The Generic SD Task Processor represents a generic Sign and Display digital printing device, for which you can define settings for specific job requirements.

When you select the Generic SD Task Processor in the System Overview, the following associated resource categories are displayed in the Resources pane:

The Image settings mainly control the rendering of the pages. You can access these settings:

These check boxes are only accessible when the ‘Application Decides’ check box is deselected in the Separation settings (Hot Tickets only). If ‘Application Decides’ is selected, you can make no changes to the separation output and order: This is then controlled by the settings of the input document (as generated by a front end application, such as Quark).

You need to set the Reading yourself because Asanti does not know what media is used for the print job. The preview icon on the right dynamically reflects the chosen state.

Determines the mirror setting of the image to be output:

You can select one of the four standard orientations (0, 90, 180, 270). You can also select the Optimized option to have Asanti select a specific orientation to avoid as much medium waste as possible. If you selected the “Select Automatically” check box, the Orientation is automatically set to “From Output Size”, and you will need to specify horizontal and vertical positioning.

You can select a predefined border from the drop-down list as defined in the Border Resource category. Select None if you do not want to have a border at all.

You can enter text as a comment in the Slug Lines section. If the selected border contains the comment marks, the text will be printed. If not, it will be ignored.

You can select a predefined output size. You either do this manually or have Asanti do it for you according to the page or sheet size and the border.

If you choose to do it manually, select one of the available output sizes, or select <Manual from input> or <Manual from media> from the drop-down list.

The output size is calculated from the page/sheet size and selected border in the pages of the incoming documents. The resulting Output Size is not displayed in the list.

The output size is calculated from the media size. This is only relevant if a specific media is selected.

Select this check box to activate automatic selection. Asanti will then take the orientation from the predefined Output Size - you cannot change this.

Choose Center, or specify an offset in mms.

Choose Center, or specify an offset in mms.

Use scaling to scale the page content. This does not scale the border, but marks that are relative to the sheet are repositioned and not scaled.

From the drop-down list, you can turn scaling off, or you can do the scaling manually by selecting Manual. This activates the following settings:

You can specify the scaling percentages for width and height scaling.

Select the Constrain Proportions option if you want to keep both values equal. Selecting this option will copy the horizontal scale value into the vertical scale field.

This option specifies what will happen if the image is bigger than the output size.

Any areas of the image that fall outside the output size are clipped.

The job will fail with a user interaction notification. The notification specifies the image and output sizes, and provides a 'Clip and Continue' option.

This option specifies how images will be clipped:

The image is clipped to the Trimbox size.

The image is clipped to the Mediabox size.

Each comment can contain one or more variables such as $DATE or $COMPANY. The comment variables themselves, however, cannot be part of the comment.

For example: Comment 1: Printed by PrintRite on $DATE for $COMPANY.

The Print settings define the media you will print on, the quality of printing, and various other options. These settings are specified when preparing the job in the Layout Editor. See “Layout Editor”.