Print and finishing settings for Jetfire 50 digital presses

If you are using a Jetfire 50 digital press, you have various options for configuring the print output and finishing, depending on the type and configuration of the connected press.

Output Delivery

This is where you select how the printed sheets will be output. The following options are given:

​•​Face Up

​•​Face Up - Reverse Order

The order of the pages is reversed, i.e. the last page is output first.

​•​Face Down

​•​Face Down - Reverse Order

The order of the pages is reversed, i.e. the last page is output first.

Sort

When this function is enabled, pages are sorted by copies. This means that all the pages of the first copy are output first, then all the pages of the second copy, etc.

When this function is disabled, all the first pages of a production run are output first, then all the second pages, etc.

"Mirror Content for Output" option

Prerequisite: This option is available only for Jetfire 50 and Versafire presses.

The content of the PDF pages is mirrored when this option is enabled.

"Separator sheet" group

Prerequisite: This option is available only for Versafire presses.

This is where you can set up that separator sheets will be inserted to the delivery stack.

Per job

This is where you can set that a separator sheet will be added after every print job by selecting a tray.

Per copy

This lets you set whether a separator sheet will be inserted after a number of printed copies (see "Interval"). You select the tray in which the separator sheets are loaded in the list box.

In "Interval" you can also set an interval for adding separator sheets. The default is 1. This means that a separator sheet is added after every printed copy. If you enter a value greater than '1', for example, '4', this means that a separator sheet will be added every four copies.

In this area you can configure the output of pallet sheets:

After enabling the "Pallet sheet" option, you can configure the following options:

Position

Here you can specify where the pallet sheet is to be printed.

​•​Before Job

​•​After the job

Note: All other settings for the pallet sheet are made in PIRISMASync.

Paper

This is where you select the printing material for the pallet sheet.

Option "Use Job Medium"

If this option is enabled, the printing material set for the print job is also used for the pallet sheet.

If this option is not enabled, you can select one of the printing materials in the listbox for the pallet sheet. The dimensions of the selected print medium are displayed in the "Width" and "Height" fields.

"Insert" group

Prerequisite: This option is available only for more recent Versafire presses.

This is where you can set up that inserts will be added. This lets you insert preprinted pages into the printed copy, similar to inserting separator sheets. Different paper trays than those for separator sheets are used for inserts.

"Insert" option

The adding of inserts is enabled with this option.

Tray

This is where you select the tray from which the inserts will be added.

Number

This is where you set the number of inserts to be added from the set tray.

Position

In this list box, you can set the position in which the insert will be added. If several inserts are specified in the "Number" box, this number of inserts is added accordingly. The position is defined in two levels:

​•​List box:

​•​At start: At the beginning of the page stack of a print job.

​•​Before sheet: Before the sheet that is specified in the input box below this.

​•​After sheet: After the sheet that is specified in the input box below this.

​•​At end: At the end of the page stack of a print job.

​•​Page numbers

This is where you can specify the sheet(s) to which the position refers. You can specify a single sheet or a number of sheets. In the case of several sheets, you can enter each sheet number separated by a comma, e.g. 1,3,6,9,12. In the case of contiguous sheet ranges, you can enter the ranges using hyphens, e.g. 1- 3,7- 12. You can also combine single sheets and sheet ranges, e.g. 1- 3,5,7,8- 12,14.

Restrictions: You may not enter blank spaces, letters or leading zeros. The input box may not be left empty.

Add

When you click the "Add" button, you can set up that further inserts will be added from another tray.

Remove insert section

When you click the recycle bin, you remove the current section and, by doing so, the current insert definition.

Defining the position of inserts if there are index sheets

If not only inserts but also index sheets are inserted, the position defined for the insert always refers to the content pages. The index sheets are not counted when determining the position.

For example, if an index sheet is to be inserted before sheet 9 with "Before sheet" as the position, only the number of content pages inserted beforehand must be taken into account to determine the position of the inserts. In the example shown, an index sheet (1) and one insert (yellow) are already positioned before sheet 9. Only the position of the content page, that is the digit '9', is entered in the "Page numbers" box.

Inserts display in the preview

You can use the Acrobat "Combine Files" plugin to add insert sheets to PDF documents. If such a document is edited with the "Digital Printing" step, these inserts display in the preview. This lets you check whether or not the inserts are positioned correctly. Inserts display light brown in the paper size of the job without dimensions and without a print margin.

"Cut" option

You can configure and enable cutting data for Compucut cutters if you enable this option. When you enable this option, a browser window opens where you can choose the folder in the system environment of the Prinect server where the Compucut data will be filed. If needed, you can click the "folder button" to select another folder where the Compucut data will be filed.

"Compucut Folder"

When the print job is submitted, a JDF file containing the cutting data, the job ID and a time stamp is generated in this folder.

In the Compucut software, you can select these files with "Sheet/Cutting Program > Prepress". You can set the order of cutting with "Cutting Program Generator". Use "Communication" to sent these data to the cutter.

"Cutting Program Name" section

Enter the name of the Compucut cutting program with which the cutting jobs are to be processed in this text box. The name can be generated automatically or user-defined. You can enable the following additional rule to make sure the name is processed correctly:

​•​"Unique Name" option

If you enable this option, a counter is appended to the name of the cutting program in order for the cutting programs to have unique names and not to overwrite each other mutually.

​•​"Max. 16 Characters" option

When you enable this option, the name of the cutting program is limited to 16 characters. Some Polar machines can display only a maximum of 16 characters in the name of the cutting program.

You can select from the following options how to define the name of the cutting program:

"Automatic Generation by Job Number" option:

The name of the cutting program is generated automatically according to a fixed scheme, based on the job data (job number and optionally the page list name).

​•​"Insert PDF Page List Name" option

If you enable this option, the name of the PDF page list of the print job is inserted into the (automatically generated) name of the cutting program.

"User-defined Name" option

You can give the cutting program a custom name and automatic generation of the cutting program name is disabled if you enable this option. In some cases, this is a good idea to be able to assign the cutting program more easily to the job.

"Image Shift" group

This is where you can manually enter offset values for the image for front and back. These settings let you make sure that the press sheets always match the dimensions set in the sheet layout when output.

Finishing

At the bottom of the screen, there is a symbolic drawing of the set digital press and the finishing units it features. You can use the arrow keys to switch between different configurations (e.g., High Capacity Stacker or Jetfire External) of the Jetfire 50 machines. The finishing options that are offered depend on the machine configuration.

For example, the following finishing options can be parameterized for the High Capacity Stacker:

​•​"Output Tray": Selection of one of the output trays.

If two stackers are connected to the press, you can set up the press so that it supports continuous printing to both stackers. In this case, the "Output Tray" list box displays. You can choose between "Stacker Tray", "Stacker Tray 2" and "Automatic" in this list box. If "Automatic" is selected, output is first to the tray of stacker 1 until this is full. Then output moves without interruption to the tray of stacker 2 until this is also full. If the tray of stacker 1 was emptied in the meantime, then output returns to the tray of the first stacker.

​•​"Shift Mode": Staggered output of the printed sheets. You can choose between the following options for Versafire presses:

​•​Off

​•​Per copy and job

Output is shifted after each copy and each job.