Prinergy Workflow Activity Guide

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Overview

Why you should complete this activity

Preps populated impositions generated with Prinergy Evo workflow can be reprinted in Prinergy.
This activity focuses on reprinting Prinergy Evo jobs.
This activity is important because it illustrates how to:

  • Reprint an Prinergy Evo job
  • Import populated JDF or PJTF files
  • Create a hot folder
  • Create a Bypass refine process template with the APA option selected
  • Create an RBA rule

What you'll need

For this activity you need to locate:

  • Prinergy Activity Practice Files /Act_30_Reprint_EVO_jobs/KodakOneMagEvoReprint.JDF
  • Prinergy Evo refined pages
  • The name of the Prinergy server(s)
  • A user name
  • A password

The instructor or coach will provide you with the location of the practice files.

Note: This activity is optional.
The aim of activities 34 to 40 is to introduce and demonstrate the licensed Kodak PDF Trap Editor feature. Each activity is based on a particular scenario, and will provide the customer with an initial introduction to various options available as part of the PDF Trap Editor.

Consult the Trapper Help (available in Adobe Acrobat Help) to familiarize yourself with the various settings and procedures. Encourage the customer to consult this reference material as well, as it will provide additional support to them after the training session is over and they are working on their own.

If you skipped Activity 1, consult the Activity 1 Instructor's Notes for information about best practices for managing activity practice files during a training session. Activity 1 also contains important information related to the Prinergy client and server relationship, which could be helpful to the customer.

What you need to know

The following licences are required in order to reprint the Prinergy EVO jobs:

  • A populated job ticket import feature license.
    Note: The Import Populated Job Ticket option must be enabled in the Import/Export JTP area.
  • An APA (Automated Page Assignment) license is required to automatically assign the pages.
  • An RBA (Rules Based Automation) license is required to fully automate the process.

The following activities describe the manual import process with the APA option and the fully automated workflow with APA and RBA. A combination of the two processes maybe adapted to meet your production requirements.

The pages can be automatically assigned to the imposition if your Prinergy license includes APA. If you do not have an APA license then the pages will need to be manually re-assigned to the imposition page positions after the Bypass Refine step.

Populated JDF and job tickets (PJTF) from Preps, and populated JDFs generated with Evo's Create Imposition process can be imported into a Prinergy job.
The Evo refined pages will be added to the job automatically as input files when the populated JDFs or PJTFs are imported.
It is recommended to process the Evo refined pages, added as input files, using a Bypass Refine process template.
The process can be fully automated by using a hot folder file submission and RBA processing.

The manual import of populated JDF and PJFT impositions includes the following steps:

  1. Create a Prinergy job.
  2. Move the Evo refined PDFs to the same folder as the JDF or PJTF, for example a subfolder in the Prinergy job's UserDefinedFolders folder.
    Important: If the pages are not in the same folder as the JDF or PJTF, they will not be automatically added to the job as input files.
  3. Import the populated JDF or PJTF into the Prinergy job.
  4. Convert the input files to refined pages using a Bypass Refine process template with APA enabled.

The fully automated import and workflow processing of populated JDF and PJFT impositions includes the following steps:

  1. Create a Prinergy job.
  2. Add a hot folder to the job with the Add and Process Files option selected and select an import process template.
  3. Create a Bypass Refine process template with the Automated Page Assignment-Retain Assignments, Using Job Settings option in the Impose area of the Bypass Refine process template.
  4. In the Rule Set Manager create a rule that processes the input files with the Bypass Refine process template when an input file is added to the job.
  5. Enable the RBA rule in the job.
  6. Copy the populated JDF or PJTF with the refined pages to the job hot folder.

The imposition import, Bypass Refine of pages, and page assignment should all be done automatically.
Note: If you are completing this activity on your own or coaching others in your shop, copy the Prinergy Activity Practice Files folder (available on the Kodak Partner Place internet portal at https://partnerplace.kodak.com/) directly to your workstation. For further information about these procedures, see Activity 1.

Process templates used:

  • Refine process template: Bypass Refine > Bypass Refine > Bypass Refine