Example 1: Automatically combine separated job parts to a composite job

In principle, the Prinect Production workflow is designed for processing composite jobs. This means: if a prepress system creates a separate PPF job for each separation, these jobs must be combined to a composite job. These job parts usually have the same job number and the same job name.

The following example refers to a "pure PPF workflow" where there is no MIS with JDF connection in the system environment. The sample job contains 4 color separations C, M, Y, K which the prepress system generates in separate PPF files.

You must set the following parameters to allow automatic combining:

​•​Enable the option "Create Job from PPF".

A new job is created automatically as soon as the first job part PPF file is detected. As the other PPF files of this job bear the same job number and the same job name, the PPF files received later are not written to a new job but the attributes of these PPF files are used to supplement the existing job.

​•​Enable the option "Create New Sheet".

This will create a sheet for each of the separations in the job.

​•​Choose "No Replacement of Existing Sheets" in the "Replace existing sheets" list box.

This will supplement the sheets already contained in the job with the new generated sheets without removing existing sheets.

You can configure the other parameters, for example the use of attribution rules, to match the demands of the respective import process.