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Cx40 Utilities Instructions

SmartLF Cx40 Scanner

Cx40m, Cx40c & Cx40e

Utilities Program Instructions

Revision 1.0

©Colortrac Ltd 2006

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Contents

Chapter Description Page

1 Installation of the SmartLF Cx40 Utilities 7

2 Running The Utilities in the Engineering Menu 6

3 Internet Updates 8

4 Driver Installation 10

5 Normalisation and Stitch 11

5.1 Factory Normalisation 11

5.2 Manual Stitch 12

5.3 Reset Flash to Factory 17

5.4 Save Dat File 18

6 Motor Speed 20

7 USB 21

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1 Installation of The SmartLF Cx40 Utilities Program

To assist with any work or upgrades to the Cx40 scanner, an ‘all in one’ utilities program has been
created. Whereas the old 4080 scanners had individual programs to run, this is a passworded
utility that is available to run on the customers PC. The customer can install the utilities program,
as there are limited options on there for them to use. For example, the normalisation process and
ability to check the driver and firmware of the scanner. The passworded section is for distributors
engineers to use, and must not be given to an end user or customer without permission from
Colortrac Ltd.

NOTE: 4080 utilities can NOT be used to work on the Cx40 scanners, and vica versa. Only use
the Cx40 utilities for Cx40 scanner as instructed in this manual.

There are 2 main ways of installing the software, from the scanner installation CD or from the
Support SmartLF Cx40 service CD.

1. Insert Installation CD/ Service CD into PC.

2. On the installation CD run and follow the Utilities set up.

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3. On the service CD, locate the setup.exe in the Cx Utilities folder and follow the instructions.

NOTE:
If there is already a version of the Utilities already on the PC, it’ll need to be un-installed before
attempting to install this version, however, it isn’t necessary to upgrade this program unless
specifically requested by support.

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2 Running the Utilities in the Engineering Menu.

The user utilities will allow an end user to normalise the scanner, as well as checking the firmware
and driver version and speed check the USB connection.

1. To run the utilities program, locate the shortcut in the start menu.

2. The user screen will allow for the scanner to be normalised and for the auto calibration to be
set to ‘Never’, ‘hourly’, ‘daily’ or ‘monthly’.

3. To run the normalisation, insert the calibration target supplied with the scanner glossy side
faced down. Click the ‘Full Normalisation’ button and allow it to run. This takes about 5
minutes, and the target will move through the scanner during this time. Remove the target
when completed.

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4. Right clicking within the main control panel will bring up a password box. Enter the password
provided by the support department. This password is not available for end users or non-
approved distributors. Contact [email protected] with your details for this password.

5. The engineering menu opens on the Drivers version page. This just informs of the firmware
and driver versions being used by the scanner and PC at the present time.

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3 Internet Updates.

1. To check for newer versions of the firmware and/or the driver, click the ‘Check for Updates’
button. The PC has to have Internet access for this to operate.

2. If no updates are available, red crosses will show, and no further action can take place.

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3. If there are newer versions of firmware and/or driver, a green tick will appear and the
download and install update button will appear. This will allow the new version to be installed.

If the download and install update fails to install the driver, the .cab file can be saved to the PC
and updated in the device manager in the normal way. The file can be opened like a zip file and it
contains the .inf file needed in device manager.

NOTE: Once the firmware and driver has installed correctly, re-boot the scanner and PC before
continuing to use scanner.

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4 Driver Installation.

1. To install the firmware or driver without internet connection, firstly save the appropriate .cab
file which contain the latest firmware or driver on to the PC, see previous instruction on how to
do so. Or the cab files may have been sent from Colortrac Technical Support.

2. Click the ‘Install…’ button for which ever one you are installing and locate the file, this will then
install in the appropriate location

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5 Normalisation and Stitch

5.1 Factory Normalise

1. Factory normalisation is exactly the same as the full normalisation in the customer
engineering menu, but the calibration figures are held in memory to work along side the auto-
calibrate function.

2. Run this after changing any or all of the CIS arrays, particularly if the customer has the auto-
calibrate switched on.

3. Insert the target proved with the glossy side down and click the ‘Factory Normalise’ button.
Remove target on completion.

NOTE: If the target has been lost or is badly damaged, a sheet of ordinary printer paper can be
used, but it must be the full width of the scanner, without any joins, and about 19” in length and
must be white and good quality.

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5.2 Manual Stitch

Will indicate the stitch points

if the target is inserted as
described.

1. Open up the ‘SmartLF Manual Stitch TARGET. pdf’ that is found in the utilities folder on the
SmartLF Cx40 Service CD in the ‘Cx40 Utilities’ folder. Print it out on a large format printer, on
good quality paper, setting the PDF reader to print full size, with no ‘fit to paper’ instructions. It
should print out at 36” x 24” approx.

2. Open ScanWorks 2.4.3.3 or above and set the scan perimeters to 400dpi (or 600dpi
depending on PC ability), greyscale, 40” x 25” and set the ‘Media Handling’ to ‘rewind on
Save/delete’. ScanWorks and Cx40 Utilities need to both be left open during this adjustment.

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3. Insert the manual stitch target face down into the scanner with the horizontal lines going into
the scanner first. Position the printed target about 3 ½” from the Right Hand scan edge.

4. By pressing the scan button on the already opened ScanWorks, the scanner will scan the
whole target. Zoom into the horizontal lines at each stitch point to check for misalignment
using the normal zoom method in the ScanWorks software.

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CIS CIS CIS CIS CIS

1 2 3 4 5

5. Starting with CIS 1 & 2, correct the stitch at this point before working along the 5 stitch points,
i.e. stitch 2 – 3 ; stitch 3 – 4 & 4 – 5. Adjust the FB ( front/back) stitch before the LR
(Left/Right).

6. At CIS stitch point 1 & 2, try changing the figure on CIS 2 higher or lower to adjust the FB
stitch between the two CIS arrays. Stitch values can only be positive numbers and the lowest
denomination is ‘0’. It is important that before re-scanning the media, the ‘Set Stitch’ button
MUST be press. The media should have rewind itself (if the ‘media handling’ is set to do so),
press ‘scan’, if it looks worse try changing the value to go the other way from the original
value and ‘set stitch’ and re-scan. If it looked like the image was getting better, change the
value again the same way and set and re-scan.

7. Use the following as an indication as to which way to set the FB figures:

Good Stitch FB out, decrease figure FB out, increase figure

for CIS 2. for CIS 2.

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8. Adjust CIS 2 to correct stitch point 1 – 2, then adjust CIS 3 to adjust the stitch point 2 – 3, and
so on until all the CIS arrays are FB aligned.

CIS CIS CIS CIS CIS

1 2 3 4 5

9. When you have finished adjusting the FB stitch between all the CIS arrays, then adjust the LR
of these arrays.

10. At CIS stitch point 1 & 2, try changing the figure on CIS 2 higher or lower to adjust the LR
stitch between the two CIS arrays. Stitch values can only be positive numbers and the lowest
denomination is ‘0’. It is important that before re-scanning the media, the ‘Set Stitch’ button
MUST be press. The media should have rewind itself (if the ‘media handling’ is set to do so),
press ‘scan’, if it looks worse try changing the value to go the other way from the original
value and ‘set stitch’ and re-scan. If it looked like the image was getting better, change the
value again the same way and set and re-scan.

11. Use the following as an indication as to which way to set the LR figures:

Good Stitch LR out, decrease figure LR out, increase

for CIS 2. figure for CIS 2.

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12. Adjust CIS 2 to correct stitch point 1 – 2, then adjust CIS 3 to adjust the stitch point 2 – 3, and
so on until all the CIS arrays are LR aligned.

13. When all the FB and LR stitch points look to be good, exit the engineering menu software.
The scanner is now ready for use.

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5.3 Reset Flash to Factory

This option allows the scanner to be returned to the settings it had when it left the factory. If the
flash has become corrupted for whatever reason, usually because of an incorrectly used utility or
trying to run a SmartLF 4080 utility on the scanner.

1. Press the ‘Reset Flash to factory’ button.

2. Then click OK to return to the user menu.

3. Run a full normalisation (in the user menu) after download has been completed.

Do so only at the request of Colortrac Technical Support, and this is usually instructed following
support receiving a dat file from you to confirm that the scanner is corrupted (see 5.4 page 18 for
instructions on creating the dat file)

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5.4 Save Dat File.

To assist support in knowing what is happening to the scanner displaying a fault, a dat file can be
created and e-mailed to [email protected] where support can open this file and know what
status of the scanner. This will be asked for at the beginning of every support call.

1. Click the ‘Save Dat File’ button.

2. Locate a locattion to save the file to, enter the serial number of the scanner that you are
taking the data from, e.g. ‘C2606001.dat’. Click ‘Save’

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3. Open up your e-mail system and attach the saved ‘C2######.dat’ file and send to
[email protected] with an explanation of problem, if one had not already given to the
support desk.

4. The support department well reply with a suggestion of fault repair to the e-mail which sent
the ‘C2######.dat’ file.

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6 Motor Speed
Used to set the motor speed in cases where the speed might need adjusting. The motor speed is
the time it takes the media to pass through the scanner correctly to create the right image.

1. Enter the adjusted value.

2. Click ‘Update Motor Speed’

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7 USB
SmartLF Cx40 scanners will only work with USB2. To check the PC has the correct connection,
this program will measure the speed and inform you if it is correct, or if you need to get USB2
compatibility. This is also available to end users in the un-passworded utilities.

1. Click the ‘USB Speed Check’ button

2. The program will return a message to indicate if the speed is USB2 or if it needs updating.

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