The JDF that you will use has been imposed to the size of the press sheet on which it will be printed. It already contains marks to be printed on the actual press sheet. The objective of this step is to add a plate identifier slugline to the plate.
The slugline will appear in the bottom bend of the plate, outside the area of the actual press sheet. The slugline will identify the job, signature, side, and color of the 1-bit TIFF files being output. You will also show the date and time that the plate is made, but you cannot add it at this point since date and time would be interpreted to show when the TIFF file was made, rather than when the plate is made.
Activity 41
). Media: The press sheet is 26 by 20 inches but you will create a TIFF file to output it on a 28-by-24-inch plate. (If you were not adding a slugline at this point, you could make the TIFF 26 x 20 to allow the plate size to be determined at output time.)
Size | Cut Sheet |
Max Width | 28 inch |
Max Height | 24 inch |
Placement: You need to center the press sheet across the plate and shift it up 3/8 inch to allow for the plate bend.
Align Horizontally | Center |
Align Vertically | Bottom |
Shift Vertically | 0.375 inch |
Slugline: You will add text in the plate bend to show the job name (as represented by the name of the JDF file), signature, side, and color of the individual plate. Variables that you enter inside $[…] will be replaced with the appropriate information each time this process template is run. Anything else you enter in the slugline mark will appear on the output as you typed it.
Slugline mark | Job: $[JobName] Sig: $[Sig] Side: $[SurfaceName] Color: $[Color] |
Text size | 10 .0 |
Place on media | from left: 0.5 inch from bottom: 0.25 inch |
Custom File Naming
Use Custom File Naming | selected |
Filename Template | remove %job%. from the default string shown, leaving %imposition%%signature%%surface%.%color%.%extension% |
Processed File Location
Send Processed files to | selected |
Device Path | ..\TIFF Files |
Slugline-CreateTIFF
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