Cobra Engine V1.0.0 Release Notes – 24 May 2008

Installation Requirements

Q2 v4.3 or later

Cobra Engine v1.0.0

Cobra Controller v1.0.0

Ink Monitor v3.4.1 or later (Optional)

Firmware

Board or PCB	Test Tool, System Status display
USB Board	v1.04 ; 1; 24/11/05 12:00:00

What's New

General

1. Make TicketMaker more tolerant if PC is running slowly to reduce the possibility of an error being reported ‘Failed to get target directory for application’ that holds up output. (T+1468).

Severity

Change	Severity	Description
1	Severe, infrequent	Can prevent image output.

Known Issues

Only unresolved issues that may cause serious malfunction or continued degradation of the CtP engine behaviour are mentioned below. Other minor issues or issues that are due to new feature requests are not listed.

Issue Number	Description
351	General: Rarely, if ctpimager.exe exits unusually, (killed by task manager or dies) the Cobra can become unresponsive and subsequent attempts to connect fail. The simple cure is to shutdown the front end PC, power off the PC and the Cobra, and then power up and re-boot. It is not sufficient to only power cycle the Cobra.
373	CtPImager: Occasionally, just after login, a dialog pops up reporting CtPImager was unable to write to its log file. This is currently under investigation, there is no work-around other than to simply cancel the dialog.
415	General: If the USB cable is disconnected during operation this may not be flagged by the software. The system may become un-responsive. There is no work-around, the user must reconnect the USB and reboot the front-end PC.
470	General: When aborting a job, if there are no more jobs in the queue the system may indicate an error occurred, and, if sound is enabled, play the error has occurred alert, even though the job becomes marked as: user aborted job. There is no work-around; users need to simply be aware of this.
471	General: When aborting a job, or shutting down, the system may briefly indicate the user should remove a plate even though one is not loaded, and if sound is enabled the system may partially play the remove plate alert. There is no work-around; users need to simply be aware of this. Note: in most circumstances the system will correctly request that the user removes the plate.
489	Test Tool: Engine Calibrations: Register Bar Settings: When negative slow axis offsets are applied the image output fails with e_BallScrew_BadPosition. The work-around is to re-calibrate the RHS Reference Opto to Drum Start setting to the opposite side so a positive offset can be applied to the side, which is now requiring adjustment. E.g.: Side B required negative adjustment. Reset the side B offset to zero, and Save the calibration. Recalibrate the RHS Reference Opto to Drum Start to side B, with a zero slow offset for the register bar side B. Then recalibrate side A for a positive offset. We anticipate making a service pack release to remedy this issue.