Generic Digital Press – Print Settings
The Print settings define the media you will print on, the quality of printing, and various other options. You can access these settings:
•When creating (see
Managing Parameter Sets). Here, you will see a ‘Lock in Production Plan’ check box (selected by default). If this check box is selected, the settings will be initially locked in the Settings pane. If this check box is deselected, the settings can be edited in the Settings pane.
•In the Settings pane, in the Plan tab of the Job Manager and the Ticket Editor. The settings may be initially locked, as indicated by the Lock icon. If you edit the job, you can unlock them as described in
Settings Pane (Ticket Editor).
Name
The name of the Parameter Set as it will appear in the Production Plan. When you create a Parameter Set, you should specify a Parameter Set name. You can always change this name later by editing the job, choosing the Parameter Set from the Task Processor in the Plan tab, and unlocking the settings in the Settings pane.
Media and Quality
In this tab, you can select a specific medium or a medium type from the drop-down list.
Substrate
Select the substrate you want to print on. The list contains all Substrate resources.
Quality
Choose the quality map to be used for printing. The available quality maps depend on the selected device.
Inks
Select the from the drop-down list. The list contains all of the ink sets currently available in the Ink Sets Resource category. Changing the ink set has an impact on the Separation and Image operations. However, you will not be alerted or notified of any change in those operations.
Color Management
Color Management affects the rendering of the imaging and the final quality of the print.
Color Profile
Use PDF Output Intent
Select this option if you want Apogee to honor the application’s supplied color profile. Note that this is only possible when receiving PDF files.
list of recommended color profiles
Select a color profile from the list to override any automatic selection. Recommended color profiles are those that match the media family of the selected substrate.
Fallback
This option determines what should happen if the automatic lookup fails, or if the input does not provide a color profile (output intent). You can choose an option from the list of recommended color profiles.
Rendering Intent
There are 5 different Rendering Intents available, although not all profiles contain Look Up tables (LUTs) for each of the 4. Usually there are only 3 represented. In this case often a duplicate of one Look Up table is used for missing Render Intent LUT. The Rendering Intent defines the way the source colors are mapped to the destination space.
The following rendering intent options are available:
Relative Colorimetric
A colorimetric conversion, tries to maintain the exact relationship (Smallest Delta E), between in-gamut colors, while out of gamut colors will be clipped. With Relative Colorimetric RI the white point from source color space is mapped to the white point of destination, this means that white stays white. No ink will be placed in white areas.
Absolute Colorimetric
Absolute Colorimetric rendering intent is similar to Relative except that here the white point of the 2 profiles is preserved. White of source color space is simulated with CMYK values from the destination color space. The consequence is that every white object/area is covered with certain ink amounts.
Perceptual
Perceptual aims to preserve the visual relationship between colors so it is perceived as natural to the human eye. The relationship between out of gamut colors is maintained. This can result in inaccuracies for in gamut colors as well.
Saturation
Saturation tries to produce vivid colors in an image at the expense of color accuracy.
Process Relative/Spots Absolute
Combines Relative Colorimetric for process colors and Absolute Colorimetric for spot colors.
NOTE: The result of choosing a rendering intent depends on the graphical content of documents and on the profiles used to specify color spaces. Some profiles produce identical results for different rendering intents. Differences between rendering intents are apparent only when you print a document or convert it to a different working space.
Advanced CMM
Recent developments in the Color Management engine offer ‘Smart CMM’, which provides better blending of converted spot colors. However, this comes at a small cost: it is a little slower.
Press Repurposing - Process Colors and Converted Spots
Disabled
Disables press retargeting. This is the default setting.
Retarget using source press ICC profile
Select this option if there is a chance that some of your jobs have CMYK colors which are not defined as process colors but as deviceN colors, and you want to choose an ICC profile to be used as intermediate color space.
Retarget using device link profile
Select this option if there is a chance that some of your jobs have CMYK colors which are not defined as process colors but as deviceN colors, and you want to choose a device link to be used as intermediate color space.
Source ICC profile
Choose a standard profile that will be used as intermediate color space.
Retarget device link
Choose a link from standard profile to ink-jet device profile that will be used as intermediate color space.
Exception
Select one of the following Exception options: <None>, Keep 100% K, Normal, Preserve K, Preserve Pure Colors.
Auto-select
Select this check box if you want Apogee to automatically select an Exception (the Exception field is then disabled).
Apply black point compensation
Apogee uses a built-in algorithm to adjust for differences in the black points of the selected source and destination profiles.
Spot Colors
Accurate spot color mixing
In this enhanced mode, spot color visualization is superior to the standard color-managed mode. You can choose from the following:
•Off
•Max. 2 colors
•Max. 3 colors
Use Press Paper White
Pantone/spot color inks are transparent and appear differently when printed on different substrates. Normally, you should select this option when creating a proof which will be used by the printer to print a spot color on the Press (when the simulated spot color on proof needs to resemble the final printed result). In this case, the paper white from the press profile is used in the color calculation.
If this option is not selected, the measured paper white of the color book is used in the calculation of the spot colors. The option should therefore be deselected when the simulated spot colors on the proof are compared to the color book reference prints (with a measurement device, for example).
NOTE: A spectral press profile is required for this option.
Print
Copies
Select the number of copies to print.
Layout preparation
Specify the layout:
Automatic
The default value for layout preparation to calculate FlipX/Y based on the Lookup table.
Single sided
For unbound single sided jobs.
Two sided flip Y
If imposition is in portrait mode, or portrait PDF dropped without impose.
Two sided flip X
If imposition is in landscape mode, or landscape PDF dropped without impose.
Device Print Mode
Allows you to select a Device Print Mode (if any are available). For more information, see
Device Print Modes.
Control Digital Press Rip
Put Job On Hold
If this check box is selected, the job stays on hold at the input channel until you continue it.
DFE Job
Create:
Select a job type; Single Job, Job per Sheet, Job per Book Signature, or Job per Page from the drop-down list.
Job Name:
Enter the Job name. The Job name may use the following variables: $PART, $BOOKSIGNATURE, $RLPAGE, $VERSION, $FLOWNAME, etc.
Inline Finishing
Sorter Mode
Select of the following sorter mode options from the drop-down list:
•Collate
•Collate without shift
•Group
•Group without shift
Number of Copies for Offset
Enter the number of copies per offset, applicable only for Sorter Mode Collate and Group options.
Paper Output
Enter the paper output type from the drop-down list.
Page Order
•Forward
•Reverse
Face Up Printing
Select the check box to enable face up printing.
Offline Finishing
Create JDF for finishing equipment
Select this check box to create a JDF which contains information for finishing equipment.
Create JDF
Select to create JDF for finishing equipment:
•After impose
•After imaging
Cut Blocks
Select to create cut-blocks type depending on the product type in the job:
•Per Page
•Per Foldsheet
•Per Foldsheet (trim)
•Automatic
NOTE: To cut different sheets differently, you need to group them in production sets and adjust the cutting per set. Apogee Prepress determines the job type by checking the type of the first product in the Product list and cuts all sheets of the job according to that type. As such, a job that mixes different product types must be set-up very carefully. You cannot have different types of cutting on the same sheet.
JDF version
Select the JDF version.
Include preview
Apogee Prepress can create a preview of the side(s) of the sheet to be cut. This allows to check whether the currently loaded cutting instructions correspond with the stack of sheets that is on the table. The preview files are created in the same directory as the cut file itself and with the same name, but the extension is different.
•Front: Creates an image preview of the front side.
•Back: Creates an image preview of the back side.
Create
Specify the file creation. Select the required option from the drop-down list.
•Custom: When you select Custom, this field becomes editable you can enter you own construction.
•Single File for All Sheets: All separations of a job are saved in one PPF file.
•Single File per Sheet: Each PPF file contains all separations of both the front and back of a press sheet.
Save files in
Directory hierarchy
Select this check box if you want the InkDrive files to be saved according to the file name hierarchy.
Same directory
Select this check box if you want all of the InkDrive files to be saved in the same directory, regardless of the file name.
File Name
This field displays the file name under which the InkDrive files will be saved. The file name may use the following variables: $ORDER, $JOB, $SIGNATURE, $WEB, $SIDE, $SEPARATION.
The variables will be separated by a slash if you select Save files in directory hierarchy. This means that a directory will be made according to the file name.
The variables will be separated by an underscore if you select Save files in same directory.
Export directory
Specify the directory where the InkDrive file will be located. Use the Browse button to locate the directory.
For example:
\\$COMPUTER\PressRoot\$PRESS\
Extension
Specify the file extension to be used for the InkDrive files. By default, this is ‘ppf’.
Options
Truncate file names exceeding 31 characters
If the filename is longer than the specified amount, Apogee truncates it. Select this check box to prevent file names from becoming too long.
Replace existing file
If a file with the same name already exists in the specified directory, then the file is automatically replaced by the new file.
Leave existing file, add sequence number to new file name
If a file with the same name already exists in the specified directory, then a revision number is added to the name of the new file.
Post-process files with script
Select this check box if you want to run an external script after the InkDrive file was written.
Script options
You can specify script options, which will be passed to the script as space separated arguments.