Xerox 701P40016 User manual

Xerox Production Print Services

Guide to Printing Using Xerox Production Print Services

701P40016

Version 3.7

March, 2003

Xerox Corporation

Global Knowledge and Language Services

800 Phillips Road

Building 845-17S

Webster, New York 14580

USA

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GUIDE TO PRINTING USING XDS iii

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 1-1

Before you use this guide 1-1

About XPPS 1-1

XDS 1-2

XDS Plus 1-2

Xerox custom drivers 1-2

Third party drivers and PPDs 1-2

Web Interface 1-3

Command line client 1-3

About this guide 1-3

Contents 1-3

Conventions 1-4

Related documentation 1-5

Customer Support 1-5

2. Using XDS 2-1

Prerequisites 2-1

Accessing XDS from Windows 2-2

Accessing XDS from Macintosh OS X 2-2

Overview of the printing process 2-2

Windows printing process 2-2

Macintosh printing process 2-3

Using drag and drop to print one or more jobs 2-4

Selecting a printer type and queue 2-5

Selecting a file for printing 2-5

Customizing the printer list 2-6

Adding a printer 2-7

Setting the default printer 2-7

Modifying a print queue 2-8

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Deleting a printer 2-8

Accessing printer information 2-9

Checking the printer connections 2-9

3. Using the XDS Plus software 3-1

Prerequisites 3-1

Accessing the XDS Plus software 3-2

Accessing XDS Plus from Windows 3-2

Accessing XDS Plus from Solaris 3-2

Accessing XDS Plus from the Internet 3-3

XDS Plus printing process 3-4

Printer and queue setup 3-5

Selecting a printer and queue 3-5

Change Printer window components 3-5

Viewing printer and queue properties 3-7

Selecting a printer and queue 3-8

Printer and queue setup 3-8

Selecting a printer and queue 3-9

Change Printer window components 3-9

Viewing printer and queue properties 3-11

Selecting a printer and queue 3-12

4. Printing a job using the DocuSP web interface 4-1

Overview of the web interface printing process 4-1

Setting up a print job 4-2

Job tickets 4-3

Specifying job ticket parameters for the current job 4-3

Selecting the queue default job ticket 4-5

Selecting the default job ticket 4-5

Modifying the default job ticket 4-6

Selecting the [Printer Default] option 4-6

Specifying the number of copies 4-7

Specifying a page range for printing 4-8

Specifying the main stock for the job 4-8

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Setting up stocks 4-9

Displaying the stock window 4-9

Stock window components 4-9

Selecting a stock for the job 4-11

Creating a new stock 4-11

Specifying the sides imaged 4-13

Specifying a finishing option 4-14

Specifying collation 4-14

Specifying slip sheets 4-14

Setting up advanced features 4-15

Setup options in the Image Adjustment section 4-15

Specifying an image shift 4-15

Specifying Rotation 4-17

Selecting OPI 4-17

Selecting OPI Prescan 4-17

Specifying Halftone 4-18

Specifying tone reproduction curves (TRCs) 4-18

Enabling anti-aliasing 4-18

Setting color features 4-18

Color Adjustments 4-19

Color Cast 4-20

Setting Expert Color parameters 4-20

Specifying source color profiles 4-21

Specifying output color parameters 4-21

Entering Job Information 4-23

Setting user preferences 4-24

Printing a document 4-25

Selecting a print queue 4-25

Selecting a file for printing 4-26

Submitting a job for printing 4-26

Checking job, printer, and queue status and messages 4-26

Viewing messages 4-28

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Viewing properties 4-28

5. Xerox PPDs and PlugIns 5-1

PPDs and PlugIns using a Macintosh 5-1

Guidelines for selecting printing requirements 5-1

Selecting the printing options 5-2

Using the Xerox PlugIn 5-2

Using drag and drop to print one or more jobs 5-3

PPDs and PlugIns using Windows 5-3

Creating your document 5-4

Printing options 5-4

6. Using Command Line Client 6-1

Accessing the XDS Command Line software 6-1

Accessing XDS Command Line from Windows 6-1

Accessing XDS Command Line from Solaris and Mac OS X 6-1

XDS Command Line operating modes 6-2

Using Print command mode 6-2

Print command mode parameters 6-2

Accessing XDS Command Line Help: -help and -\? 6-2

Exiting XDS Command Line: -exit 6-3

Listing the printers: -ListP 6-3

Listing printer status: -ListP <options> 6-3

Selecting a file for printing: -f <file> 6-3

Setting the job ticket: -jt <job> 6-4

Setting the number of copies: -copies <#> 6-4

Setting the number of sides 6-4

Setting the finishing option 6-5

Setting user name 6-5

Display job status: -ListJob 6-5

Setting the printer: -p <printer> 6-7

Print queue status: -ListQ <options> 6-7

Setting the RegFileLoc 6-8

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Printing in print command mode 6-8

Command quick reference 6-9

7. The Xerox Custom PCL printer drivers 7-1

Features 7-1

Printing a document 7-2

Accessing the features and options 7-2

Starting printing 7-3

8. The Xerox Custom PostScript printer drivers 8-1

Features 8-1

Printing a document 8-2

Accessing the features and options 8-2

Starting printing 8-3

9. Job ticket options 9-1

Setting up a print job 9-1

Printer Limitations window 9-1

The Printer default option 9-2

Setting job ticket options for XDS 9-2

Accessing the Setup window 9-3

Accessing job ticket features for XDS Plus 9-3

Creating a new job ticket 9-3

Setting up a job ticket 9-4

Specifying the number of copies 9-5

Specifying the page range 9-5

Selecting the job type 9-5

Specifying the job disposition (printing or saving) 9-6

Specifying job setup parameters 9-6

Entering Job Notes 9-11

Specifying stocks for the job 9-12

Specifying stock properties 9-15

Specifying covers 9-17

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Specifying exception pages 9-20

Specifying full-color parameters 9-23

Setting highlight color parameters 9-27

Specifying page inserts 9-29

Specifying chapter starts 9-31

Printing a document 9-32

Selecting a print queue 9-32

Selecting a file to print 9-32

Reprinting a saved job 9-33

Reprinting without changing the job ticket parameters 9-34

Reprinting with different job ticket parameters 9-35

Checking the status of a job 9-36

Setting the XDS print options 9-36

Setting up a printer capabilities file 9-37

File contents 9-37

Sources for the printer capabilities file for Windows 9-38

Generating a printer capabilities file on XDS Plus 9-38

Exiting the XDS software 9-39

Exiting the XDS Plus software 9-39

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