompted to select a PPD (PostScript printer description).
26 Locate the PPD for the output device you are using (AmPC600.ppd), highlight it. Then click Select. You will find
it in the System Folder/Printer Description folder.
Uninstalling the Software (Macintosh)
Follow these steps to uninstall the Roland COLORCHOICE Software from your Macintosh.
1 Quit the Roland COLORCHOICE Software, if it is still open.
2 Drag the RCC for ColorCAMM Folder into the Trash.
3 Open the System folder.
• From the Preferences folder, drag the two RCC for ColorCAMM preference files into the Trash.
• Locate and open the ‘Extensions’ folder. Drag the Am_ColorCAMM PC-600 spooler file into the Trash.
From the ‘Printer Descriptions’ folder, located within the ‘Extensions’ folder, drag the PPD files, named
according to your output device, into the Trash.
4 Restart your computer.
5 Hold down the Option key while you empty the Trash.
6 The software is now uninstalled.
Outputting a Test File
To insure that your software is properly installed and that a connection to the printer is established, select Setup>Test
Print or Test Cut. When you do this a small test file is sent to the Print Monitor and then processed. Once you’ve
successfully generated a test file, be sure to read the rest of this document to learn about other features.
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Getting Started
To start the Roland COLORCHOICE Software, double click the icon labeled RCC for ColorCAMM located in the
RCC for ColorCAMM Software folder.
The Print Monitor displays when you start the software. You can control every facet of job management from the Print
Monitor. The Print Monitor is essentially a queue, listing all the files that are waiting to be printed.
Jobs appear in the queue in the order that they were recieved. For each job, the following information is displayed:
• Job Name - the name of the file, including any extensions.
• Status - the current status of the job, either Holding, RIPing, or Printing.
• Copies - the number of copies to be printed.
• Media - the media on which the job will be printed.
• File Type - the file type of the selected job.
Working with Setup Properties
Setup Properties are the default print settings for your printer. To view printer settings, click Setup Properties from
the Setup menu of the menu bar to display the Setup Properties dialog. The Setup Properties dialog opens with the
Communication tab selected.
General tab
The General tab displays settings related to the size of the media.
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Media Size- Select a media size that is currently loaded into your printer. You can specify custom media sizes by
selecting other from the list and then editing the Height and Width values.
Margin- Specify custom margins, if desired.
Send- You can choose to send the Print and the Contour, the Print only, or the Contour only.
Port tab
The Port tab contains a list box for specifying the port to which your output device is connected.
Print tab
The Print tab displays basic processing settings and allows you to access your printer’s Driver Options.
Resolution- You may set the output resolution here. A higher resolution will generally result in better results but
slower output. The resolution set here is separate from the resolution used by your application.
Setting a resolution in this driver that is higher than the resolution in the application will not necessarily
improve the output.
Dither Type- This is the pattern in which the individual dots that make an image are applied to the media. Dots of
ink are arranged to fool your eye into seeing different shades.
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