After you turn ON the switch on the right side of d-lab1 it will start to run its motors.
A few seconds after that one of two computers (MPU) starts to boot - it will show booting messages on the screen of the monitor.
First you will see BIOS POST messages, then Windows 2000 logo, then you'll see AGFA software booting process.
Some time after that you'll see a message "connecting to IPU" or something like that.
Right after that timer card will send a signal to IPU and IPU will turn on and starts to boot.
If there are no .done files, then Linux image on IPU will be rebuilt and then Linux will start booting from 2 IPU hard drives (they have to be identical PATA hard drives less than 200 GB each).
While IPU is booting, MPU computer will show message "Connecting to IPU..." on the monitor.
If IPU's BIOS is configured to run from Network (Network should be first booting device), then IPU will boot successfully. Also time in BIOS of IPU and MPU should be actual, otherwise IPU won't boot successfully.
If Linux finished booting successfully, IPU will try to connect to MPU via their network cards which are connected via network cable (see parts page).
If connection is succesfull, then MPU will take "connecting to IPU" message away from the monitor screen and will continue to boot.
At the end of the booting process dlab1 will start up connected equipment (printing engine, film scanner, etc) and will show a screen with temperatures of all chemicals - developer, bleach, fixture, stabilizer.
After that dlab 1 will wait until heaters will increase temperature of all chemicals to 38 C and then it will continue to the next step.
If you don't want to wait, you can skip this warming process befure all chemicals will reach 38 C, but in this case machine won't run Pico and MBL.
After chemicals reached 38 C dlab will do Pico and MBL (master balancing of 4" glossy paper).
After that, you may probably need to switch to Standard (or Easy) mode to start operating d-lab 1 as a user.
Now machine is ready to work.