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PShop User’s Guide - ix Chapter 1: Before You Begin Type Conventions Different kinds of typefaces used throughout this manual indicate text that willappear on the screen or need to be entered by the user. When asked to enter commands preceded by a pound sign (‘#’), the user shouldbe in super-user mo...

Chapter 1:Before You Begin x - PShop User’s Guide If your platform is not listed above, you can contact Vividata, Inc. to see if yourplatform has been added since this printing of the manual. Memory Requirements - Minimum 128 MB RAM, depending on workstation configuration - An additional RAM or swap...

Chapter 1:Before You Begin PShop User’s Guide - xi Examples: Customer Support You can reach the Vividata, Inc. technical support staff by: • Online email form: http://www.vividata.com/support_contact.html • Fax: USA (510) 658-6597 • Telephone: USA (510) 658-6587 Customer Service is available on regu...

PShop User’s Guide - xiii Chapter 2: Software and Hardware Installation Overview This section describes the installation procedures for PShop, including theLicense Manager and printer hardware. Please consult the release notes suppliedwith the product for any last-minute information relevant to your...

Chapter 2:Software and Hardware Installation xiv - PShop User’s Guide SCSI Cable Lengths If you have a SCSI bus with SCSI-1 and SCSI-2 devices that do not operate infast SCSI mode, the bus's total physical cable length should not exceed 6 meters(19.6 feet). On a bus with fast SCSI devices, the lengt...

Chapter 2:Software and Hardware Installation PShop User’s Guide - xv Installing PShop Installing PShop on your system consists of a few simple steps. You may have obtained your PShop distribution either from the internet or from a CD-ROM. In both cases, you should have a PShop distribution file call...

Chapter 2:Software and Hardware Installation xvi - PShop User’s Guide # sh vvkey.sh The filename of the script may vary. The license key will be installed in /opt/Vividata/config/vvlicense.dat. If youreceived a license key on paper, you must manually install it in this file. Once the software and ke...

Chapter 2:Software and Hardware Installation PShop User’s Guide - xvii Configuring Your Printer PShop includes a printer installation and configuration tool, ps_install. Thefollowing is an explanation of its user interface and operation. Figure 2-1 ps_install

Chapter 2:Software and Hardware Installation xviii - PShop User’s Guide PShop Installation Directory This field specifies the location of the PShop installation. By default it will usethe directory where PShop is installed (usually /opt/Vividata for Solaris 2.x and/usr/vividata for other platforms)....

Chapter 2:Software and Hardware Installation PShop User’s Guide - xix already be installed and configured on your system. Vividata's website hasadditional support information for the lpvi driver if you need it, includinginformation on how to get the latest version in a patch from Sun. This can befou...

Chapter 2:Software and Hardware Installation xx - PShop User’s Guide may need to handle jobs with sizes in the sixty-plus megabytes (Please refer tothe appropriate “Memory Requirements” on page x) so, once again, it importantto make sure that the referenced directory has sufficient space. Default Pr...

Chapter 2:Software and Hardware Installation xxii - PShop User’s Guide of a temporary file used to cache the rasterized image for transport to the remotequeue. You can change this file name if necessary. Please refer to Appendix C, “Accessing Network Printers”, for more detailsnetwork printing, Inst...

Chapter 2:Software and Hardware Installation PShop User’s Guide - xxiii include them.Edit Printer Configuration File: Pops up a text editor with the printer’s configuration file loaded. Installing the Kernel SCSI Driver for SunOS 4.x, HP-UX 10.x & AIX Now you are ready to invoke the installation...

Chapter 2:Software and Hardware Installation xxiv - PShop User’s Guide Configuring the Environment Environment Variables A number of environment variables affect the operation of PShop (and theapplications that may use PShop). These are normally either unnecessary or setautomatically during installa...

Chapter 2:Software and Hardware Installation PShop User’s Guide - xxv You can also add the name of the directory that contains PShop to the PATHenvironment variable assignment in your .cshrc or .profile file. This will allowyou to launch the user-level vvlpr and PShop gui application from any direct...

Chapter 2:Software and Hardware Installation xxvi - PShop User’s Guide Environment Variables used within the Printer Interface Script A number of environment variables affect the operation of PShop (specifically,the vvprint component). These are normally either unnecessary or setautomatically during...

PShop User’s Guide - 1 Chapter 3: Introduction Overview The growth in the popularity of UNIX for business, scientific, web-based andother specialized applications has its origins in the mid 1980’s. It was at this timethat the first RISC processors appeared and inexpensive, powerful workstationswere ...

Chapter 3:Introduction PShop User’s Guide - 3 PShop Components The PShop package is made up of various components that fit together tocomprise a whole system. In effect, these components coordinate an entireprinting operation from the point at which a print job is submitted via the userGUI or a comm...

Chapter 3:Introduction 4 - PShop User’s Guide On System 5 based systems, PShop’s set up and operation is more complex.When lpsched detects a new entry in a print queue, it will invoke the printer’s interface script with each print job, terminating when the print queue is empty. For every system PSho...

Chapter 3:Introduction PShop User’s Guide - 5 PShop Highlights PShop adds many valuable enhancements to the UNIX printing environment.PShop can run on the most popular UNIX platforms and supports everyapplication (such as FrameMaker, Netscape, etc.) that prints PostScript to namedprint queues. Many ...

Chapter 3:Introduction 6 - PShop User’s Guide PShop System Diagrams The following diagrams illustrate schematically the flow of information withinand between the components of PShop and the UNIX lp system. The diagramsthat follow depict PShop installations for use with: • GhostScript (GS) printers o...

PShop User’s Guide - 9 Chapter 4: Using PShop Overview PShop supports various commands (i.e., PShop, vvlpr, print tools, lp, and lpr) forusing BSD style and System 5 style print systems. Using any of these utilities users can submit of many types to be printed. Imagefiles, PostScript, and PDF files ...

Chapter 4:Using PShop 10 - PShop User’s Guide Using PShop on BSD Style Print Systems (SunOS 4.x, Linux and Digital UNIX) When you have completed the PShop installation, you will have a new printqueue available. You should now be able to print by typing: lpr -P<printer_name> <file> You ma...

Chapter 4:Using PShop PShop User’s Guide - 11 Using PShop on System 5 Style Print Systems (Solaris 2.x, HP-UX, IRIX, and AIX) When you have completed the PShop installation, you will have a new printqueue available. You should now be able to print by entering: lp -d <printer_name> <file>...

Chapter 4:Using PShop 12 - PShop User’s Guide Installation on Solaris 2.x, HP-UX, AIX and IRIX • Make sure banner.ps is located in $VV_HOME/config . • Copy vvprt_if.banner over the existing $VV_HOME/config/vvprt_if • Install new print queues as normal using ps_install. Installation on SunOS, Linux, ...

Chapter 4:Using PShop PShop User’s Guide - 13 or lpr/lp commands. Then they will be able to print to the PShop-supportedprinter. If the users on the remote system(s) will be referencing a vvprint options file (i.e.,“-ifs” parameter), that file does not need to be accessible for vvprint whenprinting....

PShop User’s Guide - 15 Chapter 5: PShop Graphical User Interface Overview While all printing to PShop printers can be done through lp/lpr or vvlpr, thePShop Graphical User Interface (GUI) provides an easy way for users to specifyprinting parameters. This chapter discusses the operations of the PSho...

Chapter 5:PShop Graphical User Interface 16 - PShop User’s Guide Basic Operations To launch the PShop GUI, go to the $VV_HOME/bin directory, or if it is in yourpath, run: PShop This will launch the PShop GUI with no file name filled in. Alternatively, youcan specify a file name in the command line, ...

Chapter 5:PShop Graphical User Interface PShop User’s Guide - 17 User Interface The user interface consists of a main panel that contains basic controls, threecollapsible panels that contain advanced controls, and a row of push buttons toprint a job and close the program. Note that while all system ...

Chapter 5:PShop Graphical User Interface 18 - PShop User’s Guide command will be substituted with the name of the printer that appears in thePrinter pull-down menu. Printer This pull-down menu lists all the print queues found on your local system. Usingthe PShop GUI, it is only possible to submit a ...

Chapter 5:PShop Graphical User Interface PShop User’s Guide - 19 Image Size and Position Panel Clicking on the triangle next to “Image Size and Position” will expand the GUIto reveal more controls.

Chapter 5:PShop Graphical User Interface 20 - PShop User’s Guide Orientation You can choose to print your file in a portrait (no rotation) or landscape (rotate90 degrees) orientation. If you leave this field blank, PShop will automaticallychoose the best fit. Scaling You can choose to print your fil...

PShop User’s Guide - 21 Appendix A: vvprint/vvlpr Commands & Parameters

Appendix A:vvprint/vvlpr Commands & Parameters 22 - PShop User’s Guide Usage Synopsis vvprint [options] filename [filename...] vvlpr [options] filename [filename...] Typing: vvprint -help or vvlpr -help will print out all of the command line parameters that are supported in vvprintand vvlpr. Thi...

Appendix A:vvprint/vvlpr Commands & Parameters PShop User’s Guide - 23 • in the user's .vvprintrc file • in the printer’s ID file. IFS Files An IFS contains all the varaibles specific to each printer. A complete list of theseis available below starting at page 23. If you are using two or more SC...

Appendix A:vvprint/vvlpr Commands & Parameters 24 - PShop User’s Guide Using vvprint/vvlpr options from lp In order to pass options on to vvprint from the lp command you need to use the -o option with double quotes arround the options. For example to print to a print queue named stylus with the ...

Appendix A:vvprint/vvlpr Commands & Parameters 26 - PShop User’s Guide Parameter Table Parameter(precede each with a '-') Default Value Acceptable Values Explanation General Controls id=<s|g>:bus:idid=bus:idid=id id=path - bus = 0 to 3id = 0 to 7path Set the output device to a SCSI or GPIB...

Appendix A:vvprint/vvlpr Commands & Parameters PShop User’s Guide - 27 savepaper 0 0, 1 Limit the printable area of the coordi-nate space to exclude any excess whitespace. If the value is set to 1, Pshop will print only the image area contained within the BoundingBox region of the page as set by...

Appendix A:vvprint/vvlpr Commands & Parameters 28 - PShop User’s Guide orientation - portrait, landscape, automatic Set image orientation. Default is “auto-matic”. scaling=n 100 n > 0, scale, none Set the image scale factor (percent) rela-tive to the image size. A value greater than 0 will sc...

Appendix A:vvprint/vvlpr Commands & Parameters PShop User’s Guide - 29 width=nlength=n - n > 0 Width and height of the image. The height=n default unit is 1/1200”. Specify m, i, t, or p for millimeters, inches, twelfths, or pixels. For example, set “width=2i” for a width of 2 inches. By defau...

Appendix A:vvprint/vvlpr Commands & Parameters 30 - PShop User’s Guide hfont=text times font name Set the font used in headers and footers. Must be a font present in the Ghostscript fontmap (see $VV_HOME/ghost-script/Fontmap). Ghostscript Printer Con-trols bright=n 0 -100 to 100 Set the color tr...

Appendix A:vvprint/vvlpr Commands & Parameters PShop User’s Guide - 33 bright=n 0 -9 to 9 Set the brightness of the image Higher values result in brighter images. colormatch=n 0 0, 1 Turn off / on colormatch mode contrast=n 0 -50 to 50 Set the contrast of the image. Higher val-ues result in high...

Appendix B:Device Driver Configuration PShop User’s Guide - 37 Appendix B: Device Driver Configuration

Appendix B:Device Driver Configuration 38 - PShop User’s Guide Overview The first part of this section describes the format of the ID files which are usedby PShop to define printer configurations. The second part describes ID fileextensions, particularly the use of Ghostscript and PostScript Printer...

Appendix B:Device Driver Configuration PShop User’s Guide - 39 Fax_port: none Printer_port: parallel Print_queue: deskjet Device_driver: cdj550 DPI: 300 Paper_width: 10200 Paper_height: 13200 Left_margin: 300 Right_margin: 300 Top_margin: 48 Bottom_margin: 708 VVP_Opts: bright=75 Tag: mono Device_dr...

Appendix B:Device Driver Configuration PShop User’s Guide - 41 ID File Field definitions Fields: Option Name Explanation Name The printer's name. Displayed in ps_install or ScanShop's printer selection menu. Scanner_port For a multi-function peripheral, the scanner port. Default value is “none”. Fax...

Appendix B:Device Driver Configuration 42 - PShop User’s Guide Using Kodak Tablemaker Files with PShop You can use custom color lookup tables created by Kodak's Tablemaker softwarewith the Kodak XL-7700, XL-7720, 8600, and 8650 printers. To do this, youmust use the vvprint command line option “ptf_f...

Appendix B:Device Driver Configuration PShop User’s Guide - 43 Ghostscript Parameters Parameter Explanation General Controls -r<res>-r<xres>x<yres> Device resolution in dots per inch. @<file> A Ghostscript command line file to use. HP DeskJet 300, 400, 500, 600, 800 Series Sp...

Appendix B:Device Driver Configuration 44 - PShop User’s Guide -dSoftweave Enable software weaving. -sDithering=<name> Dithering algorithm. Use this option with “gsmono” or “fsmono” to force monochrome output. Acceptable values: “gscmyk”: fast color output, CMYK“gsmono”: fast mono output“gsrgb...

Appendix B:Device Driver Configuration PShop User’s Guide - 45 Using PostScript Printer Description (PPD) Files with PShop A PPD file contains sections of PostScript code that control particular features ofa PostScript printer. Each section is identified by a keyword and often optionsassociated with...

Appendix B:Device Driver Configuration 46 - PShop User’s Guide Paper_width: 10200 Paper_height: 13200 Left_margin: 300 Right_margin: 300 Top_margin: 300 Bottom_margin: 300 Ppd_file: $VV_HOME/id/ppdfile.ppd The “Ppd_file” field contains information about the full path (or a path relativeto $VV_HOME) ...

Appendix C:Accessing Network Printers PShop User’s Guide - 47 Appendix C: Accessing Network Printers

Appendix C:Accessing Network Printers 48 - PShop User’s Guide Background In addition to printing to local printers on the parallel port or SCSI bus, PShopcan also be used for network printing. The network printers supported can be anyof the normally supported printers made accessible over the networ...

Appendix C:Accessing Network Printers PShop User’s Guide - 49 http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/htbin/rfc/rfc1179.html Printers with the built-in TCP/IP protocol capability vary somewhat in the nameeach uses for its logical printer - each is named as if it were a print queue on the“local host”. Please c...

Appendix C:Accessing Network Printers 50 - PShop User’s Guide These local queue’s interface script differs from the normal interface scripts inthat instead of running vvprint to print to the printer directly, vvprint is run tocreate an output file (in the protocol designated in the .id file). This t...

PShop User’s Guide - 51 Appendix D: Troubleshooting Overview This chapter offers some troubleshooting hints as well as brief pointers tomaximize operation efficiency. Getting Help Read this section of the manual This section of the manual contains useful information on common problems andtroubleshoo...

Appendix D:Troubleshooting 52 - PShop User’s Guide If you have never run Vividata software before, the license manager will not berunning. This is normal. The license manager is started automatically the firsttime you run PShop. Try running PShop to start the license manager, then run vvlmstatus aga...

Appendix D:Troubleshooting PShop User’s Guide - 53 vvdrv.rc The vvdrv.rc file located in the /tmp directory will display what SCSI devices oursoftware found at boot and is able to communicate with. Those devices supportedby our software will be listed as supported. We also include a utility called v...

Appendix D:Troubleshooting 54 - PShop User’s Guide parameters are being passed to GhostScript and whether the file sent to the printqueue is sent correctly. e-mail from lp On some systems (particularly SVR4-based systems), lp will send e-mail to youdescribing the exit code of a PShop print job if th...

Appendix D:Troubleshooting PShop User’s Guide - 55 SCSI Drivers PShop may have installed Vividata’s SCSI drivers on your system if your system is not one that provide SCSI drivers in the kernel. The names and installation requirements of SCSI device ports (i.e. “drivers”) are system- dependent and a...

Appendix D:Troubleshooting 56 - PShop User’s Guide described in the following table : Problems and Solutions This section lists some common problems in configuring and using PShop andpresents possible solutions to them. Before consulting this list, try to narrowdown the problem by referring to the f...

Appendix D:Troubleshooting PShop User’s Guide - 57 $VV_HOME $VV_HOME/bin $VV_HOME/bin/vvprint $VV_HOME/bin/gs $VV_HOME/config /tmp (the TMPDIR directory) (read/write/execute) Symptom: The.results file indicates: “No write access to specified port or port open fail.” Possible causes and solutions: • ...

Appendix D:Troubleshooting 58 - PShop User’s Guide have the printer connected via a switch box, remove the box and make theconnection directly. If you are using a long parallel or SCSI cable, try ashorter one. • The printer is out of paper. • You are printing to a file or printing PostScript to a SC...

Appendix D:Troubleshooting PShop User’s Guide - 59 have a current version), or you can purchase a non-expiring key bycontacting Vividata. • PShop cannot find the license server or license file. Follow the instructionsin Verify Licensing above. Symptom: Printer outputs garbage characters. Possible ca...

Appendix D:Troubleshooting 60 - PShop User’s Guide Possible causes and solutions: • Your /tmp (the TMPDIR directory) does not have adequate free space. Usean alternate temporary directory (specified by the TMPDIR variable in theprinter interface script) or increase the amount of space in /tmp. • You...

Appendix D:Troubleshooting 62 - PShop User’s Guide • You have more than 4 SCSI buses on your system and your scanner isconnected to a bus other than 0, 1, 2, or 3. ScanShop only supports up to 4SCSI buses. Connect the scanner to bus 0, 1, 2, or 3, or reassign the busnumber. Symptom: PShop gives the ...

Appendix D:Troubleshooting PShop User’s Guide - 63 Patches It is suggested that the operating system be maintained by installing the mostcurrent patches available from the platform vendor, as certain (possibly known)bugs can affect the operation of PShop. Check Vividata’s release notes and thesuppor...

PShop User’s Guide - 65 Appendix E: License Manager Commands Overview Publicly distributed versions of Vividata products use a proprietary licensemanager. This section will describe the usage of the license manager as it pertainsto Vividata products, including determining the lmhostid necessary for ...

Appendix E:License Manager Commands 66 - PShop User’s Guide product may be stored in one license key. License keys for more than oneVividata product may be included on separate lines in the same license file. Obtaining your lmhostid If you have a Vividata product installed on your system, you can si...

Appendix E:License Manager Commands PShop User’s Guide - 67 Windows NT ethernet address Programs: Administra-tive Tools (common): Windows NT Diag-nostics: Network: Transports:Address Programs: Administrative Tools (common): Windows NT Diagnostics Table 1: lmhostid derivations Platform Source User co...

Appendix E:License Manager Commands 68 - PShop User’s Guide Command Reference vvlmstat NAME vvlmstat – Displays the current status of the license manager. SYNOPSIS vvlmstatus DESCRIPTION vvlmstatus checks the current state of the license manager and reports how many keys are available for each produ...

Appendix E:License Manager Commands PShop User’s Guide - 69 vvlmstop NAME vvlmstop – Shuts down the license daemon SYNOPSIS vvlmstop DESCRIPTION vvlmstop shuts down the license manager process if it is running.

Appendix E:License Manager Commands 70 - PShop User’s Guide vvlmhostid NAME vvlmhostid – Prints the lmhostid of the system SYNOPSIS vvlmhostid DESCRIPTION vvlmhostid prints the machine id (lmhostid) of the system, usually used for generating license keys.

Appendix E:License Manager Commands PShop User’s Guide - 71 vvlmreread NAME vvlmreread – Forces the license daemon to reread the license file SYNOPSIS vvlmreread DESCRIPTION vvlmreread causes the vendor daemon to reread the license file and update itself on any new feature licensing information.

Appendix E:License Manager Commands 72 - PShop User’s Guide Key Read program NAME <product>KeyRead – Utility that decodes the features from a license key; the name varies with the product. SYNOPSIS <product>KeyRead -k [key string] DESCRIPTION The key read program permits you to view what...

PShop User’s Guide - 73 Appendix F: Software Look Up Tables Overview New in PShop version 5.1 is the facility for software look up tables for colormanagement. This chapter provides a brief introduction to creating and usingsoftware Look Up Tables (LUTs). Included with this release are the following ...

Appendix F:Software Look Up Tables PShop User’s Guide - 75 If the swlut command line option is not specified, the input data are passed to theprinter unmodified. The printer will then print the data based upon its internalsettings. If the printer is a Kodak printer and the command line option ptf_fi...

PShop User’s Guide - 77 Appendix G: Glossary Glossary term Term definition ADF Automatic document feeder ASCII An acronym for American Standard Code for Informa-tion Interchange. A code in which the numbers from 0 to 127 stand for text characters. ASCII code is used for representing text inside a co...

Appendix G:Glossary PShop User’s Guide - 79 text file A file containing information in text form; its contents are interpreted as characters encoded using the ASCII (or comparable) format. TIFF An abbreviation for tagged image file format. This is a standard graphic file format for grayscale and hig...

PShop User’s Guide - 81 Index Symbols "Install Printer" xviii .results file 13 , 53 /dev/bpp0 xviii , 55 , 57 /dev/cam 55 /dev/ecpp0 xviii , 55 , 57 /dev/lp 55 /dev/lp0 54 , 55 /dev/lp1 xviii , 55 /dev/lpvi0 57 /dev/null 59 /dev/plp 54 /dev/plt_parallel 55 /dev/scsi 54 /dev/vvsc 55 /etc/lp/i...

82 - PShop User’s Guide EPSI 5 Epson 60 Epson Ethernet/EtherTalk interface card 49 Ethernet 48 exit codes 54 Extended Systems 49 F file swap 78 text 79 font monospaced 78 proportional 78 FujiFilm Pictrography PG-3000 and PG-4000 20 FujiFilm Pictrography PG-3000 controls 32 FujiFilm Pictrography PG-4...