This is where you can set up the digital printing output process. We recommend that at this point you select only a paper grade in the list box. You can configure all other parameters in the job settings (see Setup of the Parameters for Imposition, Color and Output). All the setup parameters that you can set here for the "Digital Printing" option are also available in the "Digital Printing" step of a job and you can save these settings there as a PagePrint sequence. You can also view a preview of the imposed pages there. This preview visualizes straightaway all the set parameters.
Paper and page settings > "Expected Orientation" option
This option is available only at this point and can be used only if a predefined page size is set in the page size list box above it. This means that neither "From PDF" nor "User-defined" is selected. This is where you can set an "expected" page orientation because no information about the page orientation of the PDF pages to be processed is available when a PagePrint sequence template is defined. By default, "Portrait" is set as the orientation. For example, you can define a PagePrint sequence that is prepared especially for processing A4 pages with a landscape orientation.
Layout settings > Booklet settings > Creeping
Prerequisite: The "creeping" option can only be used when "Booklet Printing" is set as the layout type.
Creeping describes a displacement of pages as a result of paper thickness. Creeping occurs when stitching or binding stacks of pages, for example, when sheets are stacked and folded for saddlestitching.
The creeping value that you can set in this box offsets creeping between two successive two-page spreads, resulting in the page contents lying accurately one on top of the other after trimming.
A positive value shifts the inner pages inwards (towards the spine). A negative value shifts the inner pages outwards.
The value determines the offset per fold layer.
The page spacing changes if you enter a value for creeping on the sheet layout.
Creeping can cause the innermost two-page spreads to overlap which is not wanted. In such cases, you can make the pages smaller instead of shifting them. In this process, the pages are scaled down by the amount entered for creeping. The distance between the left and right page is kept while doing so. See also "Creeping" option.
You can click the "Compensate creeping either by shifting the pages into the back margin or by downscaling" icon for digital presses that support the function for compensating creeping by scaling (generic or Versafire EP or K5). You can toggle between the following two creeping methods:
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Creeping is by shifting.
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Note: You can toggle between the creeping methods in a PagePrint sequence only in "Administration > Templates" and not in an open print job.
Marks settings
Info Text mark type
For Labelfire digital presses, info text marks are rotated by default by 90° in clockwise direction to save space on the substrate. This setting displays in the Angle list box. If necessary, you can modify the angle.
