When a print job is processed by a sequence in the Prinect workflow, not only do you have the processed PDF documents or pages that generally run through the various sequences or are output but you also have additional data that are created or copies of the processed data that are saved. In "Destination", you define how and where these data will be saved. This means that you can save, for example, the PDF documents processed by a sequence also as a side result. After the whole Prinect workflow has finished, you can then understand how a sequence processed the job data.
You can specify the paths for the output files in the various Destination setups. In the path name box, the default setting for the output folder is "$Template". This is a variable that creates a folder with the name of the current SendImposedPDF sequence. The folder is created the moment a new job is created and this SendImposedPDF sequence is assigned to the new job.
"Output is" list box
This is where you define whether the data will be saved as an "intermediate result" or as the "saved result". In the "SendImposedPDF" sequence, you can save the following data that are created or processed in the sequence as a "result":
•intermediate result
The resulting data are saved but are processed by subsequent sequences and are released for overwriting after they are sent to the next processing stage.
•saved result
The resulting data are not overwritten by subsequent sequences, i.e. these data are filed as the "saved result".
"Pages to be approved" group
"Store" list box
You can choose between the following options if a side result option is set in the "Output is" list box:
•Job internal
The pages files are filed in the "SheetProofs\$Template" folder. You can change this path setting, if required.
•Job external
You can use "Browse" to select a folder for filing the pages to be approved in the file system of the Prinect server or you can create a new folder. In this case, copies of these pages are created in addition to the "job internal" surfaces and filed in the folder you selected.
"Name Rule" parameter
This is where you can select a rule for naming the output files of this sequence. The use of name rules lets you, for example, use certain data of the print job in the file names. The name rules that were defined in "Administration > Resources > Rules for File and Folder Names" display in the list (see Rules for File and Folder Names).
Like the "ImpositionProof" sequence, a "FormProof" sequence is also used for proofing sheet layouts but this sequence is designed especially for proofing in a "ROOM proof workflow".
If you use the TIFF-B Export functionality to control an imagesetter using, for example, a Prinect Shooter, you have the option of using the ROOM proof workflow. In this case, the proof data are calculated from the screened TIFF-B data without having to run through a separate RIP process for proofing as is the case with an "ImpositionProof" sequence. In this process, the TIFF-B data are descreened, converted to contone images and output to the proofer. This process is known as a "ROOM" proof (RIP Once Output Many). Because the ROOM proof workflow is based on TIFF-B data, the "FormProof" sequence can only be used in an output where TIFF-B files are generated, namely in TIFF-B export.
This workflow is extremely reliable in providing a correct preview of the imaged result. This is because the ROOM Proof data are calculated from the high-resolution TIFF-B data. This reliability primarily concerns the properties of the ROOM proof as an imposition proof to check the correct layout and positioning of the elements on a sheet. True-color proofing is not guaranteed in a ROOM proof workflow. One of the reasons is that the TIFF-B data can already include information, for example, from process calibration and/or linearization.
Analog to the "FormProof" sequence, imaging in a ROOM workflow is controlled through the "FormOutput" sequence. The concept of the ROOM proof workflow is such that the "FormOutput" and "FormProof" sequences must be used together in a ROOM proof job. For that reason, you must always assign both sequence types to a job.
The generated TIFF-B files are preserved in a ROOM proof workflow with "FormProof" output. The "FormProof" sequence generates hardproofs or softproofs from the TIFF-B files that were generated by a "FormOutput" sequence, depending on which "device" is set up in the "FormProof" sequence.
You can configure the following options in the "FormProof" sequence: