The way that this tool fits into your prepress workflow depends on your operations. A downstream system in the workflow might require your jobs to be populated or not populated with customer content before you print the output files.

• Populated jobs contain actual content files.
  A prepress system might refine, impose, and proof the pages, and then send you the output as PDF pages. You add these page files to a job, create the layouts, and send the output back to the same system or to another system in the workflow for final proof and plate production.

• For other workflows, you might create unpopulated jobs that use file placeholders or blank pages, and the content pages are assigned later in the workflow.

The way that you output the jobs can also vary between workflow systems, depending on whether the downstream system uses features such as hot folders, manual imposition import, JDF automation, and automated page assignment (APA).

The Preps software engine is integrated in the Prinergy Workflow software for the automatic creation and import of impositions. Full-access versions of Preps can also be opened from within the Workshop or Workspace user interfaces in Prinergy or the Prinergy Evo Client software when using floating licenses. For more information, see the Prinergy Workflow or Prinergy Evo Workflow user documentation.