Release Notes Fiery S300 50C-K, version 1.1
This document contains information about Fiery S300 50C-K software version 1.1. Before using Fiery S300 50C-K with version 1.1, make a copy of these Release Notes and distribute them to all users.
N OTE : This document uses the term Fiery S300 to refer to Fiery S300 50C-K.
Before printing to the Fiery, make sure that user and system software version 1.1 are installed on the Fiery S300. For instructions, see the User Software Installation Guide for version 1.0.

New Features

This version of the user and system software supports the following enhancements: Graphic Screen and Image Screen print options Image Smoothing print option New Output proles Graphic Screen and Image Screen print options Set Graphic Screen and Image Screen print options in the printer driver, under the Image Quality print option bar. Select Line to print graphic objects or images using line screen, line screen output proles, and line screen calibration sets. Select Dot to print graphic objects or images using dot screen, dot screen output proles, and dot screen calibration sets.
Graphics Screen option Image Screen option
2004 Electronics for Imaging, Inc.
Part Number: January 2004

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Image Smoothing print option Set the Image Smoothing print option in the printer driver, under the Image Quality print option bar. Select On to minimize grainy output when printing low-resolution images. When you select On, image smoothing is enforced on all images. Select Automatic to use smoothing only when it makes a visible difference. When the image is below 150 ppi, image smoothing is applied automatically. Select Below 90 ppi, Below 150 ppi, Below 200 ppi, or Below 300 ppi to apply image smoothing to those images whose effective resolution is below the specied ppi value you choose.

Image Smoothing settings

New Output proles The following list includes the new Output proles. Plain64 Normal D Fiery 50C-K v1F Plain64 Normal L Fiery 50C-K v1F Plain64 Glossy D Fiery 50C-K v1F Plain64 Glossy L Fiery 50C-K v1F Coated106 Normal D Fiery 50C-K v1F Coated106 Normal L Fiery 50C-K v1F Coated106 Glossy D Fiery 50C-K v1F Coated106 Glossy L Fiery 50C-K v1F Plain106 Normal D Fiery 50C-K v1F Plain106 Normal L Fiery 50C-K v1F Plain106 Glossy D Fiery 50C-K v1F Plain106 Glossy L Fiery 50C-K v1F Coated81 Normal D Fiery 50C-K v1F Coated81 Normal L Fiery 50C-K v1F Plain64 Normal D Smooth Fiery 50C-K v1F Plain64 Normal L Smooth Fiery 50C-K v1F

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Coated106 Normal D Smooth Fiery 50C-K v1F Coated106 Normal L Smooth Fiery 50C-K v1F Plain106 Normal D Smooth Fiery 50C-K v1F Plain106 Normal L Smooth Fiery 50C-K v1F Coated81 Normal D Smooth Fiery 50C-K v1F Coated81 Normal L Smooth Fiery 50C-K v1F+ For more information about output proles or using ColorWise Pro Tools, see the Color Guide.
Supported Domain Name characters The Domain Name may include the following letters, numerals, and characters: The letters a-z and A-Z. The numbers 0-9. The hyphen (-) character. The Domain Name does not support underscored (_) characters. Host names may begin with a letter or a number, but cannot exceed 63 characters. Changing the Server Name from the Control Panel If you use a static IP for the Fiery S300, you cannot change the Server Name from the Control Panel. Instead, select DHCP or change the Server Name from Command WorkStation or WebSetup. Fiery Advanced Controller Interface From the Fiery Advanced Controller Interface (FACI), commands under Accessories appear in English for French, Italian, German, and Spanish systems. Mailbox setup From remote setup, if an invalid character is typed for the Mailbox Account Name, restart your browser if Setup stops responding. Do not enter invalid characters for the Mailbox Account Name. LPR port and printing queues If you use the LPR port, only the Hold and Print queues can be used.

Installing Software

Ejecting the User Software CD If you install Mac OS X printer drivers from the User Software CD, restart your computer to eject the CD. Installing printer driver options via a network printer To install options via a network printer with the Fiery Advanced Controller Interface from a client computer, do the following:
1. From a Windows 2000/XP client computer, create a local user.
Enter Administrator for User and Fiery.1 for the password.
2. 3. Restart the computer and log in as Administrator using Fiery.1 as the password. Point to an IP-901/Fiery S300 50C-K to install the driver with Point and Print.
Page 4 4. Go to the properties of the driver and select the Two-Way Communication option, enter the IP address for the Fiery S300, and click Update, or manually select the options from the Device Setting tab.
For more information, see the User Software Installation Guide version 1.0.
5. 6. Log out. Log in as any user and point to the Fiery S300 to install the Point and Print driver on your client PC. You will see the Point and Print driver with options already installed.
This only needs to be done once by an administrator. After that, you can point to the Fiery S300 and the installable options are transferred to the client computer.

Printing

Booklet Mode
Booklet Mode jobs with the Layout optionIf you select Booklet Mode from the printer
driver with the Layout option, your job may produce undesirable results.
Booklet Mode jobs with the Image Order optionPrinting Booklet Mode jobs with
Image Order set to N to 1 is not supported.
Booklet Mode jobs with the Scaling optionPrinting Booklet Mode jobs with the
Scaling option is not supported. Printing multiple copies If you print multiple copies of a job, set Collated in the printer driver and Collate in the application to Off. Otherwise, you may experience unexpected printing results. To change the setting for Collated/Collate, do the following:
1. 2. 3. 4. Click Advanced in the Paper/Quality tab of the printer driver. Click Copy Count and enter the number of copies. Clear the Collated check box. Clear the Collate check box in the applications Print dialog box.

Offset paper sizes The following paper sizes are not supported for Offset Sort and Offset Group print jobs, even though they are selectable from the driver: A5R, B6R, A6R, PostCard, 5.5 x 8.5R, CustomSize, 12 x 18, 13 x 19, A4Tab, 8.5 x 11Tab, A5WR, 5.5 x 8.5WR. Mixed Paper Sizes When you print a mixed paper size job, check to make sure that the paper size can be printed to the output tray specied. Otherwise, a paper jam may occur. Stapling and Punch jobs with mixed paper sizes Printing Stapling and Punch jobs with the Mixed Paper Size option set to a different orientation is not supported. Printer driver constraints Printer driver constraints in Mac OS X are controlled by Apple. In general, any invalid selection is selectable, but is ignored by the Fiery S300 when processed.

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Main Tray and A4R jobs You cannot select A4R/A5R and Main Tray in the Mac OS 9 printer driver. To resolve this, set not only the Page Size, but also the Print Size, to A4R/A5R. Custom paper maximum print area Although the maximum input size is 330 x 487mm, the actual maximum print area is 318 x 480mm. Custom paper minimum printable area If you enter a custom page width smaller than 100.08, the imageable area is clipped. As a workaround to choose the smallest custom page size, input the values W: 100.08mm and H:148.00mm in the PostScript Custom Page Size Denition dialog box. Custom paper for Mac OS X When you select Custom Paper for printing on Mac OS X v10.2, the image is rotated 90 degrees. Staple position for Mac OS When you print a Landscape document and designate stapling on Mac OS 9 or Mac OS X, the staple position may be different than expected. Printable area of Wide Paper jobs If you select Wide Paper, the printable area is that of standard paper. To print to the maximum possible area, print to Custom Paper Size. Printing small original on larger paper size When the original paper size of a job is a small size, such as 5.5 x 8.5R, and you set the output size to a larger size, such as 8.5 x 11, you cannot select Punch, Staple, or Sort. You also cannot choose Tray 1, Tray 2, or Tray 3 for the Paper Source and Cover Sheet. Auto Select and Custom Paper size You can select Auto Select and Custom Paper Size from the printer driver, However, you must speciy a tray to print custom paper correctly. Secure printing with Booklet jobs If you send more than one copy of a Booklet job to the copier as a secure print, you cannot change the number of copies at the copier when you release the job. If you specify only one copy of a booklet job when you send the job to the copier as a secure print, you can override the number of copiers from the copier display. Mixed Media jobs with Offset Group and Duplex or Cover Sheet Mixed Media jobs with Offset Group and Duplex or Cover Sheet options selected are not supported on the Fiery S300. Mixed Media jobs with back cover If you print a Mixed Media job with a back cover, the page that precedes the back cover and the back cover may be output from different trays than those specied in the printer driver.

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Face Up and Punch If you create a job that is Face Up and select the Punch option, the job will not be output with punched holes. Multiple N-up copies If you print multiple copies of an N-up job from a Windows XP computer, drawn outlines may print on extraneous pages. N-up and Overlay If you print using N-up and Overlay at the same time, a PostScript error will occur. N-up and Duplex The combination of N-up and Duplex is not supported for Mixed Paper sizes. Printer driver thumbnail The printer driver thumbnail does not display accurately when Landscape and Center Fold are selected. Watermarks In Windows 98/Me, jobs printed with the Watermark set to the foreground may cover the jobs image if certain fonts are used with the Outline option selected. Bold Apple Chancery font A job that uses Bold Apple Chancery fonts on an Apple Macintosh computer will print the output image as doubled. Scale The maximum magnifying rate settings for the Scale option differ depending on the paper size selected. Create Master le name When you print a master document to the Fiery S300 with the Create Master print option set to a number, the master document will not display with the proper Create Master setting. Preview Master in Windows 9x/Me When you set FreeForm print options in the Fiery Printing tab of the Windows 9x/Me printer driver, the Preview Master button appears enabled. If the size of the Free Form job is larger than 64K, the image cannot be previewed. Duplicate page sizes Letter and Legal size paper are duplicated in the Page Size menu as 8.5 x 11 and 8.5 x 14.

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Booklet Printing The following list itemizes applications, by platform, that support Booklet printing: Windows: Microsoft Word/Excel/PowerPoint (version XP and 2000) and Adobe Acrobat (version 5/6) Mac OS v10.2: Microsoft Word/Excel/PowerPoint (version 2001) and Adobe Acrobat (version 5/6) To print an A4 or letter booklet job on A3 or 11 x 17 paper size:
1. 2. 3. In the application, under Page Setup, set the Page Size to A4 or Letter. In the Fiery printer driver, set the Page Size to A4 or Letter. Select the appropriate Booklet setting in the Fiery printer driver, such as Left Binding, Right Binding, Perfect, Double Print, or Speed Print. Make sure that the Imposition Reduction setting is not enabled. Set the Print Size to A3 or 11 x 17 under the Paper Source print option bar in the Fiery printer driver. N OTE : To print an A4 or Letter booklet job on A4 or Letter-size paper, enable the
Imposition Reduction print option. Slow printing with LPR or Port 9100 As reported in the Microsoft Knowledge Base article 816627, if you are using Microsoft Windows 2000, you may experience slow printing with TCP/IP Port Printing. If you are using LPR, disabling the LPR Byte Counting feature and enabling the advanced TCP/IP options may improve printing performance. For more information, see the Microsoft support website at http://support.microsoft.com. If you experience slow printing from LPR or Port 9100, use another printing protocol, such as SMB. You can also obtain a software update from your service technician. However, this update presents the following considerations: On network segments with many collisions, the update adds to network trafc during large data transfers. If network connections are charged by the amount of data, the update may result in increased network charges. English PPD is used instead of non-English ppd on Mac OS X For languages other than English on Mac OS X, the proper PPD is not displayed. This is a known Mac OS X v10.2 issue. If this happens, copy the appropriate language PPD (for example, Fiery S300 50C-K v1.1 eu) into the US English PPD folder, en.lproj., in <HDD>:Library:Printers:PPDs:Contents:Resources:en.lproj. Mac OS v10.3 incompatible print option settings On Mac OS v10.3 computers, you can specify combinations of print option settings that are incompatible. However, the printer driver does not alert you to this problem.

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Scanning
Scan job rotation The Rotation option is only applied to les saved as a PDF. Scan initiation Scanning can only be initialized from the copier display. Scanning with the Zoom option When you scan with the Zoom option, the image may be clipped. Scanned TIFF les Scanned TIFF les can be opened with Adobe PhotoShop 5.5/6.0 and Image Ready 2.0 as a single page, or with OmniPage Pro 11 with multiple pages. Scanning black-and-white jobs to e-mail When you scan a black-and-white image to e-mail from the copier, select either PDF or TIFF. For black-and-white jobs scanned to e-mail, JPEG is not supported. Scanned TIFF les in Illustrator 10 If you save a TIFF format le sent by Scan to Email on a Windows computer and open the le in Adobe Illustrator 10, the image may have a pinkish tone. Use Adobe Illustrator 9 or Adobe Photoshop 7 to open such les. Scanning to the Hold queue When you scan a job to the Hold queue and select 200 dpi, 300 dpi, or 400 dpi, and then print the job, the message Auto Select Tray Is Invalid may appear on the copier control panel. Scan Color Mode option The Scan Color Mode settings have been changed from those in Fiery S300 version 1.0. In Fiery S300 version 1.0 (Engine ROM version earlier than 20), the Scan Color Mode settings are Auto, Full Color, and Black. For Fiery S300 version 1.1 (Engine ROM version later than 40), the Scan Color Mode settings are Full Color and Black.

Calibration

Fiery S300 cannot resume scanning after canceling The Fiery S300 cannot resume scanning after you select Cancel when using ColorCal or AutoCal. To resolve this, do the following:
1. 2. 3. 4. Press Help on the copier display. Press Key Operator Mode. Go to No. 13 and select Memory Switch Setting. Go to No. 36 and select Off for Timer which Prohibits Print.
To resume scanning after waiting for 30 seconds The Fiery S300 can resume scanning after waiting for 30 seconds when using ColorCal or AutoCal. To resolve this, do the following:
1. 2. Press Help on the copier display. Press Key Operator Mode.
Page 9 3. 4. Go to No. 13 and select Memory Switch Setting. Go to No. 36 and select Off for Timer which Prohibits Print.

Calibration Set When you calibrate the Fiery S300 and select Normal Mode for the Calibration Set, the calibration result is applied to both Normal and Normal Smoothing proles of the individual media. Calibrating with the scanner When performing calibration with the scanner, use ColorCal to achieve the best results. Use AutoCal if ColorCal does not achieve the desired results. Comparison Page cannot be printed from Smoothing Prole If you cannot print the Smoothing Prole Comparison page, perform the following procedure:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Perform Calibration using the Plain Prole. Select Calibrator, and then select Expert. In the View Measurements option, select Measurement vs. Target. Click View. In Plot Against, select the Smoothing Prole. Click Test Print. Select Comparison Page or Sample Image Page, and then select Print Page to Compare.
Calibration using ColorCal/AutoCal When you perform calibration from ColorCal or AutoCal, remove the measurement page and grayscale from the copier glass after scanning. If they are not removed, an Operator Call Error appears on the Fiery S300 Control Panel or Command WorkStation, and calibration does not nish. Smoothing option when calibrating When you perform calibration, make sure that the Smoothing option is not enabled. Output Prole The Output Prole may not appear clearly on the Control Panel and you may not be able to select the Output Prole.

ColorWise Pro Tools

Smoothing option When the Smoothing option is set to On, select Media Dened Prole under the Output Prole menu in ColorWise Expert Settings. Smoothing with CMYK Simulation Method When you print a CMYK le with Smoothing set to On, use Full (Output GCR) for the CMYK Simulation Method.

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Additionally, when you print CMYK les with Smoothing set to On and the Full (Output GCR) method, tone jump might occur if graphics or image objects includes 100% black only pixels. Black toner is used for Smoothing proles When you print a 100% black only graphic in CMYK mode with the Smoothing option set to On, the output still prints with 100% black toner.

WebSpooler

Memory The amount of memory displayed in Command WorkStation and WebSpooler is not the amount of physical memory installed on the server, but the available frame buffer memory.

Command WorkStation

Jobs previously processed display as Printing If you turn off the copier and turn it on while a job is printing, Command WorkStation continues to display the job as Printing in the Active Jobs window, even after the job has been processed. To delete the job manually, select the job, right-click, and choose Cancel from the menu. Searched IP addresses If you search for server by IP address from the Advances Search dialog box in Command WorkStation, it displays servers outside the range specied. Memory The amount of memory displayed in Command WorkStation and WebSpooler is not the amount of physical memory installed on the server, but the available frame buffer memory. SMB port and printing queues When you use the SMB port and connect to the Direct queue, the job override function cannot be used, although the job is displayed on Command WorkStation for a few seconds. Booklet option You cannot change the Booklet setting from Command WorkStation. Standard Color option The Standard Color option in the ColorWise menu in the Job Properties dialog box does not work. To override the color setting, select Expert Color.

Fiery Advanced Controller Interface (FACI) WebTools
IP address When you install Command WorkStation on a Fiery S300 connected to a FACI, the IP address is displayed as 127.0.0.1. Connecting to WebTools If it takes a long time to display the browser setting instructions when you try to connect to WebTools, do the following:
1. 2. Right-click the Internet Explorer icon, choose Properties, and then click the Security tab. Click Default Level for both Internet and Local Intranet.
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After several minutes, the browser setting window appears. Follow the on-screen instructions to correctly set your browser for use with WebTools. Internet Explorer for Mac OS X WebTools may not work properly using Internet Explorer on Mac OS X. If this happens, use the Apple Safari browser. Browser setup for Web Tools on Windows OS computers If you have problems accessing WebTools on Windows OS computers using Internet Explorer, follow the on-screen instructions for your browser version.

Other Applications

CorelDRAW 8 You cannot print from CorelDRAW with the default driver settings. Microsoft Word
Creating a custom page size in Windows 2000/XP and printing it from Microsoft Word
To create a custom page size in Windows 2000/XP, do the following:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Click Start, choose Settings, and then choose Printers. Select the Fiery S300 as your printer. Choose Server Properties from the File Menu. Click the Forms tab. Select Create a New Form under Form Descriptions for. Select English to display paper sizes in Inches; Metric to display paper sizes in centimeters. Enter the custom page size dimensions (for example, W=10 and H=10). Click Save Form when you are nished.
To print a custom page size from Microsoft Word, do the following:
1. 2. 3. 4. Start Microsoft Word. Select a new document or use a previous one. Choose Page Setup and set Paper Size to Custom. Enter the custom page size (W=10 and H=10). N OTE : Do not select the form created from this view. 5. 6. 7. Choose Print and select Properties. Select Paper/Quality and click Advanced. For Paper Size, select the form created (10 x 10).

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The Page Size under the Fiery Printing tab is 10 x 10.
9. Specify the Tray you want to print from.
You can now print a custom page size from Microsoft Word. Illustrator 10.0 The stapling setting does not work for jobs printed in Illustrator 10.0. Microsoft Publisher 2002 You cannot use the 3 Fold setting for Folding when you print from Microsoft Publisher 2002.