Rules to follow when creating Preps imposition plans for Prinergy Evo

• The PDF pages must be in a folder on a shared network volume of your Prinergy Evo server computer (or a location to which Prinergy Evo server computer has administrator access). Kodak recommends the shared JobData folder.
• For pre-separated PDF files, you must create a mixed PostScript imposition plan in Preps.
• To use SMB shares with Mac OS X v 10.2 or later to connect to the shares where your PDF files are located, upgrade to Preps 5.2.x or later.
• If you are creating a mixed PostScript job in Preps on a Mac OS X v 10.2 or later platform and using the Preps internal PDF-to-PostScript converter, you must use AppleTalk to connect to the share from which you will submit your PDF pages.
• Preps supports PDF-to-PDF workflow for composite PDF files only.
• When creating a mixed PostScript imposition plan, Preps also automatically creates a marks PostScript file. The marks PostScript file must be distilled using the recommended Prinergy Evo marks settings.
• If you are submitting your PJTF or JDF file to a hot folder, you must submit both the PJTF or JDF file and the Marks.pdf to the hot folder at the same time.
• If you are submitting your PJTF or JDF file to a template palette in Prinergy Evo, only submit the PJTF or JDF file. You do not need to submit the separate Marks.pdf.
• When creating a PJTF file from a PDF-to-PDF imposition job, Preps embeds the marks in the PJTF file so there is no separate marks file.
• JDF files are always created with an external marks file. If the JDF file was created from a PDF-to-PDF job, then the marks file is a PDF file. If the JDF file was made from a mixed files to PostScript job, then the marks file is PostScript and will need to be refined using the recommended Prinergy Evo marks settings.
• If a populated job ticket is written from the Macintosh and submitted via a template palette, the PJTF or JDF and PDF marks files from a mixed PostScript imposition plan, and the PJTF from a PDF to PDF imposition plan must reside in the same folder as the PDF pages referenced in the job ticket.
• The marks file must be a PDF file and must be in the same location as the PJTF or JDF file.
• When submitting via a template palette, you only need to drag the PJTF or JDF.

Assumptions
When creating imposition plans in Preps for submission to Prinergy Evo, Kodak assumes the following:

• The Preps devices have already been configured and are availale for selection.
• The Preps signature or layout templates have been created and are available for selection.
• All source files are PDF files. Prinergy Evo does not support mixed PostScript imposition plans with links to PostScript, EPS, or DCS files.
• All source PDF files must be on the Prinergy Evo server computer or on a server to which Prinergy Evo has read, write, modify access and where the file's folder is mapped or mounted on the Prinergy Evo server computer.
• When submitting via a template palette, you have to submit the PJTF or JDF file.
• All page and sheet geometry has been set up and defined in Preps or you have defined the page and sheet geometry via the Prinergy Geometry Editor plug-in.
• Marks files used in the Preps imposition template are already in the Preps marks folder.