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).
  It is a best practice to use 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 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 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, submit only 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, the following conditions are assumed to have been met:

• The Preps devices have already been configured and are available 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, and modify access and where the file's folder is mapped or mounted on the Prinergy Evo server computer.
• When submitting using a template palette, you must 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 using the Prinergy Geometry Editor plug-in.
• Marks files used in the Preps imposition template are already in the Preps marks folder.