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Xerox Document Services Platform
DocuSP controller version 4.2x.xx
DocuSP 4.1 to
4.2 Differences
701P43007
January 2005
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Table of Contents New Features And Updates For All Products ........................................................................1 General Feature Enhancements..........................................................................................................................1 DVD Installation...................................................................................................................................................1 PPML Update ...............................
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DocuSP 4.2 Overview This document highlights the changes and new features between the DocuSP 4.1 and DocuSP 4.2 software releases. Many changes have been made to accommodate Xerox customers who have specific needs. The first section of this document provides a list of features that are new for all products. The following sections indicate features that are new to specific product families only. New Features And Updates For All Products General Feature Enhancements DVD Installati
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Backup/Restore Operability Updates The Backup and Restore GUI’s operability has been improved in DocuSP 4.2. Previously, Configuration Backup and Restore did not allow backup and restore of DocuSP license data and was not accessible on an unlicensed system. Under DocuSP 4.2, Configuration Backup and Restore provides the following improvements: ♦ Previously used settings in the Configuration Backup window are saved across DocuSP restarts and instances when the window is closed and re
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Previously, the System Backup default destination was displayed as the root directory. Also, System Restore was not displayed as one of the choices in the Backup/Restore window. With this feature, System Backup/Restore provides the following improvements: ♦ The default directory destination for backup is /XRXbackup. ♦ A System Restore option is provided in the Backup/Restore window. When selected, the System Restore option displays a window containing instructions for how to perf
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Imposition/Layout enhancements DocuSP 4.2 provides the user with a new template, the Z-sort template. In addition, the Z-sort, or ZIP-sort capability has been extended to all multiple-up options. This addition allows multiple-up (e.g. 4-up, 6-up, 9-up, etc.) to be cut and then stacked in a predefined order so that postal sort order is maintained. See the figure below. Detail shot of new Cut and Stack control in the Layout FAB The output may be either single-sided or double-
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Additional Controls for N-Up layout DocuSP 3.8 and 4.0 to 4.1 Differences Document 5
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Imposition: Job faults removed and Default scale is 100% In this release, a few operability improvements have been made to the imposition software. The default settings and operation better match customer usage. ♦ Jobs that previously would fault with a warning that the image is off the page no longer fault. A job message is posted on the error page/error window warning that image data is off the page. ♦ Previously, the default setting was to auto scale. Customers routinely us
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Additions to Job Manager Display The DocuSP 4.2 release introduces the following enhancements to the existing Job Manager job list: ♦ Pages processed and total pages printed are available in the job list. This information is updated dynamically as values are changed. ♦ The last JDL and JDE are displayed in the job list for LCDS jobs on systems that support LCDS. ♦ The last HJOBNO is displayed in the job list for LCDS jobs on systems that support LCDS. The addition of the pages proces
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A new dialog is now available in Preferences that allows the user to slow down updates to the job list. This may be useful because the process of updating the job list may adversely affect printer performance. This feature allows the user to balance printer performance with job status updates. This feature is not meant for normal use. The feature is meant to provide System Administrators an option for reducing CPU load in the event that print performance is degraded due to a large nu
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Error Page enhancements The DocuSP 4.2 release introduces the following enhancements to the existing Error Page feature: ♦ The user is able to view Error and warning information from the Job Manager. ♦ The feature is only available when selecting the job properties of a job in the Job Manager completed job list. ♦ The feature is only available for completed jobs that have errors or warnings. The user is able to view Error Messages on the GUI for completed jobs with errors or warning
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VIPP Project Container (VPC) Filter inclusion The VPC Filter is a job filtering mechanism that can be applied to one or more queues on a DocuSP system. When the VPC Filter is setup on a queue, it processes all VIPP jobs sent to the queue through any print path gateway. Non-VPC files are passed through the queue unfiltered and VPC files are filtered, for example, expanded, resources deployed, etc., according to the queue setup configuration. Workflow examples ♦ Set the processing opti
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♦ Set the processing option of a VPC filter-enabled queue to Deploy and Print and submit a VPC file to the queue. The resources in the VPC file are deployed and the job(s) printed. Set the Keep Print Files option to False to have the print job(s) deleted upon job completion. VPC Filter GUI with Deploy and Print selected DocuSP 3.8 and 4.0 to 4.1 Differences Document 11
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♦ Set the processing option of a VPC filter-enabled queue to Deploy Only and submit a VPC file to the queue. The resources in the VPC file are deployed but the job(s) will not be printed. Select Print the list of deployed resources to print the list of resources and their deployment status, or leave this option deselected to obtain only a total count of the resources deployed. VPC Filter GUI with Deploy Only selected ♦ Submit any VIPP job to a VPC filter-enabled qu
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Limits, Constraints, and Considerations ♦ The VPC Filter is not supported on single-queue systems such as the Nuvera Office Printer because DocuSP does not support any filters on single queue systems. The DocuSP GUI does not display the VPC Filter settings on single-queue systems. ♦ The VPC Filter cannot be setup on a streaming queue. The DocuSP GUI does not allow this because crash recovery of filtered streaming jobs does not work with the current architecture. ♦ The Generic Filteri
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If Enhanced RBS is in effect, DocuSP RIPs the job to determine the resourced defined within the job data before scheduling the job. If, after RIPping the job, the controller determines that the job requires unavailable resources, the job is marked Ineligible and a message is generated detailing which resources are currently unavailable. If a job specifies a greater quantity of an available media than is present on a system, it prints until the system runs out of that media; then the o
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The table below shows the respective mappings between DocuSP PCL Paper Sources vs. the PCL5/XL command sequence. The mapping for PCL XL is different from the HP so as to allow the PCL XL values to run in sequential order. In the table below, the Tray values numbered 8-12 are the most popular values, as they map to HP and CentreWare High-Capacity trays. Tray PCL 5 PCL XL Enum Value &l0H eDefaultSource 0 1 &l1H eManualFeed 2 2 &l2H eMultiPurposeTray 3 3 &l3H
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New Features And Updates For Color Products New Platform for iGen3 A new hardware platform is included with the DocuSP 4.2 version of the Xerox iGen3 system. The Sun Fire v890 features the new UltraSPARC IV 64 bit processor with Chip Multi-threading technology offering two threads per processor chip. With dual- threaded architecture, each UltraSPARC IV processor consists of two virtual processors with shared memory. The key additions for the v890 over the v880: ♦ Faster CPU clock spee
