Primera 032910-511262 - Manual

2 Getting Started A. NOTE ON MODEL DIFFERENCES The BravoPro Xi-Series comes in five different models including: • Bravo Pro Xi AutoPrinter (No Drives) Print Only - See Section 3A, C and D. • Bravo Pro Xi (1 DVD Drive) Burns and Prints CD, DVDs and DVD-DL • Bravo Pro Xi2 (2 DVD Drives) Burns and Prin...

Getting Started 3 C. UNPACKING AND INSPECTION While unpacking your Publisher, inspect the carton to ensure that no damage has occurred during shipping. Make sure that all supplied accessories are included with your unit.The following items should be included: • Optical Disc Publisher • Gray Plastic ...

4 Getting Started D. IDENTIFYING THE PARTS Front Panel and Top This illustration shows the Publisher, its Control Panel, Buttons, LED indicator lights, Input and Output Bins and other components. The Robotic Disc Transporter moves discs from the Input Bin, to a CD/DVD Recorder, to the printer, and f...

Getting Started 5 The Control Panel contains LED Status Lights and Buttons to control the Publisher. The LED Status Lights indicate that Power is ON. They also blink in certain patterns to indicate an error or other condition of the Publisher. See Section 4 for a full explanation of the LED Status L...

6 Getting Started The Power Input Port connects to the included power cable. The internal power supply must be switched to 115v or 230v using the switch between the power button and the power cord.The Power Switch shuts off all power to the Publisher. E. PC SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS Before getting started...

Getting Started 7 G. OVERVIEW OF OPERATION Your new Publisher is an automated, precision device intended for continuous-duty publishing of discs. The following is a description of the complete process of duplicating and printing a CD/DVD job on your two drive Publisher:1. Up to 50 blank discs may be...

8 Getting Started 4. The Recorder Trays then automatically shut. As soon as each drive tray closes the burn process will begin for that drive. With two drives, each drive burns independently of the other. If a disc does not record properly (meaning that all or part of that disc is not recordable), t...

Getting Started 9 8. Print time varies according to which print mode has been selected. In most cases, print time takes no more than 2 minutes. After printing the first disc, the Publisher's Printer Disc Tray opens automatically. The Robotic Disc Transporter moves the finished disc to the Output Bin...

10 Hardware and Software Setup Section 2: Hardware and Software Setup Setup This section will describe the step-by-step process of setting up your Publisher. This includes information on how to load the supplies (ink and disc media) necessary to start producing discs. A. INSTALLING THE PC SOFTWARE T...

Hardware and Software Setup 11 e. Once the installation has completed, click Quit . You have successfully installed all the necessary software! Section C below will describe how to connect the Publisher to your Mac. C. HARDWARE SETUP Step 1: Applying Power • Locate the power cord supplied with your ...

Hardware and Software Setup 13 Step 3: Connecting the USB 2.0 Cable/Installing the Driver A. Installing the Printer Driver (Windows XP) Connect the Publisher to your PC with your beige USB 2.0 Cable. After a few moments, Windows will tell you it has found new hardware and is looking for software to ...

14 Hardware and Software Setup B. Installing the Printer Driver (Windows Vista/Windows 7) Click the "Install Driver" button when prompted to do so by the installation disc. Files will begin to copy to your hard drive. You will be prompted that Windows can't verify the publisher of this drive...

16 Hardware and Software Setup D. SETUP THE KIOSK BIN Kiosk Mode allows you to use both of Publisher's Bins as input, doubling your disc capacity from 50 discs to 100 discs. In this mode, the finished discs will be deposited out through the front " reject area " of the Publisher. In Kiosk mo...

Creating Discs 17 Section 3: Creating Discs There are two main components to creating discs, printing and burning. For PC, SureThing CD Labler is used to design the image to print on the disc. For Mac, Disc Cover is used to design the image to print on disc. For Mac and PC, PTPublisher controls the ...

18 Creating Discs 1. Select Copy Project from the Starter Window or the New Project Panel on the left side of the screen. Step one of the Copy Disc wizard will be displayed. 2. You will be prompted to place the disc you would like to copy into the drive inside the Disc Publisher. The tray door will ...

Creating Discs 19 4B. Create a Label 1. Click the Create a Label button to open the SureThing CD Labler or Disc Cover program. These programs will allow you create a label. 2. Follow the instructions in Section 3 D or E to create a label using Sure Thing or Disc Cover. 3. Once you have designed the ...

20 Creating Discs Print Quality . All Primera media is automatically defaulted to the best print quality. Other media may also accept the best quality setting. However, with some media you may have to print at a lower print quality to eliminate smudging and bleeding. Some lower quality media can not...

Creating Discs 21 Recommended for: All CD, DVD or Blu-ray content or disc types (Audio CD, Data CD, Software Install Disc, Video CD, DVD Video, Blu-ray Video: CDR, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-ROM, DVD+DL, DVD-DL, BDR, BDR-DL, etc.). This is best used for single runs where you will not need to make additional ...

22 Creating Discs Recommend for: This method is especially useful if you are having compatibility problems with the formatting created by the DVD/Blu-ray authoring software or with the media type of the master disc. This method removes some potentially compli- cating variables from the DVD/Blu-ray V...

24 Creating Discs • Outer Margin . Disc from other manufacturers vary widely regarding how far the printable surface extends to the edge of the disc. Measure the distance from the edge of the disc to the start of the white printable area. This will be between 0 and 2 mm in increments of .1mm. • Inne...

Creating Discs 25 • Change Robot . This is only available with multiple robots connected. Click it to change the robot to which this project will be sent. • Drives . With an Xi2 connected you can choose to burn to both drives or the top or bottom drive only. • Protect Video with PTProtect (PC Only) ...

26 Creating Discs • Recording Type . Track-at-Once. This is the default. For track at once, the laser is turned off after each track, which produces a two-second gap. The track-at-once feature, enables songs and data to be written at different intervals. The lead-in sectors that are written at the b...

Creating Discs 27 the errors may not be detectable by human eyes or ears. This operation may be useful to verify software installation discs where it is extremely important to have accurate copies of all installation files. Checking this option will double the time it takes to record each disc. • Se...

28 Creating Discs B.4 Publisher Status The status window is automatically displayed when a job starts. You may also access it at any time by clicking the More Status link under the picture and description of the robot connected. Publisher Status is only available if the Publisher is connected. • If ...

Creating Discs 29 B.5 Backup Project . (PC Disc Publishers Only) To create a new backup project you must setup a data project and then schedule it. Follow these steps:1. Choose Data Project from the project starter window. 2. Add the files or folders that you would like to backup. Typically there wi...

32 Creating Discs The Scheduled Projects window will appear. Check the box next to the backup project you would like to run. Click Run Now to run it for the first time now. Otherwise, the backup project will proceed at the scheduled time. You must keep the PTPublisher software open, the Disc Publish...

Creating Discs 33 B.7 PTProtect (PC Disc Publishers Only - Requires sep arate purchase of USB dongle) PTProtect allows you copy-protect any DVD Video and mass produce protected discs using the PTPublisher software and a Primera Disc Publisher. You can protect an existing Master DVD by first converti...

34 Creating Discs C. CREATING A PRINT LABEL USING SURETHING (PC) The SureThing Disc Labeler software included with your Publisher is a great tool for creating professional looking discs. You can use SureThing's Smart Designs to quickly label a disc, or easily import your own design in many popular f...

Creating Discs 37 5. Once your image or background has been selected you can add text or other design elements using the buttons on the tool bar or the Inspector. Below is a short description of each of the important buttons. • Import - Import song titles from iTunes or pictures for a collage from i...

40 Creating Discs Paper Size The paper size option will be set to CD for printing onto printable surface CDs and DVDs. The remaining options apply if you have purchased the business card adapter kit. Non-printable Outer Margin Adjust this value to print all the way to the outer edge of a CD. This is...

Creating Discs 41 Monochrome Black is for images that have large black areas or black text. This will ensure that no color ink is being used. In some cases printing JPG files using Color + Black for an image that is all black will still cause some color ink to be used. Monochrome Black is not recomm...

42 Creating Discs Inner Diameter This value changes the size of the non-printed center. Larger numbers cause the non-printed center to be larger and smaller numbers make the non-printed center smaller. This number is incremented by 0.1mm so a change of 10 for inner diameter changes the diameter by 1...

44 Creating Discs Clean/Change Cartridges & Check Ink Levels Select this button to display the current ink levels as well as options for cleaning and changing cartridges. Change Cartridge(s) Select the Change Cartridge(s) button to install a new ink cartridge or to switch back and forth between ...

Creating Discs 45 Disc Output Location This can be set either Normal (Left Bin acts as output), or Kiosk (finished discs deposited out the Front Exit.) The default is Normal (Left Bin.) The kiosk setting in PTPublisher overrides this setting. Only set kiosk mode here if you are printing only from an...

46 Creating Discs Kiosk Mode Kiosk Mode will allow you to increase the capacity of your Publisher from 50 to 100 discs by dispensing finished discs out the front of the unit instead of dropping them to the output bin. This allows you to place blank discs in both the input and output bins doubling yo...

Creating Discs 47 Intensity The Intensity setting will control the amount of ink saturation on the disc. When printing onto the Primera TuffCoat discs, 96% is usually sufficient. When printing on to other brands of media, or if you would like to print darker colors, you may wish to increase the Inte...

48 Creating Discs color and black cartridges for optimal print quality. In addition, this utility will allow you to center and adjust your printed image. Refer to the following for a description of the settings in this area. You will see both the Color and Monochrome Ink Levels are displayed. The Co...

Creating Discs 49 Change Cartridge If you need to change cartridges, you can click the Change Cartridge button in the Configuration Utility. This ensures the most accurate tracking of ink levels. To change a cartridge, click the Change Cartridge button. The cartridge holder will move to the center o...

52 Maintenance and Troubleshooting Section 4: Maintenance and Troubleshooting The Publisher is designed to operate for extended periods of time with very little attention. In fact, no regular maintenance is recommended other than cleaning the outside case. NOTE: Do NOT attempt to oil or grease the P...

Maintenance and Troubleshooting 53 B. INTERPRETING THE PUBLISHER’S INDICATORS LIGHTS The Power and Busy LED indicator lights located on the top of the Publisher can tell you a lot about what is happening inside the Publisher. To accurately interpret what it means when these lights are on, off, or fl...

Maintenance and Troubleshooting 55 E. TECHNICAL SUPPORT If you have difficulties operating your Publisher, the procedures in this manual and the software User's Guide should, in most cases, solve the problem. If you still have difficulty, contact the technical support via one of the methods listed b...

56 Technical Specifications Section 5: Technical Specifications Model Optical Disc Publisher Pro Xi Configurations Blu-ray Publisher DVD+/-R-CDR Publisher Printing Method Inkjet Printing Resolution 4800 x 1200 dpi, 2400 x 1200 dpi, 1200 x 1200 dpi, 600 x 600 dpi Ink Types Dual Cartridges: One 3-colo...

Index 57 Index Abort .................................................................................................28 Alignment Calibration..................................................................49 Audio Project ..............................................................................

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