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can anyone help with a shiraz remote job Submition?
We are about to begin submitting jobs remotely to shiraz (we used to just tell the operator which file to print and he would submit it with Design on the same machine that the Server was running on).
Now we would like to use Design in our studio at one end of our site to submit jobs to Server at the other end of our site, the idea being that the Mimaki operator would then release the job into the Active queue when ready.
This is great if the material I want to use is on the machine at the same time.
My problem is that if there’s only 36" media on the machine and I want to submit a file that is 48" wide to print in say an hour’s time i can’t! It’ll scale the image down to fit the current media width!
Has anyone any ideas how to get round this?
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so have you installed Shiraz on the design computers as well now? Or are you asking if it is possible to do choose different roll sizes independently of the design and print operators?
I know shiraz can be installed which pretty much just ‘moves’ the design interface part to another computer but uses the same queue information (which includes the roll size). So I would then be tempted to leave the machine setup with the largest roll and send all your artwork down at the ‘actual size of the artwork’ and not the roll size. The print operator should have some flexibility in choosing what material it goes on.
At present, our design team PDF’s artwork out of Corel and then a job sheet says the material information, this gets done by the print operator and then they print. So we don’t actually use the Design/Server part as it isn’t flexible enough at this stage, although AIT have been working on some improvements to the overall Shiraz package.
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2 ways that i can think of.
1) submit to the archive, then drag drop into active when ready with wider media .
2) create a new media and rename it so that it has the media width in it. then select hold mismatched profiles and submit to the normal q.
actually there is a 3rd, create a separate queue for the same printer and submit to that instead, then change q’s and print the other jobs.
hope this is of some use.
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i tried making another queue with a maximum media width, when i created the queue i’m not sure whether to choose file or null (how do these work?)
i tested with both options, and then pulled up the sjb file into the mimaki queue but kept getting an ‘Image Analyze Error’
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choose the connection that the printer uses. if mimaki then probably firewire.
all you are doing is making an exact copy of your existing q but with different media width which you will start when you have changed the physical roll in the printer.
if you are having issues i can post some grabs.
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so in theory i could make a queue for each media width (36/39/48/54/60") submit the job to whichever i need then the operator would simply start the required queue depending on what media was on the machine!
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exactly. will that help?
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i’ll let you know how i get on, we also have another mimaki running on a separate pc, do you know of a way that a single sjb file can be opened in either of the queues?
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well AIT have set my dongle to maximum of 2 queues (so I could in theory have two printers connected but can only run one at a time)
I did think about Q’s before but I know this limit is on mine, might be different on your setup
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2 queues is default for the xl version. other seats can be added at a cost.
however you can have many queues just only allowed 2 running at any time, all offline queues will still accept work and print when started. quite a nice way of working it.
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i check that in a mo… pretty sure i can only add 2.
i just tried, yeah i added them…i am on 6.4 now, think i tried this last on 6.0
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