SOSET Help contents

File Menu in PageWizard

New/Close
Get All Entered Stamps
Get Corrected Stamps
Get Stamps On ...
Export
Print
Laser Engraving
Preferences
Send Message

 

New/Close

Starts and finish a new print-run in the PageWizard. Shortcut: , Ctrl + N.
During a print session in the PageWizard all stamps are marked to prevent editing of stamps which are being printing in PageWizard. Close will unmark all these stamps.

In case of an abnormal program termination, while running stamps in PageWizard, the stamps remain in the PageWizard status. This status however prohibits editing. During the Get stamps on... run in PageWizard, stamps cannot be edited, for obvious reasons. It is impossible to change the status of the stamps in Typeset, when the stamps are (supposed to be) in PageWizard.

This problem can be solved. You select Reset PageWizard status in the Utilities menu in NamoSys. SOSET asks you if you are sure to reset the PageWizard status. If you click OK, the stamps are released from PageWizard. Now they can be edited again (including changing the status) in SOSET Typeset.

Be very careful with this option: if another SOSET user is working in PageWizard, while you reset the PageWizard status, the possibility exists that stamps are being edited in Typeset, while at the same time being runned in PageWizard. This causes problems.

This option is only available in the SOSET Gold version!

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Get All Entered Stamps

If you choose to get all newly entered stamps, all stamps with typeset status Entered, Remake and SOSET Import are selected from the stamp table. You can select the entered stamps per user. This will not result in an optimum page-layout.

You will get every stamp only once, even if the quantity is more than one. This print-run is meant for proofreading only. During this run the stamps are selected in chronological (entry-)order.

Print in the file menu will print the previewed pages.

On the output you will find the following information:

  • On top of the page: Date, Runnumber, Pagenumber
  • Stamp impression
  • Order-number of this stamp
  • Product
  • Status

The question: Update the typeset status of the printed stamps? can normally be answered with OK, and PageWizard will automatically change the typeset status of the printed stamps from Entered into Proofreading. Answer this question with Cancel in case your printer does not output properly. With the original copy of your customer's order you can start proofreading now. Correction can be done on screen in Typeset. After proofreading you change the status with the Status command from the Properties menu in Typeset into Corrected .

Note: This overview is only to verify that all stamps are correct. To get an overview for production use the Get Corrected Stamps command (this overview only contains the stamp and no stamp information).

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Get Corrected Stamps

After proofreading of all (but also of some) of the entered stamps you (or any other user in a network) can change the typeset status in Corrected. Then you can decide to perform a Get corrected stamps run in PageWizard. The Selection of Corrected Stamps dialog appears.

You can now specify which stamps you want to get. You can select the printset as well as the color. You can e.g. choose to only get pre-inked stamps in red and blue or other selections. Read the browse chapter in NamoSys. in the help-manual on how to add and modify print-options to the Printset-table.

Choose Printset Select All in case you want to have all corrected stamps printed.
Choose Color Select All in case you want to have all colors printed.

You can get only corrected stamps and/or delayed stamps in case you have used this status option in Typeset.

You can also select two types of stamps: you can include typeset items and/or stock items.

The PageWizard will now select all stamps from the database-table and sort them by type and size and layout them on the page(s).

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Get Stamps On ...

Displays the Get stamps on submenu, which enables you to select stamps by the following options:

  • Ordernumber
  • Searchkey 1
  • Searchkey 2
  • CustID
  • Runnumber
  • Status
  • Pagenumber

Pages made by one of these options will generate a Printset error message because the printset of the stamps are not set when selected by these options. You can set the Printset by selecting the Printset current page command in the Options menu.

Note: As these options are only meant for overview-reasons, you will NOT get an efficient page layout, the stamps are printed in chronological order. However with Get stamps on page-number you will get the stamps positioned as saved. During these print-runs the typeset status of the stamps is NOT changed by the PageWizard.

This option is only available in the SOSET Gold version!

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Export

Displays the Export submenu, which enables you to export the pages current loaded in PageWizard to a TIFF-file. Shortcut: Ctrl + J
This data in PageWizard can then be used be other programs.

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Print

This will prompt you to enter one or more, or a selection of previewed pages to the printer. Shortcut: , Ctrl + P

Note: Printing during the All entered stamps-run will by default print all pages. Printing during the Corrected stamps run will by default only print the current page. You can overwrite the page settings in the print-dialog.

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Laser Engraving

Starts the sending the current page(s) to the M&R Laser Engraver. Shortcut:

This option is only available in the SOSET Gold M&R version!

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Preferences

In the PageWizard Preferences command , you can set the default PageWizard options to your own requirements.

Note: Starting version 2.8 of Typeset several preference-settings can not be set global anymore. Now these settings are added to the Printset-table to specify preferences per Product-group.

  • The SOSET Data Path specifies where the database directory is located. This is installed during set-up and can not be modified. The path is a parameter of the command line for SOSET PageWizard.
  • In the Runcards Printer section you specify a printer for the runcards, in case you want these printed on a second printer. The default runcards printer is the default printer as specified under Windows print manager.
  • Ruler units lets you choose mm's or inches as your favorite sizing. For precise information concerning units see inches and millimeters conversion.
  • In the PageWizard Parameters section you specify the following:
    • Page Title Fontsize
    • Grid-settings to fix the stamp-movements.
    • Undo steps. When you manually alter the page layout, you can use the Undo command to reverse the last change to a page. This number must lay between 2 and 10.

      Note: the larger the number the more memory PageWizard needs. This can slow down the performance of your computer.
  • In the Runcards parameters section you set the Fontsize, Size and Barcode (both width x height) for your run cards. Sample Stamp Height is the size of the impression on the run card.
  • Selecting Page per Color will print pre-inked stamps separated by color.
  • Selecting Page per user will print (only new entered!) stamps sorted by user to simplify proofreading.
  • Selecting Select all users will result in selecting all users by default when you start a Get all entered stamps run.
  • Selecting Rush order will print only stamps, you have assigned one of the rush status to in Typeset. This means the page layout is not optimized and you will NOT get an efficient page layout, the stamps are printed in rush order.
  • Date Order and Date Separator:
    SOSET uses the date setting from Windows. To change the settings in Windows goto the Regional Settings icon in the Control Panel. You can specify the date order (either Day/Month/Year or Month/Day/Year) and the kind of date separator you prefer (either slashes or points).
    Important: the date settings marked in this dialog are NOT used anymore by SOSET.
  • In the Lasercutting section you specify the Cutting color with its value. You specify the color for one or more lines in a stamp, which will be recognized by a laser-engraver as line(s), which must be cut out. You can set the color to Red, Green or Blue or any blending of these colors. You can enter a value from 0 to 255. As soon as you set the cutting property of an object, the object will get this color to let the laser-engraver do the cutting of this object.
  • Output button specifies the print options
? Photographic negative changes black into white and vice versa
? Mirror image mirrors the printed page
? Resolution sets the clarity of the printed page.
  • M&R button. The M&R Settings are special laserengrave options to enhance efficiency and speed.

You can select the following:

  • Compress data
  • Trim non engraved left and right sections skips empty space on a page during engraving.
  • Environmental-friendly rastering skips non engraved sections.
  • Speed up during non engraved areas.
  • Combine cutting lines

Note: For cutting during laser engraving on some flatbed-laser engravers the color setting in PageWizard must be the same as the cutting color setting in Typeset.

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Send Message

Communication is very important in the rubber stamp industry. In SOSET it is possible to send messages to users in the network. SOSET offers a very easy and efficient way to mail users, known in the SOSET User-table.

Just click the Send message option, select the user(s) in the network you want to mail and enter the message. All SOSET software checks the mailbox and warns the logged user(s) when there is mail. When the user is not logged in, the mail remains in the box and will appear during next login of this user.

Mail in the mailbox can only be deleted by its user.

This option is only available in the SOSET Gold version!

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