Print Environment and Media

Print Environment and Media

Print Environments in the Ergosoft RIP contain the printer driver and the printer relevant settings. Selecting the Print Environment means selecting which printer the print job goes to and what settings are used to print (Port, Resolution, Passes etc.). Cut Environments provide he same settings for cutters while Media Size controls the available printing width and height.

In Delta Automation XML, these settings are grouped under the <PrintEnvMedia> tag letting you change the default settings from the HotFolder. If no <PrintEnvMedia> tag is defined in the XML, the HotFolder default setting from HotFolder > Settings are used. You don’t have to specify each of the subtags, you can also only use e.g. the <MediaSizeName> tag, only the tags that are listed have an effect, the rest will use the default settings from the HotFolder.

It’s important to note that any Print Environments, Cut Environments or Media Sizes called with the <PrintEnvMedia> tag must be present in the Ergosoft RIP installation, otherwise processing the XML file will fail. Print Environments can be set up in the main RIP in Tools > Print Environment Manager, Cut Environments can be set up in Tools > Cut Environment Manager and Media Sizes can be set up in Tools > Application Defaults > Media Size and Margins.

There are 3 possible sub tags for <PrintEnvMedia>:

Sub Tag

Description

Possible Values

<PrintEnv>Sets the Print Environment that should be used for printing this job.

Name of a Print Environment

<CutEnv>

Set the Cut Environment that should be used for printing this job.


Name of a Cut Environment

<MediaSizeName>Controls which media size is applied to the job. Media size affects how many images can fit onto the job width, how large images can be before being tiled, etc.Name of a Media Size


Sample Code for Print Environment and Media:
Quote
<HotFile>
<Job Name="PrintEnvMedia Sample">
<PrintEnvMedia>
    <PrintEnv>Ergosoft Sample</PrintEnv>
    <MediaSizeName>ISO A4</MediaSizeName>                       
    <CutEnv>Zund Cut Center V2</CutEnv>
</PrintEnvMedia>
    <Image FileName="C:\images\Lizard.tif">
    </Image>
  </Job>
 </HotFile>

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