User manual ELNA XCHANGE

[. . . ] Xchange Multi-Access Converter INSTRUCTION MANUAL 1 Xchange Multi-Access Converter CONTENTS WARRANTY Disclaimers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Limited Warranty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-5 COLOR EDITOR Opening Color Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 File Menu INSTALLATION Items included. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 No Comport Error Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Open . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 2 Xchange Multi-Access Converter WARRANTY DISCLAIMERS The Xchange Box will not read manufacturers' alphabet memory cards. [. . . ] The Read function also reads Zip files without you having to unzip them first. Remember, the box is a design file transfer system for sewing formats. Click the Read button or click File, Open on the navigation bar, and this window appears. Click to the right of the "Directory" box to open the "Browse For Folder window. Click a design and click OK to load it into one of the six squares on the Converter Box screen. (Or click Cancel to exit the screen. ) Click Read again to choose another design. You can keep selecting designs one by one until all 6 squares are full. Navigates to the end of the directory. 11 Xchange Multi-Access Converter LOAD The Load function enables you to take designs from most embroidery machine manufacturers' memory cards into the software and write them back to a card for your embroidery machine. Insert the preprogrammed memory card into the slot and the Load button will highlight. Click the Load button or Load on the navigation bar and type the number of the desired design. Or click Load, Browse; a picture of each design on the memory card will be displayed. (Do not attempt to do anything else until all of the designs have been read. ) Select the design you want and click Load. You can keep loading designs one by one until all 6 squares on the Converter Box screen are full. When you are finished selecting designs from the "Card's Directory" page, click OK. Some machines require designs to split into multiple files depending on the number of colors and stitch count. If your design doesn't appear to have all of its components, then you may need to select the next file on the card to complete your design. Use the Browse button to view all designs on the card. Once you have loaded your designs from the preprogrammed card, you need to remove it from the slot. Since no universal color palette exists for home or professional embroiderers, Xchange Box recognizes color breaks in the designs you've loaded and substitutes a new color palette. If you'd like to see your design in colors that more closely resemble your original, use Color Editor (see page 15). 12 Xchange Multi-Access Converter SAVE The Save button is used to write the entire contents of a memory card to your hard drive or other writable media. Designs that have been saved can be opened, edited, resized and otherwise modified in any embroidery software that supports the format in which they were saved. To begin, place a card in its appropriate slot on the Xchange Box and click the Save button. A screen appears that allows you to select the directory where the designs from the card will be saved. Click OK. Or to create a new directory, first select a location for this directory. [. . . ] Print Preview Click File, then Print Preview to display on the screen how the printed page will appear. On the right side of the Print Preview screen you will notice the file name, the size of design in millimeters and inches, stitch count, number of colors and the order the colors are to be sewn out. 17 Xchange Multi-Access Converter Click the Print button to print the instruction sheet to your printer. Click the Zoom In button to zoom in or the Zoom Out button to zoom out. Print Setup Click File, then Print Setup to bring up the print setup dialog box. This dialog box allows you to change the type of printer, properties, paper size and orientation. [. . . ]