Impressario provides a full range of tools and drivers for printing, viewing, and scanning a variety of image types. The product includes:
sophisticated printer drivers that let you control the printers' advanced capabilities through software options panels, and that report up-to-the-minute status on the printers and print jobs.
For a complete list of printer drivers, see “Supported Printers and Scanners”; to set up an Impressario printer, see “Setting Up an Impressario Printer”; to use Impressario printers, see Chapter 2, “Printing with Impressario.”
the Scanner Manager, a tool that lets you configure new scanners, gscan, a tool that lets you scan images from an IRIS screen, an image file, or a scanner bed, and several scanner drivers.
For a complete list of scanner drivers, see “Supported Printers and Scanners”; to set up a scanner see “Setting Up an Impressario Scanner”; to scan images, see Chapter 3, “Scanning with Impressario.”
vstiff, a Stream TIFF viewer that lets you view any file type that your system can print; to use vstiff, see Chapter 4, “Viewing Files with vstiff.”
22 additional Adobe fonts (for a total of 35), and font installation tools; for a list of the fonts and information on installing fonts, see Chapter 5, “Impressario Fonts.”
behind-the-scenes filters that can convert most file types to a format that you can view or print.
For advanced information on using Impressario, see Chapter 6, “Impressario Administration.”
At this time, Impressario supports the printers and scanners listed below. For the most current list of supported devices, check the Impressario Release Notes.
Impressario provides drivers for these printers:
Hewlett-Packard LaserJet® IIP, IIP+, III, IIIP, 4, 4P, and 4L
Hewlett-Packard DeskJet® 500C, 550C, 1200C
Hewlett-Packard PaintJet XL 300
Hewlett-Packard DesignJet 650C
Apple LaserWriter® Plus, II, IINT, IINTX, IIf, and IIg
Impressario provides drivers for these scanners:
Hewlett-Packard ScanJet® IIc and IIcx
Ricoh FS1
MicroTek ScanMaker 600ZS
Sharp JX 320
Epson GT 6000
If your device is not supported, contact your Silicon Graphics representative or you local telesales representative. A driver may already be available as an add-on product, or a new driver can be written by following the instructions provided in the Silicon Graphics® Impressario Developers' Kit.
Make sure your printer is listed in “Supported Printers and Scanners”, then set it up by following these steps:
Install the Impressario software on the system to which you plan to connect the printer. See the Impressario Release Notes for instructions.
If you plan to connect a SCSI printer, shut down your system by choosing “System Shutdown” from the System toolchest.
Set up the printer according to the instructions in the manual that came with the printer, and connect it to your system using the appropriate type of cable.
Hewlett-Packard® printers are supported only when connected with parallel cables
Apple® printers must be connected with serial cables
Other printers may use serial, parallel, or SCSI cables
Cabling information in the manufacturer's manual and in your owner's guide can help you to build or purchase the correct type of cable.
Power on the printer.
Note: Always power on attached SCSI devices before powering on and starting up your system. If you connected a SCSI printer, power on and restart the system.
Use the Printer Manager to add the printer to your list of available printers and to choose the correct driver for the printer.
Start the Printer Manager by choosing “Printer Manager” from the System toolchest, or by double-clicking the launch icon.
Choose “Add...” from the Printer menu.
Click the Help button in the Add Printer window for details on setting up the printer.
If you had printers connected to this system before you installed the Impressario software, use the Printer Manager to reinstall the printers so they can use Impressario's advanced drivers.
If the Printer Manager is not already running, start it by choosing “Printer Manager” from the System toolchest, or by double-clicking the launch icon.
Choose “Change Connection” from the Printer menu.
Click the Help button in the Change Connection window for details on setting up the printer.
When the printer is configured, its icon appears in the main window of the Printer Manager. To access the printer from the desktop, drag its icon onto the desktop.
For information on printing from the desktop, see Chapter 5, “Printing,” in IRIS Essentials.
For a summary of printing capabilites that are available only with Impressario printers, see Chapter 2, “Printing with Impressario.”
Make sure your scanner is listed in “Supported Printers and Scanners”, then set it up by following these steps:
Install the Impressario software on the system to which you plan to connect the scanner. See the Impressario Release Notes for instructions.
Shut down your system by choosing “System Shutdown” from the System toolchest.
Set up the scanner according to the instructions in the manual that came with the printer, and connect it to your system using a SCSI cable.
Use the cabling information in the manufacturer's manual and in your owner's guide to purchase the correct type and length of SCSI cable.
Power on the scanner.
Note: Always power on attached SCSI devices before powering on and starting up your system. Power on and restart the system, then use the Scanner Manager to add the scanner to your list of available scanners and to choose the correct driver for the scanner.
Start the Scanner Manager by choosing “System Manager” from the System toolchest and double-clicking the Scanner Manager icon, or by double-clicking the launch icon.
Choose “Install...” from the Scanner menu.
Click the Help button in the Install New Scanner window for details on setting up the scanner, or see “Setting Up Scanner Software”.
When the scanner is configured, its name appears in the main window of the Scanner Manager.
For information on scanning using gscan, see Chapter 3, “Scanning with Impressario.”
The Scanner Manager lets you:
set up system software so you can use a scanner that's physically connected to your system or to another system on the network.
start gscan, the tool that you use to scan images.
set the default scanner, which is the scanner that gscan automatically assumes you'll be using when you start gscan from the desktop.
delete a scanner from your list of available scanners when the scanner is physically removed from your system.
For a list of scanners that Impressario supports, see “Supported Printers and Scanners”.
The Scanner menu contains these choices:
“Install” lets you set up a new scanner that's connected to either your own system or another system on the network.
“Open” starts gscan using the selected scanner as the image source.
“Delete” removes the selected scanner from the list of available scanners.
“Default” makes the selected scanner the default scanner; when you start gscan from the desktop, gscan assumes that the default scanner is the image source.
“Quit” stops the Scanner Manager and closes its window.
The Help menu contains a list of help topics. To view a topic, choose it from this menu.
Make sure your scanner is listed in “Supported Printers and Scanners”, then set up the software by following these steps:
If the Scanner Manager is not already running, start it by choosing “System Manager” from the System toolchest and double-clicking the Scanner Manager icon, or by double-clicking the launch icon.
Choose “Install...” from the Scanner menu.
The Install New Scanner window appears.
Enter a name for the scanner in the New Scanner Name field.
The name can consist of up to 14 characters; no special characters are allowed.
Specify whether the scanner is connected to your own system or to another system on the network.
Click the box next to Local if the scanner is connected to your system.
Click the box next to Network if it's connected to another system.
Specify which scanner you want to use.
If this is a local scanner, click to select the correct scanner type from the Scanner Type list.
The Scanner Manager fills in the Scanner Device field with the SCSI device information for the scanner that you selected. The Scanner Manager can fill in this field only if you connected the scanner securely, powered on the scanner before powering on the system, and selected the correct scanner type from the list.
If the Scanner Manager does not fill in the field, you can manually enter the device information. It must be in this form:
/dev/scsi/sc<controller>d<address>l0
Where <controller> is the number of the SCSI controller to which the device is connected, and <address> is the SCSI address of the device. Note that the last two characters are the letter el (l) and the number zero (0). For example, for a device with an address of 3 that's connected to controller number 0, you enter:
/dev/scsi/sc0d3l0
For more information on SCSI devices, see “About SCSI Devices, Controllers, and Addresses” in the Personal System Administration Guide.
If this is a network scanner, type the name of the system to which the scanner is connected in the Remote Host Name field, click the List Scanners button, then click to select a scanner from the Scanner List.
Click OK.
The scanner appears in the list on the main scanners window, and is now ready for use. To scan an image using this scanner, select the scanner, and choose “Open” from the Scanner menu. Then use the online help that's available in the gscan window.
To delete an installed scanner:
If the Scanner Manager is not already running, start it by double-clicking the launch icon or by choosing “System Manager” from the System toolchest, and double-clicking the Scanner Manager icon.
Click to select the scanner you want to delete.
Choose “Delete” from the Scanner menu.
A message box appears to confirm that you really want to delete the scanner.
Click OK in the message box.
The scanner is now deleted.
You can use the Scanner Manager to specify a default scanner, which is the scanner that gscan automatically assumes you'll be using when you start gscan from the desktop. To use a different scanner for a specific scanning job, you can choose a different image source from gscan's Source menu.
To select a default scanner:
If the Scanner Manager is not already running, start it by choosing “System Manager” from the System toolchest and double-clicking the Scanner Manager icon, or by double-clicking the launch icon.
Click to select the scanner you want to use as the default.
Choose “Default” from the Setup menu.
The selected scanner is now the default scanner.
You can start the scanning tool, gscan, by following these steps:
If the Scanner Manager is not already running, start it by double-clicking the launch icon or by choosing “System Manager” from the System toolchest, and double-clicking the Scanner Manager icon.
Click to select the scanner from which you want to scan an image.
Choose “Open” from the Scanner menu; the gscan window appears.
Use the Help menu for information on using gscan, or see Chapter 3, “Scanning with Impressario.”