"Digital Printing" option

This is where you can set up the digital printing output process.

"on" list box

This is where you select the digital press on which the data processed with this sequence will be output. If you set up one or more clusters of several digital presses, you can also select the cluster you want in this box. In this case, the "Preferred Device" list box displays. In this list box, select the digital press that is to be used as the preferred device within the cluster. See also Clusters of digital presses.

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.

When brochures - with saddle stitching or eyelet stitching - are put together, the printed sheets are folded in the gutter and nested. If the brochure is to have a cover, the cover pages are placed around the outside of the content pages and the brochure is stitched. Nesting the press sheets results in a displaced back margin in which the content pages in the middle are displaced outwards. The more pages are stitched together and the heavier the grammage of the printed sheets, the greater the value of the displacement.

If the publication is trimmed after stitching or binding, the inside pages will have narrower outer margins than the outside pages. The same is true for perfect binding when large sheets with many pages must be folded often.

Shifting the inner pages outwards is compensated for by shifting them inwards by the entered displacement value V, i.e. the contents of the inner pages are shifted inwards, which leads to a narrowing of the gutter. In extreme cases, this can lead to a disappearance of the gutter for the inner page pairs and even to overlaps between the content pages of a sheet. This problem can be solved by symmetrically reducing the page widths for each printed sheet by the amount of the displacement or the increase in the gutter by scaling. The width of the gutter, i.e. the distance between the left and right sides of a printed sheet, is retained.

The creeping value V that you can set in this box compensates for creeping between two successive two-page spreads, resulting in the page contents lying accurately one on top of the other after trimming. The value determines the offset per fold layer.

A positive value shifts the inner pages inwards (towards the spine) and a negative value shifts the inner pages outwards.

Set the displacement value V to twice the thickness of the substrate used. See Create / modify printing materials

For digital presses that support the "Displacement Compensation by Scaling" feature (Generic or some Versafire models), you can choose between the "Displacement by Scaling" or "Displacement by Shift" options:

For digital presses that support the "Creeping compensation by scaling” function (Generic or some Versafire models), you can click on the “Creeping compensation by offset” icon or on the “Creeping by scaling” icon. You can toggle between the following two creeping methods:

​•​Creeping by scaling.

The displacement value causes a scaling of the width of the page content. The scaling displacement value is entered in the unit of measurement specified in the cockpit's preferences (Administration > Preferences). See Units.

​•​Creeping by offset:

The creeping value causes a linear displacement and, consequently, a change of the gutter width or of the page offset on the sheet layout. The unit of measurement is the one specified in the preferences of Cockpit (Administration > Preferences. See Units.

Note: You can toggle between the creeping methods in a PagePrint sequence only here, 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.

Dynamic Info Text and PF Marks for Third-Party Digital Printing Presses

Prerequisite: These dynamic marks cannot be used for Versafire CV/CP, EV/EP digital presses. A limited selection of these placeholders can be used for Versafire LV/LP digital presses.

For third-party digital presses or unspecified "generic" digital presses, you can enter placeholders for dynamic info text marks after activating the "Info Text" option. During PDF output, these placeholders are replaced by dynamic marks.

These placeholders can also be used for PDF marks.

The following dynamic marks can be entered in the "Info Text" field for third-party digital printing machines:

Note: Please note the following when using placeholders:

​•​The placeholders are "case sensitive".

​•​Do not enter too many placeholders in one line – it will not automatically be checked whether they all fit on the sheet.

​•​If you need more placeholders than fit on one line, you can enter the placeholders into a PDF file and use it as a PDF mark.