You can confine automarks for press sheets to front or back by selecting this in the "Surface" box. This applies to press sheet marks, register marks and color control bars, but not to pull lays. For pull lays, you can set the paper position according to the work style of the plate:
For color control bars, you can set margins for the "Clippath" like for press sheet marks. These are included during placement of the mark. This trim avoids the mark from possibly jutting into the content after placement.
Register Mark
The "Register Marks" automark simplifies the placement of the register marks. The register marks are placed subject-related to the four outer corners of the subject. You can only specify the offset to the corner. An offset of, for example, 15 mm in x sets the register marks on the left 15 mm further to the left and on the right 15 mm further to the right. The "Arc" mark from the "Standard" group is set by default.
Pull Lay
The pull lay mark is set between paper and plate so that the printer can recognize whether or not the paper is positioned correctly.
In some circumstances, you must position the pull lay mark on the left or right on the paper for production reasons depending on the given work style. This can be done using several press sheet labels with appropriate rules. Because this is relatively complex, the "Pull Lay" automark offers you a simplified setup.
The "Pull Lay" automark is always placed related to the paper. As a reference point, you select either Lower Left or Lower Right depending on what is selected in "Position on paper". You can also determine the position in Y direction.
Note: When the pull lay was introduced as an automark, the reference point "Middle" was used. As the position reference is usually the paper edge in practice, the reference point was changed to "Bottom". For existing automarks sets, the pull lays are therefore converted to the reference point "Bottom" with a "position Y" of 120 mm.
Color control bar
The color control bar is placed related to the subject. You can specify a reference point of the subject as the reference point of the mark.
In the automarks set, you can select whether the attributes from the marks defined for the color control bar used are to be applied or whether you want to specify your own data in the automarks set.
The settings possible for the color control bar are described in: Color Control Bar Editor .
Press Sheet Mark
Using the "Add Press Sheet Label" button, you can insert any number of press sheet marks into the automarks set and give them different settings. It is possible to tell the press sheets labels of the automarks set apart by entering custom names for them.
The print quality control strip specifies a content-free area in which downstream procedures can perform print quality tests (for example Nozzle test on digital ink presses) and can also be used as an automark.
You can specify the surface on which this area is to be kept free, the size of the mark and therefore the free area and the direction in which a suitable area is to be searched for (for more information, see Print Quality Control Strip).