Cadet plus Remote turn on !!

[Simon.Johnson]

quote dynamicsjon:

Hi

It there a way to turn the printer on (from sleep) to do a test print remotely ?

Are you thinking ahead to the Christmas break and how to stop having problems with your printer when you return?

Unless you want to set up your own dial-in network or VPN you cannot remotely access your printer to trigger a test print.

If this is going to be an issue for you why not consider changing the printer back to Roland EcoSol Max inks and then you won’t need to worry about it.

For all Grenadier. Cadet Plus or Cadet users who have a machine running Uniform inks and are now faced with that same issue of the cost of flushing the machine over Christmas to avoid warranty or service problems when you return, there are other options you can now consider.

The debate over eco versus true solvent inks really ended when the 3rd generation eco inks including the Roland EcoSol Max inks came out. They offer the same kind of print performance as true solvent but without the service issues in the machine. B&P have already confirmed on this forum that they will continue to honour any maintenance contracts even if you change back to Roland inks.

There are some very interesting "deals" if you don’t have a service contract at the moment and your heads are already "knackered". I don’t know how far I can go with this post under your forum rules.

Robert please let me know how I can contact you outside of the forum and I will forward you details to post up.

[Derek Heron]

just out of service contract with b&p so i would appreciate your details
simon. i have cadet plus 1400

Derek

[David Rowland]

The machine shouldn’t really screw up… as long as you print a test sample every 3-4th day you should be fine. Also another trick is to check you rip for Scheduled printing, this can help. There is a another way i just checked, but it might not work until i play with it and that is the print driver and to set "Available on" options for 1 minute each day and load up the print driver with lots of prints, so hopefully each day it will print, i have to check this but that might work. Only issue is if you get a powercut!

[Jon Stephens]

Yes .. I can remote control into my RIP PC, and have my own simple CMYK print sample.

I have read if you have USB connected cadet, it will wake up.

Is this the case with the cadet, (Maybe a menu option).

[Jon Stephens]

sorry i mean

my cadet plus is connected via network port

[Alan Wharton]

In windows xp pro you have -schedule task- can you not schedule a task to the printer every 12hrs or so to print a specific item or the same pic? iv never used task scheduler as i have mine turned off, people more up on windows than me may know about this function. 🙄

[Andrew Simmons]

Hi DynamicsJon

There is nothing in Windows that would allow you to do scheduled prints, but it is possible to schedule something to print, as long as the printer is available in Windows XP "Printers and Faxes", and you can print to a file from your chosen application (this is usually a Windows feature).

If these instructions are not clear please ask for clarification.

This is a network printer so you will need to "share" the printer which can be done by right clicking on it choosing "Sharing", give the printer a name. You will also need to know the name of your PC (this can be found in the system settings under computer name, but pressing the Windows Key and Break together)

Decide what you want to send to the printer in the way of a print job and when printing select the "Print to File" option (make sure you have the target printer selected) which is usually on the main print dialog box. You should then get a dialog box up which asks for a file. Type in C:\TESTPRINT.PRN or something else, but you will need this later.

Assuming that everything went well, you should be returned back to the application (with nothing printed to the printer as it should all have gone to a file).

Now for the DOS bit.

We will now test to see if the printing to a file worked before scheduling the print job.

Go to the "Start Menu" and select run.

Type in CMD.EXE

a black box should now appear with something like C:\DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\…..

type the following command (assuming you have saved the file to C:\TESTPRINT.PRN) I will assume your computername is COMPUTER and you printer has been shared with the name PRINTER.

COPY C:\TESTPRINT.PRN \\COMPUTER\PRINTER /b

For those who already know the COPY command The /b on the end is very important as it makes copy use Binary mode, otherwise it will not print the entire file and cause all sorts of problems with the printing of the file.

Hopefully you should now have your print job printed, even if it was a bit manually

Now to create a batch file.

We are going to use the same command with some additions to create a script (aka batch) file.

ECHO COPY C:\TESTPRINT.PRN \\COMPUTER\PRINTER /b > c:\testprint.bat

This should now create a batch file which will just send the print job.

Now to schedule this. We are going to create two schedules as we want it every 12 hours, so I will do one at Midnight and one ad Midday but this could be every hours in which case you would add one for each hour.

Type in:

at 00:00 /every:m,t,w,th,f,s,su c:\testprint.bat
at 12:00 /every:m,t,w,th,f,s,su c:\testprint.bat

To test it works (instead of waiting until 12:00 or 00:00) we will create a single scheduled job.

at 09:49 c:\testprint.bat

For the time use a couple of minute ahead to give you time to get the command entered.

That should be it.

To delete the jobs after you’ve finished with the schedule, just go back to the CMD.EXE program and type in:

AT

This should produce something like below:

C:\Documents and Settings\andrews>at
Status ID Day Time Command Line
————————————————————————-
1 Each M T W Th F S Su 09:48 AM c:\testprint.bat

You will see there is an ID of 1 do to delete this, simply type in:

AT 1 /d

Do this for every entry in the list and you will no longer have scheduled print jobs (or what ever else you run).

I know it sounds stupid, but remember the PC and Printer needs to be left switched on over Christmas.

Hope this helps.

As I said, any questions please ask. I have quickly run through this on my networked printer here and have scheduled prints.

Cheers

Andrew

[Jon Stephens]

Great Idea Andrew … I’ll set that up !!

Anyone know where I can get the windows driver for the Cadet plus ?

Cheers

[Andrew Simmons]

That’s a very nice printer / cutter. I have looked for a Windows Driver an cannot see one (not surprised once saw a picture of it).

You don’t even need a correct Windows Driver if you can print to a file from the application you use. Could be worth checking with the software company, I assume you are using the TROOP software.

Or you might be able to get a sample test binary from your dealer or from Uniform direct. In which that is all your need once the printer is added (using any old driver, don’t send a test page though).

Cheers

Andrew

[Alan Drury]

If Troop/Cadet is postscript, would a PS (postscript) file do?
Alan D

[Andrew Simmons]

If the printer supported postscript that would be ideal.

[George Elsmore]

what happens if the media snags which it can do now and again????

just a thought if there is noone about it could get worse and burn out the motors

G

[Jon Stephens]

Thanks all

George, the printer will detect a jam and cut off the motors.

I am still stuck as to how I get my printer out of sleep mode to do the print !!!!

It only has a network port, and don’t seem to wake up unless you press the power button …

HELP !!!

[George Elsmore]

when i have a jam on my cadet(not a plus) it beeps like billyo telling me to turn of the power maybe the plus is different??

G

[Jon Stephens]

sorry George … your right … mine does the same !!