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means that connected projector is listening; if there is no checkmark, you are 
communicating with a different projector. 
To control a specific projector with the keypad, press 
Proj and then enter the 3-digit 
number assigned to the projector you want to use. If you switch to a projector other 
than the one you are currently using, the checkmark will disappear. 
To broadcast to multiple projectors, press 
Proj and then Proj again without entering a 
projector number. Keypad commands will then affect all projectors present. Note that 
there is no method of controlling a group of projectors within the same wired 
configuration using the wired keypad exclusively, since there is only one wired 
protocol available. 
NOTES: 1) The Broadcast Keys option in the Communications menu must be 
selected for only one (any) projector in a serial network. The keypad in use must be 
OFF (disabled) for the remaining projectors. See 3.6, Adjusting System Parameters 
and Advanced Controls. 
Enter 
Press 
 to select a highlighted item, to toggle a checkbox, or to accept a parameter 
adjustment and return to the previous menu or image.  
Exit 
Press 
Ex i t to return to the previous level, such as the previous menu.  
NOTE: 
Ex i t does not save changes within text editing boxes (including number 
editing of a slidebar value) or within pull-down lists. It acts as a “cancel” in these 
cases. 
Arrow Keys 
Use the 
 keys to change a slidebar value or to select a different option 
within a pull-down list without having to first scroll through options. See also Editing 
Text later in Section 3.  
Use the 
 keys to navigate within a menu, pull-down list or text box.  
Lens Focus, Zoom and Lens H, Lens V 
When adjusting the image for focus, zoom, horizontal and vertical positioning, use the 
specific arrow keys (
/ or /) related to each function.  A small 
window will appear to indicate the type of adjustment taking place. For example, 
• Use the “Focus”
 or  keys to improve image clarity as desired. 
• Use the “Zoom” ”
 or  keys to achieve a desired image size. 
• Use the “Lens H” ”
 or  keys to position the image horizontally while 
still keeping it rectangular. 
• Use the “Lens V” 
 or  keys to position the image vertically while still 
keeping it rectangular. 
Press 
Ex i t to return to presentation level.   
  Ex i t
 
 
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NOTE: Use the Lens
Shift key (built-in keypad) with the general  keys to get the 
same effect as if using the arrow keys related to “Lens V” or “Lens H” on the IR 
remote. 
Laser 
Press 
 to activate the laser pointer on the 
remote. This feature is useful when making 
presentations - just point the remote at the 
screen to highlight an area of your presentation. 
The closer you are to the screen the brighter the 
laser beam appears. The laser pointer works best 
in an environment where ambient lighting can 
be controlled.  
NOTE: Leave batteries in the wired remote keypad for the 
 key to work. 
 
Most of the controls for the projector are 
accessed from within the projector’s menu 
system. There are several groups of related 
functions, with each group selectable from the 
Main menu as shown at right. Press 
Menu at 
any time to display this Main menu.  
On the remote keypad, either enter the number 
corresponding to the function menu you wish 
to access, such as 
2 for the Image Settings 
menu, or use the 
 keys
 on any 
keypad to highlight the desired option, then press 
. The corresponding function 
menu or pull-down list of further options will then appear. 
With a function menu displayed, navigate in a similar manner—enter a menu option 
number for any numbered option, or use the 
 keys to highlight the desired 
option, then press 
 (Enter). Extra long menus have a scroll bar on the right—use 
the arrow keys to access the remainder of the menu. Locked items or items that do not 
pertain to the current action or condition appear dimmed and cannot be selected. 
NOTES: 1) If there is no signal present, all source-dependent adjustments are 
disabled. 2) After 15 minutes of inactivity, the projector leaves the menu system and 
returns to the presentation. 3) The Status menu is read-only. 
When finished with a function menu, do one of the following: 
• Press 
Ex i t to return to the previous screen 
• Press 
Menu to leave the menu system and return to the presentation 
If at any time you are uncertain what to do next, press 
Help to display summary 
information about the current menu or highlighted option. Press Help again to exit. In 
addition, a line of  “hint” text is included at the bottom of some menus. 
3.3 Navigating the 
 Menus 
 
Figure 3.4. Entering the Menu 
System 
 On-line Help 
LASER RADIATION
DO NOT STARE INTO BEAM
LASER DIODE
Wavelength 670nm
Max Output  1mW       
CLASS II LASER PRODUCT
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Figure 3.5. Context-sensitive Help 
From presentation level, press Help to access general Help Topics. Scroll as necessary 
within a topic. Press Help or Ex i t to return to your presentation. 
 
Figure 3.6. Accessing General Help Topics 
If a slidebar, menu, or message is displayed, you have limited time in which to make a 
keypad entry before the projector returns to presentation level
Help and the graphic 
disappears. These time-outs may vary depending on what is displayed. 
Menu options that include this icon apply universally to any incoming signal. 
 
Most of the function menus allow you to change settings by using slidebars, 
checkboxes, and pull-down lists. To select a slidebar, toggle a checkbox status, or 
view a pull-down list, do one of the following within the function menu:  
• Enter the menu option number corresponding to the setting you wish to change 
(for example, press 
 
13Menu  to select “Vertical Stretch” in the Size & 
Position menu). 
• Or move the highlight to the option desired and press 
 (Enter). 
• Or move the highlight to the option desired and press 
 to adjust 
immediately. 
• Or bypass the menus entirely and use a single key to immediately access an 
adjustment during your presentation (NOTE: applies only to options having 
their own key, such as Contrast, Brightness, Gamma, etc.). 
• For “blind” access, hide the entire menu system (see OSD key, above) and/or 
direct slidebars activated by their own key (such as Contrast, Brightness, etc.). 
Control by using the proper keypress or numerical sequence of key presses.   Time-outs 

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Once selected, change the setting as desired (see below) and press  to save and 
return to the current function menu. 
Slidebars in menus – The current value for a given parameter, 
such as size or vertical stretch, appears to the left of its slidebar 
icon (adjustment window). This number often expresses a percentage, or it may have 
units associated with it (such as pixels, degrees Kelvin, etc.), depending on the 
specific option. Press 
 to gradually adjust the setting up or down—both the 
number and the length of the bar change accordingly. Hold for continuous adjustment. 
Or press 
 to activate a slidebar text box for specific number entry via the keypad, 
then press 
 to save (or press Ex i t to cancel). 
“Direct” slidebars - For quick access, you can access Gamma, Brightness, and 
Contrast slidebars without traveling the menu system. For example, simply press 
Cont 
to immediately display the same contrast slidebar accessed with the Contrast option in 
the Image Settings menu. 
Use the arrow keys to adjust a direct slidebar, or press 
 and enter a specific 
number from the keypad , then 
 or  or  to save (or Ex i t to cancel). When 
you are done, press Ex i t to save and return to your presentation. 
NOTES: 1) You can still adjust a direct slidebar as usual if the display is turned off 
(see 
OSD or Menu Preferences menu) — the slidebar just won’t be visible. 2) A direct 
slidebar disappears if it is not used within 5 seconds. 
Checkboxes - Conditions are present if its adjacent 
checkbox contains a checkmark. To toggle the checkbox, 
simply highlight and press 
, or highlight and use  
to check and 
 to uncheck. If a checkbox is numbered, simply enter its number to 
immediately toggle the checkbox. 
Pull-down lists – To see a pull-down list of options available for a given parameter 
labeled with a 
▼, you can: 
• Highlight it and press 
 (Enter) 
• Or enter the menu option number. 
Use 
 or  keys to navigate up and down within the list (the current choice is 
noted with a small 
). Press  to choose an option from the list, if desired. 
 
Figure 3.7. Example of Pull-Down List 
 
  
						

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If you prefer to quickly scroll through a list without first pulling it down, highlight the 
option and use
 or  
 . Press  when the desired choice appears. 
NOTES: 1) Press 
 or  to jump between pages in an extra long pull-down list. 
2) Press 
Ex i t while in a pull-down list to cancel any change. 
ACTIVATE THE EDIT WINDOW: To enter or edit text, highlight the desired parameter 
(such as a channel name) and press 
 to activate its adjacent edit window. Any 
previously entered text is displayed with its first character highlighted in a square 
cursor, signifying that this character is ready for editing. 
NAVIGATE WITHIN THE EDIT WINDOW: Press  to move the cursor forward or  
to move the cursor backwards as desired. 
EDIT A CHARACTER: To edit a highlighted 
character, use 
 and  to scroll 
through the alphabet, numbers, spaces and 
punctuation available. When the character 
you need appears, press 
 to select it—
the cursor will move to the next character of 
current text, if present. Note that you can 
also enter a number directly from the 
keypad—it will be accepted and the cursor 
will move on. 
ADD OR DELETE A CHARACTER OR SPACE: To insert a space at the cursor location, 
press 
Func. To delete a highlighted character (or space), press Func. 
 
PRESS  (ENTER) WHEN FINISHED: To accept edits and leave the edit window, 
press 
 (Enter). 
NOTE: Press 
Ex i t at any time to cancel changes and return to the previously-defined text. 
Enter numbers directly from the keypad in order to specify numbers representing 
projectors, channels (source setups), or slots. As each digit is entered, it is displayed 
and the cursor moves on. Note that channel numbers are defined with 2 digits—for 
example, if you enter only a single digit (such as “7”) for a channel number, the 
channel will automatically be defined as “07”. Enter “07” to utilize this channel. 
NOTES: 1) Once you enter the first digit, this digit replaces all old digits. 2) If you 
press any non-numbered key, the number entered up to that point is accepted and 
updated as the new value. 3) Press 
Ex i t to cancel editing of numerical values.   Editin
g Text 
 
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NOTE: See Section 2, Installation and Setup, for a full explanation of how to connect 
sources to the projector. 
The projector stores and automatically recalls up to 50 different channels (source 
setups) for a variety of inputs. This memory feature allows you to define and 
conveniently use a wide variety of customized setups rather than having to repeatedly 
re-configure the projector for different presentations. Depending on what you have 
defined, each physical source connection (i.e., input at the projector) can have several 
different channels associated with it. 
INPUT – An input is a source physically connected at the projector. Input describes the 
source signal according to which input slot it is connected.  
SWITCHING INPUTS – Press the appropriate direct key — Input  1, Inp ut  2, Input  3, Input  4, Input  5 
or 
Input  6 to quickly display from one of the six inputs connected to the projector. The 
image will be displayed according to the following: 
If it is the first time you have used the source/input (or if you used the input but 
did not define a channel by adjusting anything), the projector will recognize the 
new input signal based on its frequencies and polarities, and will automatically 
display an image according to default settings for such a signal. In general, the 
image from the new source will be as large as possible without losing its aspect 
ratio. This and other default image settings depend on the incoming source. 
If you used the source once before and changed a display parameter such as 
contrast, V-Position, etc., then a channel was automatically created and still exists 
in projector memory (see below). Using one of the 
Input keys will automatically 
recall this channel—and all its setup parameters—and update the display 
accordingly. 
If more than one channel exists for the input, the image will be displayed 
according to the setup parameters for the first channel with matching 
characteristics. 
NOTE: Inputs 7 and 8 require the Dual SD/HD-SDI module in either of the 
projector’s option slots. For their selection, see also 3.2 Using the Remote or Built-
In Keypad. 
CHANNEL - A channel is a collection of measurements, locations and settings that 
tailor the display of a signal to your specific needs. Since source types and 
applications can vary greatly, you will likely want to adjust and define a wide variety 
of parameters, such as brightness, contrast, size, etc., in order to customize and 
optimize the display from or for a particular source. For example, the display settings 
you choose for a VCR source may be very different from those you choose for a high 
resolution computer source, or one signal may simply vary from another signal used 
previously through the same input location. Once you have adjusted a display 
parameter, such as pixel tracking or contrast, all current settings are collectively stored 
in the projectors memory as a unique 2-digit channel, such as 
09. You can have 
numerous distinct channels available for the same input, any of which can be selected 
by using the 
C han nel key on the keypad followed by the 2-digit channel number. 
3.4  Using Inputs and 
 Channels 
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Shown at right is a sample channel list as would 
be available from
 
C han nel. This is typically called 
the channel list. 
NOTE: The 
C han nel key may display a channel list 
or not, depending on what you have defined for 
“Display Channel List” (see Menu Preferences 
later in this section). 
In order to access channels by using 
C han nel on the 
keypad, you must first create the channels. See 
below. 
To use a new source with the projector, a new channel must be added to projector 
memory so that the projector will respond properly to an input signal from that source 
in the future. A new channel can be created automatically, as described here, or it can 
be copied from an existing channel and then edited as necessary (see Copying or 
Deleting Channels later in this section). 
When you select a direct input (
Input  1, Inp ut  2, Input  3, Input  4, Input  5 or Input  6), any existing 
channels in the projector are searched for matching input and signal parameters – this 
only occurs if Auto Source is enabled on these channels. If no match to the incoming 
input signal is found in currently-defined channels, a new channel is temporarily 
created based on factory-defined defaults for this type of signal. The channel number 
assigned is the lowest available number from 01-50. 
NOTES: 1) An automatic channel will be discarded unless one or more of its 
parameters are changed and will not appear in the channel list (see below). 2) If two 
channels have the same distinguishing source characteristics except for the reversal 
of sync connectors (i.e., H-sync and V-sync, are switched), they are still defined as 
distinct channels. 3) You cannot define a new channel without an incoming signal. 
If the incoming signal does match an existing channel, the image will be set up and 
displayed as usual according to the parameters currently defined for that channel.  
USING A CHANNEL: You can normally select a channel at any time by pressing C han nel 
(see right). If you want to 
prevent a channel from 
appearing in this list, you 
must edit the channel as 
described in Channel Edit 
later in this section. Such a 
channel can still be selected 
by entering its number as 
shown at right. 
NOTES: 1) The current channel is highlighted upon entering the channel list, or, if 
this channel is not displayed here, the first channel in the list is highlighted. 2) 
Channels created automatically do not appear in the channel list unless a parameter 
for the channel has been changed. 
 
Channel List 
  Creating a New 
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All available channels are listed in the Channel Setup menu, which describes how 
each channel can be accessed and which serves as the gateway for editing, copying 
and deleting channels. 
From the presentation 
level press 
Menu to display 
the Main menu. To 
display the Channel Setup 
menu, press
 
3, or 
move the highlight to the 
Channel Setup option and 
press
 
. The Channel 
Setup menu will appear 
(see sample at right), with 
the active channel highlighted.  
WHAT APPEARS IN CHANNEL SETUP MENU? This menu 
lists all channels defined so far and indicates where they 
are connected on the input panel. The far left column lists 
channel numbers currently defined. The values in the far 
right columns indicate horizontal and vertical 
frequencies—if someone has defined a name for this channel, it appears here instead. 
Remaining columns contain details pertaining to each channel setup, such as its 
switcher number (always 0 = projector), slot location, a variety of icons indicating 
access to each channel, and an abbreviated description of each signal type. See Editing 
a Channel Setup for details. 
NOTE: If you have more than a handful of channels, use 
 and  to see the 
remaining channels not visible in the initial display of channels. 
SIGNAL TYPE — Either channel list, whether the C han nel key list or the Channel Setup 
menu, identifies signal types in a shortened form as defined below. These descriptors 
indicate what signal information the projector uses to identify a match for a given 
channel, and are preceded by either an “i” (interlaced signals) or “p” (progressive 
signal“). See Table 3.2. 
Table 3.2. Abbreviations for Signal Type 
Abbrev. Signal Type 
4WH  Composite (4 wire) on HC input 
4WV  Composite (4 wire) on V input 
SG Sync-on-green 
5W Separate H,V 
5WR  Separate H,V swapped 
SVid S-Vid 
CVid Composite Video 
Dig Digital 
 
 What Channels 
 Are Defined So Far? 
 
Figure 3.9. All Channels Appear in the 
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FUNCTIONS WITHIN THE CHANNEL SETUP MENU —To copy, delete or edit a channel, 
highlight the desired channel in the Channel Setup menu and do one of two things: 
• Press 
Func if you want to copy the selected channel or delete this or 
other channels. See Copying or Deleting a Channel below. 
• Press 
 if you want to edit channel setups (i.e., non-image related 
parameters) for the selected channel. See Editing a Channel Setup, 
below. 
TO COPY A CHANNEL, highlight the desired channel in the Channel Setup menu, then 
press 
Func to go to the Channel Copy/Delete submenu. Select “Copy” and press 
—a new channel will be created. It is identical to original, which still remains, 
but it is identified with the next available number from 01-50. If you change your 
mind and do not want to copy the current channel, press 
Ex i t to cancel and return to 
the previous menu. Copying channels is a quick method for creating numerous 
channels, each of which can then be edited and adjusted for a variety of presentations 
in the future. 
 
Figure 3.10. Copying A Channel 
 
TO DELETE A CHANNEL
, highlight the desired channel in the Channel Setup menu, 
then press 
Func to activate the Channel Copy/Delete submenu. Select “Delete” and 
press
 
—a confirmation window will appear to make sure that you really want to 
delete this channel. 
 
Figure 3.11. Deleting a Channel 
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TO DELETE MULTIPLE CHANNELS, highlight any channel in the Channel Setup menu 
and press 
Func to go to the Channel Copy/Delete submenu. Select “Delete Unlocked 
Only” and press 
 to delete all unlocked channels. Or select “Delete All Channels” 
to delete all channels, even those that are locked. In either case, the current channel 
will remain but will be redefined from projector defaults. 
NOTE: For any deletion, a confirmation box appears to make sure that you really 
want to delete. Select “Cancel” (default) if you don’t want to delete after all. 
The basic setups that describe how and where a channel can be accessed are listed in 
the Channel Setup menu. These channel setups can be edited at any time in the 
Channel Edit submenu. 
From the presentation level press 
Menu to display the main menu. To display the 
Channel Setup menu, press
3, or move the highlight to the Channel Setup option 
and press
 
. The Channel Setup menu will appear. 
To edit parameters shown in the Channel Setup menu, select the relevant channel and 
press
. The Channel Edit menu will appear similar to the sample shown in Figure 
3.12. 
 
Figure 3.12. Channel Edit Menu (SAMPLE) 
If desired, review and/or edit the following channel setups in the Channel Edit menu: 
• 
CHANNEL NAME: An alpha-numeric label can be defined and/or changed here. 
Channel names can be up to 12 characters in length. 
• 
CHANNEL NUMBER: A 2-digit channel number can be changed here. NOTES: 
1) If you enter a channel number that already exists, a dialog message appears 
indicating that this number is already in use–assign a different channel number.  
2) You can define up to 50 channels. 
• 
INPUT: 1-8, corresponding to where on the projector’s input panel the source is 
connected. 
• 
IN MENU: If checked (default, except for automatically defined channels with 
unchanged parameters), this defined channel will then appear in the list 
available when 
C han nel key is pressed. If unchecked, the channel must be 
accessed via 
C han nel on the keypad or via the Auto Source function. NOTE: On-
screen display of the channel list is an option that must be set in the Menu 
Preferences menu.   Editin
g a Channel Setup 
CHANNEL EDIT — STEP 1 
CHANNEL EDIT — STEP 2 
CHANNEL EDIT — STEP 3