Tips for better automated impositions
Set up profiles with various settings until you find the combination that works best for your operations. When you experience difficulty in resolving signatures, try any of these suggestions:
- Switch profiles.
In addition to the basic profile samples that are included with the software, you can configure and use additional profiles for your prepress operations, and switch between them as needed. - Use the optional criteria.
To avoid mismatches or failures in signature resolutions, create a profile that turns on the optional criteria in addition to the standard criteria. - For signature matching, maintain a well-organized template library.
You can help ensure successful matches by having a well-organized Preps template library. For more information, see the Preps documentation. - Use fewer search criteria for easier matching.
Although using all possible criteria will ensure an autogenerated signature that is as accurate as possible, signature matching might be made more difficult or impossible.
If the import process fails to start in Prinergy
Symptom: When I send the JDF from the MIS, a job is created but Prinergy Workshop fails to import the imposition.
Business Link encountered problems during the processing of the JDF data and is unable to process the stripping information. The job contains a stripping node that is in an error state.
- Ask the administrator of the system that submitted the JDF file to check the structure and content of the stripping data and to resend it when it is valid.
- If the import process fails to appear in Prinergy, check the Business Link log files for errors and check the ImportAll process template's location and name.
It might be that Business Link did not find it and therefore was unable to start the import process.