When working with versions, you can merge jobs of the same kind into one print job, such as different language versions of a brochure. Merging into one job ensures that all the separate versions are produced alike and no variations occur. By merging the versions on the press sheet, the number of required press sheets can often be reduced.
You can save time and money by cleverly applying versioning to a job. Less plates, less plate changes, less startup waste and waste in general and more efficient finishing are some of the potential savings.
Basic principle:
Layers are produced for the components that stay the same and for those that change. The suitable layers are then superimposed to make up one version. For example, images can form a base layer and you can combine it with the layers containing texts in different languages.
Several folding sheets can be on one press sheet. You can assign another version to each folding sheet.
You can create several variants of one press sheet, whose only difference is that different versions are assigned to their folding sheets. Apart from that, there is no difference between the variants. In other words, the marks setup, assigned paper, other plate parameters and positions of the folding sheets are identical.
This method is similar to a 1up optimization. You go by the quantity of the single versions when you combine the versions on the press sheet variants. In doing so, you try to optimize the quantities of the single press sheet variants and minimize the surplus of each version.
Versioning is always based on a job created in the "Imposition" work mode and when "Number of Layers" is greater than '1' and "Versions" is greater than '0' in the "Job" step.
See Example of a Version Cluster (Several Product Parts) for a description of advanced work with a version cluster.