Print job with the Print Assistant
The Print Assistant was implemented primarily for printing parts of very complex jobs. You can print front and back sheets, versions, layers, tiles and PDF-VT files as required.
You can set up print job s for different presses. This makes it very easy to print, for example, a cover on a SM52 and the body on a XL 106 in one print run.
You are guided through all possible print settings in a logical order in the Print Assistant.
The Print tabs that display are context-sensitive. They are shown or hidden depending on the content of the job. You can also deselect single tabs. The following tabs are possible in the Assistant:
The Print Assistant starts with the "Press Sheets" tab.
In this tab, you can select the press sheets you want to print with the mouse button or entering them in the text box. You can then print the selection you make here.
If required, you can hide tabs in the tab bar with "Active Stations".
Click the right arrow button to go to the next tab.
You can view the current version by clicking the "View" button in all the tabs.
PDF-VT: When printing a PDF file with variable data, you can enter in "Records" which data sets will be printed and how many. In "Partitioning", you can set how many files will be used for printing (example: Records: 1-1000, Partitioning: 100, result: 10 files, each with 100 data sets (pages)).
This lets you exclude front or back sheets from the output by deselecting them.
Select the press sheets with the mouse button and enable or disable the sheets you want ("yellow" is for front and "green" is for back).
This is possible with a mouse click or with the "On" and "Off" buttons on the left.
Color can be ignored in the output.
You can select/deselect layers for output in jobs with several layers (e.g. language-dependent jobs).
You can select/deselect tiles for output in jobs where tiling is enabled (e.g. large-format jobs).
The "Parameters" tab is only active if you enabled "Output Parameter Set Automatic" in "File > Preferences > Defaults".
You can assign different output parameter sets to the single press sheets. You can also edit the output parameter sets.
The imagesetter planned for output displays for each sheet (in the table below "Parameters").
You can change the press by assigning a different output parameter set to the sheet.
You can edit assigned output parameters:
Note: The setting "All in one job" in "Options" in the output parameter set is ignored in this case.