Incremental exports are exports of certain parts of a job, based on signatures.
Incremental exports are useful to:
- Break up a large job for printing at multiple sites
- Break up a large job into files that are small enough to transfer to a remote site, which gradually reassembles the job
- Update a previous export
For an incremental export to be successful, the job must contain refined PDF pages and an imposition plan.
When a site receives an incremental export, it must do an incremental import to bring the file into Prinergy.
Hot folders with incremental exports
To import incremental exports, remote sites can create a pre-job and link it to an import process template.
When you drop an incremental export into a pre-job hot folder, the file name determines whether Prinergy creates a new job.
If the incremental export file name:
- Matches the name of an existing job, Prinergy adds the export to an existing job
- Does not match the name of an existing job, Prinergy creates a new job using the export file name
If you want to create more than one incremental export from the same job for use by a remote site with a pre-job hot folder, you need to rename the files. When you first create the incremental exports, give the files different names so that they do not overwrite each other. But before you send the files to the remote site, be sure to rename the file names with the same name so that Prinergy imports the files into the same job.