Kodak Prinergy Digital Print is a set of production tools that you use to schedule, submit, and monitor the printing of documents in a digital printing environment.
The basic Prinergy Digital Print workflow is:
- Upload documents—a customer service representative (CSR) submits input files to the Prinergy Digital Submit software. A Prinergy job is created in Workshop and uploaded to the Prinergy Digital Direct software, which is used to manage the digital jobs.
- Plan documents—documents are sorted and scheduled by a digital press operator or by an automated process in Digital Direct. Planned documents are not printed until they are submitted.
- Submit documents—the digital press operator or an automated process places documents in an active state to be RIPed and printed.
- Remove documents—when a document is completed, it can be archived and removed from the system.
Prinergy Digital Print includes two software applications:
- Digital Submit, which is the software that a CSR uses
- Digital Direct, which is the software that a digital press operator uses
In Digital Submit, a CSR can:
- Create a Prinergy job to hold your documents.
- Use input files from any location. Files do not need to be on a Prinergy server or job volume.
- Identify a specific digital front end for a job
- Use automation rules (Rules-Based Automation) to send jobs for printing
- Easily find and select JDF templates using a browser that can filter templates by attribute
- Open the editor for a JDF template in one click, regardless of whether the template is for Creo, Kodak, or HP DFEs
In Digital Direct, a digital press operator can:
- View and prioritize documents (digital print jobs)
- Monitor all documents, including documents being executed by automation rules
- Reassign a document to a different digital front end, without being restricted by the original front-end type
- View each document's estimated print duration, document history, and other print attributes
- Create document lists based on rules and manually create document lists
- Easily find and select JDF templates using a browser that can filter templates by attribute
- Open the editor for a JDF template with one click, regardless of whether the template is for Creo, Kodak, or HP DFEs
Prinergy Digital Print uses a JDF workflow and JDF-enabled devices (digital front ends and digital presses). For information about JDF, see Digital printing and JDF technology.