In this video, we're going to take a quick tour of RIP-Queue which is
essentially your dashboard. We'll start at the top in the toolbar. There are icons
in the toolbar that make navigating RIP-Queue easy and quick. You can move to
other tools and features right from this home screen. You can edit jobs, configure
a printer, launch Media Manager for color profiling, or access Swatch Books.
Just below the toolbar, we will see active printers. Columns include details about the
printer’s configuration. We can see Media Type, Roll Size, Placement Strategy.
The selected printer will filter the user interface. This will refresh and display
the active or buffered job list as well as the print preview on the far right side.
We also have an option to show all jobs for the selected printer or for all printers.
In the next section below, we see jobs ready to print
displaying our active jobs. That shows us what jobs we have in our queue. You can
customize the job listing by right clicking on the column heading. You can
change your preview size, or enable or disable any of these options to appear or
disappear in the columns across. The buttons on the left can change your
order in the queue, or allow you to delete jobs, or put a job on hold which
will temporarily remove that job from the Print Preview print queue. Directly
below the active jobs, we see our buffer jobs. These are jobs that have been printed.
These jobs can be deleted or moved back up into the RIP-Queue to be reinstated
and printed again. The Buffer Jobs area can also be customized for different
preview size as well as options in the columns. We can also double-click a job
to open up the “Job Properties”.
This allows us to see a
larger preview as well as make some specific changes to the job. Sizing,
Rotation, Number of Copies, Media Type. On the right side of our RIP-Queue, we see the
the [Printer Status], [Media], and [Placement Strategy]. When you select a specific
printer in the active printer list, you can check the status,
pause or start the printer by selecting this green circle to go offline. Turns
that to a red circle. Then we can put that back online by clicking it again.
This is where we can also change the media type that's currently loaded on
the printer, or change our roll size, or create a custom or temporary size of
media. The placement drop-down menu allows you to change the way active jobs
are grouped. We can also change our placement and nesting strategies in the
[General] and [Options] tab.
This allows us to control Offsets, Justification, Space between Copies, and
how our files are going to fit on our media. Our print preview is going to give
us a view of the nest based on our placement strategy option. In some cases,
the [Placement Strategy] will require the operator to manually perform a print
action by clicking on the [Print Now] button. This can be automated by
selecting [Print Jobs Individually] and having the trigger set to automatically
print. Directly below our print preview, we see our Console window.
This will show us information as our files are being ripped. So there you have it
exploring the RIP-Queue dashboard. For more information documentation and videos,
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