Prinect Signa Station Server

Notes on the Prinect Signa Station Server Option

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

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

With the Prinect Production 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 Production 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 Production 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 Production 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 Prinect Signa Station Server.

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

The Prinect Signa Station Server and/or Prinect Production Signa Station Gang Server are installed together with a fully operational Prinect Production Signa Station on the Prinect server. After installation, this Prinect Production 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 Production Signa Station and these preferences are also auto­matically applied to the Prinect 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 Prinect 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 Production Signa Station is not used on the server. In the case of extremely pow­erful servers, it is possible, however, to also use Prinect Production Signa Station interactively on the Prinect server.

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

You can run several instances of the Prinect 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 Prinect Signa Station Server).