Episode 7: Software Setup

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hello and welcome to episode 7 of our

partner portal series my name is

Christopher and today we will be going

over the software setup for your life

print event before we begin there are

some equipment you're going to need most

importantly you'll need some printers

for this video we will be using our own

Pro x1 printer but our software is also

compatible with other printers such as

the primary Alex 500 °c and the Epson C

3500 our software doesn't require

internet but you will need a router to

allow communication between the laptop

and your camera if you plan on using our

mosaic capped rat in the event you're

collecting hashtags are sending takeaway

emails you will need internet access and

we'll go over how to do that later in

this video if you don't plan to use our

iOS Photo Booth app

you can use your own photobooth system

and have the photos copied to the hot

folder in the case of our software it's

called the watch folder here we have our

mission control screen I know it may

look like a lot but you're mainly going

to be using these top three applications

and we're going to go over what all this

stuff is first I want to point out the

setup guide and the troubleshooting

guide feel free to follow along using

the setup guide and don't be afraid to

reference the troubleshooting guide if

you run into an error or an issue that

we don't cover in this video the first

thing you're going to do is extract your

project zip file that we downloaded off

the partner portal you can find a link

to the partner portal in the description

below so you're gonna open up a file

explorer and navigate to your downloads

and there it is now your zip file will

probably have a different name the name

of the zip file is always your project

name dot zip so for our example we did

tutorial as our project name so that's

why it's named tutorial that's it I'm

gonna click this and you're gonna drag

it over here to the project extractor so

that has now extracted your zip file and

automatically put its contents of the

folder into the appropriate locations so

we can go ahead and close out of this

to find all the files that were just

unzipped by the project extractor you're

going to navigate to your M Drive and

then to your project folder and you'll

see all of your files here you'll also

notice that your watch folder is right

here and that's the hot folder that all

of your photos are going to go into

you're going to connect your printer to

your laptop afterwards you're going to

open up the LX 500 status monitor

program this program will work for both

the pro x1 and Alex 500c printers this

is where you'll align your printer and

manage your ink levels you won't have to

change your ink unless prompted by this

application and you can see here that we

need an alignment so we'll hit a line

and then next so if you're using an

Epson C 3500 printer the steps to align

the prints may vary so you might want to

follow the instructions associated with

that printer model if you're using our

pro x1 printers then your default

printer settings will be shown here you

can also find those in the setup guide

with our printer setup let's go ahead

and get all of our equipment on the same

network we're gonna go ahead and do this

by adding a router to the system if

you're using your own photo booth or

camera software you can disregard having

to set up a router if you're using our

mosaic app strap then you will need a

router to connect the iPad camera to the

laptop so here I went ahead and

connected us to my router my routers

name is live print 1 t - 5 g so my

laptop is hooked up to get all of our

devices on the same network we're gonna

have to run the web server this allows

your devices to communicate with the

laptop so we're gonna go ahead and click

on after running the server you probably

noticed that a window briefly appeared

and then disappeared so to make sure

that the web server is actually running

you can just check the bottom right-hand

screen and you'll see that we have this

green W down here that indicates that

the web server is on and all the devices

connected to the router are talking to

each other with our network online and

our project file extracted let's go

ahead and open up the live print mosaics

app

which is right here here is the program

that we're gonna load our mosaic file

into so you're gonna navigate to file

load project tutorial and you're gonna

load in the mosaic configuration file

right down here if you have an overlay

associated with your project you'll have

two of these files one of which will be

specific to your overlay please

reference our advanced software setup

video for a more in-depth explanation of

how to configure your system when

dealing with to config dot and CF files

we're gonna load in this one because we

don't have an overlay on this project

anymore now that we've loaded in our

project you'll notice all these

pre-configured settings here in the SEL

options these are determined based on

how we configured our mosaic back in the

live print portal all of those details

will match the details you find here in

the SEL options so we're gonna go ahead

and click start mosaic and what you're

seeing here is the mosaic preview it's a

white screen right now because we

haven't taken any pictures and we don't

have any seed photos to start the mosaic

off with that will have to come after we

setup the camera

well let's focus on the mosaic preview

first so there are a couple different

things going on in this screen the first

thing I want to point out or your

primary settings located in the top

left-hand corner of the program these

settings like the color enhance and the

source overlay can be changed during

your event to adjust the color and the

overlay of your source image for the

pictures as your event goes on the top

right corner however tile size brand

size these are additional settings that

were pre-configured so you do not alter

these in the bottom right-hand corner

you'll see a lookup cell area typing the

column and row of a picture here we'll

find and highlight that photo in the

mosaic preview application these bottom

bars will show you information on how

many cells you have left in your mosaic

versus how many cells you've already

filled so now we have the mosaic

you going let's go ahead and open up the

printer manager using this icon here to

load an our project we're going to click

this file and then tutorial loading in

our project on both applications has now

synced the programs together the file

explorer here in the top right-hand

corner of the application is what you'll

click on and navigate to the project

that you want to upload if you have

multiple projects you would just

navigate to the one matching whatever is

in your mosaic preview application so

the first thing we're gonna do in the

print manager is we're going to add the

printer that we set up earlier so you

can click Add printer and then the only

printer we have hooked up is the one

printer so that's our only option so now

that we've connected the printer we will

enable it here using this drop down menu

we can check the settings of our printer

the status toggle here can temporarily

turn off or on a printer without

affecting any other printers on our list

if this dot is red it indicates there's

an issue with the printer for our

settings we'll be printing two inch

tiles and brands tiles and brands refer

to our cell size and our takeaway

options these can be printed from the

same printer or different printers if

you'd like and that is indicated by the

blue check box here we will be printing

two inch tiles but not two inch brands

so once you enable a printer the

settings in the print manager will be

saved this will allow you to close down

and reopen the print manager and

whenever you choose and it will bring

you back exactly where you left off so

if you need to adjust the printer

settings after viewing your test print

tile you'll do that by going back to the

status monitor app go to settings and

you'll just those numbers here on the

screen you'll see what a correct tile

print should look like and you can find

a reference for this in your setup guide

as well let's go through what the print

manager is so let's close this drop down

menu you're on site photos are gonna be

generated from images taken during your

event this window will fill in in the

order that the photos are taken right

now it's empty we haven't taken

photos yet the refresh button here will

refresh the on site photo windows or the

seed photo windows when new photos are

taken on site seed photos are images

taken in addition to your on site photos

that you would want your mosaic

these will be images that are not taken

during your event but images that you

would like to include in your final

mosaic I have a small seed folder here

that we'll be using as an example photos

taken will be placed here in the waiting

tab photos taken on site in real time

we'll move into the queue automatically

while seed photos have to be added in

manually after the waiting queue photos

going to the printing queue on site

photos will always take priority over

seed photos let's go ahead and click on

these four and you can see that those

have all been added to the waiting queue

as these go to print these will then

transfer over into the printing queue

now that we have our print manager set

up in our live print mosaics app running

we're gonna connect our camera to the

system we're using an iPad and while

using that all you have to do is connect

that iPad to the router to hook it up to

the system if you don't have our mosaic

capture app you can get that for free in

the iTunes App Store you will need that

if you're doing any any type of data

capture or if you don't have your own

photo taking system so connecting your

camera to the router will allow the

camera to communicate with the laptop so

the photos you take are received in the

print manager application it's also

important to note that if you're using

more than one laptop to make your M

Drive a shareable drive this way all the

laptops in your system will be able to

access the M Drive no matter if you're

using one two three or ten when

connecting to the router you won't need

to enter the camera code you just need

to hit the enter button because you're

working locally once the camera is

connected you will select your project

name from the list on the left hand side

of the page after doing that you will

see a take photo screen from this point

it's just rinse and repeat for taking

pictures of guests having the pictures

printed and having the guests put those

pictures up if you're using your own

camera system or photo booth then you

need to make sure that those photos you

take end up in the hot folder in order

for the system to process this the hot

folder

our software is called the watch folder

which we discussed in the intro if you'd

like to walk around and take photos

outside of your router's range you can

you just need to switch to offline mode

first by taking your camera off the

Wi-Fi connection offline mode will allow

you to take as many pictures as you like

outside of the routers range however

these photos are not automatically added

to the mosaic you'll have to re-enter

the routers range and reconnect your

camera to the router once your cameras

connect to the router you can upload all

the pictures you took at once or you can

go in and individually upload them as

you like in the event you're seeing a

white take photo screen or you were

unable to locate your project on the

scanning list those are just common

troubleshooting problems my advice would

be to first double check to make sure

your WAMP server is running and that

both your camera and your laptop are

connected to your router with the camera

connected you can go ahead and take some

test pictures you'll see that I've

already taken some test pictures here

and they've been counted as our on-site

photos you'll also notice in the mosaic

preview that this window is starting to

fill in with pictures this indicates

that the setup is working properly and

all your devices are communicating

together through the webserver by

printing a picture here you know that

your setup has been completed you'll

also see this new context window come up

giving you the option to reprint your

cell reprint the brand which is your

takeaway option or remove the photo

completely it'll also tell you a column

and row number you can find that image

at you'll also need to go into the

mosaic preview and remove cells that are

test pictures so they don't end up on

your mosaic

you'll just right click and remove photo

by doing this this will free up the slot

for the column and row number that these

test pictures have taken up if you go

back into your print manager you'll

notice that the photos that you deleted

in your mosaic preview are not deleted

here and that's because this will log

all of the photos that you've taken a

couple things to point out on this page

in the bottom right hand corner of each

photo you'll see a number that number

indicates how many times this photo has

been printed so if I always click on

this one it'll throw it into the waiting

queue and then when it's ready to print

it'll drop down to

printing cue using this you can

duplicate photos that are already in

your mosaic all duplicated photos will

get a new column and row number so they

don't land on the same spot in the

mosaic pictures duplicated through the

print manager will be assigned a new

column and row and will count as a new

picture entirely pictures reprinted

through the mosaic preview will just be

copies of ones you already have they

will not receive a new column or new Row

assignment the last part of the software

will be applicable to you if you're

collecting hash tags or sending takeaway

emails this part will also require an

internet connection so we're gonna go

through that to get that internet

connection we'll be using a Wi-Fi

adapter so that we've hooked up our

Wi-Fi adapter if you go to your Wi-Fi

menu you'll notice that you have a drop

down menu Wi-Fi and then Wi-Fi to your

Wi-Fi option is the one that's built

into your laptop and is gonna be the one

that's connected to your router Wi-Fi 2

is your Wi-Fi adapter and this is the

one that you're gonna use to connect to

the internet so we're gonna connect to

the internet here and now our computer

is both connected to the router and the

offline system as well as the Internet

if you have any questions regarding the

Wi-Fi adapter you can always go back to

page 11 of the setup guide for more

detailed instructions I want to take you

back to the desktop background real

quick so we're gonna exit out of all

this just a reminder all that stuff

auto-saves so now that we closed out

it'll save our progress where we just

were so if we open up the print manager

click this eyeball on set photos you'll

see all the photos that we have I'm

gonna close out of this I'm going to

minimize this in the bottom right-hand

corner you have your hashtag downloader

and your email now that we have internet

access if we had these options for our

project they would be available to us

clicking on these just opens up a script

the script will run in the background as

your event goes on so it's not something

you need to consistently monitor or look

after

the takeaway script will copy your

photos into the DNP printers ha folder

this script will run in the background

during your event now that we've gone

through all the applications on our live

print software that'll conclude our

demonstration if you come across any

troubleshooting items that were not

directly addressed please don't hesitate

to reference the troubleshooting guide

for further information thanks for

watching