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Manual for RIP Printing
This document explains how to prepare media for RIP printing with optimal settings and
operational procedures for day-to-day printing.
Version 1.2 EN
© 2015 Seiko Epson Corporation. All rights reserved.

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  • Page 1 Manual for RIP Printing This document explains how to prepare media for RIP printing with optimal settings and operational procedures for day-to-day printing. Version 1.2 EN © 2015 Seiko Epson Corporation. All rights reserved.

  • Page 2: Copyrights And Trademarks

    Copyrights and Trademarks EPSON, EPSON EXCEED YOUR VISION, EXCEED YOUR VISION and their logos are registered trademarks or trademarks of Seiko Epson. Microsoft® and Windows® are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Mac® and Mac OS® are registered trademarks of Apple Inc.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Contents Copyrights and Trademarks ........................ 2 Contents ..............................3 Getting Started ............................. 4 What to Prepare ....................................4 Work Flow ......................................5 Registering Media Settings (EMX File) ....................6 Register Media Settings (Printer) ..............................6 Register Print Information (RIP) ..............................7 ONYX rip Settings ..........................8 Install and Connect ...................................8 Importing Print Information ................................

  • Page 4: Getting Started

    What to Prepare Software RIP (hereafter "RIP") As of January 2016, RIP availability for SC-S80600 Series /SC-S60600 Series /SC-S40600 Series printers are as follows. Information on the latest supported RIP can be viewed at [Information] on the Epson Control Dashboard (hereafter "Dashboard").

  • Page 5: Work Flow

    Work Flow Once you complete the following steps, you can perform daily print operation easily. 1. Prepare Printing 1. Install and connect the software. (Steps vary depending on the RIP you use.) ONYX rip "Install and Connect" Caldera RIP "Install and Connect" DINAX Mirage "Install and Connect"...

  • Page 6: Registering Media Settings (Emx File)

    Registering Media Settings (EMX File) This section explains how to register downloaded EMX files to a printer or RIP. Install Dashboard on your computer in advance and perform [Printer Registration]. For details, see the Dashboard Help. Register Media Settings (Printer) Follow the steps below to download the EMX file and register the media settings to the printer.

  • Page 7: Register Print Information (Rip)

    Write the downloaded media settings to the printer. (1) Click the media settings to copy. (2) Click the target number from the media setting list. If you do not select a blank target number, the contents of the selected target number will be over-written. (3) Click .

  • Page 8: Onyx Rip Settings

    ・(1) Install the communication driver from the software disk that came with your printer or from Setup Navi (http://epson.sn/). If the following screen appears during installation, make sure to click [Install]. ・(4) When the ONYX rip printer driver (.PrnInst) is installed, the following screen will appear.
  • Page 9 Click [Configure Printer] from the toolbar. Click [Features] from the [Device] tab. Select [Global Printer Options] and click [Configure]. Check that the serial number of your printer appears in [Serial Number] in [Epson Control Dashboard]. Note : The printer serial number...

  • Page 10: Importing Print Information

    Copy the Epson exclusive wide gamut input profile file. (Optional) Copy source: Copy and paste the following to the address bar of Explorer. %PUBLIC%¥Documents¥Epson¥Control Dashboard¥Profile Copy destination: ONYX rip installation folder ] - [Profiles] - [CMYK] Note : If the above folder cannot be found, search for the files with the keyword "EpsonWideCMYK" for the copy source, and "OnyxCMYK"...

  • Page 11: Importing Print Information Manually

    Importing Print Information Manually To import print information manually, perform the following steps after registering media settings to the printer. Double-click the RIP Queue icon. Click [Configure Printer] from the toolbar. Click [Features] from the [Device] tab. Select [Global Printer Options], and then click [Configure]. In [Import Media], select the location of the EMX file you want to import.
  • Page 12 Select the profile to import. Select the checkbox of the profiles you wish to import, and then click [OK]. [Select All] allows you to import all the profiles displayed.

  • Page 13: Creating Quick Sets

    Creating Quick Sets In ONYX rip, you can save frequently used settings as presets called Quick Sets. Creating a quick set makes day-to-day printing operations easier. Right-click the RIP Queue icon and select [Run as administrator]. When creating or changing a quick set, make sure you run as an administrator. Click [Configure Printer] from the toolbar.
  • Page 14 Click [Change Profiles] in [Color Management]. See the following table, set (1) to (3) in the [Profiles] tab and click [OK]. Input color setting details "The print color does not match the image data confirmed on the screen" For wide gamut printing For general printing EpsonWideCMYK Ver2.icc General printing profile, etc.
  • Page 15 Make sure you select the same media for [Select Media Group] and [Select Media Name] as selected in the printer operation panel. Note : When selected, you can change only [Select Print Mode]. Other media information is printed with the [Current Media and Page Size] settings on the [Printer Status] screen.

  • Page 16: Prepare Printing Of Hot Folder

    Prepare Printing of Hot Folder When creating a quick set, a hot folder with the same name as the quick set is automatically created in the [ONYX rip installation folder] - [Input] - [Printer name] folder. By performing the following preparations, you can print files easily by simply dragging and dropping the file to be printed to the hot folder shortcut icon.

  • Page 17: Open And Print File

    Open and Print File This section describes two different printing methods. Normally, we recommend to print after checking the print file. When adding margins or performing tiled printing, make sure to follow the steps below for printing. "Select Registered Quick Set and Print" When you do not need to check the print file when printing, the hot folder printing is useful.
  • Page 18 Click [Open] from the toolbar and select the file to print and quick set. (1) Select the quick sets to use in [Quick sets]. (2) Select the file to print from the preview screen on the left and click [Open]. Click [Print Now].

  • Page 19: Drag And Drop Files To The Hot Folder

    Drag and Drop Files to the Hot Folder Prepare the following in advance. "Prepare Printing of Hot Folder" Set the media properly in the printer. For instructions on setting media, see the "User's Guide" (PDF). Drag and drop the file to be printed to the shortcut icon of the hot folder. Printing will start automatically.

  • Page 20: Caldera Rip Settings

    (3) Caldera RIP printer driver (.Calpatch) (4) Epson exclusive wide gamut input profile file (Installed together with Dashboard) Copy the Epson exclusive wide gamut input profile file to the folder below. Copy source: [Library] - [Caches] - [Epson] - [Epson Control Dashboard] - [Profile]...

  • Page 21: Importing Print Information

    Importing Print Information Import print information for each media from Dashboard with the following steps. Perform the steps only after you have registered media settings to the printer. Start Caldera RIP. Click [ServerAdmin] on the [Settings] tab. Select the printer, and then click [Configure].
  • Page 22 Enter the printer's serial number displayed on the [Home] screen of the Dashboard. At the [Main] tab, click [EasyMedia (or EasyMediaLight)].
  • Page 23 Select the printer icon and click [Next]. Select the printer to use and click [Next]. Click [Autosync].
  • Page 24 See the following and select the method you want to use to import the print information. Only import new media information that has been registered to the printer to the RIP. Missing presets only Delete all registered media information and import all media information for the printer to the Full reset RIP.

  • Page 25: Create Configuration (Print Settings)

    Create Configuration (Print Settings) Saving configurations that are used often (hereafter referred to as print settings) makes day-to-day print operations easier. Start Caldera RIP. Click the printer to use from the [Main] tab. Click [Colors] (palette icon at the bottom right)
  • Page 26 For general printing Do not check Check AdobeRGB1998.icc sRGB.icc, etc. EpsonWideCMYK Ver2.icc General printing profile, etc. Note : If Epson WideCMYK_Ver2.icc cannot be found in (3), click [More] at the bottom, and then select the [Files] tab on the [Profile Browser] screen.
  • Page 27 Select the media width set in the printer. Loading Select the media type set in the printer. Media When using print information imported from an EMX file, make sure to select [Epson Precision Dot CMYK]. Mode Select the number of print paths. Quality [Print] is the setting used normally.

  • Page 28: Open And Print File

    Open and Print File This section describes two different printing methods. Normally, we recommend to print after checking the print file. When adding margins or performing tiled printing, make sure to follow the steps below for printing. "Select Registered Print Settings and Print" When you need not to check the print file before printing, the hot folder printing method is useful.
  • Page 29 Select the print file and Configuration (Print settings), and then click [Open]. (1) Select the print file. (For details of icons, see the Caldera RIP manual.) (2) Click [...] and select the registered print setting. (3) When [Open] is clicked, printing will start automatically. Note : (2) At the print setting selection screen, a commonly used print setting can be registered as a favorite by selecting it and clicking [Add to favorites].

  • Page 30: Create A Hot Folder And Print

    Create a Hot Folder and Print Hot folders can be created or printed by following the steps below. If you have already created a hot folder, go to step 5. Start Caldera RIP. Select [Hot Folders] from the [Special] menu on the [Main] tab. Click [New].
  • Page 31 Set the media properly in the printer. For instructions on setting media, see the "User's Guide" (PDF). Drag and drop the file to be printed to the shortcut icon of the hot folder. Printing will start automatically.

  • Page 32: Dinax Mirage Settings

    %PUBLIC%¥Documents¥Epson¥Control Dashboard¥Profile (2) EpsonWideCMYK_ver2.icc and select [Install] to automatically copy the file. Mac OS X: Go to [Library] - [Caches] - [Epson] - [Epson Control Dashboard] - [Profile] and copy EpsonWideCMYK_Ver2.icc to [System] - [Library] - [Colorsync] - [Profile]. Note : If the above folder cannot be found, search for the files with the keyword "EpsonWideCMYK".

  • Page 33: Color Settings

    Color Settings With DINAX Mirage, you can prepare printing by configuring only the Color Settings. Start Mirage Print. Select [Settings] from [File]. See the following table and configure [Default Color Profiles] in the [Color Settings] tab. Input color setting details "The print color does not match the image data confirmed on the screen "...

  • Page 34: Print Procedure

    Print Procedure Start Mirage Print. Drag and drop the print data to the [MiragePrint] screen. Select the media name and print mode, and then click [Print] to start printing. (1) Select the media name set in the printer with [on]. (2) Select the print mode (resolution and number of paths) with [with].

  • Page 35: Troubleshooting

    Troubleshooting Print settings cannot be retrieved from Dashboard Check the following. ・Did you register the EMX file downloaded from Dashboard to the printer? In Dashboard, you can only import print information of media types for media settings that were registered to the printer.

  • Page 36: The Seams Between The Pages Are Prominent (Tiled Printing)

    The seams between the pages are prominent (Tiled printing) Splitting up an image data across multiple pages/printouts (tiles) is called "tiled printing". During tiled printing, if pages are vertically flipped when printed out as shown in the figure below, the difference in colors for the seams between the pages will be less noticeable.

  • Page 37: Onyx Rip Settings

    ONYX rip Settings Open the image file with RIP Queue, right-click the image to be used for tiled printing in [Preview] on the left of the screen, and select [Job in Job Editor]. Configure tiled printing settings in the [Tile Setup] tab. For setting details, see the RIP manual.
  • Page 38 Click [Placement] on the right of the screen. Select the [Flip every other tile] checkbox, and click [OK]. Specify the quick set to use, and then start printing.

  • Page 39: Caldera Rip Settings

    Caldera RIP Settings Click [Tiling+] from the [Main] tab of Caldera RIP. Click in [Misc]. For setting details of tiled printing, see the RIP manual. After configuring the settings, select the print settings and start printing.

  • Page 40: The Print Color Does Not Match The Image Data Confirmed On The Screen

    The print color does not match the image data confirmed on the screen In order to print the print data in the desired color, the input color settings of the image processing software (Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, etc.) and the RIP must match. In order to match the print data displayed on the computer screen with the print color, configure display settings for the image processing software by following the steps below.
  • Page 41 Refer to the following table, specify a profile in [Working Spaces] and press [OK]. For wide gamut printing For general printing AdobeRGB1998.icc sRGB.icc, etc. EpsonWideCMYK Ver2.icc General printing profile, etc. Keep embedded profile Convert to working space For wide gamut printing: Regardless of whether or not a profile is embedded in the print data, printing is performed with a wider gamut compared to general printing colors.

This manual is also suitable for:

Sc-s60600 seriesSc-s40600 series

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