EFI Fiery Central™

User Guide
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 CONTENTS 3

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION 5

About Fiery Central 5

Fiery Central Server software components 6
Fiery Central user software components 7

About this document 7

Fiery Central Online Help 7

WebTools Help 8
Accessing online Help 8

Terminology 9

FIERY SEEQUENCE SUITE 10

About the SeeQuence Suite Kit 10

Using Fiery Impose 10

Using Fiery Compose 12

PRINTING 13

About Fiery Central Driver and PPD files 13

Printing to the Fiery Central Printer Group 13

About print options 15

Balance print options 16
VDP print options 19
Printer’s Default setting 20
Setting print options 20

Using Fiery Hot Folders 22

Using the Print WebTool 23

CONTENTS 4

TROUBLESHOOTING 24

Before calling for service 24

Pre-call checklist 24

INDEX 25
 INTRODUCTION 5

INTRODUCTION
Fiery Central is a modular, PDF-based production workflow tool that provides efficient load-
balanced network printing to high-volume print environments, and workflow automation
tools for maximum operator efficiency and reduction in waste.

Fiery Central delivers an automated workflow in the following ways:

• Manages job submission, printer queues, and spooling.
• Enables efficient load-balancing and printing for high-volume and production print
environments.
• Provides a workflow automation framework.

About Fiery Central

Fiery Central allows you to manage individual printers from a centralized location using
Command WorkStation, printer drivers, and Fiery Hot Folders.

The Fiery Central standard features include the following:

• Fiery Command WorkStation for advanced job management
• Fiery Central Driver for job submission
• Fiery Hot Folders
• Archiving
• Fiery Impose (1 seat license)*
• Fiery Compose (1 seat license)*
• Support for two Printer Groups
• Support for two copier/printers with the ability to add additional ones

The Fiery Color Profiler Suite is an optional feature.

*To add additional seats, contact your sales representative.

For information about the supported printers and versions, see

http://www.efi.com/Fiery/Products/Fiery Central.
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Fiery Central Server software components

The Fiery Central Server software components are described as follows.

Fiery Central: The Fiery Central Server is the production-stage backbone of the EFI workflow
system, accepting jobs from any user on the network, providing productive editing tools to
system users, and intelligently managing job submission to a wide range of digital devices.

Fiery Central includes a comprehensive suite of PDF-based applications that leverage the
Fiery Command WorkStation interface, variable data printing options, industry-standard
PDF technologies, and a wide base of Fiery print controllers, making workflow easy to use
and implement.

Fiery Central Balance: Available as an offering. The Balance module allows you to load-
balance jobs. It brings a powerful workflow solution to all digital print environments and
supports most Fiery print controlled devices (as well as non-Fiery print controlled black-and-
white devices) with an identical look and feel for maximum user efficiency.

Fiery Compose: Compose dramatically increases productivity and ease of composition for
complex jobs, allowing users to visually assign page-level attributes and tabs to communicate
them to any printer on the system.

Fiery Impose: Impose reduces production time and errors by allowing WYSIWYG display for
nearly any imposition scheme.

System Updates: Allows customers to accept installation of certain software updates from a
secure site on the Internet. Depending on how it is configured, System Updates operates
manually or automatically.
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Fiery Central user software components

The Fiery Central user software components are described as follows.

EFI Hot Folders: Provides automated job submission to Fiery Central.

WebTools: Allows you to configure the Fiery Central Server and allows you to download
printer drivers that can be installed to print to Fiery Central.

With Fiery Central, you can perform the following tasks:

• Load-balance and route jobs to improve automation and productivity and reduce errors
and costs.
• Send jobs to the fastest printer in a Printer Group based on concurrent loads or divide a
job between two or more printers for faster completion.
• Split color content to color printers and enable in-line merge at black-and-white printers,
reducing manual intervention and costs.
• Route print jobs based on finishing options, streamlining process and reducing manual
finishing tasks.
• Automatically redirect print jobs to other available printers, enabling mission critical and
unattended printing.

About this document

This document is intended for administrators and operators of the Fiery Central and for users
who send print jobs to the Fiery Central Server from networked client computers. The
document is divided into the following chapters:

Fiery SeeQuence Suite describes how to use Fiery Compose and Fiery Impose to print jobs to
the Fiery Central Server.

Printing explains how to print jobs to the Fiery Central Server and different printing
applications.

Troubleshooting provides troubleshooting tips and solutions to common problems that may
occur.

Fiery Central Online Help

In addition to this document, online help documentation is available as a reference for users
of different Fiery Central products.

Fiery Central Manager Help describes procedures for configuring the Fiery Central Printer
Groups.
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Fiery Command WorkStation Help describes operational procedures used to monitor Fiery
Central server queues, hold and release jobs, and edit print jobs from Command
WorkStation.

Fiery Central Printer Driver Help describes procedures used to print to the Fiery Central Server
from applications using the Fiery Central printer driver. Driver Help also includes extensive
information about print options available when printing to the Fiery Central Server.

EFI Hot Folders Help describes how to set up and print to the Fiery Central Server using
Hot Folders.

Paper Catalog Help describes how to set up, customize, and use Paper Catalog.

WebTools Help
WebTools allow you to manage your Fiery Central Server remotely using a web browser. The
Fiery Central Server has its own home page, where you can select the following online
WebTools Help:
• Home Help describes how to view current information about the jobs processing and
printing on the Fiery Central Server.
• Downloads Help describes how to use your Internet browser to download and install
printer driver and PPD files for any Fiery Central Server Printer Group.
• Print Help describes how to download files with the Print WebTool.
• Configure Help describes how to view and modify Fiery Central Server Setup options
remotely from a network computer. This function requires an Administrator password.

N OTE : The icon to the left indicates that more information can be found in the online help
documentation.

Accessing online Help

Online Help can be accessed using the following procedure.

TO ACCESS ONLINE HELP

• Right-click the Fiery Central Bar, choose your application, and select Help from the main
menu or click Help.

or

In Windows applications, choose Help > <online help file name> in the toolbar, or click Help
in window to launch the help application.
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Terminology
Specific terms are explained as they are introduced; however, the following general terms are
used throughout:

PostScript (PS): A page-description language. The Fiery Central Server uses this language for
communicating to print devices.

Portable Document Format (PDF): A structured form of PostScript that provides the ability to
preview, scale, and re-order pages.

Job: A file consisting of PostScript or PDF commands and comments that describe the
graphics, sampled images, and text that should appear on each page of a document, and the
print options that should be used in printing, such as media.

Spool: Write to a disk in preparation for processing and printing.

Load-balancing: The process of analyzing and distributing print jobs in order to route them to
the best available print device or distribute them as efficiently as possible among print devices,
based on the characteristics of each device and the requirements of the job.

Printer Group: One or more print devices linked to and defined as a unit by the Fiery Central
Server. To a user printing from a client computer, a Printer Group behaves as a printer, and
looks like any other printer on the network. Jobs sent to the Printer Group are load-balanced
among devices belonging to the group.
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FIERY SEEQUENCE SUITE

Fiery SeeQuence Suite is an integrated job preparation tool, which offers the following modes,
depending on what (if any) client dongle is available:
• Preview provides a pre-rip job preview.
• Fiery Compose allows you to define the chapter divisions of a job, print ranges of pages on
varying types of media, insert blank media between pages, and insert tab media containing
text labels (if the press supports tab printing).
• Fiery Impose applies imposition layouts to jobs for custom printing, binding, and
trimming. Impose also applies impositions to variable data jobs that have been sent to the
Held list of the Fiery print controller where they can be imposed.
• Fiery SeeQuence Suite integrates Impose and Compose features in the Preview window.

About the SeeQuence Suite Kit

The Fiery SeeQuence Suite software kit includes both Impose and Compose, and the Adobe
Acrobat/Enfocus PitStop DVD.

N OTE : You must have the software kit-specific dongle installed on your client computer to use
the full functionality of the software. If you do not have the dongle installed, Impose runs in
Demo mode and Compose is not available. In Demo mode, imposed jobs print with a
watermark, and you can save imposed jobs in .dbp format to the Fiery Central Server. You can
save imposed jobs in Adobe PDF format to a hard drive and the Fiery Central Server when
you are in Demo mode, but they are saved with a watermark.

SeeQuence Suite Help is part of Command WorkStation Help. For instructions on using
Impose and Compose, see Command WorkStation Help.

Using Fiery Impose

Fiery Impose is a print imposition tool designed for use with Command WorkStation. Fiery
Impose allows the operator to edit, merge, and assemble print jobs as they are being held in
Fiery Central Server queues, and arrange pages in layouts for folding, binding, or cutting after
printing.
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ACCESSING IMPOSE
1 From Command WorkStation, select a spooled/held job in the Held list.

2 Select Impose from the Actions menu.

1 Workflow (product intent)

Impose will always be available, but if it is not licensed or if the required dongle is not present,
it will operate in demo mode.
The single seat license enables only Impose on the Fiery Central Server. A multiple seat license
has to be enabled and a dongle installed to use Impose on a remote computer.
3 To specify imposition settings, choose one of three workflows (product intents).

The controls that appear in the Settings pane are driven by the product intent you select. The
product intents are:
• Normal - for 1-up imposition where clipping and printer’s marks may be required.
• Booklet - for creating booklets of various types.
• Gangup - for creating various Gang Up pagination schemes.

For more information about Fiery SeeQuence Suite, see Command WorkStation Help.
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Using Fiery Compose

Fiery Compose is a print composition tool designed for use with Command WorkStation.
Compose allows the operator to view and repaginate print jobs, and provides mixed media
features used to specify alternative media for printing or insertion, and tab printing
specifications.

ACCESSING COMPOSE
1 From Command WorkStation, select a spooled/held job in the Held list.

2 Select Compose from the Actions menu.

1 Workflow (product intent)

3 Specify None (or Compose) for the workflow (product intent).

The workflow (product intent) option name is dependent on the Command WorkStation
version that you are using.
The None workflow is for working with documents with paper sizes defined by the printer
driver and source application. Allows you to build a job using Compose features such as
rearranging pages, merging pages, deleting or replacing pages, inserting tabs, inserting blanks,
specifying duplex, and assigning page-specific media settings.

For more information about Fiery SeeQuence Suite, see Command WorkStation Help.
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PRINTING
This chapter describes different methods of printing to the Fiery Central Server and
monitoring printed jobs, including:
• Printing from Fiery Central Drivers
• Submitting from Hot Folders
• Submitting with the Print WebTool

Print to Fiery Central Printer Groups the same way you would print to a stand-alone printer
accessible to your computer: by sending your job to the print device as it is defined on your
computer.
• Fiery Central Printer Group queues appear on the network as printers even though each
Printer Group may represent more than one actual print device.
• Each Printer Group is represented by Print and Hold queues that determine whether the
job is printed directly or held for printing later. The administrator may choose to publish
one or both of these queues.
• After Fiery Central Driver and PPD files are published, users can download and install
them, and use them to specify print options and to route jobs to the Printer Group queues.

About Fiery Central Driver and PPD files

The Fiery Central Driver is a software utility that enables communication between an
application and a print device. A PostScript printer description (PPD) file contains PostScript
language extensions that describe features of a particular print device. Printer drivers and PPD
files work together to ensure that jobs are printed correctly on a specified print device.

Printing to the Fiery Central Printer Group

When the administrator sets up a Printer Group, the Fiery Central Server generates a group
PPD file that gathers information from the PPD files of individual print devices in the group.
Just as the Printer Group acts as a single printer, the group PPD acts as the description file for
that printer.

Whenever the administrator adds a print device or removes a print device from a group, the
Fiery Central Server dynamically generates a new driver and PPD file based on the new group
configuration.
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N OTE : To specify print options and send jobs to a Printer Group that has been modified, users
must reinstall newly-generated driver and PPD files each time modifications are made to the
Printer Group.

TO PRINT TO A PRINTER GROUP

1 In your application, choose File > Print.

2 Choose the Printer Group queue that you want to print to in the menu showing the list of
available printers (often named Printers).

You can bypass this step by specifying the Printer Group as your default printer, as described
in the next section.
3 Specify print options.

For Windows: Click the button (usually named Properties) that displays printer properties.

1 Presets (Job Templates),

see Help
2 Print Option icons 6
1
3 Customize (Shortcuts), 2
see Help
4 Active area
3
5 Job View
6 Printer Status
4
7 Click to display Fiery Central
Driver Help

5
7

For more information about how to select print options, see Fiery Central Driver Help.
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For Mac OS: Choose Fiery Features, and then click Full Properties.

1 Choose Fiery Features

2 Full Properties button

4 Specify print options as desired.

5 In the Print dialog box, click the button that sends the print job to the printer (usually Print
or OK).

N OTE : Mac OS X v10.x does not disable print features constrained by other feature selections.

About print options

When a job is sent to a Printer Group, a variety of different print options may be specified
along with the job. Print options indicate how to process a job and the type of results
expected. Print options fall generally into the following categories:
• Balance options specify the load-balancing criteria used to distribute print jobs among
devices in the Printer Group. Balance options are available across all Printer Groups. These
options are standard, although the choices available may vary due to the device
composition of the Printer Group and the default settings of the options.
• VDP options use digital printing technology that customizes communication by linking
databases that contain the content for printed documents to a print device, such as the
copier. The customized communication includes rules that specify the selection of content
from the database and the placement of that content in the document.
• Custom options (such as Stapling, Face-down Printing, or Duplex) depend on the
capabilities or current setup of individual print devices in the Printer Group. These
options may or may not be available, and will usually offer different choices, depending on
the Printer Group. The group PPD file indexes the capabilities of all devices in the group
and determines the aggregate options available for the group as a whole.
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General descriptions of custom options available for many print devices can be found in Fiery
Central Driver Help. For specific information about custom print options, see the
documentation that accompanies your printer.

N OTE : Some Fiery print controller print features are not compatible with Balance and do not
appear in the Fiery Central Drivers. These features include Process and Hold, manual
duplexing, first page source, and password and security printing features.

Balance print options

Balance load-balancing options determine how a job is distributed among printers in the
Printer Group.

Note that some standard print options may not be available for selection if constrained by
other print settings. For example, if you print a color job to a Printer Group containing both
black-and-white and color print devices, and set Use Printer Type to Color, you will not be
able to access finishing options supplied by the black-and-white device, because the job can
only be routed to color printers based on your specification.

Group Type
The Group Type indicates the composition of the Printer Group in terms of the number of
black-and-white and color printers. The composition of the Printer Group is determined by
your Fiery Central administrator and cannot be changed. If you feel your print job cannot be
completed properly by the printers in the group (for example, no color printers for a color
job), try printing to another Printer Group.

Load Balance
Load Balance options allow you to select the load-balancing process used by the Fiery Central
Server to distribute your print job across one or more Printer Group printers. Depending on
the composition of the Printer Group one or more of the options described may not be
available (for example, jobs cannot be color split if color printers are not in the Printer
Group).

Fastest Single Printer: Sends the entire job to the fastest printer that matches your print
specifications in the Printer Group.

Preferred Printer: Sends the entire job to a preferred printer specified from among the print
devices in the Printer Group. Specify the preferred printer using the Preferred Printer menu.

Copy Split: Sends copies to different devices, based on print specifications and current load in
order to complete the job in the shortest amount of time.

N OTE : Copy Split requires the Balance option to be enabled.

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Long Job Split: Splits a single copy of a document across different devices, based on print
specifications and current load in order to complete the job in the shortest amount of time. If
the group has only two printers and one is color and the other is B&W, Copy Split will not be
available. If the requested number of copies is more than one, the job will switch
automatically to Copy Split.

N OTE : Long Job Split requires a minimum of two color printers or two B&W printers. If the
group has only two printers and one is color and the other is B&W, Long Job Split will not be
available.

N OTE : Long Job Split requires the Balance option to be enabled.

Color Split: Splits all copies across two print devices, with color content sent to the fastest
color printer in the group, and black-and-white content sent to the fastest black-and-white
printer in the group.

N OTE : Color Split requires a minimum of one color and one B&W engine.

N OTE : Color Split requires the Balance option to be enabled.

Preferred Printer
Sends the entire job to the preferred printer specified from among the print devices in the
Printer Group.

Use Printer Type

Specifies whether black-and-white or color printers should be used exclusively (for example,
to specify that a black-and-white job sent to a mixed group should be printed only on black-
and-white devices, for speed and minimal cost).

Max. Number of Printers

Specify the maximum number of printers in the group that can be used to print the job. You
can set this number to one print device or to all print devices in the group.
• A larger number of printers increases the likelihood of a matching printer being available,
leading generally to faster printing.
• A limited number of printers minimizes output variation and the number of printers from
which you will collect output.

Cover Sheet and Merge Options

Cover sheet and inline merge options specify how split jobs are collated:
• Cover sheets are instructional pages containing information about the job that allow the
collator to reassemble each copy after printing.
• Some printers support an inline merge feature that allows color split jobs to be collated
automatically, provided you or an operator place the pages to be merged into the collating
printer’s inline post-fuser tray.
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The following Cover Sheet/Merge options may be available, based on printers in the Printer
Group:

None: Generate no cover sheets and do not insert pages for inline merging.

Cover Sheet–Manual Merge: Generate cover sheets to aid in manual merging (by hand).

No Cover Sheet–Inline Merge: Automatically merge preprinted color pages into black-and-
white output. Note that this option only instructs the Fiery Central Server and the printers to
split the job and prepare for inline merging; the color pages must be placed manually in the
merging print device’s inline inserter tray.

N OTE : This is available only when the Load Balance option is set to Color Split.

Bar Code–Offline Merge: Generate cover sheets containing bar codes for collation by an offline
merge finisher (Duplo 1060 and others).

N OTE : This is available only when the Load Balance option is set to Color Split.

Reroute on Error
Directs the Fiery Central Server to send the remainder of a job to the Fastest Single Printer
when an error (paper jam, out of paper) occurs at a destination printer. If reroute is not
specified or not available for the Printer Group, jobs wait at the destination printer until the
error is cleared.

Reroute sends only complete document sets. For example, if you print five copies of a 100
page book and an error occurs during the printing of the third copy, reroute sends a job
requiring three complete document sets to the alternate printer.

N OTE : Reroute on Error requires the Balance option to be enabled.

Max. Number Reroutes

The number of reroutes allowable for a single job.

N OTE : Max. Number Reroutes requires the Balance option to be enabled.

Job Timeout
The interval the job waits at the destination printer before rerouting.

Printer Action
Specifies the job action associated with a published queue on the Fiery print controller.

For more information about Balance print options, see Fiery Central Driver Help.
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VDP print options

Variable data printing (VDP) is typically used for personalized mailings, such as direct-mail
advertising. It involves combining a set of master elements that are common across copies of a
document (reusable data) with a set of variable elements that change from copy to copy.
When you use variable data printing, you create personalized communications with elements
that have special appeal to your targeted audience.

Variable data printing uses digital printing technology that customizes communication by
linking databases that contain the content for printed documents to a print device. The
customized communication includes rules that specify the selection of content from the
database and the placement of that content in the document.

Fiery Central provides a centralized point of entry for all variable data jobs. Once a variable
data job is submitted to Fiery Central, you can review the preflight data and decide if all the
resources for processing the variable data job are available on the target printer.

You can also automate shared resource retrieval of variable data resources and images with File
Search Path on a per job basis from the Fiery Central Driver. During processing of the
variable data job to the configured Fiery print controller, Fiery Central automatically embeds
into the job ticket the relevant “search path” so that all processing on the target Fiery print
controller is specified automatically.

You can also set a global File Search Path for all your variable data jobs from Fiery Central
Manager. For information, see the Fiery Central Manager Help.

Compatible variable data printing languages are:

• Personalized Print Markup Language (PPML) version 2.2
PPML, an XML-based language developed by PODi, is considered an industry standard.
PPML allows the copier to store text elements and graphic elements and reuse them as
needed, making variable data jobs print faster.
Fiery Central accepts zipped and non-zipped PPML jobs. To print documents in PPML
format, use a third-party software application that is compatible with PPML format. Send
the PPML job to Fiery Central or download the PPML file using Command WorkStation
or Hot Folders.
• Creo Variable Print Specification (VPS)
Creo VPS is an extension of the PostScript language developed by Creo. A Creo VPS file
consists of a Header section and a Booklet section. The Header section contains the global
objects for the entire job. The Booklet section contains one copy of a personalized
document. Page elements are reusable objects as defined in the Creo VPS format.
All of the page elements must be packaged inside of the Creo VPS file.
To print, you must have an application that emits the Creo VPS data stream. You can
download a Creo VPS file using Command WorkStation or Hot Folders.
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• Xerox Variable Data Intelligent PostScript Printware (VIPP)

VIPP is a proprietary page-description language developed by Xerox.
To print documents in Xerox VIPP format, use a third-party software application that is
compatible with Xerox VIPP format. Send the Xerox VIPP job or download the Xerox
VIPP file using Command WorkStation or Hot Folders.

For information about the variable data options for a particular print device, see the
documentation that accompanies your printer.

N OTE : You cannot load balance VDP jobs. VDP jobs cannot be imposed on the Fiery Central
Server. If VDP jobs are to be imposed, send the job to the Hold queue of the Fiery print
controller, and then impose the job on it.

For more information about variable data printing, see the documentation that accompanies
your Fiery print controller.

File Search Path

Some PPML and Creo VPS jobs do not contain all of the variable data job resources in a
single file. In these cases, on a job-per-job basis, specify the location of the variable data job
external resources so that Fiery Central can access them. Fiery Central and the Fiery print
controller must have read permissions for the share locations.

Printer’s Default setting

Printer’s Default allows users to accept the default setting for a job option when printing
through the Fiery Central Server. Printer default settings are considered unspecified by Fiery
Central until the job reaches the destination print device. The job then prints using the
destination Printer’s Default setting.

Printer default options reduce bottlenecks at the Fiery Central Server by increasing the
options for load-balanced printing. Encourage users to use printer default values, when
possible, if throughput is slow or jobs are not finding matching printers quickly enough.

For some jobs, specific finishing options may be required. Since default options vary between
print devices, and jobs may be load-balanced across several different devices, we recommend
that you specify each print option, rather than accepting the printer default, when an option
is specifically required.

For information about the default options for a particular print device, see the documentation
that accompanies your printer.

Setting print options

Print options for Fiery Central jobs may be set by an administrator, operator, or user in several
locations:
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• Administrators set default Fiery Central Balance print options for each Printer Group
during setup. These options can be overridden for specific jobs by operators or users.
• Windows users can set default or custom print options for printing through a Fiery
Central Driver or Hot Folders. These defaults override Printer Group defaults, and are
applied whenever printing through these means unless overridden for a specific job.
• Windows or Mac OS users can specify default or custom print options when printing a job
from an application, using the Fiery Central Driver interface. These settings override any
default settings for the current job only.
• Operators can override user print options by changing the default or custom print options
from within Command WorkStation.

Similar interfaces are used for specifying print options across applications.

TO SPECIFY DEFAULT PRINT OPTIONS FOR A PRINTER GROUP (WINDOWS ONLY)

1 Windows 2000: Click Start, choose Settings, and then choose Printers.
Windows XP: Click Start and choose Printers and Faxes.
Windows Server 2003: Click Start, choose Control Panel, and then choose Printers and Faxes.
Windows Vista: Click Start, choose Control Panel, and then double-click Printers.
Windows Server 2008: Click Start, choose Control Panel, and under Classic View, double-click
Printers.
Windows 7/Server 2008 R2: Click Start, choose Control Panel, choose Network and Internet,
choose Network and Sharing Center, and then click the View network computers and devices
link.

2 Right-click the printer icon for the Fiery Central Printer Group, and choose Printing
Preferences.

3 Specify default print options as desired and click OK.

N OTE : You can display the exact name of the PPD file for a Printer Group by clicking the
About tab in the Printers control panel.
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Using Fiery Hot Folders

A hot folder is a Windows or Mac OS directory folder that is linked to a Fiery print controller
using the Hot Folders application. The Hot Folders application monitors the folder and
routes any documents dropped into the folder to the Fiery print controller for printing.

Default print settings can also be attached to the hot folder to customize printing. When you
create a hot folder and attach it to a Fiery Central Printer Group queue, you can use the hot
folder to print with Balance load-balancing, custom print options, Flow options, or
imposition settings. You can create as many hot folders as you want on your computer, and
share them with other users over a network, including Mac OS users, by creating shortcuts to
the folders from remote computers.

TO PRINT A JOB USING A HOT FOLDERS

1 Drag and drop the job document file onto the hot folder.

The Fiery Hot Folders software automatically routes the job to the Fiery Central Server queue
with the print settings associated with that hot folder.

For information about installing Hot Folders software, see EFI Fiery Central Administrator
Guide. For more information about configuring and printing with Hot Folders, see
Hot Folders Help.
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Using the Print WebTool

Print allows you to send files directly to the Fiery Central Server without using the application
in which the files were created.

TO ACCESS THE PRINT WEBTOOL

1 Start your Internet browser.

2 Type the IP address or DNS name of the Fiery Central Server.

The Fiery Central Server home page appears.

3 Click the Print tab.

For more information about the Print WebTool, see WebTools Print Help.
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TROUBLESHOOTING
This chapter provides troubleshooting guidelines for problems that might arise when printing
to the Fiery Central Server.

For a complete list of troubleshooting guidelines, see the EFI Fiery Central Administrator
Guide.

Before calling for service

Check the guidelines in this section before you call for service or support. If you cannot
resolve the problem using the guidelines below, make a note of the error condition and
contact your administrator.

Pre-call checklist
Before contacting your administrator, please collect the following information:
• Fiery Central version number
In Command WorkStation > Device Center > General > General Info, the Fiery Central
version number is listed as “System.” You can also find the version number in your Fiery
Central package.
• Fiery Central license serial number
Choose Start>Programs >EFI>Fiery Central > Fiery Central License Manager to verify
your license number (see EFI Fiery Central Administrator Guide), or check your hardware
security key.
• Printer Group information, if there is a load-balancing or printing problem
View Printer Group information from Fiery Central Manager.
• Print settings and file application information for a job if it failed to print
Double-click a job in Command WorkStation to see print settings associated with the job.
• Print Error Message
If a job fails to print and is shown in the Printed list, double-click the job to view the error
message. Next, click View Properties and select Print Summary from the Summary tab for
a printout of the job ticket options.
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INDEX
B P
booklet printing 10 PostScript 9
PPD (PostScript printer description), see printer
C driver files
Compose 12 PPML 19
covers 12 print options 15
default 21
D printer’s default settings 20
definitions 9 specify 20
driver, printer 13 printer driver files 13
Mac OS X driver interface 15
E
Windows driver interface 14
EFI Impose 10
printer groups
EFI Compose 12
defined 9
F print to 14
Fiery SeeQuence Suite 10 printer driver files 13
Compose 12
S
Impose 10
server
H print to 14
Hot Folders 22
T
print with 22
tab printing 12
I terminology 9
Impose 10 troubleshooting
imposition 10 checklist 24

J V
job VIPP 20
defined 9 VPS 19
print 14
W
job management tools
WebTools
defined 19, 20
about 7
L home page 23
load-balance
defined 9

M
media insertion 12
mixed media 12