Prinergy software has two main workflows for jobs shared between sites: one using imposed flats and one using a hub-and-spoke setup with other Prinergy systems.
To create jobs for such workflows, you can start with imposed flats or exported jobs.
Imposed flats
Prinergy can accept imposed flats from other software such as Preps, Pandora, or InDesign.
To accept the files, you must set up a job with an add-and-process hot folder linked to a refine process template. When you drop the flats into the hot folder, Prinergy refines the files into PDF flats.
Hub-and-spoke
You can use Prinergy in a hub-and-spoke setup where the hub is a Prinergy Connect or Prinergy Powerpack system and the spoke is another Prinergy system.
How you accept the export depends on whether the other Prinergy system exports an entire job or a partial job:
- To accept an entire job, you set up a pre-job with an add-and-process hot folder linked to an ImportAll process template. When you drop the export into the hot folder, Prinergy creates a new job.
- To accept a partial job, you take an existing job and set up an add-and-process hot folder linked to an ImportIncremental process template. When you drop the export into the hot folder, Prinergy adds the imported files to the job.