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Using CommandWorkStation

Command WorkStation user interface functionality

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INTERFACE OVERVIEW

TABS & SLIDERS 3

ARCHIVE & LOG 10

LOG IN /OUT 2

UTILITIES 4

JOB TICKETING 5

WORKFLOW 6

JOB PROPERTIES 7

JOB STATUS 8

SCRIPTS 9 FREEFORM 12

MERGING & EDITING

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INTERFACE OVERVIEW section 1

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HOME

Job queues& workflow

Ticketing

Job status

Info

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Thumbnails

Archive

Freeform

Job log

LOG IN SLIDER

• When the Command WorkStation (CWS) completes

loading, the Log On slider will automatically appear.

• Click a Key, enter your password, and click Log in.

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LOGGING IN section 2

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USER LEVEL PRIVILEGES

• Administrator — has control of Fiery setup,

calibration, and all print jobs and job workflow.

• Operator — has control of calibration and all print

jobs and job workflow.

• Guest — can only view current and stored jobs.


LOGGING IN section 2


LOGGING OUT OF THE SERVER

• To log out of a Fiery server, click Log out on the

slider shown below.

• Command WorkStation will automatically quit when

the user logs out of the last available server.


LOGGING OUT section 2


PASSWORD SETUP ON THE FIERY LCD

• Administrator password setup may be completed

with Password Setup on the Fiery LCD panel.


PASSWORD SETUP section 2


Enter Fiery Setupduring the bootsequence

PASSWORD SETUP USING THE CWS

• Passwords for the Administrator, Operator, and

Guest may be set with the CWS by the administrator.

• Choose Run Setup from the Administrator menu.

Click Server Setup from the window below.

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PASSWORD SETUP USING THE CWS

• In the Server setup win-

dow click the Password

tab and enter applicable

text for all users.

• Click Save to exit Server

setup. Click Reboot to

execute all changes.




INFORMATION SLIDERS


TABS & SLIDERS section 3


Serverinformation

Shortcuts toutilities

Log in

HARDWARE INFORMATION




Used disk space

Used Memory

click to view:

SERVER SELECTION TABS

• Command WorkStation can communicate with

five different Fiery servers.

• Log on to other servers by clicking on selection tabs.




Server 1: Fiery_Server Server 2 (not yet selected)

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FIERY DOWNLOADER

• To download PostScript files, PDF files, and fonts, use

the Utilities slider to click the Fiery Downloader icon.

• Connections to Fiery servers that are not currently

displayed with Command WorkStation may be

initiated when opening Fiery Downloader.


UTILITIES section 4


TO DOWNLOADA FILE

1. Highlight the

desired file.

2. Click Add.

3. Choose a Queue.

4. Click Download.


UTILITIES section 4


FIERY PRINT CALIBRATOR

• To calibrate the Fiery with the Fiery Print Calibrator,

click its icon in the Utilities slider.

• Connections to Fiery servers that are not currently

displayed with Command WorkStation may be

initiated when opening Fiery Print Calibrator.


UTILITIES section 4


FIERY PRINT CALIBRATOR, MAIN WINDOW


UTILITIES section 4


JOB TICKETING INFORMATION

• Job ticketing information appears at the top of the

Queues and Archive windows.

• Job ticketing information may be set to include the

user’s PPD settings and Notes Field entries.

• Desired job ticketing information fields may be placed

in a custom order.


JOB TICKETING section 5


JOB TICKETING INFORMATION

• Desired job ticketing information fields may be added (a),

ordered (b), or deleted (c) by right clicking any user selectable

job ticketing properties.


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DOWNHILL JOB FLOW

• CWS has three queues

which are intended to

represent three stages

of printing:

1. Job arrival (Spool)

2. Job processing (RIP)

3. Job output (Print)


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DOWNHILL JOB FLOW

• CWS has built in

job handling scripts

which send jobs to

specified queues —

two are shown here:

1 RIPped and Held

2 Printed and Held

(more on these later)

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DOWNHILL JOB FLOW: SPOOL QUEUE

• Displays jobs spooling to the Fiery to be printed.

• Printing to the “Hold” queue from a workstation will

cause the job to be held in the Spool queue (with a

yellow highlight). Such a job has not been ripped.


WORKFLOW section 6


DOWNHILL JOB FLOW: RIP QUEUE

• Displays jobs currently being RIPped by the Fiery.

• Contains jobs that have been RIPped and printed

which no longer reside in RAM.


WORKFLOW section 6


DOWNHILL JOB FLOW: PRINT QUEUE

• Displays jobs currently being printed by the Fiery.

• Contains jobs which have been printed—some jobs

have been rasterized and reside in RAM.


WORKFLOW section 6


JOB PROPERTIES WINDOW

• Job override settings in the Job Properties window for

any job may be accessed by double clicking on a job’s

status bar or icon.


JOB PROPERTIES section 7


Right click a property headingto enter its value.

VIEWING PROPERTIES OF MULTIPLE JOBS

• Properties of multiple jobs may be accessed by

highlighting one job(s) and shift-clicking another.

• You may also control-click jobs to highlight them.


JOB PROPERTIES section 7


Click first job(s)

Then, shift click thelast job that you wishto view Properties of.

JOB STATUS BARS

• Coloring of Job Status bars in any queue indicate one

of the following:

White: idle/printed (in the Print queue), or waiting

to be ripped or printed.

Yellow: job is being held in queue

Light Red: a PostScript error has occurred.


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JOB ICONS: ACTIVE (WHITE)




PostScript Icon: PostScript data afterprinting; raster data has been deleted.

Printer Icon: PostScript or raster dataheaded for printing.

Raster Icon: PostScript and raster dataafter printing; ready for fast reprint.

JOB ICONS: JOBS ON HOLD (YELLOW)




PostScript Icon: Job on hold afterprinting.

Printer Icon: PostScript data headedfor “Print and Hold”.

Raster Icon: PostScript data which hasbeen rasterized and held.

RIGHT CLICK MENU: JOB HANDLING SCRIPTS

• Right click a job to reveal the job handling menu.

• Job handling scripts enable the user to send a job to

different areas of the Command WorkStation.


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JOB HANDLING SCRIPTS & THEIR FUNCTIONS




Hold

RIP and Hold

RemoveRaster

Hold the job in the current place (exception:

printed jobs are moved to Spool or RIP)

RIP the job and hold it in the RIP area.

Remove the raster data from a job—remain-

ing PostScript is left in current queue.


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Print

Print & Hold

Delete

Print the job (RIP first if necessary). Upon

output, keep job in Print queue.

Print the job and send its rasterized version

to the RIP queue.

Delete the selected job.

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Duplicate

Rename

Process Next

Duplicate one or more PostScript jobs in the

Spool or Print areas.

Rename the selected job.

Process the selected job as soon as the server

and copier are free.

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Archive

Thumbnail(A)

Thumbnail(B)

Move the job to the Archive window.

(available only on production color servers)

Display a thumbnail of the job in the

Thumbnail A window (for raster jobs only).

Display a thumbnail of the job in Thumbnail

B (for raster jobs in RIP or Print only).

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ARCHIVE WINDOW TAB (only on production servers)

• Click the Archive tab to view Archived jobs which

have been saved to disk.

• Jobs may be sent to the Archive window by right

clicking on the job and selecting “Archive” from the

appearing menu.


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ARCHIVE WINDOW (only on production servers)

• Jobs may be custom-ordered by Title, User, Date, Copies, or

Size by right clicking on the desired field.

• Double clicking on a field reveals an Up or Down arrow which

designates order of “greatest to least” or “least to greatest”.




JOB LOG TAB & WINDOW

• Click the Job Log tab in the main CWS window to

access the Job Log.




JOB LOG WINDOW

• Settings for the Job

Log may be accessed

with the CWS in

Server setup by the

administrator.




JOB PREVIEW (THUMBNAIL A OR B)

• Create a preview of a held, rasterized document by

right clicking on the document and choosing

Thumbnail A or B from the appearing menu.

• Held, rasterized documents are denoted by:


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Click to retractpreview window

THUMBNAIL PREVIEW A: DOCUMENT MERGING

• To edit a rasterized document in window A, add (drag

and drop) similarly sized pages from Thumbnail B to

the document in Thumbnail A.

• Then click once on the Thumbnail A button to be

prompted to save the new document containing

added pages.




DOCUMENT MERGING AND EDITING

• Page movements from Thumbnail B to Thumbnail A

may be undone by typing “Ctrl-Z”.

• Pages in Thumbnail A may be duplicated or deleted

by right clicking the desired page’s icon and choosing

the appropriate function from the appearing menu.




Right click onthe desiredpreview

EDITING TOOLS

• Use these tools to edit page presence and order.




Displays a preview of the currently RIPping job.

Displays a preview of a selected job.

Opens a full screen preview of a selected page.

Duplicates a selected page.

Deletes a selected page.

DOCUMENT MERGING & FULL SIZE PREVIEWS

• Rasterized pages from multiple documents may be

merged with the document in Thumbnail A.

• For a full size preview, double click any thumbnail, or

right click on a page in Thumbnail A and choose

“Open Preview..” from the appearing menu.




FIERY FREEFORM (available only on production servers)

• Fiery FreeForm enables the user to print variable

data documents.

• Each document has a Master file and a Variable file.

• The CWS user interface allows the operator to assign

identity numerals to Master and Variable files.


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FIERY FREEFORM (available only on production servers)

• Once Master and Variable identity numerals have

been assigned, Fiery FreeForm combines the

documents to create a final product.

Note: Identities may also be assigned as a printer

specific option on the user’s workstation.

• A preview of the final product is made available

before printing.


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FREEFORM WINDOW

• Click the tab near the bottom of the CWS interface to

view the FreeForm window.


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MASTER FILE INFORMATION

• Information pertaining to FreeForm Master files is

available by right-clicking the desired job’s status bar.


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PREVIEWING A FREEFORM DOCUMENT

• In the Queues window of CWS, select the job

comprising the variable elements of the document.

• Choose Properties from the appearing menu.

• Right-click the Use Master print option and choose

a FreeForm master document. Click OK.

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PREVIEWING A FREEFORM DOCUMENT

• Right-click the same job and choose RIP-and-Hold.

• Once RIPped, preview the job in Thumbnail A.

PRINTING THE SAME FREEFORM DOCUMENT

• Right-click the same job and choose Print, rather

than RIP-and-Hold.


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NAVIGATIONNavigation through Using Command Workstation may be accomplished in

several ways. To view a specific topic from the Home page, simply click its

icon. Each topic contains several pages of information. To move amongst

them, click the Last and Next buttons at the bottom of each page.

Access to much of the same information may be accomplished by clicking

areas of the Interface Overview page. Buttons for the Home and Interface

Overview pages are located at the bottoms of all pages.

PRINTINGJust as with most PDF files, Using Command Workstation may be printed

with the Print command found in the File menu of your viewing application.

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