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User Guide
English
Spire CX250 Color Server 1.0 for
Xerox DocuColor 240/250 Printer-
Copier
www.creo.com
731-00433A-EN
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Patents This product is covered by one or more of the following U.S. patents: RE37,376 5,412,737 5,699,174 6,014,471 6,189,452 6,396,422 6,579,660 D478,608 5,420,702 5,699,740 6,016,752 6,191,882 6,407,849 6,587,211 4,558,302 5,420,722 5,708,736 6,043,865 6,204,874 6,409,331 6,589,710 4,743,091 5,459,505 5,713,287 6,060,208 6,205,364 6,414,755 6,590,635 4,992,864 5,473,733 5,742,743 6,063,528 6,208,369 6,422,801 6,593,064 5,049,901 5,481,379 5,764,374 6,063,546 6,214,276 6,425,565 6,601,888 5,11
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Contents 1 Welcome 1 Welcome to the Spire CX250 Color Server User Guide..............................................................................2 Terminology ............................................................................................................................................. 3 Overview of Guide.................................................................................................................................... 4 Overview of Spire CX250 Color Server.....
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viii Spire CX250 Color Server User Guide Managing the Storage Window.............................................................................................................. 42 Discarding RTP Information.............................................................................................................. 44 Handling Jobs in the Storage Window .............................................................................................45 Archiving and Retrieving Jobs ................
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Contents ix 6 Generating Reports 95 Printing Reports from the Xerox DocuColor 240/250 Printer-Copier........................................................ 96 Job Accounting ...................................................................................................................................... 97 Setting the Accounting/Message Viewer .......................................................................................... 97 Viewing the Accounting Information ....................
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x Spire CX250 Color Server User Guide Scan .............................................................................................................................................. 167 Storage Management.................................................................................................................... 168 System Messages ................................................................................................................................. 169 The Alerts Window....
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Welcome Welcome to the Spire CX250 Color Server User Guide ........................2 Terminology ........................................................................................3 Overview of Guide ..............................................................................4 Overview of Spire CX250 Color Server ................................................5
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2 Chapter 1– Welcome Welcome to the Spire CX250 Color Server User Guide Welcome to your Spire™ CX250 Color Server 1.0 for Xerox® DocuColor 240/250 Printer-Copier User Guide. The Xerox DocuColor 240/250 printer-copier is a powerful, comprehensive color server that provides high throughput and print predictability to digital workflows. In combination with the Xerox DocuColor 240/250 printer-copier, the Spire CX250 color server effectively addresses the growth of on-demand printing needs and
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Terminology 3 Terminology The Spire CX250 color server is available in three configurations: Table 1: Terminology Configuration Description Spire CX250 color server Spire CX250 color server mounted on the Xerox DocuColor 240/250 (“basic configuration”) printer-copier Spire CX250 color server with Upgrade kit that includes the Spire CX250 color server mounted on a Control Station Upgrade Kit stand, monitor, keyboard, mouse, and DVD-ROM. A dongle is (“Control Station required for this configura
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4 Chapter 1– Welcome Overview of Guide Table 2: Guide Overview Chapter Contents Description Chapter 1 Welcome This chapter introduces the guide and the Spire CX250 color server features and workflows. Chapter 2 Spire CX250 Color This chapter introduces the basic workflows for users Server Basic of the Spire CX250 color server basic configuration, Configuration including defining the Xerox DocuColor 240/250 Workflows printer-copier on a client workstation, working via the Remote Desktop Appl
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Overview of Spire CX250 Color Server 5 Table 2: Guide Overview Chapter Contents Description Appendix B Reinstalling the System This appendix describes the software backup and restore, reinstalling the system, installing and configuring the Novell client, and formatting the image disk. Overview of Spire CX250 Color Server The Spire CX250 color server is an on-demand pre-press system that uses Creo Spire advanced pre-press technologies to drive a Xerox DocuColor 240/250 printer-copier. As an
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6 Chapter 1– Welcome Figure 1: Spire CX250 color server for Xerox DocuColor 240/250 printer- copier—Spire CX250 with Pro configuration Note: The image above shows the Pro configuration. In the Control Station and Pro configurations, the Spire CX250 color server is mounted on the back of the stand.
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Overview of Spire CX250 Color Server 7 Hardware and Software Components The Spire CX250 color server is a dedicated Creo platform running in a Windows environment. The Spire CX250 color server includes: • Creo hardware, including the interface board Software, including: Spire application software Windows XP Professional ® ® Adobe Acrobat version 6.0 Supported Formats The Spire CX250 color server supports the following file formats: ® PostScript (composite or pre-separated files) PDF
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8 Chapter 1– Welcome Workflow The Spire CX250 color server receives and processes files from the following client workstations: Macintosh – running Mac OS 9.x or later and Mac OS X (10.1 and later) Windows – running 2000, 2000 Pro, XP and 2003 UNIX Workstations and Servers The basic workflow for the Spire CX250 color server is as follows:
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Overview of Spire CX250 Color Server 9 Spire CX250 Color Server Network Printers For Macintosh and Windows networks, the Spire CX250 color server provides three default network printers, also known as virtual printers. Virtual printers are used for automating workflows, which then define job streaming. They contain preset workflows that are automatically applied to all print jobs processed with that virtual printer. There is no need to reset job settings for each job, thus increasing printin
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10 Chapter 1– Welcome
