Field Service Manual December 2003
Page 243 of 276
Manually submitting jobs in the PowerRip
plot queue
You can submit jobs in the PowerRip plot queue by manually copying them from the
Ucam workstation to the Trip (using rcp or ftp) on a work directory (so not mlfdir or
dpfdir or prxdir), and issuing the following command.
Submit files
ripuplot A filename.dpf 5 conf1 4000 1000000 1000000
distortion in Y
distortion in X
resolution
configuration used
priority
dpf filename (including full path)
switch
ripuplot command
switch description
A D : submitting a ‘dpf’ from the ‘D:\rip\dpf’ directory on the powerrip.
d : submitting a ‘dpf’ from the local directory on the powerrip.
filename.dpf The complete path + filename
The Queueing System
Usually the jobs will be submited into the PowerRip queue using UCAM. The queue
system is started during the bootsequence.
At startup the queue is in the “STOPPED” state, and the film type is not set. The users
can now submit jobs (mlf, dpf or prx files) and interact with the queue through the
UCAM system.
A job in the queue is characterized by its number, and has a status, priority and film
type.
The priority is a number between 1 and 9, with 1 the highest priority. The normal
priority is 5.
It is possible to resubmit successfully plotted jobs in the plot queue.
This is possible as long as you have not purged the plot queue, as this removes the
successfully plotted jobs (mlf-files) out of the plot queue. Also the dpf-files must still
be present on the original Ucam directory, because the dpf-files and prx-file are
deleted on the PowerRip if a job is successfully plotted.
On the PowerRip the operator can interact with the queue and monitor it using the
command "Ripuplot". These are the different options:
To interact with the queue:
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