Signa Station Server

Notes on the Signa Station Server Option

Signa Station Server and Prinect Signa Station are software basic packages for using functions of the Prinect Signa Station imposition software in conjunction with the Integration Manager. These pack­ages that you can purchase as an option require a license.

Signa Station Server is an engine controlled from the Cockpit without its own user interface that runs the Prinect Signa Station functions in the background. In this way, many functions of Prinect Signa Station can be used for standard jobs, without the Cockpit user having to work interactively with Prinect Signa Station. The Signa Station Server automatically puts together the layout in the background during a JDF import from the MIS.

With the Prinect Signa Station Gang Server, you can schedule various tasks that then automati­cally create ganging optimization layouts. These time-controlled tasks are processed accordingly by the Prinect Signa Station Gang Server. In this process, the set gang pool is scanned by certain criteria (e.g. paper, delivery date) and if paper utilization is satisfactory and production costs are low, the Prinect Signa Station Gang Server automatically creates a gang run form that is then used to create a new job in the Integration Manager. As an alternative, the Prinect Signa Station Gang Server can be used without a gang pool with Business Manager to make optimization data available to it.

This requires the "Gang & Sheet Optimizer" license in addition to the Signa Station Server.

See also Automatic Ganging with the Signa Station Gang Server ("Auto Ganging")

The Signa Station Server and/or Prinect Signa Station Gang Server are installed together with a fully operational Prinect Signa Station on the Prinect server. After installation, this Prinect Signa Station starts by force once to configure the server. The preferences of both are synchronized. This means that you set up the preferences on Prinect Signa Station and these preferences are also automatically applied to the Signa Station Server. In this process, you must set the paths to the default directories in the Preferences.

The "General > Use Global Settings..." option is enabled automatically by the Signa Station Server. If other interactive Signa Stations are connected to the server, you can either work with separate sys­tems or set the default directories in each system and enable "Use Global Settings" so that all the sys­tems use uniform settings.

Normally, the interactive Prinect Signa Station is not used on the server. In the case of extremely pow­erful servers, it is possible, however, to also use Prinect Signa Station interactively on the Prinect server.

You will find details about the configuration of the Signa Station Server and the settings required in Cockpit in the Prinect Integration documentation.

You can run several instances of the Signa Station Server (a maximum of 4) on one server. The pre­requisite is that there is a license for each of the instances, and that there is sufficient RAM for par­allel starting (64 GB for the second, 128 GB for the third/fourth Signa Station Server).