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Xerox Engineering Systems AccXES™ - Optimized System Driver
XESystems, Inc. AccXES Optimized System Printer Driver

 Overview

You should use the current XESystems, Inc. (XES) AccXES™ optimized system printer driver (version 5.01 or later) instead of any of the older XES AccXES HDI drivers that you may have added previously with the Add-a-Plotter wizard.

Although HDI drivers that you add through the Add-a-Plotter wizard support XES AccXES printers, it is recommended that you use the AccXES optimized system printer driver from XESystems, Inc. for plotting. The AccXES optimized system printer driver provides significant performance improvement and reduces the amount of data generated. This is especially true if your drawings contain raster images.

Learn more:

Use the AccXES Optimized System Printer Driver

What’s New in the AccXES Optimized System Printer Driver

File Changes in the AccXES Optimized System Printer Driver

Benefits of Using the AccXESOptimized System Printer Driver

Available Settings for the AccXES Optimized Printer

Troubleshooting Hints

Note: All references to AutoCAD®, unless otherwise noted, refer to all AutoCAD-based products.


Using the AccXES™ Optimized Driver
XESystems, Inc.  AccXES Optimized System Printer Driver

 Use the AccXES Optimized System Printer Driver

To use the AccXES optimized system printer driver

1.	Download the current version of the XES AccXES optimized system printer driver (version 5.01 or later) from www.xes.com.

2.	Install the AccXES optimized system printer driver as a normal Microsoft® Windows system printer driver.

3.	Open an AutoCAD drawing.

4.	On the File menu, click Plot.

5.	Select one of the following plotters:

•	AccXES 8830

•	AccXES 8825

•	AccXES 8855

Do not confuse these plotters with XES 88xx.pc3 configurations, which are the older HDI driver configurations. When you have selected the correct XES AccXES optimized driver, the following is shown as part of the plotter name in the Plot and Page Setup dialog boxes in the Printer/Plotter area under Plotter:

Optimized Driver – by XESystems, Inc.

If you do not want the HDI driver plotter configuration files for your XES printers (XES 88xx.pc3 files) to be included in the Plotter drop-down list, use the Plotter Manager to delete them.


Optimized Driver Differences from HDI Driver
XESystems, Inc.  AccXES Optimized System Printer Driver

 What’s New in the AccXES Optimized System Printer Driver

The following changes have been made in the XES AccXES optimized system printer driver:

•	Media source and size are controlled through the Custom Properties dialog box instead of through the Plotter Configuration Editor.

•	Options for vector graphics resolution are available on the Rendering tab in the Custom Properties dialog box.

•	The Raster Graphics Image slider controls in the Plotter Configuration Editor can be used for both HDI and the optimized driver to control raster image processing.

•	A True Type Text setting is available in the Plotter Configuration Editor.

•	When you click Custom Properties in the Plotter Configuration Editor, the Custom Properties dialog box for the system printer opens.


File Differences
XESystems, Inc.  AccXES Optimized System Printer Driver

 File Changes in the AccXES Optimized System Printer Driver

The older HDI driver (xes7.hdi) that was located in the Drv directory generated HP-GL/2 and RTL data directly for the AccXES printer (models 8825, 8830, and 8855). When you selected a XESystems, Inc. AccXES printer through the Add-a-Plotter wizard, xes7.hdi was used.

The new optimized system driver uses the XES AccXES system printer driver (version 5.01 or later), along with xesgdi8.hdi, which is located in your Drv directory. The xesgdi8.hdi file receives graphics calls and makes GDI calls to the XES optimized system driver. The AccXES optimized system printer driver generates HP-GL/2 & RTL data for the XES AccXES printer.


Benefits
XESystems, Inc.  AccXES Optimized System Printer Driver

 Benefits of Using the AccXES Optimized System Printer Driver

The benefits of using the XESystems, Inc. AccXES optimized system printer driver are:

•	You install a single driver rather than one for AutoCAD and one for your other applications.

•	Advanced feature controls, such as nesting, banners, and finishing, are controlled the same way through all applications.

•	You need to learn only one interface for the XES AccXES printer control.

•	The XES AccXES optimized system printer driver processes significantly faster than the HDI driver, especially when your drawings include raster images.

•	The XES AccXES optimized system printer driver generates significantly less data than the HDI driver when plotting raster images.


Margins
XESystems, Inc.  AccXES Optimized System Printer Driver

 Available Settings for the AccXES Optimized Printer

In the Plotter Configuration Editor, click the Custom Properties button to change any of the following settings for the AccXES optimized printer:

•	Media size

•	User-defined media size

•	Paper orientation

•	Media type

•	Media source

•	Copy count

•	Margins and justification

•	Banner pages

•	Plot labeling

•	Raster stamps

•	Finishing (folding)

•	Plot nesting

•	Actions on media mismatch

•	Additional scaling

•	Additional image scaling

•	Mirroring

•	Additional rotation

•	Output resolution

Context-sensitive Help is available in the Custom Properties dialog box for additional information about any of these settings.


Troubleshooting
XESystems, Inc.  AccXES™ Optimized System Printer Driver

 Troubleshooting Hints

You are probably using an older, nonoptimized version of an XES system printer driver if:

•	You cannot plot long plots

•	Print processing is slower than the HDI driver

•	The amount of data is larger than when generated by the HDI driver

If “Optimized Driver – by XESystems, Inc.” is not shown as part of the plotter name in the Plot and Page Setup dialog boxes in the Printer/Plotter area under Plotter, you are not using the XES AccXES optimized system printer driver.