You can use the settings for "Color" in the "Marks" tabs of the Folding Sheet/Assembly Block Inspector, Press Sheet Inspector and Page/1up Inspector in the usual way. You can find a description of this in Selected Mark.
For details on assigning placeholders for spot colors refer to the "Colors" tab in the "Job" step.
This assignment is done automatically if the new combi marks are used and the "Automatic assignment of job colors to mark colors" option enabled. "Automatic assignment of job colors to mark colors" is generally set in an interactive Prinect Signa Station.
They can be assigned to each surface, each press sheet, to a specific selection of press sheets or to all press sheets in a job. See the Prinect Prepress Manager functions "Job Settings" or "Layout Properties".
You can set marks to color aliases.
More details can be found in Aliases .
Foreground or Background Marks
The marks in the sheet lie on top of the pages and sometimes can even cover them if "Foreground" is selected in the "Marks" tab > "Expert Mode" in the Folding Sheet/Assembly Block Inspector, Press Sheet Inspector or Page/1up Inspector. The marks in the sheet lie below the pages and can even be hidden by them if "Foreground" is not selected in the "Expert Mode".
Note: In the JDF workflow, Prinect Signa Station creates a page with the set marks in a multi-page file that generally contains one marks page per surface, either a page with marks on the foreground or on the background. Prinect Signa Station creates two marks pages per surface if you worked with mixed foreground/background settings, i.e. a page with marks for the foreground and one for the background. When the sheet is generated, the pages then lie stacked between these two marks pages.
The standard marks of Prinect Signa Station are suited to the JDF workflow. The DIPCO package also offers suitable marks.
For Prinect Signa Station, we recommend that you use the PDF marks from the DIPCO package and the recommended plate control bars.
These bars have 4 - 12 colors and contain the CMYK separations and placeholders for spot colors (U, V, X, Z and S1, S2, S3, S4, ....).
Certain marks can produce an unwanted black in the colors, e.g. a mark with only C, U, V, if "Elements without Frame" is not selected in the Color Control Bar Editor.
Combi marks are color marks (for example, color control, ink pickup, AutoRegister marks) to which you can add other color marks in the Combi Marks Editor, for example, color control bars with 2, 3, 4, 6 and 8 colors.
So that this function is possible, the JDF layout contains all color mark variants (as options) of all the combi marks in its PDF marks layer. During an output, the Prinect Prepress Manager automatically selects the necessary color marks from the combi marks. In this process, the Prinect Prepress Manager evaluates the current process colors of the job.
If you don't want this, you should use "Replace selected marks" to replace the combi marks at Prinect Signa Station with exactly the marks you want. This is because, after an interactive Prinect Signa Station, the Prinect Prepress Manager job is set automatically to "Automatic assignment of job colors to mark colors".
The settings in Prinect Signa Station in the Job Inspector > Administrative Data > Default for JDF and job ticket" are ignored in this case. The settings in the "Colors" tab are also ignored.
Note: Handling by the Prinect Prepress Manager:
During an output, the Prinect Prepress Manager can automatically select the necessary color mark from the combi mark for each surface (from the optional content of the PDF marks layer). If a mark matching the separations is missing, then the mark with one more color is taken and, as a result, there are gaps in the bar when output.
Proof Color, "Transparent" and "Dieline" colors are ignored in the automatic selection of color marks from combi marks. These colors have no color control and no assignment to color placeholders. Can be used, e.g. for varnish.
The color name of the job is suggested if the name of the process color and the placeholder for the color in the mark is the same.