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You may access a number of RIP Software’s functions usin g the menus at the top of the main window.

The File menu allows the user to add a job, save a job as a different format, send, pause, or abort a job or

stop the process by exiting. The following chart defines each of these options:

The Add a Job command allows you to add a job directly t o the Print Monitor.

To Add a Job

1. From the File menu select Add Job. The Add Job dialog box displays.

2. From the Add Job dialog select the path of the job you would lik e to add.

3. Click

Open. The job is added to the printer queue.

Job Properties can be accessed from within Roland COLORCHOICE and are settings as sociated with a

particular job. The Job Properties come from either the Pr inting Properties set in client, or the Setup

Properties set in RIP Software Server. To change the Job Properties, select Job Properties from the File

menu. Within Job Properties you may preview the job by s electing page preview, layout preview or no preview

(Macintosh only). Page preview displays the image of the job. Layout preview displays the job relative to the

output media. (See the Job Properties General Tab secti on for additional details).

The Save As command allows you to save an image into d ifferent file formats. Once a job has been printed,

you may want to save the RIPed file so that you can repr int it without having to RIP the file again. Saving a file

as Native format, with a .PRT extension, allows you to save RI Ped files for reprinting.

To Save a Job into a Different Format

1. Click on the job you would like to save into a differ ent format.

2. From the File Menu select Save As.

3. Select the destination folder and the file name.

4. Click

Save.

Once jobs are in the Print Monitor, you can select in dividual jobs or groups of jobs for printing. When selecting

a group of jobs, they are printed in the order that they appear i n the queue.

To Send a Job to Print

1. Click on the job or jobs you would like to print.

2. From the File Menu select Send to RIP.

When printing a job, the software begins RIPing the file. R IP, which stands for Raster Image Processor, is a

process that converts the selected file into a series of dots that are used to reproduce the file on the selected

media. RIPing involves a complex algorithmic proc ess that requires a significant portion of your computer’s

processing capacity. Larger files, in terms of MB, take long er to RIP than smaller files. The nature of the RIP

process makes it impossible to pause and restart. For th is reason, the Pause button is dimmed to prevent you