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Welcome to the Kodak Packaging Layout Automation Software Administrator Guide.

The Packaging Layout Automation (PLA) software enables you to automate the creation of packaging layouts, improving your shop's throughput and helping to reduce costly errors. It is a feature of the Kodak Prinergy Workflow software that works in conjunction with Kodak Prinergy Rules-Based Automation (RBA).

Use the PLA software to perform the following tasks:

• Set up your Prinergy Workflow system to automatically create a packaging layout when you enter layout information into a user-created form, or when a new job is added to your Management Information System (MIS).
• Set up your Prinergy Workflow system to validate the layout information on user-defined criteria. For example, define the width of the selected substrate as less than the width of the selected plates.
• Create unpopulated layouts with placeholder artworks.
• Open and edit layouts in the Kodak Pandora step-and-repeat software to make bleed resolution adjustments or to add specialized folding carton marks, and then use these edited layouts in the PLA software as template jobs.
• Create a new layout based on an existing layout.
• Create multiple step-and-repeat jobs in one action by simply inputting all required artworks, when creating different lot numbers for the same product family.
• Create multiple die-based layouts in one action by adding a die and all required artworks, when creating different lot numbers for the same product family.
• Use automatically sized substrates (press sheets or web widths/cutoffs) to help minimize the amount of wasted media and eliminate the need to manage the Kodak ShopMap.
• Create a substrate (press sheet or web width/cutoff) "on the fly," eliminating the step of creating the substrate in ShopMap.
• Import your existing resources from Pandora, including your substrate sizes, plates, and marks.
• Set up custom fields and custom events to create unique automated workflows with the ability to stream different jobs through different workflows based on key characteristics.

System and client requirements

See Requirements.

Limitations

• PLA does not accept edits to layouts made by the Pandora software if the layouts contain versioning layers.
• Auto Split Bleed Overlap is intended for simple bleed overlap resolution. For multiple corner joins and complex bleed resolution, the overlaps should be resolved manually in Pandora.

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欢迎使用《Kodak Packaging Layout Automation 软件管理员指南》。

Packaging Layout Automation (PLA) 软件可让您自动完成包装版式的创建，以提高贵店的生产能力和帮助您降低因出错而产生的成本。这一 Kodak 印能捷工作流程软件功能可以结合 Kodak 印能捷基于规则的自动化 (RBA) 使用。

使用 PLA 软件执行以下任务：

• 将印能捷工作流程系统设置为在以下时刻自动创建包装版式：在您将版式信息输入用户创建的表单时，或者在新作业添加到管理信息系统 (MIS) 时。
• 设置印能捷工作流程系统，以根据用户定义的标准来验证版式信息。例如，定义选定承印物的宽度小于选定印版的宽度。
• 用占位符页面创建未填充的版式。
• 在 Kodak Pandora 多重拼贴软件中打开并编辑版式，调整出血分辨率或添加专门的硬纸盒折叠标记，然后将这些编辑的版式作为模板作业用于 PLA 软件中。
• 根据现有版式创建新版式。
• 为相同产品系列创建不同批号时，只需一个操作输入所有必需的图稿就可以创建多个多重拼贴作业。
• 为相同产品系列创建不同批号时，只需一个操作即添加刀版和所有必需的图稿就可以创建多个基于刀版的版式。
• 使用可自动调节大小的承印物（印张或轮转宽度/裁切值）有助于最大程度地减少版材浪费，且无需管理 Kodak ShopMap。
• “实时”创建承印物（印张或轮转宽度/裁切值），省去在 ShopMap 中创建承印物的步骤。
• 从 Pandora 导入现有资源，包括您的承印物尺寸、印版和标记。
• 设置自定义字段和自定义事件以创建唯一的自动化工作流程，并能够根据主要特征将不同的作业传递到不同的工作流程。

系统和客户端要求

请参阅要求。

限制

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