Signa Station will figure out how many it needs. Next in Schemes we load the two different pagination schemes we want to use. Print styles and stock setting are set by each plate template that is loaded independently.
It could be the cover is being printed on one press and the body on another. The below example illustrates how I can choose two different presses for 1 job. There can be as many of these as are needed if, for instance, you have a job with many different stock thicknesses. By adding two XL106 plate templates, I can define that I want a sheetwork printing style and a work and turn printing style like in the below example.
In Plating we can define more than one printing style, press, or sheet size by adding the plate templates more than once. Now the most important areas for what I want to discuss will be Plating and Schemes. “Did You Know?” – Tip and Tricks for Prinect Users. Please see my past blog covering this subject. Click Image To EnlargeĪutomatic creep also works when there are different stock thicknesses, or we can tell it not to work on the first form because it is a cover. In Binding, we will pick Saddlestitch for this example, but what I am showing will work for any form of binding. If you’re like me and have to work with both measurement systems, you can keep Signa Station in Inches and type your adjustment in the units as you need. A small tip – in Signa anywhere you type in measurements you can get Signa to do the math. In many places you can order in either unit, especially things like food that must be weighed. I am from Canada and a funny thing about printing in Canada is that the measurements are still in Imperial, or in the United States US Standard Units, while the official measurement system is Metric. For this example, we will stick with 1 size: 8.5 x 11 inches. You can have as many trim sizes as you like if you are optimizing ganged jobs. In Master Pages we define our trim or trim sizes. For our example, we will create a 52 pager which will be good for mixing presses, if the cover is on its own stock and there is a work and turn form. Signa Station is definitely the swiss army knife of layout software. The mode defines what kind of layout we will be working with and allows the operator the flexibility to produce a commercial job and packaging job layout with one piece of software. Under Product Part we are we are going to define the number of pages and choose the Mode – Imposition. Signa can easily handle these jobs with a few little tricks using the very clean and understandable task-based interface. To take this to the extreme, the job could be an artistic book consisting of many different stocks on many different forms. When we are imposing books or magazines, very rarely do we have an even number of forms and often the cover is printed on a different stock. We want the automation of Prinect Signa Station to work for us, so let’s look at a simple trick that can make using it even easier and to truly tap into its powerful potential. We’re going to cover something people forget Prinect can do, which often leads to a customer achieving the result they wanted, but with way more work than necessary. In this month’s blog, I want to send some love Prinect Signa Stations way.
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