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This is Matthew with another tip from Advantage Technical Services.
In today's lesson, we're going to discuss how to backup all of your files and settings
from production house for doing a re-install, install on a new computer, or upgrade from
one version to a new version. This part covers backing up all of your data,
and keeping all of your original settings. First of all, we want to make sure that any
files we already have in our buffered queue are removed, so anything that we don't need,
we're just going to delete these out of the queue.
The rest of these are jobs that we perhaps need to keep or jobs we've already ripped
that we want to copy back into the directory and not have to do all the settings again.
What we'll do is minimize production house for a moment, and go into My Computer and
under our install directory, under ONYX, there's a folder called "Work."
This work directory will have all the printers you have installed.
In this case, we're dealing with Designjet L25500, and in there, we have all of the files
associated with the jobs in our buffer queue or in our print queue.
What we will do is create a new folder that we'll use for a temporary folder to hold all
of this information. In that folder, we'll make another folder
called "Buffered Jobs." That's where we'll put all of these files.
Depending on the size of these files, this could take quite a bit of time.
In this case, not very long at all. Now we're done with that part, move on to
the next step. Now, you notice that we've gotten rid of all
our buffered files because we copied them out of the work directory.
We're ready to go on to our next step which is creating our print install.
Go up to the File menu and select Manage Printers. If you're running Windows 7, you'll get this
administrative privileges warning. If you're not an administrator on the computer,
you may run into some issues, so make sure you have administrator privileges.
This stop processing message is fairly common. What this is reminding you of is that if you
have any jobs currently printing or any jobs ripping and ready to print, this will stop
these two processes. If you need to, press no, or wait for those
jobs to process and then continue with this step.
Now the printer we're concerned about at this point is our Designjet 25500, and we're just
going to highlight it and hit create printinst. This will give us a selection of all of our
media profiles, and we can select which ones we do and don't' want to output.
In our quick sets, we're actually going to back these up later, so I'm going to uncheck
those. For our print drivers, it has both the 42
inch and the 60 inch, you can deselect ones you don't want for your personal use to customize
this even more. Go ahead and click on next.
It will ask us where we'd like to save this file.
We'll save it under the same directory as we did before.
We already have one, so we'll just overwrite that one for right now.
This will take a moment. Once it's finished, we'll be able to continue
on with our process. And Print Install is completed.
Click on Done. Our final step is to backup our quick sets.
If you use quick sets regularly, this is essential, but if you don't use them that much or at
all, then you can simply skip ahead and continue on backing up the rest of your data.
We're going to go to configure printer. We'll get our server shutdown message.
If you're in Windows 7 or Vista you'll get your UAC message.
The very first tab that comes up is Quick Sets.
Click on export, and save it to the same directory we saved our buffered jobs and print install.
Once that's completed, we can click OK, and then as a final step, I like to print out
a test image. What this allows me to do is have a before
and after I can look at, and print the same file afterwards.
Normally the one I use is if you go to your ONYX install directory, and go to your samples
folder, you have a PDF for ONYX called Quality Test.
Once this ONYX Quality Test gets buffered in, there's one last step that I like to do.
Here in pre flight, if you go to your very last tab, you have a print setup button.
In there, you have a marks tab, and you can print on print label.
To enable that will allow you to print information like the name of the file, where it came from,
and any profiles you used to print it with. That way when you reprint it, you can use
all of the exact same settings, and are able to verify your before and after products are
similar or better than what you're expecting. Click on OK, and submit this job.
Once it's done processing, click on our printer, click on print now, and we'll move on to our
next step of uninstalling and reinstalling a new version of ONYX.