The Prinergy Document Screen Manager is a tool you can use to define screen information such as ink type, dot shape, angle, screen ruling, and printing method for each color in specific objects in an Illustrator file. When you use the Prinergy Tools Output PDF... function from Adobe Illustrator, screen information is saved in the file and can be applied as Document Screening at the time of output in Prinergy.
Printing Method is an optional tag which can be used to encode Advanced Flexcel NX Tags to be used in TIFF Assembler Plus to automatically apply advanced Flexcel NX screening. (Advanced Flexcel NX Tags are covered in detail in Miraclon TIFF Assembler Plus documentation.)
Sample angle translations to match Object/Document (PostScript) Screening to Prinergy Process Template Screen Angles
Color | Object/Document Screen Angle | Prinergy Screen Angle |
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C | 75 | 15 |
M | 15 | 75 |
Y | 90 | 0 |
K | 45 | 45 |
To edit the screen parameters for a separation, double-click the ink to display the Ink Option dialog box.
In the Ink Option dialog box, you can select from the list or your can enter new parameters, which will then become available as a choice in the drop-down menus.
Ink Name | The selected ink. This parameter cannot be edited. |
Ink Group | The ink type. For example: process ink or spot color ink. |
LPI | Select the dot ruling for the selected ink. |
Angle | Select a dot angle for the selected ink. |
Dot Shape | Select a dot shape for the selected ink, or input your own parameter. |
Printing Method | Select a printing method for the selected ink, or input your own parameter. |
Print Condition | Provide print condition information. |
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file.Document Screening can also be used to automatically apply Prinergy Advanced Screening such as Maxtone CX, Maxtone FX and Maxtone SX. This functionality works together with an XmpMapping.csv file found on a Prinergy Server at C:\Prinergy\CreoAraxi\data\XMPTags. This configuration file allows you to apply document screening that requires additional parameters that cannot be specified by standard document screening tags. Standard document screening only allows users to specify Line Frequency, Angle and Dot Shape, and only a limited number of standard Adobe dot shapes are allowed. The XmpMapping.csv file allows you to create a DotShape name that will be used as a key to supply the other parameters required by advanced screening, such as highlight size.
A sample line in the XmpMapping.csv file that could be used to specify Maxtone SX screening is:
SXR3X3,Maxtone SX,Maxtone SX CMYK 15-45-0-75,Round1,3x3
You would specify the name SXR3X3 as the Dot Shape, and this would apply the actual Prinergy dot shape name (Round1) and specify a Maxtone SX stochastic highlight size of 3x3 pixels. Whenever changes are made to an XmpMapping file on a Prinergy system, you must restart all Prinergy JTPs in Prinergy Administrator, to allow the changes take effect.
Open the document that contains Esko's screen information, and click Update. The Esko screen information will be read in to the Document Screen Manager window. If you save this document again, Esko's screen information will not be overwritten, and the original specified screen information will be saved.