PSS - Manual e Formatos de Chapas Pág.105

Edition: 23/03/2006
PSS 2.0.0 B604.1
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Print Media Academy – Contents I
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Menu overview
The menu bar and its commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

File menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Edit menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Jobs & Resources menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Inspectors menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Tools menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Services menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Help menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Tool bar overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Chapter 2: Exercise 1 – Autom. Imposition
Task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Completed forms: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Exercise description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Creating a new Signa job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Saving a Signa job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Importing PDF documents and assigning them to the Signa job . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Printing the Signa job as PDF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Chapter 3: Exercise 2 – Format customization
Task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Completed forms: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Changing the format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Saving the Signa job as template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Creating new Signa jobs using a saved template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Chapter 4: Exercise 3 – Plate template and marks
Task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Completed forms: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Creating marks using the Marks Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Importing color control bars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Creating a composite mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Editing and saving plate templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
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Chapter 5: Exercise 4 – Imposition
Task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Completed forms: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Creating a new Signa job in the Imposition mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Chapter 6: Exercise 5 – Job Part/Autom. Imposition
Task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Completed forms: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Creating new paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Creating a new job part (Autom. Imposition) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Chapter 7: Exercise 6 – Creating machine parameters
Task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Creating a platesetter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Creating a sheetfed press . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Creating a platesetter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Creating a sheetfed press . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Chapter 8: Exercise 7 – Creating output parameters and plate templates
Task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Creating an output parameter set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Creating a plate template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Creating output parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Creating a plate template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Positioning marks on the plate template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Chapter 9: Exercise 8 – Montage
Task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Completed form: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Adjusting preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Creating a montage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Positioning an assembly block in the paper center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Defining favorites folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Assigning pages without defining a trim box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
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Chapter 10: Exercise 9 – 1up repetition and collective form
Task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Completed form: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Creating a customer data set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Creating a collective form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Chapter 11: Windows and Inspectors
The Job window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
The Browser Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Job Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Internal Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
The Inspectors window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

The Job Inspector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
The Job Part Inspector– impositioning and automatic impositioning . . . . . . . . . 174
The Job Parts Inspector – Montage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
The Folding Sheet/Assembly Block Inspector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
The Press Sheet Inspector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
The Page/1up Inspector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
The Document Inspector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
The Graphics Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Graphics Window control elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
The Press Sheet window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
The Folding Sheet/Assembly Block Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
The Page List Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
The Press Sheet List Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
The Document Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
The Lists Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

The Press Sheet List Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
The Folding Sheet List Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
The Page List List Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
The Assigned List Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
The Not Assigned List Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
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Chapter 12: Exercise 10 – 1up Repetition Front/Back
Task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Color control bar example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Completed forms: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Creating color control bars and composite marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Creating a composite mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
1up front/back repetition exercise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Chapter 13: Exercise 11 – Different press sheets in one job part
Task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Completed forms: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Creating a new scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Imposing different sheet sizes in one job part . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
Chapter 14: Exercise 12 – Special Master Pages and Layers
Task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Completed forms: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
Signature PDF in German . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Signature PDF in English . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
Creating a new Signa job with layers and special master pages . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Assigning PDF documents to different layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
Viewing several layers simultaneously . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Printing with layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Chapter 15: Exercise 13 – Combination sheet (assembly and imposition)
Task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Job part 1: Montage – Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Job part 2: Imposition – Cover/Maxi Painting Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
Completed forms: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

Job part 1: Montage – Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Positioning job parts on the press sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
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Chapter 16: Exercise 14 – Combination sheet (different schemes and jobs)
Task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
I. Machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
II. Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
Job part 3: Imposition – inner pages/mini painting book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
Completed forms: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

Job part 1: Montage – press sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
Job part 2: Imposition – inner pages/maxi painting book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
Job part 3: Imposition – inner pages/mini painting book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
Positioning job parts 2 and 3 on press sheet 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
Positioning job part 3 (mini painting book) on press sheet 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
Positioning job parts 2 and (maxi painting book folding sheet 2)
on press sheet 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
Assigning pages to the folding schemes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Chapter 17: Exercise 15 – Handling two flyers in one job
Task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
Job part 3: Imposition – French flyer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
Press sheet layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Completed forms: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

Creating a new scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
Job part 1: Montage – press sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
Job part 2: Imposition – German . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
Job part 3: Imposition – French . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
Job parts 2 and 3: positioning folding sheet 1 on press sheet 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
Job parts 2 and 3: positioning folding sheet 2 on press sheets 2 and 3 . . . . . . 342
Assigning pages to the folding schemes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346
Chapter 18: Exercise 16 – Imposing different schemes

on one press sheet in one job part
Task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
Completed forms: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350
Press sheet 1 – front and back printing form (folding sheets 1 and 3) . . . . . . . 350
Press sheet 2 – front and back printing form (folding sheet 2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

Creating a custom imposition scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
Imposing different schemes on one press sheet in one job part . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
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Chapter 19: Exercise 17 – SM74DI
Task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
Feasible order for creating machines and resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

I. Machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
II. Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
Chapter 20: Exercise 18 – Imposition with collective forms and

several identical folding sheets on one press sheet
Task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
Completed forms: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
Press sheet 1 – front and back printing form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Collective forms and several identical folding sheets on one press sheet . . . . . 375
Chapter 21: Exercise 19 – Creating and applying a plate layout template
Task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387
Completed forms: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

Creating a plate layout parameter set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389
Creating a Signa job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392
Chapter 22: Exercise 20 – Creating a custom report header
Task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399
Completed HTML report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

Editing the default report header in the Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408
Chapter 23: Exercise 21 – Label optimization
Task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
Completed forms: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412

Print Media Academy – Contents VII
Chapter 24: Exercise 22 – Packaging Printing
Task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429
Completed forms: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430

Editing a clip path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439
Positioning typical packaging printing marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447
Determining the colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454
Web offset printing – Brief introduction
Front . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458
Back . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459
Example without turner bars – 16up, Berlin format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460
Example with turner bars – 16up, Berlin format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461
Chapter 25: Exercise 23 – Imposing 16 pages in Berlin format for web printing
Task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463
Completed forms: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465
Plate template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465
Scheme - 16up Berlin format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465
Press sheet – Web 1 top . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466
Press sheet – Web 1 bottom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466

Creating platesetter machine parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467
Creating web press machine parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467
Creating output parameter set resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468
Creating plate template resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470
Creating scheme resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474
Chapter 26: Exercise 24 – Creating a new Signa user
Task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485

Creating an new Signa user . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487
Changing the Signa user . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489
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Appendix
Platesetters data sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491
Sheetfed Presses data sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492
Papers data sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493
Plate template elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494
Feasible order for creating machines and resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495

I. Machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495
II. Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495
Machines/resources and Signa job dependencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496
Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497
Preferences – General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497
Preferences – Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499
Preferences – Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501
Preferences – Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503
Preferences – Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504
Preferences – Import . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506
Preferences – Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507
General information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509

Versions and options of Prinect Signa Station 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509
Prinect Signa Station Backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510
Prinect Signa Station 2 definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511
Marks handling - hotspot - reference point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512
Prinect Signa Station key shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513

Print Media Academy – Contents IX
Improvements in version 2.0
New features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515

MDS connectivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515
Collective forms for imposition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515
JDF connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516
User administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516
Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517
Main menu and tool bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517
Changes: Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517
Changes: Ressources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519
Changes: Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520
Changes: Job Inspector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520
Changes: Assistant/Job Part Inspector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521
Changes: Page/1up Inspector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522
Changes: Assembly Block Inspector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522
Changes: Document Inspector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522
Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523
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Print Media Academy – Introduction 1
Introduction
Prinect Signa Station is an application allowing the digital imposition or assembly of PDF
documents and Delta lists. With this application you can create fully imposed signatures
containing all marks and print control strips – i.e. all information required for imaging, print,
and postprocessing – for output to CtP, CtF and digital printing presses.
The application processes PDF documents and Delta lists. Although you can select Post-
Script files to be loaded, the Acrobat Distiller application will automatically convert them to
PDF; for this purpose, the Acrobat Distiller must be installed on the workstation. To optimize
PDF documents prior to processing with Prinect Signa Station you should have converted
them to PDF using the desired job options.
A TrimBox present in a PDF document is automatically used for page positioning. You can,
however, always move the page information by hand.
Using resources you can define plate templates, folding patterns, etc. to ensure you always
apply standardized formats. All workstations have access to the same data records if you
store default folders containing resources on a server and specify these in the application.
You can manage and process several product parts within one job, e.g. a 36-page brochure,
business cards, flyers, etc., thus allowing all jobs for a specific customer to be processed in
one file.
There are three default modes and two optional modes for creating a signature:
Imposition: Here, all signatures are defined for a specified number of

pages. In this mode you can, for example, process several
imposition schemes, paper and plate templates in a single
job.
Automatic imposition: Here, you use a defined template that is multiplied as soon
as the last sheet is filled and more pages need to be
assembled. This mode does not allow a combination of dif-
ferent imposition schemes.
Montage: In this mode only the printing plate and the paper are
defined. This allows 1ups or collective forms to be created.
Packaging: In this mode the printing plate and the paper are defined.
Using cutting dies in the CFF2 format, forms for folding
boxes can be generated.
Label Optimization: Printing plate and paper are predefined for Label Optimiza-
tion like in the Montage Mode. Special input parameters
ensure optimum press sheet usage, for example for labels,
business or post cards.
2 Introduction – Print Media Academy
The Prinect Signa Station application heavily draws on context-sensitive operation, i.e.
i right-clicking the mouse (Windows) or clicking the mouse with the Control key pressed
(Macintosh) in a window opens a shortcut menu with currently available commands.
Print Media Academy – Chapter 1: Menu overview 3
Chapter 1: Menu overview
The menu bar and its commands
The upper window area of the Prinect Signa Station application comprises the following
menu items: File, Edit, Jobs & Resources, Inspectors, Tools, Services and Help.
File menu
Choose the Open… menu item to load an existing Signa job into
the Prinect Signa Station application.
Choose New… to create a new Signa job, supported by the Job

Assistant.
Choose Create Resource to create new data records for Plate

Templates, Schemes, Marks, Papers, Formats, Plate layouts,
Customer Data Sets, and Output Parameter Sets, New User Data
and Report Headers.
Choose Create Machine to create new data sets for Filmsetter, Platesetter, Sheetfed
Presses, and Web Presses.
4 Chapter 1: Menu overview – Print Media Academy
Choose Import to load PDF documents you need for the current montage, i.e. PostScript or
PDF files or Delta lists. You can also import Resources/Machine Parameters, Paper or Cus-
tomer Resources via CSV file, JDF or Preferences.
Choose the Recent Jobs submenu to view the names of recently opened documents and to
directly open them.
Choose Save to save the latest changes to your current job.
Choose Save as… to save your current job under any name. You can also specify where
your montage job is to be saved.
Choose Close to close the current Signa job. You will be notified if latest changes have not
yet been saved, and you can choose to close and save your document at the same time.
To print your current job choose Print Job.
Choose Preferences… to open the Preferences dialog where you can also define the
Default Unit and Default Folder.
Choose Log off to change the Signa user currently logged on.
To quit the application choose Exit.
Edit menu
Choose the Edit menu items to undo or redo recent actions.

Print Media Academy – Chapter 1: Menu overview 5
Jobs & Resources menu
Use the Jobs & Resources menu to toggle between

job and resource view. This menu also lists the jobs
currently open. Use this menu to switch between the
individual jobs. You can use this this menu to go to
the current job (i.e. the job you were editing before
changing to the Resources), to an open job shown in
the list, to Resources & Machines, to Plate Template
Resources, to Scheme Resources or to the Marks Resources.
Inspectors menu
Choose the Inspectors menu to switch to any of the inspec-

tors: Job Inspector, Job Part Inspector, Folding
Sheet/Assembly Block Inspector, Press Sheet Inspector,
Page/1up Inspector, and Document Inspector. Each
inspector is identified by a symbol of their own that also
appears in the application’s tool bar.
Tools menu
The Background Processes command informs if a back-

ground process is running and shows or hides the current
Preview Generation. Output Job Status documents, which
job is currently active, which jobs are finished or the current
Status Message for a specific job. Choose Detach/Include
Graphic View to detach the Graphic View and make it part of the job window again. Use the
Folding Sheet Animation to visualize the fold sequence of custom or default schemes. The
Window menu also lists the currently open jobs. Use this menu to switch between the indi-
vidual jobs.
Services menu
Choose the Services menu to start the Remote Service or

search the Internet for a program update.
Help menu
Choose the Help menu to open the Online Help and to view
information on the version of the Prinect Signa Station appli-
cation you are currently using. You also view information on
the user currently logged on if you select Current User.
6 Chapter 1: Menu overview – Print Media Academy
Tool bar overview
The buttons in the Toolbar let you load a Signa job from the file system, create a new file with
the Assistant, save the current file, print the file, switch to the other inspectors, start the help
application, and temporarily change the unit used by the program.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
1 Load Job from File System

2 Create New Job with Assistant
3 Save Current Job
4 Send selected job to output device
5 Toggle between Job and Resource View
6 View Inspector for the selected job
7 Open Job Part Inspector
8 Open Press Sheet Inspector
9 Open Folding Sheet/Assembly Block Inspector
10 Start Page/1up Inspector
11 Open Document Inspector
12 Set unit
Print Media Academy – Chapter 2: Exercise 1 – Automatic imposition 7
Chapter 2: Exercise 1 – Automatic imposition
Task
The objective of the present exercise is an automatic imposition of a 96-page document to

be created for Perfect Binding postprocessing. The job will be created with the Job Assis-
tant. All resources/default settings required for this exercise have already been created.
Job data:
Job code: 0001
Job name HD-Manual
Customer: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
Customer Code: 0001
Product part definition:

Name: Supertrap
Working Mode: Autom. Imposition
Master pages:
Page format: A5 without trim
Binding Methods
Binding Method: Perfect Binding
Creeping: disabled
Print control elements: Cut marks, fold marks, folding crosses, collating marks, fold-
ing sheet cuts and fold lay mark
Collating mark parameters:

Position: Back margin
Distance: Automatic
Range: Automatic
Direction: Ascending
Collating group: enable
Printing plates:
Printing plate: SM102 from the Training group
Placing Mode: Sheetwise (front and back)
Paper definition: Profisilk_90_100x70 from the Training group
Folding schemes:
Scheme: F32-05_li_4x4 from the Standard group
Head gaps: 10 mm
Gutters: 6 mm
Center gutters: 20 mm
PDF document: Supertrap.pdf from the

C:\Documents and Settings\“User”\Application Data\Heidel-
berg\PrinectSignaStation_2\Documents
Output parameter set: SM102_Topsetter102 from the Training group

8 Chapter 2: Exercise 1 – Automatic imposition – Print Media Academy
Surfaces
Press sheet 1: Front/Back printing

Exercise description
Creating a new Signa job
1. Start the Prinect Signa Station application.
2. Choose File > New…
3. The Job Assistant automatically opens.
With the Job Assistant you can specify all parameters required for a new Signa job in an
easy and clearly structured manner right from job the start.
4. Specify general job information in the Job Data window.

5. Specify job code and job name according to the task.
Job code = 0001

Job name = HD-Manual
6. The customer for this job has already been created in the resources and can be loaded
for the present job.
7. To load the customer data set click From Template next to the Customer field.
8. Click the gray triangle in front of the folder icon to view the contents of the Standard
group in the Choose Customer window. Highlight Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
and click OK.
9. The fields Customer and Customer Code are automatically completed in the Job Data
window.
10. Click Next Card in the bottom window region to go to the next window – the Product Part
definition window or use the Ctrl + spacebar (PC) or Command key + spacebar (Mac)
key shortcut.
11. Type the product part name and select the Working Mode in the Product Part definition
window.
12. Type the product part name in the Name text box and choose the Autom. Imposition as
the Working Mode.
Name = Supertrap
Working Mode = Autom. Imposition.
13. Click Next card to go to the Master Pages window.
14. Click the folder symbol to load the A5 paper format from the resources.
15. Display the contents of the Standard group in the Choose Page or Paper Size window.
Highlight A5 and click OK.
16. The selected page format appears in the Master Pages window.
Our sample document does not require any bleed; you can therefore type 0 in the Bleed
text box in the Page-related Bleed section.
17. Click Next card to go to the Binding Methods window.

18. Make the following settings in this window:
Make the settings described below in the Marks Colors/Scaling and Collating Values
popup menu. Click the triangle to show the window.
Binding Method = Perfect Binding

Enable Cut Marks, Fold Marks, Folding Crosses, Collating Marks, Folding Sheet Cuts
and Fold Lay Mark
Enable the following checkboxes in the Data for Collating Mark section:
Position = In the gutter
Distance = Automatic
Area = Automatic
Direction = Ascending
Collating group: additional mark at the upper page edge
19. Click Next card to go to the Printing Plates window.
20. In this window you define the plate template and the paper to be used.
21. Click the folder symbol next to the first popup menu to load the plate template from
the resources.
22. Display the contents of the Training group.
Highlight SM102 and click OK to adopt the selected plate template.

23. The selected plate template now appears in the window along with its stored width and
height.
24. Choose the Sheetwise (front and back) option in the Placing Mode popup menu.
25. Click the symbol next to the Name popup menu to load the paper definition from
the resources.
26. Display the contents of the Training group.
Highlight Profisilk_90_100x70 and click OK to adopt the selected paper.
27. The paper values stored in the resources are filled in.
28. To place the sujet in the center of the defined paper format, you must make sure to
enable the AutoPosition Sujet and Center Sujet in the Sujet Position on Paper area.
29. Click Next card to go to the Folding Schemes window.

30. In this window you define the folding scheme and top, bottom and inside gaps.
31. Click the folder symbol to load the folding scheme from the resources.
32. Display the contents of the Standard group, highlight F32-05_li_4x4 in the list and click
OK to adopt the selected scheme.
When you select a scheme, you can only select from those folding schemes that would
fit on the sheet considering the settings made so far (trimmed size selected, plate tem-
i plate and paper format), provided that you have enabled the Scheme filter option in the
Several Switches area on the Defaults tab of your Preferences and the Filter On option
is enabled in the Choose Scheme window.
33. Upon selection of the scheme a thumbnail representation of the press sheet appears in
the right window section.
The left bottom window section shows a schematic representation of the selected
scheme. You define top, bottom, and inside gaps here. Specify the gaps for this exer-
cise example as per the illustration below. You can immediately watch the changes in
the press sheet thumbnail image.
Use the Tab key to go from text box to text box. Use the Shift and Tab keys together to
go to the previous text box.
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34. Click Ready to create the job with the settings made with the Job Assistant.
35. The job window shows the first press sheet in the Graphics window.
The browser window shows a tree view of the current job with the Supertrap product
part, the Folding Sheets, the Page List, and the Press Sheets in the Jobs tab.
The Inspector window with the Job Inspector provides general information on the cur-
rent document and the colors used in the document.
The Press Sheets tab in the Lists window shows the press sheets created by now.
Saving a Signa job
1. To save the current job choose File > Save as…
2. You automatically go to the directory defined in the Preferences for saving Signa jobs.
By default, Signa jobs are saved in the C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Applica-
tion Data\Heidelberg\PrinectSignaStation_2\SignaJobs folder.
SignaStation automatically proposes a file name consisting of the Job Code specified in
the Job Assistant, the Customer Name and the Job Name.
The Prinect Signa Station application automatically assigns the .sdf extension.
3. Click the Save button to save the current job in the selected folder.
Importing PDF documents and assigning them to the Signa job
1. The next step is to import the PDF document. There are three ways to do this.
a) From the Browser window go to the Contents tab. Use the file browser of your oper-
ating system to browse to the folder where the PDF file to be loaded is located, and
drag the document to the Contents tab.
b) Choose File > Import > Documents.
c) From the Browser window go to the Contents tab. Right-click the PDF Documents to
open the shortcut menu and choose Documents ...
To open the shortcut menu, click the right mouse button (Windows) or press the Ctrl
key (Macintosh).
2. You automatically go to the folder for loading PDF documents defined in the Prefer-
ences.
3. Highlight the Supertrap.pdf file in the list and click Open.
4. The imported document appears in the Contents tab in the PDF Documents group.
5. The PDF document contains all pages needed for this Signa job. All pages of the PDF
document are now to be assigned to the Signa job. There are several ways to do this.
a) From the Browser window go to the Contents tab.

Highlight the Supertrap.pdf document and choose Assign Pages from the shortcut
menu.
b) From the Lists window go to the Not assigned tab.

Click the document entry in the list and choose Assign Pages from the shortcut
menu to assign all pages of the document.
To assign individual document pages, show the pages by doubleclicking the docu-
ment in the No. column.
Now highlight those pages in the list you wish to assign, and choose Assign Pages
from the shortcut menu.
c) You can also assign individual pages by dragging and dropping them in the
Browser window using the Contents tab to the respective page in the Press
Sheet, Folding Sheet, Page List, and Press Sheet List graphics windows. To do
so, show the desired Graphics windows. In our example we show the Page List
window.
To assign all pages of the document drop the document on the first page of the
page list.
i To assign selected pages, show the pages and drag and drop them on the respective
page in the Page List.
6. After having assigned all pages, go to the Press Sheet window to inspect the current
job.
7. By default only the front signature is shown. Click the icon at the bottom of the
press sheet window to also view the back signature. This toggle switch lets you show or
hide the current back signature.
8. A preview of each page you have positioned will be generated in the background if you
enabled the Automatic Preview generation in the Preferences. Choose Tools > Back-
ground Processes to observe the preview generation progress.
i
9. Choose Tools > Background Processes to close the progress window once the back-
ground process has been completed.
10. Choose File > Save to save the latest changes to the document.
Printing the Signa job as PDF
1. The last step is to print the job exercise to a PDF file. To do so choose File > Print Job.
2. You can show the individual press sheets and surfaces in the Print Inspector to inspect
them.
3. The parameter set assigned to the current plate template is automatically shown as out-
put parameter set. Click the icon to select another Output Parameter Set from the
resources.
4. Show the contents of the Training group and highlight SM102_Topsetter102. Click OK
to apply the selected resource.
5. Enable all press sheets in the Press Sheet List of the Print Inspector and click the Out-
put button to start output.
6. The PDF documents will be automatically saved in the predefined folder. By default,
output files are saved in the C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Hei-
delberg\PrinectSignaStation_2\Output folder. A message will inform you once printing
has been successfully completed. Click OK to close the window.
The Information window displays the current storage path.
On a Windows PC the default file storage location is the C:\Documents and Settings\All
Users\Application Data\Heidelberger\PrinectSignaStation_2\output folder.
On the Macintosh the default file storage location is the start volume\Users\Shared\Hei-
delberger\PrinectSignaStation_2\output folder.
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i 8. To verify, you can select Show Print Status ... function in the menu bar using the Tools
menu while printing is in progress. In our example you see an active print job completed
by 10%.
9. Here the job is already completed.

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Print Media Academy – Chapter 3: Exercise 2 – Format customization 31
Chapter 3: Exercise 2 – Format customization
Task
The Signa job you created in Exercise 1 must be customized due to short-term press
rescheduling from SM102 to SM74. This exercise will teach you how to quickly perforformat
changes with the Job Assistant.
After the format change the modified job is to be saved as a template.
Job data:
SignaJob: 0001_HD-Manual.sdf
Printing plates:
Paper definition: Profigloss_90_70x50 from the Training group
Folding schemes:
Scheme: F16-06_dd_4x2 from the Standard group
Head gap: 20 mm
Back margin: 6 mm
Gap: 20 mm
Output parameter set: Prosetter_SM74 from the Training group

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Changing the format
1. Choose File > Open…
2. Highlight the 0001_Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG_HD-Manual.sdf document

(from Exercise 1) in the SignaJobs folder and click Open.
3. Go to the Jobs tab in the Browser window.
4. Highlight the Supertrap job part and choose Edit Job Part from the shortcut menu.
5. The Job Assistant automatically opens.
6. Go to the Printing Plates window.

7. The Printing Plates window shows the current plate template and the current paper
when you select position 1 in the List of Selected Plates.
8. Delete the old plate template by clicking the trash can icon and then choose the new
plate template and the new paper format in the resources.
Plate Template: SM74 from the Training group

Paper: Profigloss_90_70x50 from the Training group
9. Go to the Folding Schemes window.

10. To delete the old folding scheme, select the scheme in the list and click the trash can
icon. Select the new folding scheme from the resources.
Current scheme: F16-06_dd_4x2 from the Standard group.
11. Specify the gaps as per the illustration below.
12. Click Ready to apply the changes to the Signa job.

13. You can assess the format change result in the job window.
14. Choose File > Save as... and type a new name for the changed document.
15. Print all press sheets as PDF. Choose the Prosetter_SM74 Output Parameter Set from
the Training group in the Print Inspector.
Saving the Signa job as template
To process repeat jobs, the Prinect Signa Station provides the option to save an entire job
with all job parts or selected job parts as Templates.
A template contains all parameters of a job or job part, except for the job data and the
assigned pages.
1. To create a group in the Job Templates in the resource folder, select Jobs & Resources
> Resources & Machines in the menu.
2. Go to the Resources tab in the Browser window.
3. Enable the Job Templates option and choose New Group from the shortcut menu.
4. Type your own name as the group name.

5. To save an entire Signa job with all product parts as template, go to the currently open
Signa job using Jobs & Resources > job name in the menu or Current Job.
6. Highlight the job in the list and choose Save job as “Resource/Job Templates” ... from
the shortcut menu.
7. Choose the group you have created beforehand and type a name for the template in the
Group popup menu of the Save Job as Template window. Then click OK.
Creating new Signa jobs using a saved template
1. To create a new Signa job using a saved template, choose File > New…
2. To load a job template, click the folder icon next to the Job Number option in the Job
Data window.
3. Select the desired template in the Choose Job Template window and click OK to load
the template.
4. To load a product part template, go to the Product Part Definition window. Click the
folder icon next to the Name option in the Product Part Definition window.
5. Select the desired template in the Choose Product Part Template window and click OK
to load the template.
6. You only need to specify the job data in any case, regardless of whether you loaded a
Job Template or a Product Part Template.
7. Click Ready to create the Signa job.

Print Media Academy – Chapter 4: Exercise 3 – Plate template and marks 43
Chapter 4: Exercise 3 – Plate template and marks
Task
The objective of the present exercise is to extend or edit an already existing plate template.
In a first step we will add a a user-defined text mark to the SM52 plate template of the Train-
ing group.
In a second step we will replace the color control bar on the plate template with a composite
mark consisting of the DIPCO 4GS, DIPCO 6 GS and DIPCO 8 GS color control bars that
must first be imported into the Prinect SignaStation application.
To finish this exercise we will save assign the edited plate template a new name.
Plate Template: SM52 from the Training group

Color control bar: 4GS_F52_510x12.main, 6GS_F52_510x12.main and
8GS_F52_510x12.main from the
Signa_Training/ Marken/Format52/4GS_F52_510x12,
Signa_Training/ Marken/Format52/6GS_F52_510x12 and
Signa_Training/ Marken/Format52/8GS_F52_510x12 folders
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Edited plate template

Print Media Academy – Chapter 4: Exercise 3 – Plate Templates and Marks 45
Creating marks using the Marks Editor
Using the Marks Editor you can create simple graphics elements and save them as marks.
As a first step you will create a new Text mark containing a graphic element as well as sev-
eral text variables.
1. Select Jobs & Resources > Marks to go to the Marks Resources.
2. Click the gray arrow to show the contents of the Marks group.
3. You must first create a new group. To do so click the Marks item and choose New Group
4. The folder for the new group is created in the folder tree. Type your own name as the
group name.
5. To create a mark using the Marks Editor highlight your group and choose New Mark >
Marks Editor from the shortcut menu.
6. The Marks Editor opens.

1 Activate/deactivate object
2 Move object
3 Ellipse
4 Line tool
5 Rectangle
16 17
6 Fill color black
15
7 Fill color white
1 8 Text object
2 9 Delete object
3
10 Copy object
4
11 Center object
5
6
12 Fit canvas to bounding box
7 13 Move object forward one layer
8 14 Zoom tool (press Alt key to
9 unzoom)
10 15 Select object list
11
16 Properties dialog
12
17 Undo/Redo
13
14
7. Type My Text Mark in the Mark Name text box.
8. Choose the Undefined option in the Mark Type pop-up menu.
9. Choose the Lower left option as reference point in the Hotspot pop-up menu.
11. To edit the Canvas size click the Properties button. Specify the following values for the
canvas size and click OK when you are done.
Width: 150 mm
Height: 10 mm
Grid: 10 mm
The canvas size defines width and height of the mark to be positioned.
12. Choose the Rectangle tool and draw a rectangle. Then click the Properties button (16).
The Properties dialog text boxes indicate the values of the selected object.
13. Edit the values in the Properties dialog to match the following values:
Starting Point x: 0.0 mm

Starting Point y: 2.5 mm
Width: 5 mm
Height: 5 mm
Filled: enable
Ink Coverage: 100%
14. We will now add a text mark containing the current file name, the date, the time, the
color separation name, the sheet number, the surface, and the layer name.
15. Choose the Text tool from the tool bar and click the canvas.
16. The information mentioned before applies to text variables you can select in the Proper-
ties dialog. Click the Properties button.
17. The Text Properties dialog opens.
18. Edit the Starting Point, the Font parameters and the Fill color of the text mark to match
the following values:
X: 8 mm
Y: 4 mm
Font Type: Courier Bold
Font Size: 12
Ink Coverage: 100
Running Direction: Horizontal
19. To insert the variables for file name, date, time, color separation name, sheet number,
and surface click the Job Number, Job Name, Output Date, Output Time, Front and
Back / Top and Bottom, Sheet Number and Color buttons. The variables appear in the
Text box.
20. To insert the text variable for the layer name, choose the Layer name option next to the
Insert placeholder option in the popup menu.
21. Click Insert placeholder to insert the selected variable in the text box.
22. The placeholder is inserted in the text box.
23. Click OK to close the window and to apply the changes.
24. You return to the Marks Editor window. To save the mark, click Save and then the Close
button.
i All information will be printed on the sheet even if the text mark text does not appear in
its entirety in the Marks Editor.
25. The mark you have created appears in your Marks group folder.
Importing color control bars
You can always import your own marks into the program. Supported formats are PostScript,
EPS, and PDF. When importing marks, the Acrobat Distiller application automatically con-
verts PostScript and EPS files to PDF, which are then loaded into the program.
1. In the step that follows you will import the 6GS_F52_510x12 4GS_F52_510x12 and
8GS_F52_510x12 DIPCO mark available as EPS in the
Signa_Training/Marken/Dipco2.1/ EPS_MAC/CPC21_24/SM52 folder.
2. Select Jobs & Resources > Marks in the menu to go to the Marks Resources window.
3. Click the gray arrow to show the contents of the Marks group.
4. To import a mark click your marks group and choose New Mark > Marks Import from the
shortcut menu.
You can also choose File > Create Resource > New Mark > Marks Import in the menu
to import a mark.
In this case a window appears where you must first choose the desired Resource
Group as the target for the mark import.
5. The Marks Import Editor opens.
6. Click the Source... button.

7. Browse to the Signa_Training/ Marken/Format52/4GS_F52_510x12 folder.
8. Highlight the 4GS_F52_510x12.main file and click Open.
9. As this is an EPS file the Acrobat Distiller application automatically opens and converts
it to PDF.
10. After successful conversion the mark appears in the Marks Editor.
The original PDF file name is automatically chosen as mark name. You can edit this
name as desired.
11. Assign the mark the Color Control Mark (with AutoClip to sujet) option using the Marks
Type popup menu.
12. Choose the Lower middle option as reference point in the Hotspot popup menu.
13. Click the Save and then the Close button to save the imported mark. The mark you
have imported appears in your Marks group folder.
14. Repeat steps 4 through 13 each to import the 6GS_F52_510x12.main and

8GS_F52_510x12.main Marks from the respective folders.
15. After successful marks import, all three marks appear in your marks folder.
Since the Dipco marks were specially prepared, selecting the .main file automatically loads
any information that is vital for processing – namely subsequent output – composite PDF
files as well as preseparated PDF documents.
i
Creating a composite mark
In the next step you will create a composite mark from the three color control bars you have
imported.
The benefit of composite marks over other color control bars is the fact that you only need
one file for creating 4-, 6- or 8-color jobs. To save time and to eliminate a potential error
source, Prinect SignaStation will automatically choose the correct mark for output. The pro-
cedure will be explained on the basis of a composite mark for SM102. Of course, autoregis-
ter composite marks can be created in this way as well.
1. Highlight the 4GS_F52_510x12 mark in its marks folder and choose Edit Mark from the
shortcut menu.
2. The Marks Import Editor opens.
3. Rename the mark to Dipco_SM52_CompositeMark.

4. To add the 6GS_F52_510x12 color mark, click the black triangle in front of the Compos-
ite Mark option and then click the folder icon to load the next mark from the marks
resources.
5. Highlight the mark named 6GS_F52_510x12 in its marks folder and then click OK.
6. The added mark appears in the Composite Mark list of the Marks Import Editor.
7. Click the folder icon again and add the 8GS_F52_510x12 mark from your marks folder
to the composite mark.
8. To save the composite mark, click the Save and then the Close button.
9. The composite mark appears in your marks folder.

Editing and saving plate templates
In this exercise step, we will edit an existing plate template – SM52 in the Training group –
and save it under a new name.
The color control bar on the plate template is to be replaced with the DIPCO color control
mark we have imported, and our Text Mark is to be positioned on the plate template.
1. Select Jobs & Resources > Plate Templates in the menu to go to the Plate Templates
resource window.
2. Display the contents of the Plate Templates/Training folder.
3. Highlight SM52 and choose Edit Plate Template from the shortcut menu.
4. The Plate Template Editor opens.
5. To delete the old color control bar go to the Marks tab.
6. Highlight the Colorbar-4C mark in the Marks List or click the positioned mark directly on
the plate template.
7. To replace the mark with the newly imported mark, click the arrow icon.
8. Highlight the mark named Dipco_SM52_CompositeMark in its marks folder and con-
form your selection with OK.
9. The following dialog asks you if the existing mark is to be replaced with the newly
selected mark. Confirm with Yes.
10. The color control bar replaces the old control bar and its width automatically adapts to
the subject width.
11. Highlight the color control bar in the list and move it downward by 10 mm. To do so,
specify a value of 5 mm in the Position Y: text box.
12. Go to the Marks Resources tab.

Then drag the Text Mark from the marks folder and drop it on the lower left paper
hotspot.
13. Now that you have placed the text mark on the plate template you can define the mark’s
position in relation to the reference point.
14. Go to the Marks tab.
15. All marks positioned on the plate template appear in the Marks List. Highlighting a mark
in the list automatically selects the mark in question in the preview window. Selecting a
mark in the preview window automatically highlights the mark in question in the Marks
List.
16. To better assess the result, you can scale the view by either selecting the desired zoom
i factor in the Zoom popup menu or by clicking the Magnifier tool in the toolbar (the tool-
bar is located at the window bottom) and clicking the area you wish to magnify.
17. To return to the complete Preview choose the Auto option from the Zoom popup menu.
18. Now highlight the text mark in the list. Select the Plate option as reference point and
move the mark to the following coordinates:
Position X: 20 mm
Position Y: 48 mm
19. To save the plate template under a new name go to the Plate Template tab.
20. Type SM52_CompositeMark in the Name text box as the new name.
21. Click Save and then the Close button to save the plate template under a new name.
22. The new plate template is located – like the plate template highlighted before – in the
Training plate template group.
Print Media Academy – Chapter 5: Exercise 4 – Imposition 67
Chapter 5: Exercise 4 – Imposition
Task
The objective of the present exercise is to impose a 4-page cover in front and back printing
using a 4-page scheme created in the Imposition mode. All resources/default settings
required for this exercise have already been created. We will be using the plate template
you edited in the last exercise.
Job data:
Job code: 0002
Job name HD booklet
Customer Code: 0001

Name: Cover
Page Total: 4
Working Mode: Imposition
First press sheet: 1
First folding sheet: 1
First page: 1
Master pages:
Page format: A4 with 3 mm bleed
Binding Methods
Binding Method: Saddlestitch
Creeping: disabled
Print control elements: Cut and fold marks
Printing plates:
Printing plate: SM52_CompositeMark from the Training group
Paper definition: Zander_135_50x35 from the Training group
Folding schemes:
Scheme: F04-01_ui_2x1 from the Standard group
PDF document: HD_Stadt_dt_engl.pdf
Output parameter set: Prosetter_SM52 from the Training group

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Cover: Front
Cover: Back
Creating a new Signa job in the Imposition mode
1. To create a new job using the Job Assistant choose File > New…
3. The Job Assistant automatically opens once you choose the New… menu item.
4. Enter the Job Code and the Job Name according to the task in the Job Data window.
Job code = 0002

Job name = HD booklet
5. Load the customer data set of the Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG customer from the
Resources.
6. Click Next card to go to the Job Part Definition window.

7. In the present job part only the booklet cover is to be imposed. Paper and printing press
for the cover differ from the paper and the printing press used for the inner pages. Type
the Cover designation in the Name text box.
Choose the Imposition option as the Working mode.
Type 4 pages in the Page Total text box and confirm your entry by pressing the Tab key.
8. To facilitate the page assignment at a later stage, we will now be editing the page
names/page index for the pages.
9. To do so, highlight the four pages in the Page Names List and choose Change Page
Names… from the shortcut menu.
10. Type C for cover in the New Name text box and click Apply.
11. The new index appears in the Page Name list.
12. Click Next Card to go to the Master Page window.

13. Choose the A4 page size from the resources and type 3 mm in the Bleed text box.
15. Choose the Saddlestitch option in the Binding Method pop-up menu.
Enable the Cut Marks and Folding Mark options in the Automatic Placement of Print
Control Elements section.
17. Choose the SM52_CompositeMark plate template from the Training group that you cre-
ated in Exercise 3.
18. Choose the Sheetwise (Front and Back Sheet) option in the Placing Mode pop-up
menu.
19. Load the paper named Zander_135_50x35 from the Training resource group.
21. Load the F04-01_ui_2x1 scheme from the standard scheme resources.
22. The application determines the settings for the gaps from the master page settings in
the Job Assistant, i.e. the bleed of 3 mm is imported. The folding sheet is automatically
centered on the paper since the AutoPosition Sujet and Center Sujet options are
enabled in the Printing Plates window.
23. Click Ready to create the job with the settings made with the Job Assistant.
24. To save the current job choose File > Save as… and save the Signa job with the sug-
gested name in the SignaJobs folder.
25. Choose File > Import > Documents… to load the PDF document.
26. You automatically go to the folder for loading PDF documents defined in the Prefer-
ences.
27. Highlight the HD_Stadt_dt_engl.pdf file in the list and click Open.
28. The imported document appears in the Contents tab in the PDF Documents group.
29. The PDF document contains all pages required for the cover and the inner pages (Exer-
cise 5). In a next step we will assign the current press sheet the cover pages (pages 1
and 2, pages 35 and 36). There are several ways to do this.
a) In the Browser window go to the Contents tab.

Click the gray arrow preceding the file name to show the individual pages of the
HD_Stadt_dt_engl. pdf document.
Highlight pages 1 and 2.
Now choose Assign Pages from the shortcut menu.
b) The first two pages are being loaded to pages 1 and 2 of the press sheet.
Use the scroll bar to go to the document end.

The last two pages are being loaded to pages 3 and 4 of the press sheet.
b) From the Lists window go to the Not assigned tab.

Show the individual document pages by doubleclicking the document in the No.
column.
Highlight pages 1 and 2 of the document and choose Add Pages from the shortcut
menu.
The first two pages are being loaded to pages 1 and 2 of the press sheet.
Use the scroll bar to go to the document end.

The last two pages are being loaded to pages 3 and 4 of the press sheet.
c) You can also assign individual pages by dragging and dropping them in the
Browser window using the Contents tab to the respective page in the Press Sheet,
Folding Sheet, Page List, and Press Sheet List graphics windows.
To do so, show the desired Graphics window. In our example we will show the Page
List window and assign the pages from the Contents browser window.
You can thus easily assign pages under visual control and replace them in case
corrections were made.
30. After having assigned all pages, go to the Press Sheet window to inspect the current
job.
31. Click the icon at the bottom of the press sheet window to view the back signature.
32. Choose File > Save to save the latest changes to the document.
33. The last step is to print the job exercise to a PDF file. To do so choose File > Print Job.
34. Choose the Prosetter_SM52 output parameter set from the Training group in the Print
Inspector.
35. Highlight Press Sheet 1 in the Press Sheet List of the Print Inspector and click Save to
start output.
36. You automatically go to the folder for saving PDF documents defined in the Prefer-
ences.
37. Click Save to start output.
38. A message will inform you once printing has been successfully completed. Click OK to
close the message window.
To hide the window for subsequent print jobs, enable the Do not show this window
again option.
39. Open the PDF file from the C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application
Data\Heidelberger\PrinectSignaStation_2\output (Windows) or start
volume\Users\Shared\Heidelberger\PrinectSignaStation_2\output (Macintosh) folder
in Adobe Acrobat.
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Chapter 6: Exercise 5 – Job part/automatic imposition
Task
In this exercise we will add the inner 32 pages to the result of Exercise 4. For this purpose,
we will create the inner pages as a job part in the automatic imposition mode.
As the inner pages are to be printed on another paper type than the cover, a new paper for-
mat must first be created in the resources.
Inner pages paper definition

Name: Profisilk_90_70x50
Grammage [g/m2]: 90
3
Volume: [cm /g]: 1
Thickness: 0.08 mm
Grade: Type 2, matt-coated
Width: 700 mm
Height: 500 mm
Data sheet: Papers
Paper name Grammage Volume Thickness Grade
Profisilk 80 g/m2 1 0.07 mm matt art printing
Zanders 135 g/m2 1 0.11 mm glossy art printing
Creato postcard
200 g/m2 1 0.18 mm matt coated
cardboard
Profigloss 90 g/m2 1 0.07 mm glossy art printing

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Name: Inner pages
Page Total: 32
First press sheet: 2
First folding sheet: 2
First page: 3
Master pages:
Binding Methods
Creeping: disabled
Printing plates:
Paper definition: Profisilk_90_70x50 from your own group
Folding schemes:
Scheme: F08-07_li_2x2 from the Standard group
Head gap: 20 mm
PDF document: HD_Stadt_dt_engl.pdf

Surfaces:
Press sheet 2:
Press sheet 3:
Press sheet 4:
Press sheet 5:
Creating new paper
In a first step we will create a new paper format.
1. Select Jobs & Resources > Resources & Machines in the menu to go to the Resources
& Machines window to create a new paper.
2. Go to the Resources tab.
3. Click the gray arrow to show the contents of the Papers group.
4. Create a new group. To do so click the Papers item and choose New Group from the
shortcut menu.
group name.
6. To create a paper click the group you just created and choose New paper from the
shortcut menu.
7. The Paper Editor opens.
8. Type the Profisilk_90_70x50 designation in the Name text box.
9. Type the following values for this exercise in the Paper Editor.
Order number: 100200

Mark name: Profisilk
Order number: 100200
Grammage [g/m2]: 90
Volume: [cm3/g]: Value is automatically calculated
Thickness: 0.08 mm
ISO surface: Type 2 matt-coated
Width: 700 mm
Height: 500 mm
10. To create the paper, click Save and then the Close button.
11. The paper you have created appears in your group folder.
Creating a new product part (automatic imposition)
1. Open the Signa job you created in the last exercise by choosing File > Open…
2. A new job part is to be added to the inner pages.
3. Go to the Product Part tab in the Browser window.
4. Click the Job entry in the list and open the shortcut menu.
5. Now choose New Product Part from the shortcut menu.
6. The Job Assistant opens without the Job Data window because we are dealing with a
job part. You already defined the job data for the cover.
7. Type the Inner pages designation in the Name text box of the Job Part Definition win-
dow.
8. Choose the Autom. Imposition option as the Working mode.

9. Type the following values in the text boxes of the Start Conditions area:
First Press Sheet: 2
First Folding Sheet: 2
First Page: 3
11. Like with the cover you do not need to edit any of the values in this window because the
inner pages were also set up in the A4 format with a 3 mm bleed.
13. Choose the Saddlestitch option in the Binding Method popup menu.
14. Enable the Cut Marks, Folding Marks and Folding Crosses options in the Automatic
Placement of Print Control Marks section.
16. Choose the SM74 data set from the Training group in the Plate Template resource
folder and confirm your selection by clicking OK.
18. To define the Paper Format choose the paper you have created from the Papers
resource folder of your group folder and confirm your selection by clicking OK.
19. To center the folding sheet on the defined paper format, you must make sure to enable
the AutoPosition Sujet and Center Sujet in the Sujet Position on Paper area.
20. The settings in the Printing Plates window should now match the screenshot below.

22. Choose the F08-07_li_2x2 scheme from the Standard group in the Schemes folder as
the current scheme and confirm your selection by clicking OK.
23. Specify a head gap of 20 mm in the schematic view.
24. Click Ready to create the job part once you have finished making settings in the Job
Assistant.
25. Go to the Product Parts tab in the Browser window and highlight the Inner pages prod-
uct part in the Job List if the job window does not show the current product part.
26. Open the following dialogs: Browser = Jobs, Inspector = Job Part Inspector, Graphics =
Press Sheet and Lists = Press Sheets. Your screen should now look like this:
27. To save the changes choose File > Save.
28. The current inner pages job part comprises a folding and a press sheet at present. The
folding and press sheets required for the job will be automatically generated when you
add the remaining pages. Once a sheet is completely filled with pages in the Autom.
Imposition mode a new identical sheet is generated as soon as new pages are added.
29. To load pages into the sheet go to the Contents tab in the Browser window.
30. Click the gray arrow preceding the file name to show the individual pages of the
HD_Stadt_dt_engl.pdf document.
31. Doubleclick the caption to maximize the Browser window.

32. Now highlight pages 3 through 34 and choose Assign Pages from the shortcut menu.
33. Go to the Lists window in the Folding Sheets or Press Sheets tab to see how many
pages have been created.
34. Highlighting a folding or press sheet in the list causes it to be immediately shown in the
graphics window.
35. To save the latest changes choose File > Save.
36. Go to the first press sheet and print a reduced copy of the front press sheet on the
LaserWriter in your seminar room.
37. Go to the Press Sheets tab in the Graphics window and choose Graphic > Print….
Print Media Academy – Chapter 7: Exercise 6 – Creating machine parameters 95
Chapter 7: Exercise 6 – Creating machine parameters
Task
In this exercise we will create new machine parameters for a platesetter and a press.
Create a new group for each of the new data sets. Type your own name for each of the group
names.
Creating a platesetter
Name: Topsetter102PF_SM102
IPR/Query File: Topsetter F_PF_102.ipr
Data sheet: Platesetters
Imagesetter Press: Plate size Imaging Window
Topsetter102 PF SM102 / CD102 1030 x 790 1030 x 766
Topsetter102 PF CD74F 745 x 660 745 x 636
Topsetter102 PF SM74 / CD74C 745 x 605 745 x 581
Topsetter102 PF SM52 525 x 459 525 x 434
Topsetter74 CD74F 745 x 660 745 x 630
Topsetter74 SM74 / CD74C 745 x 605 745 x 575
Topsetter74 SM52 525 x 459 525 x 429
Prosetter102 SM102 / CD102 1030 x 790 1030 x 790
Prosetter102 CD74F 745 x 660 745 x 660
Prosetter102 SM74 / CD74C 745 x 605 745 x 605
Prosetter102 SM52 525 x 459 525 x 459
Topsetter74 SM52 525 x 459 525 x 459
Polysetter QM46 340 x 505 340 x 495

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Creating a sheetfed press:
Name: SM102_8
Number of ink zones: 32
Width of ink zone: 32.5
Plate format – width: 1030
Plate size – length: 790
Printable Area – lead edge of print: 43.0
Printable Area – tail edge of print: 37
Print Margin: 5
Gripper Margin: 10
Perfecting: enable
Data sheet: Sheetfed presses
Press Plate Leading Gripper Max. Max. Number Width Tail Lat.
edge of paper printing ink ink edge of distance
print format zones zones print
GTO46 450 x 370 35 8 - 10 460 x 330 445 x 310 16 32.5 25 2,5
GTO52 510 x 400 35 8 - 10 520 x 360 505 x 340 16 32.5 25 2,5
SM52 525 x 459 58 8 - 10 520 x 370 520 x 360 16 32.5 41 2,5
MO 650 x 550 47.6 8 - 10 650 x 480 645 x 472 23 32.5 30,4 2,5
SM74 /
745 x 605 59.5 8 - 10 740 x 530 740 x 512 23 32.5 33,5 2,5
CD74C
CD74 745 x 660 43 8 - 10 740 x 610 740 x 585 23 32.5 32 2,5
SM102/
1030 x 790 52 10 - 12 1020 x 720 1020 x 710 32 32.5 28 5
52x28
SM102/
1030 x 790 43 10 - 12 1020 x 720 1020 x 710 32 32.5 37 5
43x37
Creating a platesetter
Go to the Filmsetter and Platesetter resources to define properties such as Imagesetter

Type, Rip Type, Material, Format and Imaging Window as well as the punch settings of your
output devices. Entry can occur manually or by means of an IPR/Query file.
1. In a first step we will create the data set for the Topsetter102PF_SM102.
2. Select Jobs & Resources > Resources & Machines in the menu to go to the Machines
tab in the Browser window.
3. Click the gray arrow to show the contents of the Platesetters group.
4. Create a new group. To do so click the Platesetters item and choose New Group from
the shortcut menu.
group name.
6. To create a new data set click the group you just created and choose New Platesetter
Properties from the shortcut menu.
7. The Platesetter Editor opens.
8. Now enter all information necessary for the platesetter in question in the Platesetter
Editor.
9. Type the Topsetter102PF_SM102 designation in the Name text box.
10. To load the platesetter parameters from file highlight the IPR/Query File option in the
Mode for Imagesetter Definition section.
i The pertaining RIP can create the IPR/Query file. Save the query file in the following
folder:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Heidelberger\PrinectSignaSta-

tion_2\ Ipr_Qry
Start volume\Users\Shared\Heidelberger\PrinectSignaStation_2\Ipr_Qry
11. To load the query file click the icon next to the Path option of the IPR/Query File
section.
12. Choose the file matching the output device (here: Topsetter F_PF_102.ipr) in the
Ipr_Qry folder and click Open.
13. The file loaded will correctly complete all parameters.
14. Click Save to save the entries.
15. The parameter set you have created appears in your group folder.
Creating a sheetfed press:
When creating a new parameter set for a sheetfed press you define the maximum plate for-
mat, the print lead edge, the gripper edge, the maximum paper and printing format as well as
the number of ink zones and the ink zone width.
1. Create a new data set for the ISM102_8 sheetfed press.
2. Select Jobs & Resources > Resources & Machines in the menu to go to the Machines
3. Click the gray arrow to show the contents of the Sheetfed Presses group.
4. You must first create a new group. To do so click the Sheetfed Presses item and choose
New Group from the shortcut menu.
group name.
6. To create a new data set click the group you just created and choose New Sheetfed
Press Properties from the shortcut menu.
7. The Sheetfed Press Editor opens.
8. Specify all necessary information regarding the SM102_8 sheetfed press.
9. Type the SM102_8 designation in the Name text box.
10. Complete the dialog with the following values:
Ink zone
Number: 32
Width: 32.5
Plate size
Width: 1030 mm
Length: 790 mm
Printable Area
Lead Edge of Print: 43 mm
Tail Edge of Print*: 37 mm
Left Margin**: 5 mm
Right Margin**: 5 mm
Gripper Margin: 10 mm
Enable the Perfecting option in the Module section.
You also find these details in the Data sheet: Sheetfed Presses table at the beginning of
the present exercise or in the Appendix chapter.
* Tail Edge of Print: is the upper plate distance to the print tail edge and can be calcu-
lated as follows:
– plate height = – 790 mm

– max. printing format height = – 710 mm
– lead edge of print: = – 43 mm
= 37 mm
** The print margin is calculated as follows:
– plate width = – 1030 mm

– max. printing format width = – 1020 mm
= – 1010 mm
center (10:2) = 35 mm
11. Verify your entries against the figure below.
12. Click Save to save the new data set.
13. The new plate template you have created appears in your group folder.
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Chapter 8: Exercise 7 – Creating output parameters and

plate templates
Task
In this exercise we will create a new output parameter set for output and a new plate tem-
plate.
Create a new group for each of the new data sets. Type your own name for each of the group
names.
Creating an output parameter set
General
Name: Topsetter102_SM102
Imagesetter type: Platesetter
Data set: Topsetter102PF_SM102 from your own group
Material: SM102
Workflow: PDF
Output folder path: Default folder
Options
Output: One job per press sheet or web
Visual Effects Enable Proof color
Scale: 100%
Tiling disable
Finishing
Staple Shape: Butted
Number of Stitches 2
Workflow with DataControl
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Creating a plate template
Name: SM102_CompositeMark
Press: SM102_8 from your sheetfed press group
Output parameter set: Topsetter102_SM102 from your output parameter set group
Marks to be positioned
Dipco_SM102_CompositeMark color control mark from the Dipco 2.1_SM102 group
Registration marks (Arc) from the Standard group
PullLay from the Standard group
Auto registration mark 4AR_10x90 from the Autoregister_1.4 group
Text mark from your own Marks group
Platte control bar PKS_Elektra_12F_V6.61a from the Plate group
Creating output parameters
In the Output Parameter Sets resource folder you define device- or job-specific output
parameters.
You can define more than one output parameter set for an output device, e.g. differing by the
material used or enabled/disabled CIP4 data.
1. In the following step we will create an output parameter set for the
Topsetter102_SM102 platesetter.
3. Click the gray arrow to show the contents of the Output Parameter Sets group.
4. You must first create a new group. To do so click the Output Parameter Sets item and
choose New Group from the shortcut menu.
group name.
6. To create a new output parameter set click the group you just created and choose New
Output Parameter Set from the shortcut menu.
7. The Output Parameter Set Editor opens. The window features four tabs: General,
Options, Punches, and Finishing.
8. Type the Topsetter102_SM102 designation in the Name text box.
9. Enable the Platesetter option.

10. Load the platesetter parameter set named Topsetter102PF_SM102 from your own
Platesetter group folder and confirm your selection by clicking OK.
11. Loading the platesetter data set reads in all possible material formats. You must select
the SM102 material.
12. Select the Other device option in the Workflow area using the Device popup menu and
the PDF option using the Variant popup menu.This selection causes the Punches tab
to be automatically hidden.
13. Use the default folder to save PDF files.
14. Go to the Options tab.
15. Click the One job per press sheet or web option in the Output area.
16. Click the ProofColor option in the Visual Effects section to automatically verify the press
sheet’s registration against a form proof.
17. Enable the Imagesetter Imaging Window option in the Imaging Size section.
18. Go to the Finishing tab.
19. Enable the Generate PPF files option in the Output folder for PPF files area and select
the default folder.
21. Choose the Butted/Normal option in the Staple Shape popup menu.
22. Leave the Number of Stitches at 2.

23. Enable the with DataControl option in the Finishing tab.
24. Click Save and then the Close button.
25. The parameter set you have created appears in your group folder.
Creating a plate template
The plate templates are saved in the Plate Templates resource folder; they comprise the
plate format as such, but also parameters defining the maximum paper width and height, the
baseline, the gripper edge, and the maximum imaging window. In addition, a plate template
comprises all marks a default Signa job should contain.
The Appendix shows a plate template with all necessary elements.
1. In the following step we will create a new plate template for the SM102 sheetfed press.
2. Select Jobs & Resources > Plate Templates in the menu to go to the Plate Templates
resource window.
3. Click the gray arrow to show the contents of the Plate Templates group.
4. Create a new group. To do so click the Plate Templates item and choose New Group
group name.
6. To create a plate template click the group you just created and choose New Plate Tem-
plate from the shortcut menu.
7. The Plate Template Editor opens.
8. Type the SM102_CompositeMark designation in the Name text box.
9. Load the sheetfed press parameter set named SM102_8 from your own Sheetfed
Press group folder and confirm your selection by clicking OK.
10. Choose the SM102_SM102 data set from your Output Parameter Sets group folder as
the output parameter set.
11. Then adapt the width and height of the imaging window to match the Plate width and
height.
Positioning marks on the plate template
There are several ways to position marks on a plate template. You can either load the marks
in the Marks tab and position them, or you can simply drag and drop marks from the Marks
Resources to the template and then position them using the Marks tab.
You will see hotspots – magnetic anchors – allowing the marks to be automatically posi-
tioned when you drop marks on the plate template. The hotspots are printing plate-, paper-
or subject-specific.
A mark positioned, for example, on a paper hotspot will automatically change its position
when the paper size is reduced or increased in the current Signa job.
Choose a Subject Hotspot to ensure the marks always adapt to the currently used folding
sheet/assembly block.
Changes always occur from the selected reference point when you change the X- and Y-
i position using the Marks tab. Positive values will move the selected mark upward or to the
right, negative values move the mark downward or to the left.
1. We will first position the color control bar.
2. Go to the Marks Resources tab in the Plate Template Editor, drag the
Dipco_SM102_CompositeMark color control bar from the Dipco 2.1_SM102 marks
folder and drop it on the upper middle subject hotspot.
3. Release the mouse button when the mark snaps into place.
4. Go to the Standart folder to position the registration marks.
5. Drag the Arc mark and drop it on the upper left subject hotspot.
6. Release the mouse button when the mark snaps into place.
7. Place three additional registration marks on the subject: lower left, lower right, and
upper right.
8. Choose the PullLay mark in the default marks folder to position the pull lay and drop it
on the lower right paper hotspot.
9. To set the Slugline drag the Custom text mark from the marks group folder and drop it
on the lower left paper hotspot.
10. Go to the Autoregister_1.4 marks folder to set the Auto registration mark.
11. Drag the 4AR_10x90 mark and drop it on the lower left paper hotspot.
12. Position the 4AR_10x90 mark once again on the plate template. Choose the lower right
paper corner as the hotspot.
13. Finally set the plate control mark.
13. Display the contents of the Plate marks folder.
14. Drag the PKS_Elektra_12F_V6.61a mark and drop it on the middle lower printing plate
hotspot.
15. Now that all marks are on the plate template you can define the position in relation to
the respective reference point.

17. All marks positioned on the plate template appear in the Marks List. Highlighting a mark
in the list automatically selects the mark in question in the preview window. Selecting a
mark in the preview window automatically highlights the mark in question in the Marks
i
List.
18. Highlight the color control mark in the list and move it upward by 15 mm. To do so, spec-
ify a value of 15 mm in the Position Y: text box.
19. To facilitate assessing the result you can scale the view by either choosing the desired
factor in the Zoom popup menu or by dragging a rectangle over the desired area with
the Magnifier tool.
20. Move the registration marks as follows and scale them down to 60%:
Lower left registration mark: X-position: –30 Y-position: 30

Upper left registration mark: X-position: –30 Y-position: –30
Lower right registration mark: X-position: 30 Y-position: 30
Upper right registration mark: X-position: 30 Y-position: –30
21. The auto registration mark should have a distance of ca. 10 mm from the margin. Move
the auto registration marks as follows:
Lower left auto registration mark: X-position: 15 Y-position: 100

Lower right auto registration mark:X-position: -15 Y-position: 100
22. Position the text mark. Specify a value of 20 mm in the Position X: and 10 mm in the
Position Y: text box.
23. Position the PullLay in Position Y: 80 mm and scale down the mark to 60%.
24. Finally position the plate control bar. Choose the Lower middle option as Reference
Point and type the value of 20 mm in the Position Y: text box.
25. Click Save and then the Close button to generate the plate template and to close the
Plate Template Editor window.
26. The new plate template you have created appears in your group folder.
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Chapter 9: Exercise 8 – Montage
Task
In this exercise, you will learn how to easily and quickly create multiple 1ups from a file in the
Montage working mode. The 1ups are positioned with a gap and assembled in a single form
so that there is only one front form.
The PDF document that is to be used for this exercise neither contains a correct trim box nor
was it saved centered. In order to allow the 1up to be positioned correctly, the Trimmed Size
is specified using the Document Inspector before the page is assigned.
The Assembly Block should then be positioned in the center of the selected paper.
However, the Preferences of the Prinect SignaStation program must first be adjusted for this
exercise and the following one.
Job Data
Job code: 0003
Job Name: Postcard
Customer: Maggi Kochstudio from the Training group

Name: Tomatoes
Working Mode: Montage
Printing plates:
Printing plate: SM102_CompositeMark from your own group folder
Placing Mode: Single-sided
Paper definition: Creato_200_88x63 from the Training group
Assembly blocks:
1up size: 148x105 mm
Trim: 3 mm
Autom. Crop Marks: enable
Same Content for All 1ups: enable
Fill Signature: Completely
Distance to 1up X: 6 mm
Distance to 1up Y: 6 mm
Position X: 0 mm
Position Y: 0 mm
PDF document: V01_4c_1Nutzen.pdf

Size: 148x105 mm
Document size: 297x210 mm
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Adjusting preferences
The following PDF documents are downloaded from the Signa_Training folder, which is
located on drive C: (Windows) or Macintosh HD (Macintosh). In addition, when the PDF doc-
uments are downloaded, the preview should be created automatically. These settings are
specified using the Preferences.
1. Start the Prinect Signa Station application.
2. Choose File > Preferences…
3. Go to the Paths tab.
4. In order to change the folder for downloading PDF documents, click the icon of the
Contents option.
5. Windows users switch to drive C: using the Source pop-up menu.
Highlight the Signa_Training folder in the list and click Apply.

Macintosh users switch to drive Users using the Source pop-up menu.
Highlight user signa there and click Apply.
Highlight the Documents folder and click Apply.
Highlight the Signa_Training folder and click Apply.

6. The selected path appears in the Preferences > Paths window.
7. Go to the Name tab.
8. During these Prinect Signa Station exercises, you will learn how to work with several
layers. In this exercise, the German/English language version of a brochure is
processed in a job part. In order to simplify the assignment of the documents to the indi-
vidual layers, rename layers 1, 2 and 3.
9. To change the name of the first layer, click the Name text box of the first layer.
10. Enter Images as the designation.
11. Use the Tab key to jump to the name field of the second layer. Enter German as the des-
ignation and, for the third layer, the designation English.
12. Go to the Processes tab and enable the Automatic Preview option in the Preview Attrib-
utes area.
13. To save the changes in the Preferences, click Save and then Close in the Preferences
window.
Generating a montage
1. To create a new Signa job, choose File > New…
2. In the Job Assistant, enter the Job Number and the Job Name according to the task in
the Job Data window.
3. Load the customer data set of the Maggi Kochstudio customer from the Resources of
the Training group.
5. In the Name text box, enter the designation Tomatoes and enable the option Montage in
the Working Mode region.
6. Click Continue to go to the Printing Plate window.
7. Select the SM102_CompositeMark plate template from your folder of plate templates.
8. Choose the Single-sided option in the Placing Mode pop-up menu.
9. Choose the paper with the designation Creato_200_88x63 from the Training folder.
10. To open the Assembly Blocks window, click the Next Card button.
11. In order to be able to specify the size of the trimmed size of the 1up to be processed, an
object must be generated. To do this, click the icon next to the No assembly block
defined pop-up menu.
A dialog in which you can enter the designation for the new assembly element opens.
Then click Apply to save the designation for the element you have typed.
12. After you have defined an assembly element, you can enter the width and height of the
elements in the 1up Definition region.
13. Enter a width of 148 mm and a height of 105 mm.

14. Enable the Autom. crop marks option so that the trim marks can be generated automat-
ically for each 1up.
15. To have the same contents for each 1up, enable the Same Content for All 1ups option in
the Assembly Block Parameters area.
16. Now the sheet is to be filled automatically with this 1up and the distances between the
individual 1ups are to be specified.
17. Click Completely of the Fill Sheet option to fill the sheet.
18. To specify the distances between the individual 1ups, enter 6 mm in each Distances
region X and Y.
19. The resulting press sheet appears in the thumbnail view in the right window section of
the dialog. Due to the distances the number of 1ups no longer fits on the paper.
20. Click Completely again to recalculate the number of 1ups: in this case, one row is also
removed.
21. To create the current assembly, click Ready.

22. The following result should now appear in the Press Sheet graphics window.
23. Choose File > Save As... to save the job to the predefined folder.
24. Save the job under the proposed file name.

Positioning an assembly block in the center of the paper
In the next step, the assembly block is to be positioned in the center of the selected paper.
1. To determine the right and upper edges of the assembly block for the selected paper,
show the sheet dimensions.
2. Show the Press Sheet graphics window and click the symbol in the lower part of the
graphics window.
3. Go to the Dimensions tab. Enable options Dimensions and Folding Sheet/Assembly

Block Positions. Confirm the changes by clicking OK.
4. The Press Sheet graphics window now shows the precise dimensions of the assembly
block in relation to the paper and to the printing plate.
5. Go to the Press Sheet Inspector to center the assembly block. Click the Both Directions
button to use the outer assembly block corners for centering the block.
6. Choose File > Save to save the changes.

Defining favorites folders
To provide fast access to particular folders you can add Favorites to the default path speci-
fied in the Preferences when saving or opening a Signa Job or importing PDF documents. In
this section we describe how to add favorites when opening a PDF document.
1. Select File > Import > Documents or, in the Browser window, go to the Contents tab and
choose Documents using the shortcut menu.
2. To add the currently opened folder to the favorites, click the triangle on the right window
side.
3. The Favorites list appears.

4. Click the triangle of the Favorites option to add the Signa_Training folder to the
favorites. The folder then appears in the list.
Assigning pages without defining a trim box
1. Select file V01_4c_1Nutzen.pdf from the Signa_Training > Uebung8 folder and click
Open in the Open dialog.
2. The preview is created while the document is being downloaded.
3. In the Graphics window, go to the Document tab.
4. Show the Document Inspector using Inspectors > Document Inspector and go to the
Page tab.
6. The current document size (297x210 mm) is shown in the Trim Box region of the Docu-
ment Inspector. If you click the page in the Document graphics window, the trimmed
size is indicated by an orange frame.
7. Before the page is assigned to the press sheet, the trimmed size is to be set to
148x105 mm with 3 mm trim.
If you change the values in the Page tab of the Document Inspector, you can follow the
changes directly in the Document graphics window.
8. Change the width to 148 mm and the height to 105 mm.
The change in size is executed starting from the lower left corner of the document.
9. After this step, the trim size is correct, but the clip path to be printed has not yet been
specified.
10. Since the object is located at the start of the cut, the trim box must be moved 3 mm to
the right. To do so, specify a value of 3 mm in the Rel. Position X: text box.
11. To position the trim box on the correct Y position, specify a value of 102 in the Rel. Posi-
tion Y: text box.
The value that is entered is the result of the following calculation:
If you subtract the final trim size (105 mm) from the actual document height (210 mm),
the trim box is located precisely on the upper edge of the 1up (210 mm –105 mm =
105 mm).
In other words, the trim box must now be moved downward by 3 mm (105 mm –3 mm =
102 mm). In this way, the trim box is centered directly on the 1up.
12. To assign the page to the press sheet, go to the Contents tab in the Browser window.
13. To load the page to the press sheet, simply drag the page onto the press sheet window.
14. Show the Press Sheet graphics window. The result should be as follows:
15. Save the changes to the document.
16. Print the Signajob as a PDF.
17. To do this, use the output parameter set that you generated in the previous exercise.
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Chapter 10: Exercise 9 – 1up repetition and gang run form
Task
In the first step of this exercise we will create a new customer data set for Gordon Ltd.
In the second exercise step you will learn how to create 1ups from several documents of
different size and how to position them on the press sheet. The montage is to be set up as
Single-sided. The individual 1ups are positioned on the gap and the marks automatically
created while 1ups are generated. The assembly blocks generated by the Assistant are
automatically aligned to each other on the press sheet.
Job data:
Job code: 0004
Job Name: Gang run form
Customer: from data set
General product part information:

Name: Gordon and Canon
Printing plates:
Assembly blocks
PDF document: Size: 1ups Left, right, top and bottom
margins
Gordons_Briefbogen_4c.pdf* 210x297 mm 1 1x1 10 mm each
Stundenplan_4c.pdf 297x210 mm 1 1x1 10 mm each
Canon_Etikett_4c.pdf 113x87 mm 24 4x6 10 mm each
Gordons_Visitenkarte_4c.pdf* 54x85 mm 6 3 x2 10 mm each
*rotation by 90°
Autom. cut marks: enable

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Press sheet 1:
Creating a customer data set
You can create data sets for regular customers in the Customer Data resource folder that
can be loaded when a new Signa job is generated.
1. In the first step of this exercise we will create a data set for Gordon Ltd.
3. Click the gray arrow to show the contents of the Customer Data group.
4. You must first create a new group. To do so click the Customer Data item and choose
group name.
6. To create a customer data set click the group you just created and choose New
Customer Data ... from the shortcut menu.
7. The Customer Data Editor opens.
8. Specify customer data.
9. Click Save to save the customer data set in your group folder.
10. The new customer data set appears in your group directory.
Creating a gang run form
2. In the Job Assistant, enter the Job Code and the Job Name according to the task in the
Job Data window.
Job code 0004

Job name Gang run from
3. Load the customer data set of the Gordon Ltd. customer from your group folder.
4. For information on the selected customer click the Info icon next to the Customer
Number in the Job-Assistant.
6. In the Name text box, enter the designation Gordon and Canon and enable the Mon-
tage option in the Working Mode region.
8. Select SM102_CompositeMark from your folder of plate templates.
9. Choose the Single-sided option in the Placing Mode pop-up menu.

10. Choose the paper with the designation Creato_200_88x63 from the Training directory.
11. Click Continue to go to the Assembly Blocks window.
12. Define the first assembly block for the Gordons_Briefbogen file by clicking the icon
next to the No assembly block defined popup menu.
13. Type the Gordon stationary name in the dialog and click Apply.
14. Enter a width of 210 mm and a height of 297 mm in the 1up Definition region. Rotate the
page to 90 ° and enable the Autom. cut marks option. Leave the bleed at 3 mm.
The assembly block just created appears in the press sheet thumbnail view at the
bottom right.
15. Type the following values in the Assembly Block Parameters region to position the
assembly block on the press sheet:
Copies X: 1 Y: 1
Position X: 0 mm Y: 0 mm
Left Margin X: 10 mm Right: 10 mm
Bottom Margin: 10 mm Top: 10 mm
The paper origin (bottom left paper corner) in relation to the assembly element/block
i origin (assembly element bottom left) is used as reference point for positioning assem-
bly elements/blocks. Leave Position X and Y at 0 since the 1ups are to be automatically
arranged on the press sheet.
The defined margins will be applied later for automatically arranging the assembly
blocks in order to define the gaps between separate assembly blocks.
16. Create a new assembly element and name it Schedule.
page to 0° and enable the Autom. cut marks option. Leave the bleed at 3 mm.
Copies X: 1 Y: 1
The assembly block is thus precisely positioned on the assembly block created before.
19. Create the next assembly element and name it Canon label.
page to 0 ° and enable the Autom. cut marks option. Leave the bleed at 3 mm.
Copies X: 4 Y: 6
Distances X: 6 mm Y: 6 mm
22. Create the next assembly element and name it Gordon business card.
page to 90° and enable the Autom. cut marks option. Leave the bleed at 3 mm.
Copies X: 3 Y: 2
25. Click Ready to create the assembly part once you have made up all assembly blocks.
26. The Press Sheet graphics window should now show the following result.
27. Go to the Press Sheet graphics window to automatically arrange the assembly blocks
on the press sheet.
28. To do so choose Arrange Folding Sheet/Assembly Block from the shortcut menu.
29. Disable the Automatic rotation option in the AutoArrange properties window and type
the following values in the text boxes:
Margin Left: 0 mm Right: 0 mm

30. Click AutoArrange. The Press Sheet graphics window should now look as follows.
31. To fit the print control strip to the sujet choose Fit Marks and Bleed from the shortcut
menu in the Press Sheets graphics window.
32. The assembly blocks created with the Job Assistant appear with the defined names
when you show the separate folding sheets in the Jobs browser window.
33. The Folding Sheets tab provides information on the existing folding sheets.
34. Choose File > Save as... and save the job under the proposed name in the predefined
folder.
35. Download all the PDF documents of the Signa_Training/Uebung9 folder either using
File > Import > Documents or, in the Browser window, go to the Contents tab and
choose Documents using the shortcut menu.
36. You must now fill the 1ups, i. e. assign the respective pages.
37. Show the Press Sheet Inspector in the Inspectors window.
38. The Press Sheet Inspector displays the current block name when you now click a 1up
or assembly block in the Press Sheet graphics window. This facilitates the assignment
of separate pages to the selected 1up.
39. Drag the Canon_Etikett_4c.pdf document onto the respective press sheet 1up.
40. Assign the remaining documents to the 1ups.
41. To horizontally center all assembly blocks on the press sheet, go to the Press Sheet
Inspector. Click the Horizontal button. You should see the following result in the Press
Sheet graphics window at the end of this exercise step.
43. Print the Signajob as a PDF.
44. To do this, use the Output Parameter Set that you generated in exercise 7.
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Chapter 11: Windows and Inspectors
The Job window
The job window of the program is divided into 4 dialogs, each of which covers a specific
range of functions: Browsers (1), Inspectors (2), Graphics (3) and Lists (4).
1
3
To view the entire contents of the window, you can change the window to full screen size
automatically by doubleclicking the title bar of the corresponding window. If you doubleclick
the title bar again, the window returns to the previous size.
To manually increase or decrease the size of a window, click the size change control that is
located above the title bar and, while holding down the mouse button, drag the
window to the desired size. Click once on any of the arrows to minimize or maximize the
window.
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The Browser Window
The Browser Window contains three tabs: Product Parts, Contents and Internal Marks.
Product Parts
The Product Parts tab displays all product parts of the current job, all folding sheets, page
lists and press sheets in a tree structure; each individual item has its own tree structure. To
show the individual branches, click the triangle located in front of each item.
If you show the shortcut menu in this window, the commands for opening an already existing
Signajob or for creating a new Signajob are available. Use the Documents menu command
to load PS/PDF documents. Recent Jobs indicates the jobs you have edited last. You can
open them here.
When you have highlighted the current job in the list, you can launch the Job Inspector via
the shortcut menu, edit the job with the Job Assistant, create a new product part, save and
close the current job, save the job in “Resources/Job Templates“ and output the entire job.
When you have highlighted a product part in the list, you can launch the Product Part
Inspector via the shortcut menu, edit the product part with the Job Assistant, save the
product part in “Resources/Product Part Templates“ and output the product part in a
reader’s spread, duplicate, delete or output/print the product part.
Contents
The Contents tab displays the PDF documents that have already been imported. This tab
can be used to import new PDF documents, load the entire document or selected pages to
the press sheet or delete the assignment of pages from the press sheet.
The page symbols indicate whether the preview has been created for a page and whether a
page has already been assigned or not.
Preview has not yet been created; page has not yet been assigned
Preview has been created; page has not yet been assigned
Page has already been assigned; preview has been created
Page has already been assigned; preview has not been created
If you click within the window with the right mouse button (Windows) or while holding the
Control key (Macintosh), you can use the shortcut menu to choose Documents, with which
PDF documents can be imported into the current job.
If you open the shortcut menu on a file that has already been imported, you can open the
Document Inspector, create the Preview (72 dpi) or the Hires Preview (144 dpi) of the entire
file, open the document in Adobe Acrobat and remove the document from the current job.
If changes have been made in the PDF document, you can reload it, assign pages of a
document, delete the page assignment of the document or copy pages to clipboard.
When you have highlighted a page, you can open the Document Inspector from the shortcut
menu, create the Preview (72 dpi) or the Hires Preview (144 dpi) of the selected file, open
the document in Adobe Acrobat, assign the page or delete the page assignment and copy
pages to clipboard.
Internal marks
The Internal Marks tab lists the marks used in the present job.
When you select a mark, you can use the shortcut menu to edit the job internal mark,
replace the internal mark, refresh the internal mark, copy the internal mark to clipboard and
delete the internal mark. The changes immediately take effect in the current document.
Without any internal mark selected you can open the shortcut menu to create marks with the
Marks Editor, the Text Marks Editor, create Ink Pickup Bars, Color Control Bars and Special
Color Control Bars, or Marks Import for the current job.
Resources
Select Jobs & Resources > Resources & Machines to go to the Resources browser.
The Resources tab is used to create, edit and administrate the templates/defaults for jobs,
product parts, plate templates, schemes, marks, papers, page and paper formats, plate
layouts, customer data, output parameter sets, user data and report headers.
Resources consist of settings/defaults that are defined once and can be used over and over.
In the case of a plate template, for example, not only the paper to be used, but also all the
marks that are related to the plate template, can be set so that these steps do not have to be
carried out again and again.
The individual entries are arranged in a tree structure. To show the individual branches, click
the triangle in front of the entry.
For a better overview, the individual resources can be divided into groups. To create a new
group, click a resource entry and open the shortcut menu. If you open the shortcut menu on
an active group, you can rename or delete a group, insert or import a data set, export, lock or
release the selected group. Depending on the type of group selected, you can, for example,
create a new plate template, a new mark, etc.
Creating a new group or Editing a group Editing a single object of a group

Refreshing the group
To edit individual elements of a group, highlight the desired object and open the shortcut
menu. You can now edit the highlighted object (this can also be done by doubleclicking it),
create a new object, copy, lock or release the selected object or copy resources to the clip-
board (here: Copy Plate Template) or paste resources from the clipboard (here: Paste Plate
Template).
Machines
The Machine tab is used to create and administrate default settings for filmsetters, plateset-
ters, sheetfed presses and web presses.
The individual entries are arranged in a tree structure. To show the individual branches, click
the triangle in front of the entry.
For a better overview, the individual resources can be divided into groups. To create a new
group, click a resource entry and open the shortcut menu. If you open the shortcut menu on
an active group, you can rename or delete a group, insert or import a data set, export, lock or
release the selected group. Depending on the type of group selected, you can, for example,
create a new platesetter data set, etc.
Creating a new group or Editing a group Editing a single object of a group

Refreshing the group
To edit individual elements of a group, highlight the desired object and open the shortcut
menu. You can now edit the highlighted object (this can also be done by doubleclicking it),
create a new object, copy, release the selected object. Using Copy Resource (here: Copy
Platesetter Data Set) and Paste Resource (here: Paste Platesetter Data Set), you can copy
an object from one group to another.
The Inspectors Window
There are 6 inspectors in the Prinect Signa Station program, with which the entries that were
defined using the Job Assistant can be inspected/changed in the current job: Job Inspector,
Job Part Inspector, Folding Sheet Inspector, Press Sheet Inspector, Page/1up Inspector
and Document Inspector. The Inspectors window is the only window that continuously
adapts its contents to match the selected working mode to the effect that the number of tabs
can change.
The individual inspectors can be opened using the Inspectors command, the corresponding
icon in the toolbar or by opening the shortcut menu in the Graphics or List window.
The Job Inspector
The Job Inspector is divided into three tabs: Administrative Data, Colors and Attributes.
The Administrative Data tab can be used to inspect/change job-related information, such as
Job Number, Job Name and Customer Name, the number of layers used etc. for the current
job. When compiling data for Prinect Printready, you must check respective CMYK colors (if
present) or specify the number of spot colors in the Planned Colors item under Default for
JDF and job ticket.
The Colors tab is used to list the colors used in the loaded and assigned PDF document.
With this tab, spot colors can be transformed into CMYK or combined with another spot
color. You can assign spot colors in the document a particular marks layer if you enable the
User Color Mappings in Marks option. Without this option enabled, the first spot color is
automatically assigned to the first marks variable (X), the second spot color to the second
marks variable (Z), etc..
To use the screen angles specified in the Preferences for output, enable the Use Default
Screen Angles option in the Screen Angle area. Here you can also edit separate screen
angles for the current job.
When you enabled the Column for cutting die color option in the General settings, a fourth
row named Cutting Die is added to the Color tab. This option only affects subsequent JDF
output. When you enable the Cutting Die option for a color, this color will be treated like the
ProofColor during output, i.e. it will be printed on a form proof but automatically ignored in
the final output.
The Marks Editor or Text Marks Editor provides 15 freely configurable marks variables. You
can define the contents of these marks either in the Preferences or in the Attributes tab.
The Product Part Inspector – imposition and automatic imposition
The Product Part Inspector is divided into five tabs: General, Master Pages, Binding, Plates
and Schemes.
The General tab can be used to change the title of the selected product part, enter com-
ments and change the working mode. If the Job Assistant was used to select the Imposition
working mode, this tab can be used to subsequently change the page total. If you are work-
ing in Imposition Mode, you can also change the page names – the page index – of individ-
ual marked pages here to, for example, more easily distinguish the cover of a job from the
inner pages. For some documents, this can significantly simplify the assignment of the indi-
vidual pages to the press sheet. You can specify the number for First press sheet, First fold-
ing sheet and First page in the Start Conditions area.
The Master Pages tab can be used to specify/change the page definitions of the master
pages, the trimmed size, the bleed, and the scale, rotation and mirroring of the pages. Spe-
cial master pages can also be created and their size can be determined in this tab.
In the Binding tab, you can select the binding procedure, enable creeping and subsequently
specify the creeping values. If the cut, fold, and collating marks or folding crosses, folding
sheet label, folding sheet cut and folding stop were not enabled when a Signajob was cre-
ated, you can enable them in this window so that they are set automatically. In the Gripper
Collator region, you can subsequently enable a gripper fold rear or a gripper fold front and
the desired gripper margin size. In the Parameters for Automatic Gap Computation area you
can define the maximum head gap and gap. You can also consider the routing margin from
the Preferences here. You can also define here if cutting dies are to be assigned to the
pages/1ups, the folding sheets or the scheme.
The currently selected template can be inspected and changed in the Plates tab. You can
select and add the printing plate from your resources, replace the currently selected plate or
remove a plate again. The rule for generating the back sheet can be changed using the
Placing Mode popup menu. The selected paper is shown in the Paper Definition region and
can be changed there for the current job. In the Sujet Position on Paper area you can define
if the sujet is to be automatically positioned on the paper or if you want to manually specify
Offset Baseline and Left.
You can inspect and change the selected folding scheme and the template in the Schemes
tab. The distances for the top, bottom and inside gaps can be changed subsequently using
this tab. The Active Inspector Section contains four items: When you select Gaps and Mas-
ter Pages, you can assign Special master pages in this window. To assign a special master
page, click the appropriate page symbol in the schematic representation and choose Assign
Master Page from the shortcut menu. Another option is to click the Special master pages
button. A new window opens where you can assign the special master pages to the scheme
pages.
Switching the Active Inspector Section to All Folding Sheets lets you move folding sheets or
create groups feasible for mixed binding (= combination of perfect binding and saddlestitich-
ing). To move a folding sheet, either type the new index in the No. column, or select Move
Folding Sheet from the shortcut menu. To group several folding sheets for mixed binding,
select the folding sheets to be grouped and choose Create Group from the shortcut menu.
Selecting the Bottling option in the Active Inspector Section popup menu lets you - if
required - rotate the page contents by certain values.
The Press Sheet Layout option lets you rotate folding sheets or place folding sheets head-
to-head, foot-to-foot or head-to-foot in order to prevent the automated generation of multiple
1ups. This window also allows to Singularize Folding Sheets in order to create gang run
forms. You can load a plate layout data set from the resources in the Plate Layout Area.
The Inspector for Product Parts – Montage
If the Montage option was selected when a job was created, the Inspector for Product Parts
has only two tabs: Definition and Plates.
The Folding Sheet/Assembly Block Inspector
The Folding Sheet/Assembly Block Inspector is divided into three tabs: Attributes, Marks
and Marks Resources.
If the Imposition or Autom. Imposition option was chosen as the Working mode, you can use
the Attributes tab to change the X- and Y-positions of the folding sheet. The top, bottom and
inside gaps can be changed using the thumbnail display of the scheme. All changes can be
carried out on all sheets of the same type. If the Montage option was chosen as the Working
mode, this tab can be used to create new assembly blocks or to repeat and position existing
assembly blocks.
Working Mode: Imposition and Autom. Imposition Working Mode: Montage

The Marks tab can be used to position the marks in relation to the selected scheme. Cut,
fold, and collating marks as well as folding crosses and folding sheet cuts can also be incor-
porated using this window. The width, height and clip path of a mark (the part that can be
imaged) can be specified in Expert Mode. All changes can be carried out on all folding
sheets of the same type.
The Marks Resources tab can be used to position individual marks on the folding or assem-
bly sheet using drag-and-drop or to create/edit new marks and to edit, delete and replace
internal marks in the job.
The Press Sheet Inspector
The Press Sheet Inspector is divided into three tabs: Press Sheet, Marks and Marks
Resources.
Use the Press Sheet tab to center folding sheets on a press sheet. You can also edit the
name and the size of the currently selected press sheet. It is also possible to change the
paper size, to make offsets and to offset the start of the paper in this tab. The list provides
information about the assigned folding sheets/assembly blocks of the highlighted press
sheet. In the lower region of the dialog, the X- and Y-positions of the folding sheet in relation
to the press sheet can be offset. All changes carried out here can be transferred to all press
sheets of the same type.
In the Marks tab, the marks can be positioned in relation to the press sheet, while previously
positioned marks can be changed, replaced, edited and deleted. The width, height and clip
path of a mark (the part that can be imaged) can be specified in Expert Mode. All changes
can be carried out on all sheets of the same type.
The Marks Resources tab can be used to position individual marks on the press, folding or
assembly sheet using drag-and-drop or to create/edit new marks and to edit, delete and
replace internal marks in the job.
The Page/1up Inspector
The Page/1up Inspector is divided into three tabs: Attributes, Marks and Marks Resources.
The Attributes tab displays the current trimmed size of the highlighted page/1up; the
trimmed size cannot be changed in this window. The Trim region can be used to change the
trim for individual pages.
To offset the contents of the page in relation to the trimmed size, enable the By user (view
options) option and enter the desired offset values in text boxes Offset X and Offset Y. The
contents of the page are offset in relation to the bottom left corner. Positive values will move
the contents of the page upward or to the right, negative ones downward or to the left. If you
want to increase/decrease the contents of the page, enter the scaling factor in text boxes
Scale X and Scale Y. In the Creep Values region, you can enable creeping and enter the
creep value in the X and Y directions. The current creep values are also indicated here if
creeping was enabled. If required, you can enable or disable creeping for selected pages.
In the Marks tab, the marks can be positioned in relation to the selected page, while previ-
ously positioned marks can be changed or deleted. The width, height and clip path of a mark
(the part that can be imaged) can be specified in Expert Mode. All changes can be carried
out on all pages from here.
The Marks Resources tab can be used to position page-related marks using drag-and-drop,
create new or edit existing marks and change, delete, edit and replace internal marks in the
job.
The Document Inspector
The Document Inspector is divided into two tabs: Document and Page.
The Document tab displays general information about the currently selected document. The
information displayed in the Properties region consists of metadata that can be saved when
a PDF file is created with the Acrobat Distiller program. In this case, options Process DSC
Comments and Retain document information from DSC in the Extended tab must be
enabled in the Job Options with which the PostScript document is converted to PDF. The
colors used throughout the entire document are displayed in the list of Available Colors.
The Page tab displays information about the highlighted page. The values for the TrimBox
are displayed in the TrimBox region; these can be changed for the selected page, for all
even or odd or for all pages of a document, depending on the selection made under Apply
to:. By default, the TrimBox is used for positioning. You can use the Choose popup menu in
the Trim box section to select another page box (contained in the current PDF document).
The selected page box is then used as the trim box for page positioning. You can offset the
contents of the page in relation to the TrimBox in the Rel. Position X and Y fields. The colors
used on the highlighted page are displayed in the Available Colors region.
The Graphics Windows
The Graphics Window contains 5 tabs in which you can visually inspect the graphic repre-
sentation of the press sheet, the folding sheet/assembly block, the page list, the press sheet
list and the document.
Graphics Window control elements
There control elements, which you can use to control the contents of a Graphics Window,
in the lower region of graphics windows press sheet, folding sheet/assenbley block and
document.
Fields X and Y indicate the current cursor position or the X- and Y-start coordinates of the
measuring frame. The W and H fields indicate the width and height of the measuring frame.
Click the Selection tool to activate individual objects in a job.
Choose the Magnifier tool and click the area in the graphics window you wish to
magnify. Simultaneously press the Alt key to zoom out.
Choose the Hand tool to pan the image section in the graphics window.
The Measuring frame lets you draw a rectangle in the graphics window on the press
sheet or folding sheet/assembly block the values of which are indicated in the X, Y,
W and H fields. With this frame you can also create internal marks of frame size.
Selecting the measuring frame tool adds a number of tools to the tool bar, which let
you launch the Marks Editor, the Text Marks Editor and the Marks Import Editor, cre-
ate color pick-up bars, cover marks, color control bars and special color control bars.
This tool lets you edit clipping paths when you have chosen the Packaging option.
For more information on this tool refer to the Packaging chapter.
With this tool you can create custom dimensions. Press the Alt key to delete the
dimensions.
This symbol can be used to show/hide the back in Graphics windows Press Sheet
and Folding Sheet.
Clicking this symbol shows the dialog for adjusting the representation, dimension
and grid for displaying the press sheet, folding sheet or document. Select the active
layers to be displayed in the Layers section of the View tab if you work with layers in
the current job.
The Scale popup menu can be used to select the scale of the press
sheet, folding sheet and document views. If you choose the Auto option,
the press sheet, folding sheet or document is automatically fitted to
match the current window size.
You can use the Color popup menu to check how many print forms are
used for each press/folding sheet or to see which colors are used on the
highlighted page. If you are working with separated PDF documents,
you can use the Color popup menu to go to the individual color separa-
tions; if you choose Colored, a composite view in color appears.
The Press Sheet window
The Press Sheet Window shows the currently selected press sheet, including the plate tem-
plate, paper and all the marks. In this view, you can also see whether the regions of the page
to be printed were positioned in the critical area.
If you call up the shortcut menu at any point in the Press Sheet window, you can also open
the Press Sheet Inspector or the Folding Sheet/Assembly block Inspector using this menu.
In order to be able to execute commands Swap Front and Back, Swap Folding Sheet, Move
Folding Sheet and Delete Folding Sheet/Assembly Block, the shortcut menu must be
opened in the Press Sheet window if a folding sheet / assembly block has been highlighted
(indicated by the yellow frame). Commands Create new assembly block and Duplicate
Assembly Block are available in the Montage mode only. The Fit Marks and Bleeds com-
mand is used to automatically fit a positioned color control mark to the width of the printed
image. This will delete unnecessary marks. When you select a mark on the press sheet, you
can use the Marks > Edit Mark to edit it or delete it from the press sheet with the Delete Mark
command. The Graphics command is used to save the highlighted press sheet as an image
or to print it. The Preview (72 dpi) or Hires Preview (144 dpi) command is used to create the
original view of the pages assigned to the press sheet. Select Delete Page Assignment to
remove the pages assigned on the selected assembly block or folding sheet. Assign Station
Numbers... is used in conjunction with the StationNumber mark for packaging printing. You
can define the start number for numbering, the numbering increment and the numbering
sequence (see also chapter 21).
The Folding Sheet/Assembly Block Window
The Folding Sheet/Assembly Block Window shows the currently selected folding sheet,
including the marks assigned using the folding sheet. Marks that are located on plate tem-
plates are not displayed in this window.
You can use the shortcut menu to open the Folding Sheet/Assembly Block Inspector, the
Page/1up Inspector and the Document Inspector. The Preview (72 dpi) or Hires Preview
(144 dpi) command is used to create the original view of a selected page. The Graphics
command is used to save the highlighted folding sheet as an image or to print it. When you
select a page, you can open the document in Acrobat, delete the page assignment or
replace the page with a page from the clipboard. When you select a mark on the assembly
block, you can use Marks > Edit Mark to edit it or delete it from the assembly block with the
Delete Mark command. When in the packaging mode, you can copy or paste the clip path,
set the original clip path / line type for the clip path, and create a new profile (see chapter 21).
The Page List Window
In the Automatic/Montage working mode, the blank pages (placeholders) of the first print
sheet or the pages that have already been assigned are displayed in the Page List window.
If you have selected the Imposition option as the working mode, all the blank pages (place-
holders) – or the pages that have been assigned – are displayed for the entire print job.
You can use the shortcut menu to generate the preview on a highlighted page, to delete the
page assignment and to replace the selected page with a page from the clipboard.
This window can be used to, for example, add individual pages from the Contents tab of the
browser window by drag-and-drop or to replace contents that have already been assigned.
The Press Sheet List Window
The Press Sheet List window displays an overview of all the press sheets that have been
created in the job. Only press sheets of the the respective product part are shown if the cur-
rent job comprises several product parts. Enable the All Press Sheets option to view the list
of all press sheets of a job comprising several product parts.
You can use the shortcut menu to open the Press Sheet Inspector and output press sheets
or the product part.
The Document Window
The Document Window displays a selected page.
You can use the shortcut menu to open the Document Inspector, generate the Preview
(72 dpi) or Hires Preview (144 dpi) of this page or open the entire document in Adobe Acro-
bat.
The Lists Window
The Lists Window contains 5 tabs in which the contents of the folding sheet, page list, press
sheet, assigned contents and unassigned contents are shown in tables.
If you open the shortcut menu on a column header in one of the list windows, you can
remove the highlighted column from the list, automatically adapt the column size to the con-
tents of the column, open the dialog for choosing the fields that are available, display all the
contents in a table line or, if all the contents are displayed, display only the main rows.
If you use the shortcut menu to enable the Select Columns command, you can choose, in
the subsequent window, the fields that are to be displayed in the currently displayed list. To
add further columns, highlight the desired field in the Available Columns list and click Add
Column. To remove columns from the list, highlight the desired field in the Available
Columns list and click the Remove Column button. To change the order of the rows, high-
light a field in the Available Columns list and use the up or down arrow to move the selection
to the desired position.
Confirm the changes by clicking OK.

The Press Sheet List Window
This list contains, among other things, information about the generated press sheets, the
printing plate format, the folding sheet used (front and back printing), the colors in the docu-
ment, the job name of the product part and the paper size.
If you doubleclick a press sheet entry, the front form and, if present, the back form are dis-
played. To display the colors for each press sheet, doubleclick the individual forms.
You can use the shortcut menu to open the Press Sheet Inspector, start the output for the
selected press sheet , or save/print the press sheet list as an HTML file.
The Folding Sheet List Window
The Folding Sheet List contains information about the number of folding sheets in the job, the
designation of the folding sheets and the name of the product part. The number of pages per
folding sheet in the horizontal and vertical directions is displayed in the Format region. You
can find the positioning of the first and last pages of a folding sheet in the Pages column.
You can use the shortcut menu to open the Folding Sheet/Assembly Block or Press Sheet
Inspector, save the list as an HTML file or print the table.
The Page List List Window
The Page List contains information about the pages that have already been assigned. The
imported PDF document is shown in the Name column, the defined master page format
(trimmed size) in the Format column, the selected scheme and the folding sheet on which
the page was positioned in the Folding Sheet column and the colors that are used on the
individual pages in the Colors column. You can use the shortcut menu to generate the Pre-
view, delete the Page Assignment of individual pages, add empty pages and open the entire
document in Acrobat.
The list can be saved in HTML format or printed.
The Assigned List Window
The Assigned list contains general information about the pages that have already been
assigned to the job.
If you open the shortcut menu, the commands for opening the Document Inspector, gener-
ating the Preview, opening the entire document in Adobe Acrobat and deleting the page
assignment for the pages highlighted in the list are available. The list can be saved in HTML
format or printed.
The Not Assigned List Window
The Not Assigned list contains general information about the pages that have not yet been
assigned to the job.
If you open the shortcut menu, the commands for opening the Document Inspector, gener-
ating the Preview, opening the entire document in Adobe Acrobat and adding single pages
are available. The list can be saved in HTML format or printed.
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Chapter 12: Exercise 10 – 1up repetition front/back
Task
In the first step of this exercise you will learn how to create a new color control bar in Prinect
Signa Station.
In a second step, you will learn how to easily and quickly create multiple 1ups from a file
positioned on a gap in front and back printing.
In this exercise we will be using a different work method for creating several assembly
blocks on one press sheet. We will use the Job Assistant to create only one assembly block
in this exercise. We will add all additional assembly blocks to an already existing assembly
block.
Job data:
Job code: 0005
Job Name: Postcards
General job part information

Title: Horse theme
Printing plates:
Printing plate: SM74 from the Training group directory
Paper definition: Change Creato_200_88x63 from the Training
group folder to 700 x 500 mm
Assembly blocks:
Bleed: 0 mm
Position X: 0 mm (assembly block 1)
Position Y: 0 mm (assembly block 1)
PDF document: Pferde_S1_S4.pdf

Pferde_RS_1_4.pdf
Size: 148x105 mm – trim box is defined
Assembly block 2: Assembly block 3: Assembly block 4:

Copies X: 1 Copies X: 1 Copies X: 1
Copies Y: 4 Copies Y: 4 Copies Y: 4
Margins X: 0 Margins X: 0 Margins X: 0
Distances Y: 0 Distances Y: 0 Distances Y: 0
Position X: 148 Position X: 296 Position X: 444
Position Y: 0 Position Y: 0 Position Y: 0
Bleed: 0 Bleed: 0 Bleed: 0
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Color control bar example
Completed forms:
Front:
Back:
Creating color control bars and composite marks
Prinect Signa Station allows ink pickup bars, color control bars and special color control bars
to be created. In this step you will learn how to create several color control bars to be finally
combined into a composite mark.
Color control bars always organize elements according to their color sequence, with identi-
cal ink coverage values for all colors. In a special color control bar, however, the element
sequence of special color control bars as well as their ink coverage values can be defined as
desired.
1. Select Jobs & Resources > Marks in the menu.
2. Create a new group named Color Control Bars in your Marks group folder.
3. To do so choose New Mark > Color Control Bar from the shortcut menu.
4. The Color Control Bar Editor opens.
5. Name the mark CMYK.
6. Choose the Color Control Mark (with AutoClip to sujet) option using the Marks Type
pop-up menu.
7. Choose the Lower middle option as reference point in the Hotspot popup menu.
8. To do so, specify a mark length of 1000 mm in the Width text box.
9. Highlight the Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black colors in the Choose Color Layer list.
The color selection defines the colors for which elements are to be defined in the color
control bar.
10. To do so, specify a value of 5 in the Number of Elements text box. This defines the num-
ber of individual control elements per color.
11. To do so, specify a value of 6 mm in the Element Width and Element Height text boxes.
This defines the width and the height of each control element.
The mark width automatically changes to 1080 because the color control bar can only
contain complete elements and would be trimmed otherwise.
i
12. To suppress the frames enable the Elements without Frame option.
13. Leave the values in the Ink Coverage region at 20, 40, 60, 80 and 100.
14. Click Save and then Close to save the color mark.
15. The new mark you have created appears in your Color Control Bars group folder.
16. Doubleclick the CMYK mark to create another color control mark (BW color control
bar).
17. Change the Mark Name to Black and enable Black in the Choose Color Layer section.
i Renaming the mark prevents overwriting the original mark. The mark is thus saved
under a new name.
19. Doubleclick the Black mark to create another color control mark (Black + 1 spot).
20. Change the Mark Name to Black + 1 spot and enable Black and Spot 1 (X) in the
Choose Color Layer section.
22. This way you can create any color control bar you need for your work.
23. The following screenshot shows a selection of possible color control bars.
Creating a composite mark
In the next step you will create a composite mark from the color control bars you have cre-
ated.
1. Highlight the CMYK mark in your Color Control Bars marks folder and choose Edit Mark
2. The Color Control Bar Editor opens.
3. Rename the mark to Color Control Bar_Composite Mark.

4. To add further color control marks, click the black triangle in front of the Composite Mark
option and then click the folder icon to load the next mark from the marks
resources.
5. Highlight the first mark in the Color Control Bars marks folder and then click OK.
6. The new mark appears in the Composite Marks list of the Color Control Bar Editor.
7. Click the folder icon again and add all other marks contained in the Color Control Bars
marks folder to the composite mark.
8. To save the composite mark, click the Save and then the Close button.
9. The composite mark appears in your marks folder.

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Job Data window.
Job code = 0005

Job name = Postcards
customer data resource default directory.
5. In the Name text box, enter the designation Horse theme and enable the option Mon-
tage in the Working Mode region.
7. Choose the Plate Template named SM74 from the Training group in the Resources.
9. Choose the Paper Format named Creato_200_88x63 from the Training group.
10. The paper you selected is too large for the selected plate template, and a message
appears that you must confirm by clicking OK.
11. Click the folder icon next to the Width and Height text boxes to define a new paper for-
mat in the resources. The Choose Page or Paper Size window opens.
12. Click the New button.
13. As the default folder cannot be edited, you are requested to select a custom group. As
there is not yet any custom group, type your name in the empty text box to create a
group. Confirm with OK.
14. The group will be created since it does not yet exist. You will be prompted once again.
15. Type the 700x500 name in the Format Editor. Type the format in the Width and Height
text boxes (700x500). Click Save and then the Close button.
16. Now select the paper format you created in your group and click OK.
17. The paper format now appears in the Width and Height boxes of the Paper Definition for
Production section in the Printing Plate window.
19. Click Next card to go to the Assembly Blocks window.

20. Define the first assembly block by clicking the icon next to the No assembly block
defined popup menu. Type the Motif1 name as assembly element and click Apply.
21. Enter a width of 148 mm and a height of 105 mm in the 1up Definition region. Change
the Bleed to 0. Make sure the Autom. cut marks are enabled. Enable the Same Content
for All 1ups option.
In the bottom right corner you can see position of the assembly block you have created
on the paper.
22. The assembly block is now to be positioned on the sheet and repeated four times on a
separation cut in vertical direction.
23. Type the following values in the Assembly Block Parameters region:
Copies X: 1 Y: 4
Margins: 0
24. You can assess the result in the press sheet thumbnail view in the bottom right corner.
24. Click Ready to create the current montage.
26. Choose File > Save As... to save the job to the predefined folder. Accept the proposed
file name.
27. Load the Pferde_S1_S4.pdf PDF file from the Signa_Training/Uebung10 folder.
28. Assign the folding sheet currently on view the first document page.
29. To create a second assembly block simply drag the second page of the PDF document
from the Contents tab in the browser window and drop it on the press sheet.
30. Select the page on the sheet and go to the Folding Sheet/Assembly Block Inspector
using the shortcut menu. The graphics window simultaneously shows the Folding
Sheet Window. To better assess the assembly block position you should change to the
Press Sheets Graphics Window.
31. To do so, specify the following values for Block 2 in the Assembly Block Inspector:
Copies X: 1 Y: 4
Bleed: 0 mm
Margins: 0 mm
32. Go to the Marks tab in the Assembly Block Inspector and enable the Cut Marks option
there.
33. You should see the following result in the Press Sheet graphics window after having
made all entries.
34. Create an assembly block each for the third and fourth document page. Position the
assembly blocks using the following values:
Choose automatic cut marks for both assembly blocks as well.
Assembly block 3:
Copies X: 1 Y: 4
Bleed: 0 mm
Margins: 0 mm
(instead of typing the given X-value, you can also type the following multiplication in
the Position X text box: 148*2)
Assembly block 4:
Copies X: 1 Y: 4
Bleed: 0 mm
Margins: 0 mm
(instead of typing the given X-value, you can also type the following multiplication in
the Position X text box: 148*3)
35. You should see the following result in the Press Sheet graphics window at the end of
this exercise step.
37. Load the Pferde_RS_1_4.pdf document from the Signa_Training/Uebung10 folder for
the back sheet.
38. Show the back sheet in the Press Sheet graphics window and click the icon in the
lower window part.
39. Assign the individual pages in the Contents tab of the Browser Window the separate
1ups of the back printing form in the Press Sheets Window using drag-and-drop.
this exercise step.
41. Now the assembly block must be positioned on the press sheet. Go to the Press Sheet
Inspector.
42. Click the Horizontal button to center the folding sheet on the paper width.
43. Then highlight all assembly blocks in the list and type 30 in the Position Y text box.
44. To save the latest changes choose File > Save.
45. Go to the Press Sheet window to have any superfluous marks deleted and the color
control bar trimmed to the correct size. Right-click the press sheet and select Fit Marks
and Bleeds from the shortcut menu.
46. You should see the following result in the Press Sheet window at the end of this exer-
cise step.
48. Now the control bars are to be replaced. Open the Press Sheet Inspector and change to
the Marks tab.
49. Replace the color control bar with the Color control bar_composite mark created earlier
in this exercise.
50. Highlight the Colorbar-4C mark (color control mark on front and back) in the list and
click the Swap selected mark icon.
To highlight several marks not immediately following each other in the list, press the Ctrl
key (Windows) or the Command (Apple) key (Macintosh) and click the marks.
51. Now select the composite mark from the Color Control Bar folder in the next window
and click OK.
52. Confirm the message box that appears by clicking Yes.
53. The old color control bar is replaced. The new bar is given the same position as the old
bar, provided the mark definition such as the hotspot is identical.
this exercise step.
56. To verify print the job as a PDF.

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Chapter 13: Exercise 11 – Different press sheets in one job

part
Task
In this exercise we will process the cover and the inner pages of a 36-page booklet in the
Imposition mode. As printing press and paper for the cover differ from the printing press and
the paper used for the inner pages you will learn how to set up different parameters in one
job part.
Job data:
Job code: 0006
Job name Complete HD booklet
Customer Code: 0001

Name: HD booklet
Page Total: 36 pages
Master pages:
Binding Methods
Creeping: enable
Printing plates:
Printing plate: SM52_CompositeMark from the Training group
SM102_CompositeMark from your own group
Paper definition: Zander_135_50x35 from the Training group
Profisilk_90_100x70 from the Training group
Folding schemes:
Scheme: HD cover from your own Scheme group directory
HD inner pages from your own Scheme group directory
PDF document: HD_Stadt_dt_engl.pdf from /Signa_Training/Uebung11

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Surfaces:
Press sheet 1: Front and back sheet – cover
Press sheet 2: Front and back sheet – inner pages
Press sheet 3: Front and back sheet – inner pages

Creating a new scheme
In the first step of this exercise you will learn how to create new schemes in Prinect Signa
Station. You need two new schemes for the first job parts. One scheme for the cover and one
scheme for the inner pages.
Scheme: Cover
A A A A
4 1 2 3
Front Back
Scheme: Inner pages
1 13 16 4 3 15 14 2
A A A A A A A A
A A A A A A A A
8 9 12 5 6 11 10 7
Front Back
1. To create a new scheme, select Jobs & Resources > Schemes in the menu.
2. Click the gray arrow to show the contents of the Schemes group.
3. You must first create a new group. To do so click the Schemes item and choose New
Group from the shortcut menu.
4. The directory for the new group is created in the directory tree. Type your own name as
the group name.
5. To create a new scheme click the group you just created and choose New Scheme from
the shortcut menu.
6. The Folding Scheme Editor opens.
7. Type the HD Cover designation in the File Name and Folding Scheme Name text
boxes.
8. Type 2 in the Matrix Columns and 1 in the Rows text boxes. Choose the Sheetfed Press
option using the neighboring popup menu.
9. Use the schematic page view in the Scheme Generated from Folding Rule region to
determine the top page head position on the sheet after folding. In our example the
head is to be at the top. To change the rotation click the page edge that is to serve as ref-
erence for the page orientation. The letter A always indicates the page head.
10. The scheme is to be created on the basis of the folding rule. Click the symbol next
to the Folding Rule text box to open the Fold Assistant.
11. The Fold Assistant opens.

12. Show the fold animation by increasing the window height and then pulling the zoom
in/zoom out tool upward.
13. The first fold is made upward in horizontal direction.
14. Click the icon in the bottom right corner of the folding scheme thumbnail view.
15. The folding rule is automatically created.
16. Click Apply to apply the folding rule to the folding scheme.
17. The pages are arranged in the Folding Scheme Editor according to the Folding rule.

19. The new folding scheme will be created in your group directory.
20. Create a second scheme for the inner pages.
21. Click your group folder and choose New Scheme in the shortcut menu once again.
22. Type the HD inner pages designation in the File Name and Folding Scheme Name text
boxes.
23. Specify 4 Columns and 2 Rows in the Matrix text boxes and choose the Sheetfed Press
option from the neighboring popup menu.
24. Open the Fold Assistant and show the Fold Animation.
25. The first fold is to be made upward in horizontal direction after the second page. For this
purpose click the right arrow of page 2.
26. The second fold is made upward in vertical direction. For this purpose click the upper
vertical arrow.
27. The third fold is made upward in horizontal direction again. For this purpose click the
bottom right arrow below page 2.

30. Enable the First Page on Back option in the Folding Scheme Editor and rotate the page
head to the bottom in the Orientation of Top Page after Folding region.
32. The new folding scheme appears in your group folder.

Imposing different sheet sizes in one job part
Job Data window.
Job code = 0006

Job name = Complete HD booklet
customer data resource default folder.
5. Type the HD booklet designation in the Name text box.
6. Enable the Imposition option.
7. Leave the values in the Start Conditions region at First Press Sheet = 1, First Folding
Sheet = 1 and First Page = 1.
8. Specify a value of 36 in the Page Total text box.
10. Our sample document was created with pages in the A4 format with 3 mm bleed. Leave
the values for width 210, height 297 and bleed 3.0.
12. Choose the Saddlestitch option as the binding method.

13. Enable the Creeping, Automatic (paper thickness) and Offset options and leave the
value for Paper Thickness Factor at 1.0. Enable the Cut Marks, Folding Marks, Folding
Crosses, Folding Sheet Label and Fold Lay Mark options.
15. Choose the Plate Template named SM52_CompositeMark from the Training group in
the Resources for the cover.
17. Choose the Paper Format named Zanders_135_50x35 from the Training group in the
Resources.
18. Disable the AutoPosition Sujet option and type the value of 30 in the Offset Baseline
text box. This defines the sujet position in relation to the baseline.
20. Choose the scheme named HD cover from your group folder for the cover.
21. This folding scheme would automatically create 9 folding sheets from 36 pages.
22. As the inner pages’ imposition differs from that of the cover, you must specify the num-
ber 1 in the Number text box. The Unplaced Pages field indicates that 32 remain to be
placed.
23. We now want to add the second plate template and the second scheme for the inner
pages.
24. Click Previous Card to go to the Printing Plates window.

25. Choose the Plate Template named SM102_CompositeMark from your own Plate Tem-
plate group in the Resources for the inner pages.
27. Choose the Paper Format named Profisilk_90_100x70 from the Training group in the
Resources.
28. Disable the AutoPosition Sujet option and type the value of 30 in the Offset Baseline
text box.
30. Now select the scheme for the inner pages.

31 . Choose the scheme named HD inner pages from your group folder for the inner pages.
32. The selected scheme is automatically positioned on the first plate template in the Print-
ing Plates window.
33. Choose the plate template named SM102_CompositeMark (Sheetwise (front and
back)) from the Printing Plate shortcut menu to change the plate template.
34. Specify 20 mm each for inner and head gaps.
35. Click Ready to create the new job.
36. Choose File > Save as... and save the job under the proposed name.
37. In the Graphics window, go to the Press Sheet List tab.

38. All product part press sheets are shown here. You can set the view size with percentage
values. The result should look as follows.
39. Import the HD_Stadt_dt_engl.pdf PDF document from the Signa_Training/Uebung11

folder.
40. Assign all pages of the document.
41. Save the changes to the document and print it.

42. The press sheet 3 front features a center spread. It would be feasible here to disable
creeping.
43. Click page 18 in the Press Sheet graphics window and open the Page Inspector.
44. You can disable creeping for each page in the Page Inspector.
45. Click page 19 and disable creeping here as well.

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Chapter 14: Exercise 12 – Special master pages and layers
Task
As the fold in page of a fanfold is shorter you will learn how to create special master pages
and how to assign these to a folding scheme.
Our sample document is a booklet that is to be printed in several languages. For this pur-
pose the images and texts in the different languages are saved in separate files. During this
Prinect Signa Station exercise, you will learn how to work with several layers.
Job data:
Job code: 0007
Job name HD Signa Booklet
Customer Code: 0001
Number of Layers: 3

Name: Signa Booklet
Page Total: 6 pages
Master pages:
Special Master Page: 205x297 mm with 3 mm bleed
Binding Methods
Creeping: disable
Printing plates:
Placing Mode: Sheetwise (front and back sheet)
Paper definition: Profisilk_90_70x50 from your own group
Folding Scheme:
Scheme: F06-05_ui_3x1_P from the default folder
PDF document: signastation_basic_6s.pdf

signastation_de_6s.pdf
signastation_en_6s.pdf from /Signa_Training/Uebung12
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Surfaces:
Front and back sheet basic and German
Front and back sheet basic and English

Signature PDF in German
Signature PDF in English

Introduction
A special master page must be created concurrently with the new job part. Pages 4 and 5 of
the finished booklet fold-in and therefore normally are ca. 2 mm narrower than the other
document pages.
The following illustration will explain this:
– The red area represents the page bleed.
– The gray areas represent the pages’ trim box
– The blue area on pages 4 and 5 represent the area by which the fold-in pages must be
trimmed.
Special
Master Pages
5 6 1
Front
Special
Master Pages
2 3 4
Back
Our sample document is a booklet that is to be printed in several languages. For this pur-
pose the images and texts in the different languages are saved in separate files. During this
Prinect Signa Station exercise, you will learn how to work with several layers.
Creating a new Signa job with layers and special master pages
Job Data window.
Job code = 0007

Job name = HD Signa Booklet
customer data resource default folder.
4. Our sample document consist of a PDF file containing the images and a file for each of
the different language versions.
5. Specify a value of 3 in the Number of Layers text box.
7. Type the Signa Booklet designation in the Name text box of the Job Part Definition win-
dow.
8. Enable the Imposition option.
9. Leave the values in the Start Conditions region at First Press Sheet = 1, First Folding
Sheet = 1 and First Page = 1.
12. Specify an A4 format with 3 mm bleed as the document’s page format.
13. To create the special master page, select the several option of the Types popup menu.
14. Then choose the Special option in the Cur. Type pop-up menu.
15. Now click the icon next the popup menu of the Special Master Page option.
16. Type 205x297 for the special master page in the Name text box of the Create New Mas-
ter Page window and click Apply.
17. Change the Width of the special master page to 205 mm.

19. Our sample document consists of a single press sheet only; therefore, the binding
method is of no importance.
20. Enable the Cut Marks, and Fold Marks options.
21. Disable the Use routing margin option when you leave the Perfect Binding option
unchanged.
22. Choose the Plate Template named SM74 from the Training group.
23. Choose the Sheetwise (front and back) option in the Placing Mode pop-up menu.
24. Choose the Paper Format named Profisilk_90_70x50 from your own paper group in the
Resources.
25. Enable the AutoPosition Sujet and Center Sujet in the Sujet Position on Paper area.
26. Change the Paper Height to 400 mm.
28. Load the F06-05_ui_3x1_P scheme from the default scheme folder.
29. Now assign page 5 the special master page in the Folding Schemes window.
30. Click the right mouse button (Windows) or press the Ctrl key (Macintosh) and click the
mouse on the page 5 icon and choose the Assign Master Page command.
31. Select the special master page in the pop-up menu in the Change Master Page window
and click Apply.
32. You can also click the Special Master Page button. A new window opens where you can
perform special master page assignment.
33. Pages assigned a special master page are marked with a green index number. The
special master page name also appears in green.
35. In the Job Inspector you can use the Number of Layers popup menu to view the layer
names assigned in the Preferences.
36. The document is shown in the Press Sheet graphics window.

To select a layer, click the icon for view properties in the bottom area of the Press Sheet
window. The View tab in the Layers section can be used to select the active layer.
Assigning PDF documents to different layers
1. To import the documents, go to the Contents tab in the Browser window. There are
three items according to the layer name.
2. Highlight Images and choose Documents... from the shortcut menu.
3. Load the signastation_basic_6s.pdf file from the Signa_Training/Uebung12 folder.
4. Then highlight the German item in the Contents list and and import the
signastation_de_6s.pdf document.
5. Then highlight the English item in the Contents list and and import the
signastation_en_6s.pdf document.
6. You can show all layers when loading the documents since these were already
assigned to the respective folders in the Contents tab.
7. To do so click the icon for view properties in the bottom area of the Press Sheet window.
8. Enable all layers.

9. The loaded PDF document was created as an assembly block, not as a separate page.
Assign Page 1 of the signastation_basic_6s.pdf document to page 5 on the press
sheet.
10. Go to the back page in the Graphics Window.
11. Assign Page 2 of the signastation_basic_6s.pdf document to page 2 on the press

sheet.
12. Add page 1 of the signastation_de_6s.pdf document on page 5 of the front sheet and
page 2 on page 2 of the back sheet in the same manner as for the basic document
before .
13. Then load the 2 pages of the signastation_en_6s.pdf document accordingly.
15. Since we are now dealing with a PDF as assembly block we must expand the trim to
view the page contents. Doubleclick Page 5 in the Press Sheet Inspector to automati-
cally launch the Page Inspector. Now type a value of 423 mm for Right in the Trim sec-
tion. This value is calculated as follows: 210 mm (page 6) + 210 mm (page 1) + 3 mm
(trim).
17. Now go to the back sheet. Select page 2. Now type a value of 416 mm for Right in the
Trim section of the Page Inspector. This value is calculated as follows: 210 mm (page 3)
+ 203 mm (page 4) + 3 mm (trim).
18. The page changes automatically apply to all document layers.
20. Finally, we must replace the print control bar with the Color Control Bar_Composite
Mark since the document comprises spot colors and a CMYK control bar was posi-
tioned on the SM74 plate template.
21. Open the Press Sheet Inspector and change to the Marks tab.
22. Choose the All Surfaces option in the Surfaces popup menu.
23. Highlight the Colorbar-4C mark for front and back sheet click the Replace selected
mark icon.
24. Select the Color Control Bar_Composite Mark in the Color Control Bar group folder.
25. Confirm the message.

Viewing several layers simultaneously
To simultaneously view several layers you must enable the desired layers in the View Prop-
erties (Press Sheet) window.
The Press Sheet graphics window displays the enabled layers and the pertaining docu-
ments.
Printing with layers
In our sample document the text in the signastation_de_6s.pdf and signastation_en_6s.pdf

documents was created and saved in the Heidelberg Blau_dt, Heidelberg Grau_dt,
Black_dt, Heidelberg Blau_en, Heidelberg Grau_en, Black_en spot colors. To have the text
printed on the black, gray and blue separation of the images and artwork on a single press
sheet, the blue, gray and black colors must first be merged.
1. Open the Job Inspector and change to the Colors tab. This tab provides information on
all colors used in the document.
2. Enable the User Color Mappings in Marks option to retain the spot color mark position.
3. To assign the blue, gray and black colors to the respective color separations, highlight
the Heidelberg Blau_dt line and click the output as: field.
4. Choose the Heidelberg Blau color in the popup menu.
Edit all other spot colors in the same manner.
4. When you release the mouse button the selected color separation is displayed in the
Output as: column. The In mark: column indicates the mark color the color was
assigned to.
6. To print choose File > Print Job.
7. Select the Prosetter_SM52 output parameter set from the Training group.
8.. Activate the layers that are to appear on the same sheet in the Layer List region.
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(assembly and imposition)
Task
In this exercise you will learn how to create a Signa job where a press sheet contains an
assembly block and two imposition schemes.
The job consists of two product parts. A product part comprising the assembly block, being
created in the Montage mode. The second and third product part each comprise an imposi-
tion scheme and are being created in the Imposition mode.
Product part 1: Montage – Schedule
Job data:
Job code: 0008
Job Name: Combination sheet
Product Part Definition

Title: Schedule
Printing plates:
Printing plate: SM102_CompositeMark from your own group
Paper definition: Creato_200_100x70 from the Training group directory
Assembly block:
Bleed: 3 mm
Orientation: 90°
Copies X: 1
Copies Y: 2
Position X: 0 mm
Position Y: 0 mm
Margin Left: 10 mm
Right margin: 10 mm
Bottom Margin: 10 mm
Top margin: 10 mm
PDF document: 4c_Stundenplan.pdf

1c_Stundenplan_RS.pdf
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Product part 2: Imposition – Cover/Maxi Painting Book

Title: Cover – MaxiPaintingBook
Page Total: 4
Master pages:
Trim allowance for pages:

Outer: 10 mm
Inner: 0 mm
Top: 10 mm
Bottom: 10 mm
Binding Methods
Creeping: disabled
Printing plates:
Printing plate: none selected
Placing Mode: none selected
Paper definition: none selected
Folding Scheme:
Scheme: F04-01_ui_2x1
PDF document: MaxiMalbuch_Cover.pdf

Job part 3: Imposition – Cover/Maxi Painting Book

Title: Cover – MiniPaintingBook
Page Total: 4
Master pages:

Outer: 10 mm
Inner: 0 mm
Top: 10 mm
Bottom: 10 mm
Binding Methods
Creeping: disabled
Printing plates:
Folding Scheme:
PDF document: MaxiMalbuch_Cover.pdf

Completed forms:
Front:
Back:
Job part 1: Montage – Schedule
Job Data window.
Job code = 0008

Job name = Combination sheet
Customer = Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
3. Click Next card to go to the Product Part Definition window.
4. In the Name text box, enter the designation Schedule and enable the Montage option in

6. Select the SM102_Composite Mark plate template from your folder of plate templates.
9. Click Continue to go to the Assembly Blocks window.
10. Define the first assembly block by clicking the icon next to the No assembly block
defined pop-up menu. Type the Schedule name as assembly element and click Apply.
11. Specify the following parameters in the Current assembly block section:
Width: 297 mm
Height: 210 mm
Bleed: 3 mm
Cut marks: enable
Orientation: 90°
Copies X: 1 Copies Y: 2
Gaps X: 0 mm Gaps Y: 20 mm
Position X: 0 mm Position Y: 0 mm
Left margin: 10 mm Right Margin: 10 mm
Bottom Margin: 10mm Top Margin: 10 mm
12. Click Ready to create the current montage.
13. The first product part appears in the Product Part tab in the Browser window.
Product part 2: Imposition – Cover/Maxi Painting Book
1. To create the second product part, go to the Product Parts tab in the Browser window.
2. To do so click the Job folder icon in the list and choose New Product Part from the short-
cut menu.
3. Type the Cover – MaxiDrawingBook name in the Name text box of the Product Part
Definition window, enable the Imposition option in the Work Mode region and specify 4
pages in the Page Total text box.

5. Specify the following parameters:
Width: 210 mm Height: 297 mm

Bleed: 3 mm
6. To enter the trim allowance for the pages, click the triangle in front of the Custom Bleed
and Trim Allowance option.
7. Type the following values in the Trim Allowance for Pages region:
Outer: 10 mm Inner: 0 mm
Top: 10 mm Bottom: 10 mm

9. Choose the Saddlestitch option in the Binding Method pop-up menu. Enable the Cut
Marks and Folding Mark soptions in the Automatic Placement of Print Control Marks
section.
11. No entries are required in this window as the plate and paper definition of the first prod-
uct part is used for this product part.

13. Load the F04-01_ui_2x1 scheme from the default scheme resource folder.
14. Click Ready to create the job part.
Job part 3: Imposition – Cover/Maxi Painting Book
1. Go to the Product Part tab in the Browser window.
2. Highlight the Product Part: Cover - MaxiDrawingBook product part in the list and
choose Duplicate Product Part from the shortcut menu.
3. To edit the copied product part, highlight the copy and choose Edit Product Part from
the shortcut menu.
4. Change the Cover - MiniDrawingBook designation in the Name text box of the Product
Part Definition window. Leave all other setting unchanged.

6. Change the Width to 148 mm and the Height to 210 mm. Leave all other setting
unchanged.
8. No changes are necessary here either.

10. No entries are required in this window as the plate and paper definition of the first job
part is used for this job part.
12. No changes are necessary in this window either.

14. The Product Parts list should now contain three job parts.
Positioning job parts on the press sheet
The Job Assistant did not assign the two job parts defined last a press sheet or a paper. In
this step you will learn how to position the folding sheets of these job parts on the assembly
job press sheet.
1. Doubleclick the job part named Schedule (this job part was assigned a press sheet in
the previous exercise description) in the Product Parts browser window if the Press
Sheet graphics window should not show any press sheet.
2. Show the folding sheets of the Cover – MaxiDrawingBook job part in the Product Parts
browser window.
3. Position the folding sheet on the press sheet using drag-and-drop. To do so simply drag
the Cover – MaxiDrawingBook job part folding sheet into the Press Sheet graphics win-
dow.
4. The cover is to be printed as a 2up. Drag the folding sheet onto the press sheet a sec-
ond time.

6. Now drag the folding sheet of the Cover – MiniDrawingBook onto the press sheet.
7. This folding sheet is also to be printed as a 2up.
8. Drag the folding sheet onto the press sheet a second time.
9. Now we are going to rotate the mini drawing book folding sheets by 90° in the Press
Sheet Inspector.
10. Highlight both folding sheets in the Folding Sheet/Assembly Block List and enable the
90° option in the Orientation section.
11. Now the assembly blocks/folding sheets must be positioned on the press sheet.
12. To do so choose AutoArrange folding sheets/assembly blocks from the shortcut menu
in the Press Sheets graphics window.
13. Set all Margins to 0 mm, disable the Automatic rotation option and click the
AutoArrange button.
14. The folding sheets/assembly blocks are now arranged according to their margins or
trim allowances.
15. The next step is to fit the color control bar to match the subject. Choose Fit Marks and
Bleeds in the Press Sheet graphics window using the shortcut menu.
16. Now the assembly blocks/folding sheets must be horizontally and vertically centered on
the press sheet. To do so, click the Both Directions button in the Press Sheet Inspector.
17. Now the pages need to be loaded. To do so, load all PDF documents of the
Signa_Training/Uebung13 folder.
18. Assign the pages the respective assembly block/folding sheet.
this exercise.
20. Save the changes to the document and print the sheet for verification.
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Chapter 16: Exercise 14 – Combination sheet

(different schemes and jobs)
Task
In this exercise you will first create a platesetter data set for Suprasetter and respective plate
templates (SM102 and SM74) as prerequisite for exercise 14. You will receive a *.ipr file
from the Suprasetter.
I. Machines
1. Filmsetters/Platesetters
2. Sheetfed press/Web press
II. Resources
1. Output parameters
2. Marks
3. Plate Template
You will then learn how to set up a Signa job that contains different schemes for two different
jobs on one press sheet.
The job consists of three product parts. You set up one product part comprising two press
sheets where the schemes are to be positioned later in the Montage mode.
The other two product parts each comprise an imposition scheme to be positioned on the
press sheets later.
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Product part 1: Montage – press sheet
Job data:
Job code: 0009
Job Name: Combination sheet
Job Part Definition

Title: Press Sheet
Printing plates:
Printing plate: SM102_Suprasetter from your own group
SM74_Suprasetter from your own group
Paper definition: Creato_200_100x70 from the Training group folder for the
second plate, change the paper format to 700x500 mm
Assembly block:
1up size: Undefined
Product part 2: Imposition – inner pages/maxi painting book

Title: MaxiDrawingBook – inner pages
Page Total: 16
Master pages:

Outer: 20 mm
Inner: 0 mm
Top: 0 mm
Bottom: 20 mm
Binding Methods
Creeping: disabled
Printing plates:
Folding Scheme:
Scheme: F08-07_li_2x2
Gaps: all to 0 mm
PDF document: MaxiMalbuch_Inside.pdf

Product part 3: Imposition – inner pages/mini painting book

Title: MiniDrawingBook – inner pages
Page Total: 8
Master pages:

Outer: 20 mm
Inner: 0 mm
Top: 0 mm
Bottom: 20 mm
Binding Methods
Creeping: disabled
Printing plates:
Folding Scheme:
Scheme: F08-07_li_2x2
(as a 2up)Gaps all to 0
PDF document: MiniMalbuch_Inside.pdf

Completed forms:
Press sheet 1 – front and back printing form:

All product parts are created in the first step. In the second step you will learn how to position
the schemes on the respective press sheets.
Job part 1: Montage – press sheet
Job Data window.
Job code = 0009

Job name = Combination sheet

4. In the Name text box, enter the designation Press sheet and enable the Montage option
in the Working Mode region.
6. Select the SM102_Suprasetter plate template from your folder of plate templates.
9. Select the SM74_Suprasetter plate template from your folder of plate templates.
11. Choose the Paper Format named Creato_200_100x70 from the Training group in the
Resources.
12. A dialog will appear since the paper format is too large for the selected plate template.
13. Confirm the message by clicking OK and edit the paper to a width of 700 mm and a
height of 500 mm.
14. Click Ready to create the product part since no 1ups are needed for this product part.
Product part 2: Imposition – inner pages/maxi painting book
cut menu.
3. Enter the designation MaxiDrawingBook – inner pages in the Name text box of the
Product Part Definition window and enable the Imposition option in the Working Mode
region.
4. Leave the values in the text boxes of the Start Conditions option at First Press Sheet =
2, First Folding Sheet = 2 and First Page = 3. To do so, specify a value of 16 in the Page
Total text box.


Bleed: 0 mm
Marks and Folding Mark options in the Automatic Placement of Print Control Elements
section.
12. Choose the scheme named F08-07_li_2x2 scheme from the default scheme resource
folder.
13. Click Ready to create the product part.

Product part 3: Imposition – inner pages/mini painting book
1. To create the third product part, go to the Product Parts tab in the Browser window.
2. As the third product part is almost identical to the second product part, we will duplicate
and then edit the second product part. Highlight the Product Part: MaxiDrawingBook -
Inner pages product part in the list and choose Duplicate Product Part from the shortcut
menu.
3. Highlight the copy in the Product Parts list and choose Edit Product Part... from the
shortcut menu.
4. Change the MiniDrawingBook – inner pages designation in the Name text box of the
Product Part Definition window.
5. Change the Page Total value to 8 pages. Since the number of pages has changed in
relation to the previous product part, a message appears prompting you to check the
folding sheet list.
6. Confirm the message by clicking OK.

8. Edit the page size as follows and leave any other values unchanged:
10. No changes are necessary in this window either.

14. The Unplaced Pages: region indicates -8 pages.
15. Change the number of folding sheets to 1.

16. Click Ready to create the product part.
18. At the end of this exercise step the Product Part tab in the Browser window should com-
prise three product parts.
Positioning product parts 2 and 3 on press sheet 1
1. Show the first press sheet by showing the Press Sheet product part contents in the
Product Part tab of the Browser window and clicking the front sheet of press sheet 1.
2. Only marks and sujets are shown since this press sheet was neither assigned an
assembly block nor a folding scheme.
3. Show the folding sheets of the MaxiDrawingBook – Inner pages product part in the
Product Part browser window and drop the first folding sheet on the press sheet.
4. Open the Press Sheet Inspector by doubleclicking the press sheet in the Press Sheet
Inspector graphics window.
5. Select the folding sheet on the press sheet or in the Assigned Folding Sheets/Assembly
Blocks List and select an orientation of 90°.
Positioning product part 3 (MiniPaintingBook) on press sheet 1
The MiniPaintingBook product part is printed as a 2up.
1. Show the folding sheet of the MiniDrawingBook – Inner pages product part in the Prod-
uct Part browser window and drop the folding sheet on the press sheet.
2. Drag the folding sheet onto the press sheet a second time since this product part is to
be printed as a 2up.
3. To arrange the folding sheets to each other, choose AutoArrange folding sheets/assem-
bly blocks from the shortcut menu in the Press Sheets graphics window.
4. Set all Margins to 0, disable the Automatic rotation option and click the AutoArrange
button to arrange the folding sheets.
5. Based on the defined trim allowances, the folding sheets are positioned into the bottom
left press sheet corner.
6. To fit marks and bleeds, choose Fit Marks and Bleeds from the shortcut menu in the
Press Sheets graphics window.
7. Show the Press Sheet Inspector and click the Both Directions button to center the fold-
ing sheets on the press sheet.

Positioning product part 2 (maxi painting book folding sheet 2) on press sheet 2
1. Show the second press sheet by showing the Press Sheet product part contents in the
Product Part tab of the Browser window and clicking the front sheet of press sheet 2.
2. Now drag the second folding sheet of the MaxiDrawingBook - inner pages onto the sec-
ond press sheet.
3. Now the folding sheet is to be centered on the paper. Open the Press Sheet Inspector
and enable the Both Directions option in the Centering section.
4. To optimally assess the placement, you should open the Press Sheets tab in the Graph-
ics Window.
6. If necessary, fit marks and bleeds; to do so, choose Fit Marks and Bleeds from the
shortcut menu in the Press Sheets graphics window.
Assigning pages to the folding schemes
As the press sheets were created in the Montage mode, you cannot use the Assign Pages
command from the shortcut menu in the Contents browser window or the Not assigned com-
mand because the Assign Pages command in the Montage mode always creates a new
assembly block.
1. Import all documents of the Signa_Training/Uebung14 folder.
2. We are first going to assign the pages of the MaxiMalbuch_Inside.pdf document.
3. Show the first press sheet by clicking the first press sheet of the Press Sheet product
part in the Product Parts browser window.
4. Go to the Contents tab in the Browser window.
5. Drag the folder containing the MaxiMalbuch_Inside.pdf document and drop it on the
first page (page with index 3) of the respective folding sheet.
6. Drag the folder containing the MiniMalbuch_Inside.pdf document and drop it on the first
page of the respective folding sheet.
7. Each page will be automatically assigned twice since this is a 2up.
8. Save the changes and check the front and back of both press sheets.
9. Finally print both press sheets as PDF and inspect the finished files in Adobe Acrobat.
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Chapter 17: Exercise 15 – Handling two flyers in one job
Task
The following exercise will comprise three product parts. The first product part comprising all
press sheets will be created in the Montage mode. The second and third product parts will
be created in the Imposition mode. These are two 20-page flyers in German and French.
The folding sheets of product parts 2 and 3 will then be placed on the press sheets of
product part 1.
In the first step, you will first create a new folding scheme in the Fold Assistant.
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Product part 1: Montage – press sheet
Job data:
Job code: 0010
Job Name: Flyers G + F
Job Part Definition

Title: Press Sheet
Printing plates:
Placing Mode: Plate 1 = Work-and-turn
Plate 2 = Sheetwise (front and back) Paper definition:

Profisilk_90_100x70 from the Training group folder
Change the paper size to 900x640 mm
Assembly block:
1up size: Undefined
Product part 2: Imposition – German flyer
Job Part Definition

Title: German
Page Total: 20
Master pages:

Outer: 10 mm
Inner: 0 mm
Top: 12 mm
Bottom: 11 mm
Binding Methods
Creeping: enable, creeping values from paper definition
Print control elements: Cut marks, folding marks, folding crosses, folding sheet label
and fold lay mark
Cut block assignment: To scheme
Printing plates:
Folding Scheme:
8S_4x1_KU from own group
Gaps: all to 0 mm
Folding sheet position

Folding sheet 1 Folding sheet 2 and 3 (on press sheets 2 and 3)
Position X: 10mm Position X: 10 mm
Position Y: 0 mm Position Y: 0 mm
PDF document: Broschüre_GER.pdf

Product part 3: Imposition – French flyer
Job Part Definition

Title: French
Page Total: 20
Master pages:

Outer: 10 mm
Inner: 0 mm
Top: 12 mm
Bottom: 11 mm
Binding Methods
Creeping: enable, creeping values from paper definition
Print control elements: Cut marks, folding marks, folding crosses, folding sheet label
and fold lay mark
Cut block assignment: To scheme
Printing plates:
Folding Scheme:
8S_4x1_KU from own group
Gaps: all to 0 mm
Folding sheet position

Folding sheet 1 Folding sheet 2 and 3 (on press sheets 2 and 3)
Position X: 10mm Position X: 10 mm
Position Y: 320 mm Position Y: 320 mm
PDF document: Broschüre_FR.pdf

Press sheet layout
Press sheet 1 = single side for work-and-turn:

900 mm
11 mm
1 4 3 2 Scheme: F04_ui_2x1
Cover – French
A A A A
640 mm
12 mm
1 210 mm 4 3 2 11 mm
297 mm
Cover – German
A A A A
12 mm
20 mm 20 mm 20 mm
Press sheet 2 + 3 work-and-turn (front and back) – front

900 mm
11 mm
5 4 1 8 Custom scheme
Inner pages – French

A A A A
640 mm
12 mm
5 210 mm 4 1 8 11 mm
297 mm
Inner pages – German

A A A A
12 mm
20 mm 20 mm 20 mm
Press sheet 2 + 3 work-and-turn (front and back) – back

900 mm
11 mm
7 2 3 6 Custom scheme
Inner pages – French

A A A A
640 mm
12 mm
7 210 mm 2 3 6 11 mm
297 mm
Inner pages – German

A A A A
12 mm
20 mm 20 mm 20 mm
Completed forms:
Press sheet 1 – front form:


Creating a new scheme
In a first step we will create a new scheme using the Fold Assistant.
Scheme: Front
5 1 4 8
A A A A
Scheme: Back
7 3 2 6
A A A A
1. To create a new scheme, select Jobs & Resources > Schemes in the menu.
2. Click the gray arrow to show the contents of the Schemes group.
3. Click your group folder and choose New Scheme in the shortcut menu.
5. Type the 8S_4x1_KU designation in the File Name and Folding Scheme Name text
boxes.
6. Type 4 in the Matrix Columns and 1 in the Rows text boxes.

7. Choose the Sheetfed option using the neighboring pop-up menu.
9. The Fold Assistant opens.
10. In this example we will create the scheme directly via the Fold Animation.
11. To view the fold animation, doubleclick the left triangle at the window bottom.
12. Click the tool to go to the Editor mode.
13. The first fold is to be made in horizontal direction after the second page.
14. Click the green square below the second page in the schematic view.
15. The second fold is to be made downward in horizontal direction after the first page.
16. Click the yellow square below the pages.
19. You return to the Folding Scheme Editor.
20. Enable the First Page on Back option in the Folding Scheme Editor and rotate the page
head to the bottom using the Orientation of Top Page after Folding button.
22. The new folding scheme will be created in your group folder.
Job part 1: Montage – press sheet
Job Data window.
Job code = 0010

Job name = Flyer G + F

4. In the Name text box, enter the designation Presssheet and enable the Montage option
in the Working Mode region.
7. Choose the Work-and-turn option in the Placing Mode pop-up menu.
8. Choose the Paper Format named Profisilk_90_100x70 from the Training group in the
Resources and change the paper format to 900x640 mm..
10. Since this press sheet is required twice, specify 2 in the Number text box of the
Selected Plate Template section.
12. You need not make any changes here since the paper definitions are identical to the
plate template selected before.
13. Click Ready to create the product part since no 1ups are needed for this product part.
Job part 2: Imposition – German
cut menu.
3. Enter the designation German in the Name text box of the Product Part Definition win-
dow and enable the Imposition option in the Working Mode region.
4. Leave the values in the text boxes of the Start Conditions option at First Press Sheet =
1, First Folding Sheet = 1 and First Page = 1. To do so, specify a value of 20 in the Page
Total text box.


Bleed: 3 mm
Marks, Folding Marks and Folding Crosses, Folding Sheet Label and Fold Lay Mark
options in the Automatic Placement of Print Control Marks section.
13. Change the number of folding sheets to 1.
14. Choose the scheme named 8S_4x1_KU from your group folder.
15. Since you defined the gaps when specifying the trim allowance for the master pages,
you need not make any entries here.
Job part 3: Imposition – French
1. To create the third product part, go to the Product Parts tab in the Browser window.
2. As the third product part is identical to the second product part, we will duplicate and
then edit the second product part. Highlight the Product Part: German in the list and
choose Duplicate Product Part from the shortcut menu.
3. Highlight the copy in the Product Parts list and choose Edit Product Part... from the
shortcut menu.
4. Type the French designation in the Name text box of the Product Part Definition win-
dow.
5. Click Ready to create the product part since no changes are needed for this product
part.
7. At the end of this exercise step the Product Part tab in the Browser window should com-
prise three product parts.
Product part 2 and 3: Positioning folding sheet 1 on press sheet 1
1. Show the first press sheet by showing the Press Sheet product part contents in the
Product Part tab of the Browser window and doubleclicking the first press sheet.
2. Show the folding sheet of the German product part in the Product Part browser window
and drop the first folding sheet on the press sheet.
3. Since this press sheet is a single side for work-and-turn, the back will be automatically
aligned with the front.
4. Open the Press Sheet Inspector by doubleclicking the press sheet in the Press Sheet
graphics window.
5. Select the folding sheet on the press sheet or in the Assigned Folding Sheets/Assembly
Blocks List and type the following values in the Press Sheet Inspector. Position X:
10 mm, Position Y: 0 mm and rotate the folding sheet by 180°
6. Show the folding sheet of the French product part in the Product Part browser window
and drop the folding sheet on the press sheet.
7. Open the Press Sheet Inspector and select the folding sheet on the press sheet or in
the Assigned Folding Sheets/Assembly Blocks List and type the following values in the
Press Sheet Inspector: Position X: 10 mm, Position Y: 320 mm and rotate the folding
sheet by 180°
8. In the next step, the marks located outside the press sheet are to be positioned.
9. Go to the Marks tab in the Press Sheet Inspector.

10. Move each of the marks named Arc by 20 mm towards the sujet.
11. The color control bar is also outside the paper. It is to be positioned between the folding
sheets.
12. Since the mark was originally assigned the option Lower middle as Hotspot, the
Hotspot is first to be changed to Middle middle.
13. Go to the Marks Resources tab in the Press Sheet Inspector and show the Internal
Marks group contents.
14. Select the Dipco_SM102_Kombimarke mark and choose Edit Job Internal Mark from
the shortcut menu.
15. Change the Hotspot from Lower middle to Middle middle and click the Save button.
16. Confirm the message box that appears by clicking Yes.
17. Close the Marks Import Editor window by clicking the Close button.

19. Highlight the Color Control Mark in the list and change the Reference Point to Middle
middle.
20. To fit the color control bar to the sujet choose Fit Marks and Bleeds from the shortcut
menu in the Press Sheets graphics window.

Product part 2 and 3: Positioning folding sheets 2 and 3 on press sheets 2 and 3
1. Show the second press sheet of the Press Sheet product part by showing the Press
Sheet product part contents in the Product Part tab of the Browser window and dou-
bleclicking the second press sheet.
2. Show the folding sheets of the German product part in the Product Part browser win-
dow and drop the second folding sheet on the second press sheet of the Press Sheet
product part.
3. Show the folding sheets of the French product part in the Product Part browser window
and drop the second folding sheet on the second press sheet of the Press Sheet prod-
uct part.
4. To arrange the folding sheets to each other, choose AutoArrange folding sheets/assem-
bly blocks from the shortcut menu in the Press Sheets graphics window.
5. Set all Margins to 0, disable the Automatic rotation option and click the AutoArrange
button to arrange the folding sheets.
6. Select both folding sheets in the Press Sheet Inspector list and type the following val-
ues for the folding sheet position: Position X: 10 mm, Position Y: 0 mm.
7. Then position Folding Sheet 3 of the German and French product parts on Press Sheet
3 of the Press Sheet product part.
8. Arrange the folding sheets with each other and position the folding sheets using the
Press Sheet Inspector.
9. The marks must also be edited on press sheets 2 and 3. Go to the second press sheet
by doubleclicking the second press sheet of the Press Sheet product part in the Product
Parts browser window.
11. Move each of the marks named Arc by 20mm towards the sujet.
12. Highlight the Color Control Mark in the list and change the Reference Point to Middle
middle.
13. Edit the marks and bleeds on the press sheet.
14. You need to change the marks on the front only.

15. To copy the marks changes to the back, select all changed marks in the list and click the
button Copy all marks on the front to the back of the current object .
16. To copy the marks changes to press sheet 3, click the Apply to press sheets of same
kind button in the Marks tab of the Press Sheet Inspector.

Assigning pages to the folding schemes
As the press sheets were created in the Montage mode, you cannot use the Assign Pages
command from the shortcut menu in the Contents browser window or the Not assigned com-
mand because the Assign Pages command in the Montage mode always creates a new
assembly block.
2. We are first going to assign the pages of the Broschüre_GER.pdf document.
3. Show the first press sheet by clicking the first press sheet of the Press Sheet product
part in the Product Parts browser window.
4. Go to the Contents tab in the Browser window.
5. Drag the folder containing the Broschüre_GER.pdf document and drop it on the first
page of the respective folding sheet.
6. Drag the folder containing the Broschüre_FR.pdf document and drop it on the first page
of the respective folding sheet.
7. Then show the dimensions by clicking the icon in the Press Sheet graphics
window.
8. Go to the Display tab in the View Properties window. Enable the Dimensions and Sujet
Position options.
10. Check the sujet or folding sheet position using the indicated dimensions.
11. Save the changes and check the front and back of both press sheets.
12. Finally print both press sheets as PDF and inspect the finished files in Adobe Acrobat.
Print Media Academy – Chapter 18: Exercise 16 – Creating a gang run form 349
Chapter 18: Exercise 16 – Creating a gang run form:

Imposing different schemes on one press
sheet in one product part
Task
In a first step you create an imposition scheme for a 6up folding sheet for which you must
define a center offset according to the enclosed folding scheme.
In a second step you will learn how to create a new product part in the Imposition mode
where you will position different folding sheets on a plate template using the gang run form
option.
Job data:
Job code: 0011
Job Name: Gang run form
General product part information

Title: HD booklet
Master Pages
Special Master Page: 208 x 297 mm with 3 mm bleed (middle)
180 x 297 mm with 3 mm bleed (fold-in page)
Binding Methods
Binding method: Saddlestitch
Creeping: Enabled (creeping values from paper definition)
Control elements: Cut marks, folding marks and folding crosses
Printing Plates
Folding Scheme
Scheme: 8S_4x1_KU from your group folder

F16-06_dd_4x2 from the Standard group
Customized scheme for 6up from your own group folder
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Surfaces
Press sheet 1 – front and back printing form (folding sheets 1 and 3)
Press sheet 2 – front and back printing form (folding sheet 2)

Creating a custom imposition scheme
1. To create a new imposition scheme, select Jobs & Resources > Schemes in the menu.
2. Click the triangle in front of the folder symbol to show the contents of the Schemes
folder.
3. Show the contents of your own schemes folder and choose New Scheme in the short-
cut menu.
5. Type 6up left stitched in the Name and Folding Scheme text boxes.
6. Type 3 in the Matrix Columns and 1 in the Rows text boxes. Choose the Sheetfed option
using the neighboring pop-up menu.
8. The first fold is to be made upward in upward direction after the second page. To do so,
click the bottom right icon underneath the thumbnail view between the second and third
page.
An animation demonstrates the folding procedure in the bottom area if you maximized
the window accordingly.
9. The second fold is to be made downward in horizontal direction after the first page. To
do so, click the bottom left icon underneath the thumbnail view between the first and
second page.
10. The folding rule appears in the Folding rule box. Click Apply to apply the folding rule to
the scheme.
12. Choose the Accordion Fold option in the Pagination pop-up menu.
13. We must now specify the center offset for our exercise example. In our example the
folding sheet is stitched on the left side as seen from the middle; type -1 in the Center
Offset text box.
14. Click Save to save the new scheme in your group folder.
Imposing different schemes on one press sheet in one product part
Job Data window.
Job code = 0011

Job name = Gang run form
4. In the Name text box, enter the designation HD booklet and enable the Imposition
option in the Working Mode region.
5. To do so, specify a value of 30 in the Page Total text box.

7. This example was created with standard pages in the A4 format with 3 mm bleed.
Leave the values for width at 210 mm, for height at 297 mm and for the bleed at 3 mm.
8. As the booklet is trimmed on three sides after folding, the middle page must be short-
ened by at least 2 mm to prevent separation of the fold-in page from the middle page.
9. To create the special master page for the middle page, select the several option of the
Types popup menu.
10. Choose the Special option in the Cur. Type pop-up menu.
11. Now click the icon next the popup menu of the Special Master Page option.
13. Create another special master page for the fold-in page.
18. Enable the Creeping option. To have the creeping automatically calculated on the basis
of the paper definition you must enable the Automatic (paper thickness) option.
19. Enable the Cut Marks, Fold Marks and Folding Crosses options.
21. Choose the plate template you created for the SM102_CompositeMark from your own
group directory.
22. Folding sheets 1 and 3 are to be positioned on the press sheet. Enable the Gang run
form option in the Selected Plate Template section to be able to position different folding
sheets on one press sheet.
A preceding # character identifies gang run forms in the list of selected printing plates.
i
24. Choose the paper format named Profisilk_90_100x70 from the Training group in the
resources.
25. For the second press sheet, load the template for SM102_CompositeMark from your
group folder a second time.
resources.
28. Disable the AutoPosition Sujet option and type the value of 20 mm in the Offset Base-
line text box.
30. Choose the scheme named 8S_4x1_KU from your group folder.
31. As the gang run form was defined in the Printing Plates window first, the selected
scheme will be automatically assigned to the gang run form plate and the folding sheet
positioned into the bottom left press sheet corner.
32. Specify a gap width of 20 mm.
33. For the second folding sheet load the F16-06_dd_4x2 scheme from the default scheme
folder.
34. Choose SM102 from the Printing Plate pop-up menu.

35. Click Automatic Gaps to have the head and back margins automatically calculated.
36. Now select the scheme for the 6up you created at the beginning of this exercise from
your group folder.
37. The 6up is automatically positioned on the gang run form.
38. Set all gaps to 0 mm.
39. Now assign all pages the special master page in the Folding Schemes window.
40. To do so, click the Special Master Pages button.
41. Assign page 5 the special master page named 180x297 and page 6 the special master
page named 208x297 and then click the Close button.
42. The changed pages are marked with a green index number.
43. On gang run forms, assigned folding sheets are always positioned into the bottom left
press sheet corner.
44. Choose the Press Sheet Layout option in the Active Inspector Section popup menu to
position the folding sheets on a gang run form.
45. When you choose the Press Sheet Layout option you can define the position and orien-
tation for the separate folding sheet 1ups at the Folding Schemes window bottom.
46. Click the AutoArrange button to position the folding sheets on top of each other and hor-
izontally arrange them on the press sheet.
47. Highlight the folding sheet named 8S_4x1_KU in the list.
48. Change Position Y to 20 mm and rotate the folding sheet with the Orientation popup
menu to 180°.
49. Then highlight the second folding sheet in the list.

50. Change Position Y to 353 mm.
53. Open HD_Stadt.pdf from the Signa_Training/ Uebung16 folder and assign all pages in
the document.
54. As all pages in our sample document are in the A4 format the contents of page 17 must
be manually displaced.
55. Select page 17 on the press sheet.

56. Open the Document Inspector and change to the Page tab.
57. To displace the page contents to the left, add +30 to the value displayed in the Rel. Posi-
tion X text box and press the Tab key to confirm.

It is feasible to change the trim box in the PDF document to avoid having to manually edit
i page properties in the Signa job. Prinect Signa Station can process several trim boxes in a
single PDF.
1. Go to the Contents tab in the Browser window and remove the HD_Stadt.pdf document
from the current job; to do so, highlight the document in the list and choose Remove
Document from Job from the shortcut menu.
2. Open HD_Stadt_2.pdf from the Signa_Training/ Uebung16 folder and assign all pages
in the document. The page will load without errors since the trim box of page 17 was
already edited in the PDF sample document.
Print Media Academy – Chapter 19: Exercise 17 – SM74DI 369
Chapter 19: Exercise 17 – SM74DI
Task
In this exercise you will create a plate template for an SM74DI. The platesetter (SM74DI)
must be manually created since there is no *.ipr file. Following this, you will create appropri-
ate output parameters and plate templates.
Press Plate Leading Gripper max. Max. Number Width Tail Lat.
edge of paper printing ink ink Edge of distance
print format zones zones Print
SM74DI 745 x 605 59.5 10 740 x 530 740 x 510 23 32.5 35.5 2.5
Imagesetter Press: Plate size Imaging window Y offset
SM74DI SM74DI 745 x 605 740 x 510 59.5
Feasible order for creating machines and resources
I. Machines
1. Filmsetters/platesetters
2. Sheetfed press/web press
II. Resources
2. Marks
3. Plate Template
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Chapter 20: Exercise 18 – Imposition with gang run forms

and several identical folding sheets on one
press sheet
Task
In this exercise you will create a job with the first two press sheets being gang run forms on
which three folding sheets each are placed. The selected scheme is placed twice on the
third press sheet.
Job data:
Job code: 0012
Job Name: Book production
General job part information

Title: Novel
Master Pages
Page format: 105 x 165 mm with 3 mm bleed
Binding Methods
Creeping: disable
Control elements: Cut marks, folding marks, folding crosses, collating marks and
folding sheet label
Collating Mark: reduce to 80%, descending and collating group: Another mark
at upper page edge: enable
Printing Plates
Paper definition: Profisilk_90_100x70 from the Training group:
edit to 1000x740 mm
Folding scheme
Scheme: F24-08_di_3x4 from the Standard group
F16-05_li_4x4 from the Standard group
Gaps: Top/bottom gaps = 10 mm
back margin = 6 mm
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Folding sheet position:

Folding sheets 1, 2 and 3 on press sheets 1 and 2:
Folding sheet 1: Position X = 46 mm Position Y = 22 mm
Folding sheets 7 and 8 on press sheet 3:

Gap between folding sheets 1 and 2: 10 mm
Completed forms
Press sheet 1 – front and back printing form


Gang run forms and several identical folding sheets on one press sheet
Job Data window.
Job code = 0012

Job name = Book production
4. In the Name text box, enter the designation Novel and enable the Imposition option in
7. Specify the following page size for the trim box:
8. By default, the preferences do not feature any trim in the routing margin. In this exam-
ple, however, the trim will extend into the routing margin. To do so, enable the Use cus-
tom values option in the Custom Bleed Values and specify 3 mm in each text box.

10. Choose the Perfect Binding option in the Binding Methods pop-up menu.
11. Enable the Cut Marks, Folding Marks, Folding Crosses, Collationg Marks and Folding
Sheet Label options.
12. Scale the collating mark to 80 % in the Colors and scaling for automatic marks section .
13. Enable the following options in the Data for Collating Mark section:
Position: Back Margin

Distance: Automatic
Range: Automatic
Direction: Descending
Collating Group: Another mark at upper page edge
14. Enable the following options in the Sheet Label Parameters section:
Position: At foot
Position: orthogonal = 3 mm

17. Choose the plate template you created for the SM102_CompositeMark from your own
group directory.
resources and change the paper size to 1000x740 mm.
20. Disable the AutoPosition Sujet option and type the value of 22 mm in the Offset Base-
line text box.
21. For the second press sheet, load the template for SM102_CompositeMark from your
group folder a second time.
22. Enable the Gang run form option and type the value of 2 in the Number: text box.
resources and change the paper size to 1000x740mm.
26. Choose the scheme named F24-08_di_3x4 from the Standard folder.
27. Position the scheme on the gang run form plate.
28. Specify the gutters as per the task.
30. Position the scheme on the gang run form plate and specify the gutters according to the
task.
31. Choose the scheme named F16-12_li_4x2 from the Standard folder.
32. Position the scheme on the gang run form plate and specify the gutters according to the
task.
33. Choose the Press Sheet Layout option in the Active Inspector Section popup menu to
position the folding sheets on the gang run form.
34. Click the AutoArrange button.
35. Select each of the folding sheets in the list in succession and position them according to
the following screenshot.
37. Position the scheme on the SM102.

38. Go to the Gaps and Master Pages option using the Active Inspector Section popup
menu and define the gaps according to the task.
39. The seventh folding sheet was automatically placed on the press sheet as a 2up.
40. Go to the Press Sheet Layout via the Active Inspector Section: popup menu to prevent
the formation of 2ups and to define the offset between each of the folding sheets.
41. Disable the Folding Sheet Copies Allowed option and specify a value of 10 mm
between first and second folding sheet in the Plate Layout Area.

44. The result should be as follows:
46. Open all documents of the Signa_Training/Uebung18 folder.

48. As the documents are loaded in the correct sequence, you can select each of them in
the Contents browser window and drag and drop them on the first page in the page list.
50. Finally print the document as PDF and inspect the finished files in Adobe Acrobat
Print Media Academy – Chapter 21: Exercise 19 – Plate layout template 387
Chapter 21: Exercise 19 – Creating and applying a plate

layout template
Task
In this exercise we will impose a 20-page drawing book with a CMYK cover and mono-
chrome black inner pages. The cover will be printed as a 4up since the entire job is to be
printed on one press. For the inner pages, four folding sheets are to be positioned on one
press sheet.
In the first step you will create a plate layout data set in the resources that defines the offsets
between the separate folding sheets, the fold lay mark and the orientation of the folding
sheets on the press sheet.
Plate layout:
Name: 2x2_head top
Folding sheet rows: 2
Folding sheet columns 2
Folding sheet orientation: disabled
Gaps: Horizontally and vertically: 40 mm each
Fold lay: swap by 180°
Job data:
Job code: 0011
Job name Children’s painting book

Name: Cover
Page Total: 20
Master pages:
Printing plates:
Folding Schemes
PDF document: MaxiMalbuch_Cover.pdf and MaxiMalbuch_Inside.pdf

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Completed forms

Creating a plate layout parameter set
In this exercise step you will create a new plate layout parameter set.
2. Click the gray arrow to show the contents of the Plate Layouts group.
3. Create a new group. To do so click the Plate Layouts item and choose New Group from
the shortcut menu.
group name.
5. To create a new plate layout, click the group you just created and choose New Plate
Layout from the shortcut menu.
6. The Plate Layout Editor automatically opens.
7. Type the 2x2_head top designation in the Name text box.
8. Specify a value of 2 each in the Folding Sheet Rows and Folding Sheet Columns text
boxes.
9. Specify 40 mm in the text box as the horizontal and vertical offset between the sepa-
rate folding sheets.
Each of the squares represents one folding sheet, regardless of the number of pages it
comprises.
The front is identified by the color yellow, the back by green.
10. Now change the fold lay for each of the folding sheets by 180°. For this purpose click
the icon of each folding sheet. The red line indicates the fold lay.
11. To save the plate layout, click Save and then the Close button.
12. The new plate layout you have created appears in your group folder.
Creating a Signa job
1. To create a new Signa job, choose File > New….
Job Data window.
3. Load the customer data set as per the task.

5. In the Name text box, enter the designation Cover, enable the Imposition option and
specify 20 in the Page Total region.
7. Define a width of 210 mm and a height of 297 mm for the master page. Leave the bleed
at 3 mm.

10. Enable the Cut Marks, Folding Marks, Folding Sheet Label and Fold Lay Mark options
in the Automatic Placement of Print Control Elements section.
12. Select the SM102_CompositeMark plate template from your own group folder.
14. Choose the paper format named Creato_200_100x70 from the Training group.

17. As the first press sheet is to contain the first folding sheet only, you must change the
number of folding sheets to 1.
18. Load the F04-01_ui_2x1 scheme again.
19. Highlight the first folding sheet in the list.

20. Choose the Press Sheet Layout option from the Active Inspector Section popup menu.
21. Click the icon next to the Plate Layout Area option and load the plate layout created
earlier in this exercise from your group folder.
22. The folding sheets of the first press sheet are automatically rotated and arranged as per
the plate layout.
23. Then highlight the next folding sheet in the list.
24. Disable the Folding Sheet Copies Allowed option.
25. Load the plate layout you created from your group folder.
30. Assign all pages in the correct sequence.
Please note when assigning pages that the MaxiMalbuch_Cover.pdf document con-
tains the two first and two last pages.

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Chapter 22: Exercise 20 – Creating a custom report header
Task
In this exercise you will learn how to create a custom report header that you can use for
saving or printing of window lists in HTML format.
To do so, copy ReportHeader_en in the default folder, paste it into your group folder and
rename it there. You will then edit it and add a number of items to it.
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Completed HTML report

2. Click the gray arrow to show the contents of the Report Header group.
3. You must first create a new group. To do so click the Report Header item and choose
group name.
5. Now ReportHeader_en is to be copied from the Standard group and pasted in your own
group folder.
6. Display the contents of the Standard group. Highlight Report

Header_en in the list and choose Copy Report Header from the shortcut menu.
7. Highlight your group folder and select Paste Report Header from the shortcut menu to
paste the report header from the clipboard into your group folder.
8. To change the name of the report header you pasted into your group folder, highlight the
header and choose Rename Report Header from the shortcut menu. Change the name
to Custom Report Header.
9. To edit the report header click the Edit Report Header item in the shortcut menu.
10. The HTML-Editor, divided into two tabs, opens. In the View tab you can create or edit
your report header under visual control like with a standard text editor. The tools on the
left window side are provided for this purpose.
You will see the HTML source code in the Source Text tab. You can edit in this window
as well.
11. In this exercise you will edit in the View tab.
12. First, we are going to change the Jobs and Customers names to Job Count, Job Name
and Customer.
13. To do so, highlight the respective sections and type over the text or type the Job Name
text according to the screenshot below.
14. According to the screenshot below, Job Number, Job Name and the customer should
each be on a separate line. Do do so, set the text cursor behind each of the variables
and press the Enter key.
15. Click the Save button to save the changes.

16. Edit the bottom report header section as well according to the screenshot below.
17. We are now going to insert the Created by entry below the Press Sheet Count line in the
report header.
18. To do so, set the text cursor below the line and type the text. Then highlight the text and
click the Tool to make it bold.
19. Set the text cursor behind the colon of the Created By: entry and press the Tab key to go
to the next column.
20. To insert the variable for the user name, choose Created by in the fourth popup menu.
21. Click Insert placeholder to insert the variable.

22. Remove the bold style by highlighting the inserted variable text and clicking the
tool once again.
23. Save the changes and close the window.
Editing the default report header in the Preferences
In a second step we are going to replace the default report header for saving a list in the
HTML format with the custom header.
1. To open the Preferences select File > Preferences....

2. Go to the Resources tab.
3. Click the icon next to the Report Header option. Highlight the report header in your
resource folder and click OK.
4. The selected report header appears in the Report Header box.

Print Media Academy – Chapter 23: Exercise 21 – Label optimization 411
Chapter 23: Exercise 21 – Label optimization
Task
In this exercise you will get to know the common input parameters required for efficient oper-
ation of the Label Optimization option.
Job data:
Job code: 0012
Job name Beer labels
Customer Code: 0001

Name: Widder Brew
Working Mode: Montage in conjunction with the Label Optimization option
Printing plates:
Label optimization:
Margin Left: 12mm
Right margin: 12mm
Bottom margin: 12mm
Top margin: 12mm
Ribbon margin: 0, then 10 mm
PDF document: Etiketten_5c_HiRes.pdf

Size: 90 x 105 mm
Document size: 96 x 111 mm

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Completed forms
Press sheet 1: Front

2. In the Job Assistant, enter the Job Data, the Job Code and the Job Name according to
the task in the Job Data window.
3. Type the job part name in the Name text box and choose Montage as the Working
Mode. Enable Sheet Optimization on.
Name = Widder Brew

Working Mode = Montage
4. Click Continue to go to the Printing Plate window. Load the SM102_CompositeMark

plate template from your own group folder. The file is to be set up as Single-sided.
5. Click Continue to go to the Assembly Blocks window. You can either specify the assem-
bly blocks step by step here, position them on the press sheet using drag-and-drop, or
use a mixture of both methods. In our case we position the files directly on the press
sheet.
6. Click Finished to close the Job Assistant. The result should be as follows:
7. Load all files from the Uebung21 folder. These are three labels of which different vol-
umes are to be printed.
8. Select the Press Sheet Inspector. You will set up all major parameters here once the
files have been positioned.
9. Positioning the files on the press sheet via drag-and-drop changes the Press Sheet
Inspector window contents.
10. Before you make all relevant settings here, please go to the Folding Sheet/Assembly
Block Inspector to make settings regarding marks or distances between files of one
assembly block.
11. Specify 5 mm each for left, right, bottom and top margin of each file in the Attributes tab.
12. Enable the Cut Marks and Also to inner 1ups functions in the Marks tab to assign sepa-
rate cut marks to each 1up.
13. Go to the Press Sheet Inspector. First specify the margins on the paper to be reserved
for the plate template marks in the Label Optimization pane. All margins will be set to
12 mm. Then specify the details for each master label. 1 is to be printed 1500 times.
14. Now highlight master label 2 and specify 2000 in Number of Copies, then go to master
label 3 where you specify 4000 copies.
You can now choose from one of three Optimization options: Horizontal, Vertical and
General:
a) Horizontal:
Label optimization occurs in horizontal ribbons. Ribbon formation starts at the
bottom left. The ribbons always fill the entire space between margins before a new
ribbon starts.
b) Vertical:
Label optimization occurs in vertical ribbons. Ribbon formation starts at the bottom
left. The ribbons always fill the entire space between margins before a new ribbon
starts.
c) General:
Label optimization occurs in rectangles or rectangular ribbons. This means: labels
of equal size are combined in rectangles if possible. Rectangle formation starts at
the bottom left. In most cases the rectangular ribbons do not fill the entire space
between the margins.
15. In this case we choose the General optimization method. Prinect Signa Station accord-
ingly configures the press sheet. A number of informative figures are displayed:
- Paper Usage* is 73.78%
- Paper Usage* per sheet** is 73.93 %
- Print Volume is 167
- 45 labels are positioned:
- Master label 1 9 times
*Paper Usage across the entire volume without surplus

**Paper Usage per sheet
16. When rotation is permitted for assembly blocks, you can optimize the paper usage with
the Automatic rotation option. Generally speaking, the variants permitted by the pro-
gram also greatly depend on the respective print conditions.
17. The following new values are displayed:
- Paper Usage* is 86.16 %

- Paper Usage per sheet is 87.07 %
Result:
It is apparent that the Automatic rotation function yields a better paper usage because
more labels can be positioned.
18. Of course you must make sure the required marks appear on the press sheet. Correct if
necessary (see before).
19. Save the job under the proposed name.
20. The Ribbon Margin function, specified with 10 mm here, also affects all values. Consec-
utive labels of identical size and orientation are arranged in a ribbon. Such a label need
not be rectangular. An alternative view for assembly block generation without interfer-
ing contents information is available when you disable Show contents of pages/1ups in
View Properties.
21. The following new values are displayed:
- Paper Usage is 82.14 %

- Paper Usage per sheet is 83.79 %
Result:
Compared to the second case the arrangement is more feasible but the percentage val-
ues slightly less favorable.
22. If desired, you can, of course, fill the empty top right area. To do so, click the neighbor-
ing element in the Graphics Press Sheet view. You can then right-click and select Dupli-
cate Assembly Block.
23. You can use the arrow keys to displace the duplicated assembly block or position it by
typing numeric values in the Press Sheet Inspector.
24. Of course you thus deliberately create a label 3 surplus. You can right-click in the Fold-
ing Sheets List View window and display the Surplus view by choosing Select Columns.
25. You can customize your view in the Select Columns dialog.
26. The following values are displayed; note that the label 3 surplus has grown due to the
duplicate.
27. Use the Save Table as HTML File function to save the resulting values regarding vol-
ume, paper usage, etc. Right-click again in the Folding Sheets List View window and
select the respective function.
28.Sample HTML report:

29. The Graphics window should look as follows:
30. To move the position of entire blocks you can press the mouse button, draw a box
around the areas of an assembly block to select them and then move them.
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Print Media Academy – Chapter 24: Exercise 22 – Packaging Printing 429
Chapter 24: Exercise 22 – Packaging Printing
Task
In this exercise you will learn how to optimally prepare a folded box 1up positioned several
times for output using a CFF2 file and the Packaging option. You will get to know typical
packaging printing marks.
Job data:
Job code: 0015
Job name Packaging

Name: Folded box with CFF2 data
Working Mode: Packaging (Packaging option)
Printing plates:
CFF2 files: Autumn_12_Clip11.CF2

Autumn_col_12up.CF2
PDF documents: V01_4c_Autumn_Couleurs.pdf

Size: V03_6c_Autumn_Couleurs_comp.pdf

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Completed forms
Press sheet 1: Front

2. In the Job Assistant, enter the Job Data, the Job Code and the Job Name according to
the task in the Job Data window.
4. Type the job part name in the Name text box and choose Packaging as the Working
Mode.
Name = Folded box with CFF2 data

Working Mode = Packaging
5. Click Continue to go to the Printing Plate window. We need a plate template for the
SM102. The file is to be set up as single-sided. Choose Creato_200_100x70 from the
Training group as paper.
6. Click Next card to go to the Cutting Die (CFF2) window. You can load the required CFF2
file here. Enable the Same content for all 1ups of a profile option under Cutting Die File
and Main Settings. As a consequence, all 1ups are assigned the same index number
and the 1up can be positioned only once. Leave all other setting unchanged. The infor-
mation in Info is directly retrieved from the CFF2 file.
7. Close the Job Assistant. The program should now look as follows if you click Both
Directions for Centering in the Press Sheet Inspector.
8. Load the V01_4c_Autumn_Couleurs.pdf file from the Uebung22 folder. It is a 1up of a

folded box.
9. Open the PDF file in Acrobat to judge it in detail.

10. To do so, go to the Contents tab in the browser window, highlight the file in the list and
choose Open with Acrobat in the shortcut menu.
11. You can see how the file is to be cut later on (green line). Unfortunately there is an insuf-
ficient trim at the upper margin, which would cause problems during finishing.
12. As an alternative we therefore import V03_6c_Autumn_Couleurs_comp.pdf.
13. To load the document, drag and drop it on a 1up on the press sheet.
14. In the magnified view of the Document tab on the Graphics Window you can see that
there is enough trim at the upper corner.
15. Set the background color for the Folding Sheet/Assembly Block so that it clearly stands
out from the file to be edited. In the Preferences under View Attributes you find an
appropriate Display color.
16. In this case we choose a strong blue.

17. This will make all further steps easier.
18. For a better overview we hide the Symbols. Open the View Properties dialog and dis-
able the Symbols in the View tab.
19. The page content is incorrectly arranged with regard to the cutting die; the Placement
rule for assigned 1ups must therefore be changed.
20. Open the Product Part Inspector and go to the Packaging tab.
21. Enable the By user (view options) option in the Placement rule for assigned 1ups sec-
tion and enable the Centered option in the Offset section.
22. The entire sheet should now look as follows.
Editing a clip path
1. It is easily visible in the magnified view that the clip path is not correct. Parts of the tuck-
in flap would negatively affect the visible packaging area.
2. We must modify the clip path to correct this. Disable Contents of Page/1up in View
Properties for the time being.
3. In the Graphics window, go to the Folding Sheet/Assembly Block tab. Select a 1up
here. Press the right mouse button to select Clip Path (Packaging) and then Define Line
Type as Clip Path. The default is 90.
4. Use the crosshair pointer that appears to click the area shown below.
5. The clip path in the file is displayed.

6. To better assess the result, show the page contents again. The effect is clearly visible.
The clip path is now correct in the critical place.
7. Click the Packaging tab in the Product Part Inspector: you see the Line Type for Clip
Path value has now changed from 90 to 11.
The change was also applied to the currently selected 1up only. To apply the new line
type to all 1ups, click the text box of the Line Type for Clip Path and press the Tab key.
8. You might think the trim in the upper and lower rows is insufficient.
9. To edit the clip path, select the Path tool in the Tool bar and enable the clip path in the
Folding Sheet/Assembly Block graphics window.
10. When you open the shortcut menu for the Path tool, you will find tools for adding or
removing anchor points.
11. Enlarge the clip path step by step in upward direction.

12. When finished, the clip path should roughly match the following screenshot.
13. Right-click and select Clip Path (Packaging)> Copy Clip Path in the shortcut menu of
the Folding Sheet/Assembly Block graphics window to copy the results in the first 1up
to all 1ups in the top row.
14. Choose the Frame tool tool from the tool bar and activate all 1ups in the top row.
15. Select Clip Path (Packaging) > Paste Clip Path from the shortcut menu to apply the
changed clip path to these 1ups.
16. Proceed in the same manner for the bottom row to edit the clip path.
17. You should see the following result at the end of this exercise step.
Positioning typical packaging printing marks
You will now position typical packaging printing marks. We start with the so-called Station-
Number. This mark allows each 1up to be identified during finishing. You can thus, for exam-
ple, easily sort out faulty 1ups during finishing.
1. Select a 1up in the Folding Sheet/Assembly Block graphics window to set the Station-
Number.
2. Open the 1up Inspector and change to the Marks Resources tab.
3. Display the contents of the Standard group.

4. Drag the StationNumber mark and drop it on the desired position of the selected 1up.
5. 0 automatically appears in the respective place.

6. To define the start number and the enumeration direction, choose Assign Station Num-
bers in the Press Sheet graphics window shortcut menu or Folding Sheet/Assembly
Block.
7. In the First Station Number: text box, type 1 and enable the highlighted option in the
Variants region.
8. As the StationNumber is on the selected 1up only, we are now going to transfer it to all
other 1ups.
9. Go to the Marks tab in the 1up Inspector and click the Apply to all pages/1ups button.
10. The new intermediate result should be as follows.
11. We will now use an easy method to create an ink pickup bar to be exclusively saved in
the current job.
12. To do so, choose the Measuring frame tool in the toolbar and draw a frame roughly at
the place and of roughly the size you wish the ink pickup bar to have.
To make changes to the X or Y values or the Width or Height of the frame, directly type
the values in the Press Sheet graphics window (highlighted in red).
13. The toolbar displays additional tools as soon as you draw a frame with the Measuring
frame tool.
14. Click the Ink Pickup Bar tool.

15. The Ink Pickup Bar Editor opens as soon as you click the Ink Pickup Bar tool. Here you
can define the colors the mark is to contain, and the color height.
16. Save the mark. The mark appears in the graphics window as soon as you have saved
the ink pickup bar.
17. It is advisable to mark the space between mark and 1up in white using a cover mark if
the ink pickup bar is too close to the 1up.
18. To do so, use the Measuring frame tool to draw a frame of the size that is to be marked
in white.
19. Click the Cover Mark tool in the toolbar. No further input is required for this mark. The
marked area is set to white and thus knocks out the space between mark and 1up.

Determining the colors
PDF documents created for packaging printing often contain a spot color identifying the die
in the document. This spot color is not to be printed in the final product (JDF output only) but
should be visible on a form proof.
With Prinect Signastation you can define dies or any document color as cutting die. The
advantage is that this cutting die is printed on a form proof since the color is treated like the
proof color but is ignored during final output.
1. Open the Job Inspector and change to the Colors tab.
2. Enable the Cutting Die option for the Punch color.
This option is visible only if you have enabled the Column for cutting die color option in
the General Preferences.
Print Media Academy – Chapter 25: Web offset printing 455
Web offset printing – Brief introduction
The print units of a web offset press are similar to those of a sheetfed offset press. Each
machine features two print units. Each print unit features an ink fountain and a fountain pan,
ink and damping rollers, a plate and a blanket cylinder. There is no impression cylinder. In
web printing there is no such cylinder because both paper sides are printed simultaneously,
i.e. “rubber against rubber”. The paper web runs between the two blanket cylinders that both
provide the required back pressure.
A web offset press is often configured as a 4-color machine on which, for example, 16 DIN
A4 pages can be printed. There are also many 24up and 32up presses, and the trend goes
towards even larger presses with 48up or 64up capacity.
At the machine tail the print product is immediately finished (folded, stapled or glued, stitched,
trimmed), producing a finished product in a single step. Web offset presses are used for lar-
ger jobs with higher volumes (as a rule 50,000 copies and more) in 4- or multi-color printing.
The paper is fed to the press via a splicer. The splicer allows on-the-fly roll change at high
printing speeds. Cutting-off the empty roll and splicing a new roll occurs with constant web
tension. The roll to be loaded into the press is unpacked, checked and registered.
Web offset press control
Sheetfed offset presses can be easily stopped to make adjustments. Web offset presses run
at constantly high speeds during set-up and production printing. All adjustments must there-
fore be made during operation. Print image registration is checked with a stroboscope and
displayed on a monitor. The latest generation of heatset web offset presses are capable of
printing 80,000 to 100,000 copies per hour; most of today’s presses reach up to 50,000
copies per hour.
In order to minimize waste, all adjustments must occur at high speed. Depending on the
print form and the machine presets between 3,000 and 7,000 waste copies are required until
a perfect print result is reached. After printing the paper web must be folded to the page for-
mat so it can be stitched and trimmed.
Folding on the web offset plant
Depending on the folding scheme defined for the final product the paper web can be slit into
two halves prior to folding. So-called turner bars then guide the web halves on top of each
other. Blast air ensures the printed image is not damaged. As an alternative the web can
also be folded across its entire width.
As a rule, the former folder - also operating with blast air - is used for the first fold. Downstream
of the former fold follow the jaw and chopper folder for the second and third fold.
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Example: S2 infeed conveyors (drive side)
Folding device Folding device

A DW11 DW12 DW21 B
R11 R12 R13 R14

Example: S2 infeed conveyors (operator side)
Folding device Folding device

A DW11 DW12 DW21 B
R11 R12 R13 R14

Example: Plate distribution
Front
1 8 3 6
9 16 11 14
A
Drive
B
Operation
Blanket cylinder
Plate cylinder
Back
5 4 7 2
13 12 15 10
B
Operation
A
Drive
Blanket cylinder
Plate cylinder
Options upstream of former folders
Example without turner bars – 16up, Berlin format
In this example two web halves of 8 pages each reach the folder via two former folders
2. product
14 11 16 9
1. product
6 3 8 1
Former
Folding flap
cylinder
Collecting- and
Folding cylinder
Delivery cylinder
wheel
Top half Cutting

cylinder
Bottom half
Without turner bars there are two production variants in the folder:
1. Collating the 1st product on top of the 2nd product (single production)
= 1 product with (4 books of 4 pages each) = 16 pages in total
2. No collating of the 1st product on top of the 2nd product (double production)
= 2 products with (2 books of 4 pages each) = 16 pages in total@Überschrift-3:Exam-
ple with turner bars – 16up, Berlin format
Example with turner bars – 16up, Berlin format
In this example one web of 16 pages reaches the folder via a former folder
2. product
1. product
Former
Folding flap
cylinder Collecting- and
Folding cylinder
Delivery cylinder
wheel
Cutting
cylinder
With turner bars there are two production variants in the folder:
1. Collating the 1st product on top of the 2nd product (single production)
= 1 product with (2 books of 8 pages each) = 16 pages in total
2. No collating of the 1st product on top of the 2nd product (double production)
= 2 products with (1 book of 8 pages) = 16 pages in total@GT:
Options in the folder:

Trim
Collate 1st and 2nd product on top of each other or
do not collate,
fold, eject
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Chapter 25: Exercise 23 – Imposing 16 pages in Berlin

format for web printing
Task
The following exercise assumes a web press operating with separate printing plates.
In a first step you will set up new machine parameters for platesetter and web press.
In a second step you create a new output parameter and a new plate template. The plate
template is to comprise tiling in order to ensure correct registration during printing plate out-
put.
In a third step you create a new 16 up imposition scheme in Berlin format (312 x 470 mm) for
a single web press by means of the Fold Assistant for Web.
Platesetter machine parameters:

Name: Web_1260x1024
Mode: Manual
Rated width: 1260 mm
Rated height: 1024 mm
Imaging width: 1260 mm
Imaging height: 1024 mm
Web press machine parameters:

Name: Web_1260x1024
Plate width: 1260 mm
Plate height: 1024 mm
Lead Edge of Print: 21 mm
Output parameter resources:

Name: Web_1260x1024
Platesetter data set: Web_1260x1024
Workflow: Device: other device; variant: PDF
Options:
Tiling: Enable Don’t generate tiling marks
Extra space: 0
Plate template resources:

Name: BerlinerV2_4x2
Press: Web_1260x1024
Output parameters: Web_1260x1024
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Scheme resources:
Name: 16up - Berlin format
Columns: 4
Rows: 2
Web: Single Web Press
Job data:
Job code: 0016
Job Name: Web
General product part information

Title: Berlin format
Master Pages
Page format: 312 x 470 mm
Binding Methods
Binding method: Saddlestitch
Control elements: disable all
Printing Plates
Printing plate: BerlinerV2_4x2 from your own group folder
Paper definition: 1260x982 mm
Folding Scheme
Scheme: 16up - Berlin format from your own group folder

Completed forms:
Plate Template
Scheme - 16up Berlin format
Web 1: Top
Web 1: Bottom
Press sheet – Web 1 top
Press sheet – Web 1 bottom

Creating platesetter machine parameters
1. To create a new platesetter data set, select Jobs & Resources > Resources & Machines
in the menu.
2. Go to the Machines tab.
3. Display the contents of the Platesetters group.
mouse on your group folder and choose the New Platesetter Properties command from
the shortcut menu.
5. Now enter all information necessary for the platesetter in the Platesetter Editor in line
with the task ahead.
5. To save your input, click the Save and then the Close button.
Creating web press machine parameters
1. To create a new data set for the web press, show the contents of the Web Presses
group in the Machines tab.
2. Create a new group by clicking the Web Presses item and choose New Group from the
context menu.
3. Type your own name as the group name.
mouse on your group folder and choose the New Platesetter Properties command from
the context menu to create a new data set.
5. Now enter all information necessary for the web press in the Web Press Editor in line
with the task ahead.
Creating new output parameter sets
1. To create a new output parameter, go to the Resources tab in the Resources &
Machines.
2. Display the contents of the Output Parameter Sets group.
mouse on your group folder and choose New Output Parameter Set from the context
menu.
4. Now enter all information necessary for the platesetter in the Output Parameter Set Edi-
tor in line with the task ahead.
5. Go to the Options tab and enable the Don’t generate tiling marks option in the Tiling
area. To do so, specify a value of 0 in the Extra space text box.
Creating plate template resources
1. To create a new plate template, go to the Resources tab in the Resources & Machines.
2. Display the contents of the Plate Templates group.
mouse on your group folder and choose New Plate Template from the context menu.
4. Load the press and output parameter set defined previously in the Plate Template tab
of the Plate Template Editor to define plate dimension, paper definition and imaging
window.
5. To set the marks go to the Marks Resources tab.
6. Now drag 3 horizontal and 8 vertical tiling lines from the standard marks folder and drop
them on the plate template (TilingLine_Horizontal and TilingLine_Vertical).
As reference point for the tiling lines choose the Paper option.
8. Position the tiling lines using the following values:
Horizontal tiling lines:

Y= -21 mm - lower middle
Y= 0 mm - middle middle
Y= 21 mm - upper middle
Vertical tiling lines:

X= 1.5 mm - middle left
X = 313.5 mm - middle left
X = 316.5 mm - middle left
X = -1.5 mm - middle middle
X= 1.5 mm - middle middle
X = -316.5 mm - middle right
Spaces between tiling lines of less than approx. 30 pt distance are not output as new
tiles but will be ignored for the output. i
9. Go to the Marks Resources tab again.
Drag the color mark out of the Web folder and drop it four times on the upper left paper
reference point and four times again on the middle left paper reference point, then go to
the Marks tab to position the marks in their appropriate positions.
Position the color marks using the following values:
Color marks in upper row:

X= 35 mm, Y = -8 mm - upper left
X = 350 mm, Y = -8 mm - upper left
X= 35 mm, Y = -8 mm - upper middle
X = 350 mm, Y = -8 mm - upper middle
Color marks in lower row:

X= 35 mm, Y = -29 mm - middle left
X = 350 mm, Y = -29 mm - middle left
X= 35 mm, Y = -29 mm - middle middle
X = 350 mm, Y = -29 mm - middle middle
The result should be as follows:
10. 16 text marks that must be assigned to the separate pages were created in the Web
marks folder in order to facilitate the assignment of separate printing plates to the
respective position in the press.
The marks were named PlatteDef_1 to PlatteDef_16 and positioned on the plate tem-
plate according to the imposition scheme. Use a Plate HotSpot as marks reference.
11. Go to the Marks Resources tab and drag the marks named PlatteDef_1, PlatteDef_8,
PlatteDef_3, PlatteDef_6, PlatteDef_9, PlatteDef_16, PlatteDef_11 and PlatteDef_14
to the respective plate references.
12. To facilitate marks positioning, the marks dragged to the plate template appear in suc-
cession in the Marks window.
13. Then go to the Marks tab and position the marks according to the values below. Make
sure to always select the Plate option as Reference.
The Expert Mode in the Marks tab lets you select the forms the marks are to be placed
on. Choose the Front option in the Surface pop-up menu for the marks to follow.
PlatteDef_1: X = 335 mm, Y = 10 mm - lower middle

PlatteDef_3: X = 335 mm, Y = 10 mm - lower left
PlatteDef_9: X = 335 mm, Y = 10 mm - middle middle
PlatteDef_11: X = 335 mm, Y = 10 mm - middle left
The result should be as follows:

14. Then set the marks for back printing. Choose the Back option in the Surface pop-up
menu of the Expert Mode section for the marks to follow.

15. Click Save to save the changes.
Creating scheme resources
1. To create a new scheme, go to the Resources tab in the Resources & Machines.
2. Display the contents of the Schemes group.
mouse on your group folder and choose New Scheme from the context menu.
4. Type the 16up - Berlin format designation in the Name and Folding Scheme Name text
boxes of the Folding Scheme Editor.
5. Type 4 in the Matrix Columns and 2 in the Rows text boxes. Choose the Single Web
Press option using the neighboring pop-up menu.
6. Click the symbol next to the Folding Rule text box to create the scheme on the
basis of the folding rule.
7. The Fold Assistant for Web opens.

8. The web must be cut in the middle because the 16 pages in Berlin format are finished in
two products. For this purpose click the middle scissors icon .
9. After web separation you must now define the ribbon stack at the former.
10. To load the first ribbon at the former, click the icon underneath the first ribbon. This
defines the position of the separate ribbons in the stack.
12. To load the second ribbon at the former, click the icon underneath the second ribbon.
13. Both ribbons are located on top of each other at the former.
14. Click Apply.
15. You are now in the Fold Assistant where the folding rule is created.
16. The first fold is made upward in horizontal direction.

17. Click the icon in the bottom right corner of the folding scheme thumbnail view.
18. The pages will not be folded in vertical direction. The pages will be cut after one page
(cut-off length) and placed on top of each other.
You should show the fold animation to better assess the processing method.
19. Click the upper icon to the right of the thumbnail view.
22. Disable the Apply Folding Procedure to Front option.
23 As the pages are printed head-to-foot the page orientation must be changed. To do so,
click the upper edge of the Orientation of Top Page after Folding icon.
24. The pages are positioned head-to-foot after you have changed their orientation.
25. To save the scheme, click the Save and then the Close button.
26. The new folding scheme will be created in your group directory.
Job Data window.
4. Type the product part name in the Name text box and choose the Autom. Imposition as
the Working Mode.
Name = Berlin format

Working Mode = Autom. Imposition

Bleed: 0 mm
8. Choose the Saddlestitch option in the Binding Method pop-up menu. Disable all options
in the Automatic Placement of Print Control Marks.

10. Select the Berliner V2_4x2 plate template from your own group folder. Choose the
Sheetwise (front and back) option as the Placing mode. Specify a paper width of
1260 mm and a paper height of 982 mm in the respective text boxes of the Paper Defin-
ition for Production area.
12. Choose the folding scheme named 16up - Berlin format from your group folder.
13. Specify the gaps as per the illustration below.

15. The job appears in the Press Sheet graphics window.
17. Import the BerlinerFormat.pdf PDF document from the Signa_Training/Uebung23

folder.
18. Assign all pages of the document.
20. You can now specify the parts to be printed in the Print Job... window.
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Chapter 26: Exercise 24 – Creating a new Signa user
Task
You can create new Signa users in the User Data resource folder. User rights exclusively
serve for locking or unlocking resources to protect these from inadvertent modification.
There are three constant groups of user data: PrePress Administrators, PrePress
Powerusers and PrePress Users.
• PrePress Administrators: Creating/deleting users; locking/unlocking any resources
• PrePress Powerusers: Locking any resources; unlocking resources locked by this user
• PrePress Users: No locking/unlocking
The logged-in user’s name appears in the job history.
In this exercise you will learn how to create a new Signa user with PrePress Administrator
rights.
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Creating a new Signa user
1. To create a new Signa user, select Jobs & Resources > Resources & Machines in the
menu to go to the Resources tab in the Browser window.
2. Click the gray arrow to show the contents of the User Data group.
3. To create a user in the PrePress Administrators group, click the gray arrow to show the
contents of this group.
4. Click the PrePress Administrators group and choose New User Data from the shortcut
menu.
5. The User Data Editor opens.

6. Type user name and user password. To confirm, retype the password in the Password
(repeat): text box. The system automatically assigns the user number. You can enter a
short description of the user you are about to create in the Description: text box.
7. Click Save and then the Close button to create the user data set.
8. The new user appears in the selected group directory.

Changing the Signa user
1. To log in or log off a Signa user select File > Logoff... in the menu.
2. Choose the new user from the User name: popup menu in the Login dialog.
3. Type the password and click the Login button.
4. You can always verify who is currently logged in; to do so, choose Help > Current User
in the menu.
5. Creating and editing a Signa job causes the currently logged in user’s name to be auto-
matically logged in the History that you can view in the Job Inspector.
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Appendix
Data sheet: Platesetters
Imagesetter Press: Plate size Imaging Window
Topsetter102 PF SM102 / CD102 1030 x 790 1030 x 766
Topsetter102 PF CD74F 745 x 660 745 x 636
Topsetter102 PF SM74 / CD74C 745 x 605 745 x 581
Topsetter102 PF SM52 525 x 459 525 x 434
Topsetter74 CD74F 745 x 660 745 x 630
Topsetter74 SM52 525 x 459 525 x 429
Prosetter102 SM102 / CD102 1030 x 790 1030 x 790
Prosetter102 CD74F 745 x 660 745 x 660
Prosetter102 SM74 / CD74C 745 x 605 745 x 605
Prosetter102 SM52 525 x 459 525 x 459
Topsetter74 SM52 525 x 459 525 x 459
Polysetter QM46 340 x 505 340 x 495
Suprasetter 105 SM102 / CD102 1030 x 790 1030 x 790
Suprasetter 74 + 105 CD74F 745 x 660 745 x 660
Suprasetter 74 + 105 SM74 / CD74C 745 x 605 745 x 605
Suprasetter 74 + 105 SM52 525 x 459 525 x 459
Suprasetter 74 + 105 GTO 510 x 400 510 x 400
Suprasetter 74 + 105 QM46 340 x 505 340 x 505

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Data Sheet: Sheetfed Presses
Press Plate Leading Gripper Max. Max. Number Width Tail Lat.
edge of paper printing Ink ink Edge of distance
print format zones zones Print
GTO46 450 x 370 35 8 - 10 460 x 330 445 x 310 16 32.5 25 2.5
GTO52 510 x 400 35 8 - 10 520 x 360 505 x 340 16 32.5 25 2.5
SM52 525 x 459 58 8 - 10 520 x 370 520 x 360 16 32.5 41 2.5
MO 650 x 550 47.6 8 - 10 650 x 480 645 x 472 23 32.5 30.4 2.5
SM74 /
745 x 605 59.5 8 - 10 740 x 530 740 x 512 23 32.5 33.5 2.5
CD74C
CD74F 745 x 660 43 8 - 10 740 x 610 740 x 585 23 32.5 32 2.5
SM102/
1030 x 790 43 10 - 12 1020 x 720 1020 x 710 32 32.5 37 5
43x37
SM102/
1030 x 790 52 10 - 12 1020 x 720 1020 x 710 32 32.5 28 5
52x28
Data Sheet: Papers
Paper name Grammage Volume Thickness Grade
Creato postcard
200 g/m2 1 0.18 mm matt coated
cardboard

Plate template element

7
8
4 6
Autoregister PullLay
80 mm
1 CPC bar (DIPCO 1.4) 4 Slugline

Reference Point: Upper middle 5 PullLay
Parent: Subject 6 PKS control bar
There should be a margin of at least Reference Point: Lower middle
5 mm paper white on every page Parent: Plate
between the control bar end and the 12F mark = CMYK + Spot
sheet edge. BW mark = Black/white
2 Registration marks CMYK mark = CMYK
Parent: Subject 7 Blue dotted line
3 Autoregister marks the maximum exposure area
There should be a margin of 10 mm 8 The red area
paper white between the AR mark and marks the critical area
the slugline.
Feasible order for creating machines and resources
I. Machines
1. Filmsetters/Platesetters
2. Sheetfed press/Web press
II. Resources
2. Marks
3. Plate template
4. Papers
5. Schemes
6. Plate layout
7. Customer data
8. Report headers
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Maschinen Ressourcen JobAssistent
Filmbelichter Vorlagen Jobs Jobdaten
Plattenbelichter Vorlagen Teilprodukt

Appendix – Print Media Academy
Teilprodukt Definition
Plattenstandbogen
Bogendruckmaschine Schemata
Musterseiten
Rollendruckmaschine Marken
Bindeverfahren
Machines/resources and Signa job dependencies
Papiere
Seitenformate
Druckplatten
Platteneinteilungen
Kundendaten Falzschemata
Ausgabeparameter
Preferences
This section gives an overview of the possible Prinect Signa Station preferences. The Pref-
erences area lets you define default folders and make general settings applicable to pro-
gram operation. There are eight tabs where you can make settings: General, Paths, Names,
Defaults, Resources, Import, Processes and Option Chooser. For further information please
refer to the Prinect SignaStation Reference Manual.
1. To open the Preferences select File > Preferences...
Preferences – General
The General tab lets you set the view attributes, the interface language, the parameters for
automatic file names, and the default user. You can also permanently hide or show the mes-
sages again. Prinect Signa Station will start without login window using the specified default
user if you enable the Default User option.
Enable the Show Units checkbox to have every value followed by the selected unit
.
Disable this checkbox when you do not wish to see units in the text boxes. You can verify
and, if necessary, also change the unit by way of the toolbar.
Use the Default unit of measure popup menu to define the unit used throughout the pro-
gram. You can, however, always change the selected default unit in individual text boxes by
manually typing the appropriate unit abbreviation.
The Cutting Die option appears in the Job Inspector’s Colors tab if you enable the Column
for cutting die color option. When you enable this option for a certain color, it will be treated
like the ProofColor during output.
Use the Display color popup menu to define the colors used for identifying folding
schemes/assembly blocks, paper, printing plate and the critical area. The critical area is the
printing plate part where ink cannot yet be applied.
1. To change the display colors, choose the desired option in the Display color popup
menu.
2. Then click the icon next the Display color popup menu.
3. Adjust the desired color with the color sliders, or type values directly in the text boxes.
The selected color appears in the Current color area.
4. Click OK to apply the selected color.

Click the Reset button to return to the previous color.
Click the Default button to show the default settings.
Click the Cancel button to cancel the changes to the color settings.
You can enable or disable the file naming options that are to be automatically applied when
a Signa job is saved in the Parameters for Automatic File Names section.
Usage of the folding sheet animation depends on the graphics adapter in the PC where
Prinect Signa Station was installed. Disable the Use hardware support in folding sheet ani-
mation option if your graphics adapter does not support the folding sheet animation.
Preferences – Paths
You must define the default paths for saving resources, jobs (assemblies), temporary fold-
ers, and PDF documents when you start the Prinect SignaStation application the first time.
You can also define a default folder for your output files here.
Use the Paths tab to change default folders at a later time. When a company operates sev-
eral Prinect SignaStation work stations, you should set up the folders on a server and spec-
ify these folders so all work stations can use the same resources. This facilitates the stan-
dardization of jobs and helps prevent errors.
default folders under Windows:
Path to the workspace: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Hei-

delberger\PrinectSignaStation_2\tmp
Path to jobs: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Hei-
delberger\PrinectSignaStation_2\SignaJobs
Path to contents: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Hei-
delberger\PrinectSignaStation_2\pdfdocuments
Path to output: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Hei-
delberger\PrinectSignaStation_2\Output
Path to CAD files: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Hei-
delberger\PrinectSignaStation_2\Packaging-CAD
MacOS X default folders:
Path to the workspace: Start volume\Users\Shared\Heidelberg\

PrinectSignaStation_2
Path to jobs: Start volume\Users\Shared\Heidelberg\
PrinectSignaStation_2\SignaJobs
Path to contents: Start volume\Users\Shared\Heidelberg\
PrinectSignaStation_2\pdfdocuments
Path to output: Start volume\Users\Shared\Heidelberg\
PrinectSignaStation_2\Output
Path to CAD files: Start volume\Users\Shared\Heidelberg\
PrinectSignaStation_2\Packaging-CAD
1. Click the icon to change the path to a default folder.
2. Browse to the folder you wish to select and click the Apply button.
3. The selected folder appears in the Preferences Paths tab.
Prinect Signa Station uses PDF files and Delta lists. To process PostScript files – without
first converting them to PDF – you must assign the Acrobat Distiller application by specifying
the Path to Acrobat-Distiller in the Select External Executables area. When you select Post-
Script documents for imposition, they will be automatically converted to PDF using the appli-
cation’s Distiller settings and loaded.
Specify the application for viewing PDF documents in the Path to Acrobat Reader area. This
will allow you to open pages in the selected Reader from within the application. You can
make late-breaking corrections when the selected viewer is Acrobat Professional.
Preferences – Names
You can use several layers in Prinect Signa Station. In some cases this is necessary if you
wish to position different PDF documents on different layers. In addition, you can, for exam-
ple, process multilingual documents in one job. One document can hold up to 12 layers.
The Names tab lets you freely name layers – for a better overview when you later assign
documents to separate layers.
1. To change the name of a layer, click the Name text box.
2. Enter the desired name. Use the Tab key to go to the next text box.
In the Surface Names region of the Names window you can accept the proposed names for
the sheet offset or web offset surfaces or assign custom names.
You can define the contents of marks variables Replacer 1 to Replacer 15 in the Free Text
Replacer Names table.
Preferences – Defaults
In the Defaults tab you can specify defaults for Bleed, Routing Margin Min., Routing Margin
Max., Max. Head Gap and Max. Gap . These values are automatically imported when you
create a file if the respective option is enabled. You can always edit these values in the job.
We recommend that you enable the Scheme filter option if you wish to only view possible
variants in dependence of paper and single page size when selecting an imposition scheme.
One Folding Sheet per Sheet defines that exactly one folding sheet will appear on each
press sheet. 2ups, however, are still possible when this option is enabled. You can use the
arrow keys on your keyboard to, for example, move assembly blocks. The cut marks will
move according to the creeping values if creeping is enabled. Enable Fixed Cut Marks in
Creeping if the cut marks are to remain at their original page position.You can change the
folding sheet sequence in a Signa job because of pagination while the press sheet
sequence changes analogously. Enable the Constant Press Sheet Order option if you wish
the press sheet order to remain unchanged.It may not always be feasible to apply place-
ment rules and marks to all job pages. Changes will apply to the pages of the currently
selected folding sheet/assembly block only when you enable the Restrict ‘Apply’ functions in
Page Inspector option.
In this window you can define the increment of the unit you selected and the ProofColor line
thickness. The ProofColor will be printed up to the folding sheet edge and not on the paper
when you enable the Lines till folding sheet edges option.
The Custom Screen Angles for Other RIPs section lets you define screen angles for CMYK
and spot color output.
Preferences – Resources
You can set your own marks for those marks Prinect Signa Station assigns automatically in
the Resources tab. The marks must be available in the Marks Resources. Here you can also
select the Barcode Font being accessed in the Marks Editor.
1. Click the icon next to the marks type to be changed if you wish to assign a mark
from another resource folder.
2. Highlight the marks set containing the desired mark in the Choose Mark window. Click
the small triangle to view the set contents.
3. Highlight the desired mark and click OK.

Use the popup menu in the Default for Other Resources section to select a product part tem-
plate from the resources you want to use for the product part user’s spread. The product part
used in the template must have been created in the Autom. Imposition mode. To create the
reader’s spread of a product part, go to the Jobs tab in the Browser window. Highlight the
desired product part there and select Product Part in Reader’s Spread from the shortcut
menu.
You can save a list in the HTML format from the Lists window. Choosing the Report header
option lets you load a template from the Report header resources.
Preferences – Import
In the Import tab you can specify that the JDF Connector automatically starts, and you can
define the input and output folders for JDF documents. You can define an output parameter
set for JDF output in the Resources Default for JDFs with Job Prep Data section. The folders
for Default Groups for Imports (JDF / Signa 9 Template) of Plate Templates or Schemes will
be searched first for a suitable plate template or scheme. You can also define Automatic
Gaps with JDF Import here. The MDS section lets you enable the use of MDS and specify
the MDS server address. This option is available in conjunction with Prinect Print Ready and
MetaDimension only.
Preferences – Processes
Define attributes applicable to loading of PDF files in the Processes tab. You can specify that
loading PDF documents automatically results in a Preview (72 dpi) or a Hires Preview
(144 dpi). The One Page per Color in Separated PDF function causes each color separation
of a separated PDF document to be assigned a logical page. Page thumbnails embedded in
a PDF document can be used for display in Prinect Signa Station when you enable the Use
Thumbnails for Preview option. You can also define attributes for HTML report creation and
specify that the output dialog is to close automatically.
Preferences – Option Chooser
In the Option Chooser tab you select the basic packages and options for the Prinect Signa
Station application. Here you specify the License Server name or IP address. You can use
the Refresh Connection option to verify if there is a connection to the License Server or
refresh the connection if it was interrupted. Changes made to any licenses will take effect
after a program restart only.
Click the Reset button to reset the values on the respective Preferences tab to the last saved
values. Click the Cancel button to reject any changes made in any of the tabs. Click Save to
adopt the changes made in any of the tabs.
General Information
Versions and options of Prinect Signa Station 2
Prinect Signa 52
max. format 675 x 675 mm (2000 pt)

Output formats PDF, PS, JT, JDF
Prinect Signa 74
max. format 776 x 776 mm (2200 pt)

Prinect Signa 102
max. format 4050 x 4050 mm (11500 pt)

Prinect Signa JDF-JT
max. format 4050 x 4050 mm (11500 pt)

Output formats JDF, JT
Options: Presetting (comprises all Cip3 functions; trimming, folding,

color control bars, auto registration)
Packaging (packaging printing: folded boxes with CFF2 information)
Sheet Optimizer (label optimization)

Prinect Signa Station Backup
To completely restore the SignaStation environment after a new installation, the following
folders need to be backed up. The workspace holds all resources. The Preferences folder
holds all settings such as Unit of Measurement, Colors, etc. The respective folders are sub-
folders of
PC:
Workspace default folder:

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Heidelberger\PrinectSignaSta-
tion_2\
Preferences default folder:

C:\Documents and Settings\“User”\Application Data\Heidelberg\PrinectSignaStation_2
Mac:
Workspace default folder:

Hard disk -> Users -> Shared -> Heidelberg -> PrinectSignaStation_2
Preferences default folder:

Hard disk -> Users -> “User” -> Heidelberg -> PrinectSignaStation_2
Prinect Signa Station 2 definitions
Plate template Templates in plate size in containing all marks relevant for printing
and imaging. The marks as such are dynamic in Prinect Signa
Station, i.e. they are related to the sujet, the paper or the plate. The
mark position changes as soon as a parameter changes!
Signajob (*.sdf) like a plate template + scheme or assembly block + contents (PDF
documents). A Signa job can comprise several product parts.
Template like a Signa job but without contents (PDF documents). A template
can comprise several product parts.
Prinect Signa Station Signastation 9

Combination of template and plate template but
Plate template
without scheme or assembly block
Signajob (*.sdf = Signa Data Format) Signature + plate template
Signature + plate template but without contents

Original
(PDF documents)
Marks handling - hotspot - reference point
top top top

left middle right
middle middle middle

left middle right
bottom bottom bottom

left middle right
Each mark features one hotspot. The hotspot describes a mark’s zero point. All in all there
are 9 different hotspots (see the drawing).
Sujet reference points

Paper reference points
Plate reference points
A plate template features the reference to the plate, the paper or the sujet and also the refer-
ence points. There are 9 different reference points. Hotspot and reference point have the
same names.
Prinect Signa Station key shortcuts
Zoom in specific graphics window area: Ctrl + space bar + left mouse button
Zoom out specific graphics window area: Ctrl + space bar + Alt + left mouse button
Enlarge graphics window: Ctrl + “+”
Reduce graphics window to full page (auto function): Ctrl + “-”
Hand pointer to pan section in the graphics window: Space bar
continue in the Job Assistant (1 step): Ctrl + space bar
go back in the Job Assistant (1 step): Ctrl + Shift + space bar
Mac users must press the Command key on the Mac keyboard instead of the Ctrl key.
The Help menu provide a complete list of all key shortcuts. To call up Help, either press the
F1 key or click the ? in the menu bar.
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New features in version 2.0
New features
MDS connectivity
• Only in conjunction with PrintReady or MetaDimension
• Exclusive read-only access
• Usage like normal resources
• No blending of local and MDS resources
• Group structure can be created
• Connection by configuration in the Preferences
• Offline working is possible
Gang run forms for imposition
• New Assistant/ Product Part Inspector functions
• Loaded plate template can be declared a gang run form
• Any number of gang run forms possible
• Each gang run form exists exactly once
• Preceding # character identifies gang run form
• Folding sheet assignment as usual
• The Schemes tab comes with a new popup menu in the Active Inspector Section: Press
Sheet Layout
• Position, orientation, front/back swapping can be defined for each folding sheet
• Each folding sheet can be repeated
• Special multiple 1ups functions for a given scheme
• AutoArrange of folding sheets on a gang run form possible in the Active Inspector Sec-
tion with the Press Sheet Layout option
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JDF connector
• Prinect Signa Station 2.0 offers improved import options for JDF files
• Any JDF file should be checked and, if necessary, edited by the JDF connector prior to
importing
• JDF connector:
• Hotfolder-driven operation
• Input and output folder configuration in Prinect Signa Station
• Stand-alone application started when Prinect Signa Station boots and stopped
when Signa quits
User administration
• Prinect Signa Station 2.0 provides a user administration similar to that of PrintReady or
MetaDimension
• Users can lock and unlock resources in Prinect Signa Station (to protect resources
against inadvertent modification)
• The logged-in user’s name appears in the job history

Changes
Main menu and tool bar
File menu
• Import submenu: new items: Preferences, Paper or Customer Resource by CSV and
JDF
• Logoff submenu allows user to be changed
Jobs & Resources menu (new)
• Current Job submenu: switches all windows to the current job
• Resources & Machines submenu switchover of Resources window settings (i.e. tree
view and window contents only) to tree view and window contents for all Resources and
Machines
• Plate template submenu: Resources window setting: only Plate Templates in the tree
view
• Schemes submenu: Resources window setting: only Schemes in the tree view
• Marks submenu: Resources window setting: only marks in the tree view
Window menu renamed to Tools
Toolbar: Switch for toggling between Job and Resource View
Changes: Preferences
The Preferences have been revised: new parameters were added and more logical distribu-
tion among the tabs
General tab:
• New checkboxes: Show all messages again, Column for cutting die color
• The Big Toolbar checkbox has been removed
• ProofColor item in the Display color popup menu
• Attributes for Preview have been removed (now in the Processes tab)
• Default user with name and password (signa/signa)
• License and option chooser has been removed (new tab)
• Parameters for Automatic File Names item

• Item for Folding Sheet Animation
Paths tab
• Improved path representation (first folder name, then path)
Names tab
• Contains table with configurable attributes
Defaults tab
• New checkboxes: Sujet Clipped Marks Centered on Plate, Fixed Cut Marks in Creep-
ing, Lines till folding sheet edges
• Table with screen angles
Resources tab
• New defaults: Collating Mark Extension, Fold Lay Mark, Folding Sheet Label
• Default Groups for Imports has been removed (new tab)
Import tab (new)
• Checkbox for automatic JDF connector start
• Default for JDF input and output folder
• Default for Output Parameter Set
• Default groups for Imports
now here• Checkbox for handling Automatic Gaps with JDF Import
• MDS area: Checkboxes Use MDS and text box for MDS Server address
Processes tab (new)
• Attributes for Preview now here
• PDF Preview Attributes
• Defaults for HTML Reports
• Output dialog handling
Option Chooser tab (new)
• Define Basic Packages

• Define License Server Name or IP
• Refresh Connection
Changes: Resources
• New Resources & Machines view
• Clearer layout: Tree structure uses the entire window height; the right window section
shows the selected element
• In all editors: Cancel button was replaced with Close
• In all shortcut menus and editors: Lock/unlock group/resource
• New resource: Plate layout
• Determines the folding sheet position on the press sheet.

• Position, orientation, front/back swapping can be defined
• Ordinal number indicates the placement order for several folding sheets. Here you
can define, for example, that a folding sheet with low page numbers is placed to the
right
• Is used by the Assistant
• New resource: Report headers
• Report headers are used for HTML output
• New resource: User Data
• Permanent groups: Administrators, Powerusers, Users
• User rights for resource locking/unlocking only

• Administrators: Creating/deleting users; locking/unlocking any resources
• Powerusers: Locking any resources; unlocking resources locked by the user
• User: No locking/unlocking
Changes: Editors
Plate Template Editor
• Marks tab: You can define the form (all, front only, back only) on which any of the marks
is to appear in the Expert Mode
Schemes Editor
• The Fold Assistant now features cut (collating) controls
• Fold Animation now with controls: rotate, scale, enable controls
Marks Editor
• Fit canvas to bounding box tool
• Text properties: Horizontal/vertical running direction; new placeholders: FreeReplacer1

to FreeReplacer10, Collating Group Number, Press Name; format details in place-
holder (e.g. $[&jobname:-2])
• dashed line as line property
Text Marks Editor (new)
• Text editor for pure text marks
Output Parameter Editor
• General tab: workflow now divided between Device and Variant
• Options tab: Separated Output (only PostScript workflow) switch; Web Growth Com-
pensation On switch; table with compensation values
Plate Layout Editor (new)
User Data Editor (new)
Report Header Editor (new)
Changes: Job Inspector
• Administrative Data tab: Customer data info box; History info box
• Colors tab: User Color Mappings in Marks; Cutting Die column; screen angles
• Attributes tab (new): List with text boxes; header can be configured in the Preferences
Changes: Assistant/Job Part Inspector
Definition tab
• Start Conditions (First Press Sheet, First Folding Sheet, First Page)
Master pages tab
• Placement rule for assigned pages now also applies to PR 3.0; centering also applies to
original contents trimbox
Binding tab
• Binding methods: Sewn
• Scaled creeping
• For creeping via paper: weighting
• Bottling automatic with weighting
• Fold Lay and Folding Sheet Label
• Scaling for automatic marks
• All automatic marks can be selected (Preferences override)
• Fixed Cut Marks in Creeping
• Parameterization of Folding Sheet Labels
Plates tab
• First Press Sheet text box removed since this is now located in the General tab
• Gang Run Form checkbox and Number text box
• Checkbox and text boxes for Sujet position handling (not in the Montage mode and with
gang run forms)
Schemes tab
• New table layout: The number of folding sheets and the assigned plate can now be
edited in the table
• The Current Scheme region was removed; more space for the table
• New checkbox: Split for placement on gang run forms

• Active Inspector Section: All folding sheets with new table layout; number can now be
edited in the table
• Active Inspector Section: Expert Options renamed to Press Sheet Layout
• When selected folding sheet is on a gang run form:

• Table with all folding sheets on this gang run form
• AutoArrange switch
• Controls in table for Position, Orientation and Swap front/back
• Controls for 1up multiplication
• When selected folding sheet is not on a gang run form:

• Checkboxes for rotated folding sheets was removed (replaced by press sheet
layout)
• Controls for fold lay placement
• Usage of the new Plate Layout resource
• Orientation, folding sheet gap, front/back swapping and order can be specified
Changes: Page/1up Inspector
Attributes tab
• Checkbox: Scaled creeping
Changes: Assembly Block Inspector
Attributes tab
• Checkbox: Same Content for All 1ups
Changes: Document Inspector
Documents tab
• New item Type with information colored or preseparated
Page tab
• Popup menu for importing a box (read from PDF) as trimbox

Miscellaneous
Graphics windows: press sheets and folding sheets
• Variable toolbar
• Always: Magnifier, Hand, Measurement Tool, Dimensions
• Active measuring frame: Editors for text marks and any color control bars; creation
of cover mark and import of custom mark
• Selected mark: Clip Path Editor
• Dialog settings: display of custom dimensions
• Press Sheet shortcut menu: new submenu Move Folding Sheets; new submenu Marks
containing Edit and Delete items
Graphics Window: Press Sheet List
• All Press Sheets switch: displays all press sheets of all product parts
• Magnifier and hand icon
Miscellaneous
• Select marks on the press sheet; doubleclicking opens Inspector
• Selection dialog for schemes: Filter On checkbox when scheme filter is enabled in the
Preferences
• Selection dialog and Editor: Group for the new data set can be specified
• Product part node: new Duplicate Product Part item
• Hires Preview can be enabled in various shortcut menus (doubled resolution)
• New procedure for composite marks in conjunction with PrintReady (PDF always con-
tains all variants, PrintReady selects the suitable one)
• File selection dialog: Favorites section
• Saving a job: when changes are made to attributes that are relevant for the file name
(e.g. job name), saving is followed by Save as

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Edition: 23/03/2006

PSS 2.0.0 B604.1

Print Media Academy

Prinect Signa Station

© Print Media Academy

Chapter 1: Menu overview

The menu bar and its commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Tool bar overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Chapter 2: Exercise 1 – Autom. Imposition

Chapter 3: Exercise 2 – Format customization

Chapter 4: Exercise 3 – Plate template and marks

Chapter 5: Exercise 4 – Imposition

Chapter 6: Exercise 5 – Job Part/Autom. Imposition

Chapter 7: Exercise 6 – Creating machine parameters

Chapter 8: Exercise 7 – Creating output parameters and plate templates

Exercise description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Chapter 9: Exercise 8 – Montage

Exercise description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Chapter 10: Exercise 9 – 1up repetition and collective form

Exercise description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Chapter 11: Windows and Inspectors

The Job window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

The Browser Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

The Inspectors window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

The Graphics Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

The Lists Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Chapter 12: Exercise 10 – 1up Repetition Front/Back

Exercise description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Chapter 13: Exercise 11 – Different press sheets in one job part

Exercise description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Chapter 14: Exercise 12 – Special Master Pages and Layers

Exercise description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

Chapter 15: Exercise 13 – Combination sheet (assembly and imposition)

Exercise description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Chapter 16: Exercise 14 – Combination sheet (different schemes and jobs)

Exercise description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

Chapter 17: Exercise 15 – Handling two flyers in one job

Exercise description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Chapter 18: Exercise 16 – Imposing different schemes

Exercise description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351

Chapter 19: Exercise 17 – SM74DI

Feasible order for creating machines and resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

Chapter 20: Exercise 18 – Imposition with collective forms and

Exercise description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

Chapter 21: Exercise 19 – Creating and applying a plate layout template

Exercise description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

Chapter 22: Exercise 20 – Creating a custom report header

Exercise description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

Chapter 23: Exercise 21 – Label optimization

Exercise description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413

Chapter 24: Exercise 22 – Packaging Printing

Exercise description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431

Web offset printing – Brief introduction

Exercise description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467

Chapter 26: Exercise 24 – Creating a new Signa user

Exercise description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487

Platesetters data sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491

Sheetfed Presses data sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492