The hot folder
facility is designed to allow CopySmart to be used with wide format LED page
printers having their own internal or external rasterizer or RIP (raster image
processor) or any type of printing system which can use a TIFF file. Hot folder
works with all colour formats. In other words it will work with a colour laser
printer or large format colour RIP system of the type used to print posters and
other specialist jobs.
BELOW: Click the movie reel to learn
how to configure Tiff Hot Folder
3
Changing
the type of data output to the Hot Folder file
First
click the Printer calibration i button (right). This will open the
Printer Setup box. The Printer Settings should already show Tiff
Hot Folder as the configured printer.
To the right of the Current Printer Settings information area click the
configuration symbol to open the Tiff Properties box. See
below.
The Tiff Properties box has 3 file format options:
Output sRGB
This
outputs the scan data from the copying process already corrected to the
sRGB profile. All colours will fall inside the sRGB colour space.
The sRGB profile is not attached to the output file or embedded
in it for processing by the viewing application.
Use where files are primarily for viewing on a monitor.
Embed input profile in Tiff
This outputs raw scan data with the SmartLF scanner profile embedded
(built into the file header). This means that viewing
applications not able to interpret an embedded profile will view the
file in the same way they would view a non-profiled scan file.
Only specialist viewing applications like Photoshop will normally
do this. All RIPs (raster image processors) will take account of an
embedded profile - it's what they do.
Use for RIPs where colour accuracy is important
Raw scan data
This outputs scan
data from the copying process without converting it to an sRGB colour
space or embedding a colour profile into it. Use for printing
with LED black and white printers or where colour accuracy is not
important or needed.
