Create a populated portable job ticket format (PJTF) file from Pandora to submit to Prinergy Evo. For more information on working with Pandora, please refer to the Pandora documentation.
Important: You cannot create layout files using a mix of PDF and PostScript files because Prinergy Evo accepts only PDF files for output. You must refine or distill your PostScript files before creating a layout plan.
- Create a refine to PDF process template.
If you want to use thumbnails in your layout, create a refine to PDF with thumbnails. - Create a submission channel and attach the refine to PDF process template.
- Submit the input files to Prinergy Evo software to refine to PDF.
See Submitting files. - On your Pandora computer, mount the shared folder (for example, JobData) that contains your PDF artwork or 1-up files.
The PDF artwork or 1-up files must be in a folder or on a shared network volume on your Prinergy Evo server computer. - Open the mounted work folder.
- Start Pandora.
- From the File menu, select New.
- Add a Press Sheet to the new layout, making sure that the width and repeat patterns are correct.
- From the File menu, select Import > Die to add the required dieline layout to the press sheet.
- From the File menu select Import > Artwork to add the required artwork (PDF files) to the press sheet.
- Select the dieline and artwork.
- From the Object menu, select Snap to dieline in order to automatically place the artwork properly within the dielines.
- Add the required variable marks.
- From the File menu, select Print.
- In the Print Job dialog box, in the Destination list, select PJTF Kodak Prinergy.
- In the Color Format list, select To Composite.
- Click Print.
- In the Save as dialog box, select a location and enter a file name in the dialog box when it is displayed. The generated files must be saved in a location that can be accessed by the Prinergy Evo server.
One file is created (filename.pjtf
) which is the job ticket (layout). - Submit the PJTF file to an output imposition submission channel.
See Submitting files.