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Along the left side of the display are buttons you click to activate function sliders.

To retract any slider, click the icon at the far right of the slider.

The Server information slider displays name and version information about the 
currently connected server and the Command WorkStation. To retract the slider, click 
the Fiery logo at the far right of the bar.

This slider is described in “Logging in” on page 3-5 and “Logging out” on page 3-7. To 
retract the slider, click the lock icon at the far right of the bar.

This slider can be used to access Fiery Downloader and ColorWise Pro Tools. These 
utilities can also be accessed from the Job menu and Server menu, respectively. To 
retract the slider, click the icon at the far right of the bar.

The System information indicators show the current availability of RAM and hard disk 
space on the currently selected Fiery X4 server. To retract the slider, click the icon at 
the far right of the bar.

All the jobs listed by name in the Queues, Archive, and FreeForm windows can display 
the job ticket information specified by the person who originated the print job. The 
Command WorkStation can display this information because it parses the PostScript 
file before it is RIPped. 

You have considerable flexibility in arranging this information in the display. For 
example, you can add Media Type to the display if you want to see which jobs call for 
special paper or other media. 

You can choose not to display headers for options that are not used at your site, or you 
can display all possible options and scroll to see the ones that are less important to you. 
If you just want to experiment, when you are finished you can choose Revert to 
Default Settings from the Window menu.

For instructions on customizing the display in the Queues, Archive, and FreeForm 
windows, see page 4-4.

The Command WorkStation always starts out by displaying the Queues window, from 
which you view current job processes and control job flow and file storage. To go to 
another window, click the corresponding tab at the bottom of the Command 
WorkStation display.

The Queues window is a dynamic display of the job staging area: jobs are lined up for 
processing and printing, some of them are being held waiting for directions, some are 
moving from one stage or queue to another and are finally dropped from the list, some 
are held for processing by the operator, and some are held in a different queue in case 
you need to reprint them.

One approach to understanding the dynamic display is to imagine the three parts of 
the Queues window corresponding to the three stages of printing, illustrated as a 
downhill flow.

—a PostScript file is saved on the server’s hard disk. The file can come in 

packets from the network, or from another place on the server hard disk. Jobs are 
added to a queue in the order in which they arrive, and they generally move to another 
queue in the same order unless an operator has intervened to change the order. 

—PostScript commands are interpreted in the Fiery X4 to allow 

the color copier to print the file the way its originator intended. The result of this 
interpretation is a raster file associated with the original PostScript file. In this raster file 
(raster image), color data is associated with each dot that can be rendered by the print 
engine. The color data tells the print engine whether or not to apply cyan, magenta, 
yellow, or black toner to each position on the page.

—transferring the raster image from the server to the print engine at high 

speed, freeing up RAM for the next job. While the PostScript file is usually saved to 
disk, raster images are held in RAM during and after each print job. However, both 
users and operators can request that the Fiery X4 save the raster image to disk along 
with the PostScript file.

Saving the raster image to disk offers some advantages—raster files are already 
processed so they print quickly, and each part of the raster file is still identified with a 
page in the original document, which means that individual pages of a saved raster file 
can be accessed.

Jobs actively involved in the three processes (spooling, rasterizing, and printing) are 
listed in the 

 that span the Queues window.

Status bars show the filename and user name for the active process, and an indication 
of its progress. Each status bar heads the list of jobs that have completed the process. 
Thus, beneath the Spool status bar, you see a list of spooled files; beneath the RIP 
status bar, you see a list of rasterized (RIPped) files; beneath the Print status bar, you 
see a list of jobs that have already been printed.