What needs to be configured?

Prerequisite: The user who is to perform the configuration must have the necessary per­missions to be able to do this. The procedure for creating a new user is described in the section How do I create a new user account?.

Overview of the steps

In order for the jobs from a prepress system to be processed by the Prinect Manager and submitted to the machine, the following steps must be done:

1.A machine must be connected via the "Central Device Manager" (CDM).

2.The automatically generated sequence (SheetfedPrinting sequence or PagePrint/ImposedPrint sequence) for the machine created previously must be adapted if necessary.

Here you define what is to happen with the imported data. For instance sheet preview genera­tion, ink zone calculation, calculation of the ink consumption, and to which connected printing press the job should be sent.

Note: After automatic creation of a "SheetfedPrinting" sequence, a corresponding pro­cess will also be created automatically.

The Prinect Manager needs to know where the prepress system saves the PPF/CIP3 files. A tar­get directory ("Hotfolder") that automatically processes incoming PPF/CIP3 files is defined via the process. You can also define how the job data from the prepress system are to be processed, for example, "Apply transformations" or "Enable automatic combiner".

Each automatically generated process is created with default settings which are defined in the "General" section in the PPF import (see Define the general process setting).

You can then manually change these standard settings individually for each defined process.

3.Optional: The settings of the automatically generated process may also have to be changed.

4.You must define whether the job is to be forwarded in advance.