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:Apogee Impose
An Integrated Module of :Apogee Prepress 7

Reference Guide

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Date of Issue: December 2010

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All software and hardware described in this document are subject to change without notice.

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Contents
Chapter 1 Working with :Apogee Impose

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X About :Apogee Impose .....................................................................................................

Z A Product and its Parts ..............................................................................................
Z Automatic and Manual Imposition .......................................................................
X Auto Impose Window (Bound and Calendar) ...........................................................
X Auto Impose Window (Unbound) .................................................................................
X Product View ........................................................................................................................
Z Assembly Pane .............................................................................................................
Z Product Pane .................................................................................................................
Z Toolbar .............................................................................................................................
Z Arranging Fold Sheets on a Press Sheet .............................................................
X Press Sheet View ................................................................................................................
Z View Options .................................................................................................................
Z Hovering, Selecting, Navigating ............................................................................
Z Measuring the Press Sheet Components ...........................................................
Z Marks Palette ................................................................................................................
Z Press Sheet Toolbar ....................................................................................................
X Inspector ................................................................................................................................
Z Editing/Resetting with the Inspector ..................................................................
Z Inspecting Imposition Settings in Product View .............................................
Z Inspecting Marks in Sheet View ............................................................................
Z Cog Wheel Commands in the Inspector .............................................................
X Mark Sets Inspector ..........................................................................................................
X Snag List ................................................................................................................................
X Menus .....................................................................................................................................
X Imposing Unbound Products .........................................................................................
Z Product View of Unbound Products ......................................................................
X Imposing Calendar Products ..........................................................................................
X Manual Imposition of a Bound Product .....................................................................
Z Repeating an Imposition across Press Sheets ..................................................

Chapter 2 Task Processor Resources

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Z Mark Sets Overview ....................................................................................................
Z Mark Set Conditions ...................................................................................................
Z Mark Types .....................................................................................................................
Z Mark Attributes ............................................................................................................

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Z Crop Mark Details ....................................................................................................... 81
Z Cut Mark Details ......................................................................................................... 82
Z File Mark Details ......................................................................................................... 83
Z Fold Line Mark Details .............................................................................................. 84
Z Line Mark Details ........................................................................................................ 84
Z Rectangle Mark Details ............................................................................................ 85
Z Registration Mark Details ........................................................................................ 85
Z Text Mark Details ........................................................................................................ 86
Z Mark Position ............................................................................................................... 88
Z Mark Conflicts .............................................................................................................. 90
Z Mark Repeat .................................................................................................................. 90
Z Mark Special ................................................................................................................. 91
Z Mark Pens ...................................................................................................................... 92
Z Mark Layers ................................................................................................................... 93
Z About Colors for Printing Marks ............................................................................ 94
X Folding Schemes ................................................................................................................ 95
Z Folding Schemes Overview ..................................................................................... 96
Z Folding Scheme Editor .............................................................................................. 98
X Press Sheet Layout Rules ............................................................................................... 104
Z Press Sheet Layout Rules Overview ..................................................................... 106
Z Press Sheet Layout Rules for Unbound Jobs ..................................................... 108
X Shingling Rules .................................................................................................................. 108
Z Shingling Rules Overview ........................................................................................ 109
X Binding Options ................................................................................................................. 110
Z Binding Options Overview ....................................................................................... 111
X Auto Impose Rules ............................................................................................................ 112
Z About Auto Impose Rules ........................................................................................ 114
Z Auto Impose Rules Overview ................................................................................. 114
X Auto Fit Rules ...................................................................................................................... 116
Z Auto Fit Rules Overview ........................................................................................... 117
X Margins .................................................................................................................................. 117
Z Margins Overview ....................................................................................................... 118
X Paper Stock .......................................................................................................................... 118
Z Paper Stock Overview ............................................................................................... 119

Chapter 3

Preparing :Apogee Impose Tickets in the Product Tab

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What are Parts? ............................................................................................................ 121

What are Production Sets? ...................................................................................... 121
Product ............................................................................................................................ 123
Product Editor ............................................................................................................... 123
Parts ................................................................................................................................. 125
Part Editor ...................................................................................................................... 126
Imposition ...................................................................................................................... 128
Production Sets ........................................................................................................... 129

Z About Parts and Page Ranges .................................................................................129

Z Managing Production Sets .......................................................................................131
Z Setup Stage (:Apogee Portal jobs) .........................................................................132

Appendix A

Icons Overview

Appendix B

Keyboard Shortcuts

Appendix C

Variables

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Appendix D

Glossary

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Index

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Working with :Apogee

Impose
This section introduces :Apogee Impose, an integrated module that enables you
to create the imposition for a job within :APOGEE Prepress.
NOTE: :Apogee Impose is activated if you choose this option in the Impose
parameter set of your Plan and if you have the required licence.
X About :Apogee Impose ............................................................................................ 8
Z A Product and its Parts .................................................................................... 8
Z Automatic and Manual Imposition .......................................................... 10
X Auto Impose Window (Bound and Calendar) ............................................... 13
X Auto Impose Window (Unbound) ..................................................................... 15
X Product View ............................................................................................................ 16
Z Assembly Pane ................................................................................................ 18
Z Product Pane .................................................................................................... 21
Z Toolbar ................................................................................................................ 33
Z Arranging Fold Sheets on a Press Sheet ................................................ 34
X Press Sheet View .................................................................................................... 36
Z View Options .................................................................................................... 37
Z Hovering, Selecting, Navigating ............................................................... 40
Z Measuring the Press Sheet Components .............................................. 44
Z Marks Palette ................................................................................................... 46
Z Press Sheet Toolbar ....................................................................................... 48
X Inspector ................................................................................................................... 49
Z Editing/Resetting with the Inspector ..................................................... 50
Z Inspecting Imposition Settings in Product View ................................ 51
Z Inspecting Marks in Sheet View ............................................................... 59
Z Cog Wheel Commands in the Inspector ............................................... 61
X Mark Sets Inspector .............................................................................................. 62
X Snag List .................................................................................................................... 63
X Menus ......................................................................................................................... 66
X Imposing Unbound Products ............................................................................. 67
Z Product View of Unbound Products ........................................................ 69
X Imposing Calendar Products .............................................................................. 71
X Manual Imposition of a Bound Product ......................................................... 71
Z Repeating an Imposition across Press Sheets ..................................... 71

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Figure 1.1: The Product Editor

A Product defines a number of settings that are inherited by its Parts, such as the
binding style and paper stock, but these settings can be modified for each Part
individually as you add the Parts to your Product.
Figure 1.2: The Product Part Editor

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Figure 1.4: The Auto Impose Editor

You then review the imposition in the Product View.

Figure 1.5: The Product View after clicking Impose in the Auto Impose editor

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Figure 1.8: Press Sheet View

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Press Sheet
View Options
Toolbar
Marks Palette

Besides the detailed arrangement and marks of the Press Sheet, this view has
two dedicated palettes and a toolbar:

View Options

Marks Palette

Press Sheet Toolbar

NOTE: The Inspector and Mark Sets Inspector can also be used in the Product
View.

View Options

The Press Sheet view opens with a single Press Sheet displayed. By default, you
will see the Front or Back of the Press Sheet depending on which side you
selected. You can also view the reverse side of the Press Sheet with the Light
Table tool.

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Task Processor Resources

This section provides information on the Task Processor Resources available for
the :Apogee Impose module.
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Folding Schemes .................................................................................................... 95
Press Sheet Layout Rules ................................................................................. 104
Shingling Rules .................................................................................................... 108
Binding Options ................................................................................................... 110
Auto Impose Rules ............................................................................................. 112
Auto Fit Rules ....................................................................................................... 116
Margins ................................................................................................................... 117
Paper Stock ........................................................................................................... 118

Most of the :Apogee Impose resources can be accessed from within the :Apogee
Impose windows for viewing the details of the resource, managing and even
creating new ones. This is mainly possible when creating your Product in the
Product editor or when viewing the imposition with the Inspector.
For example, the Shingling rules can be opened by choosing Manage Shingling
Rules in the Shingling drop-down list in the Product editor.

Mark Engraver

The Mark Engraver is an important resource of :Apogee Impose which is used to

organize marks in Mark Sets and add these Mark Sets to the Pages, Fold Sheets
and Press Sheets of an imposition.
The marks are placed automatically using conditions, however, it is also possible
to place the marks manually using the Marks palette in the Press Sheet View of
:Apogee Impose. Although the Mark Engraver is for administrators only, the
settings of the different marks can be accessed by all users in the Press Sheet
View.
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Associated Task Processors

The Mark Engraver resource category is available for:

Impose

Step and Repeat

Click the Mark Engraver icon in the Impose Resources pane to open the Mark
Engraver.

At the top of the Mark Engraver you have an overview of marks in the
different categories.
The section under the overview shows the conditions for the selected Mark
Set or the details of the individual Marks within each Mark Set. This section
can be opened by clicking the grey triangle.
By default, the conditions and details are locked. You can unlock the conditions and details for editing by clicking the Lock icon in the bottom left
corner.

Mark Sets
Overview

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The left column of the overview section displays the three Mark Sets categories
and the number of Mark Sets in each category. The Mark Sets consist of marks
which are brought together and placed according to the specified positioning
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Type

Distance from corner

Line length
Pen
Hiding
Shingling

A drop-down list with 2 options for what the crop mark indicates:

Page Trim: the final size of the pages

Page Bleed: perpendicular lines at the corner of the bleed zone of a page,
indicating the bleed area

Specifies the distance between the center of the mark and the page corner; the
page corner can be for the Page Trim or the Page Bleed.
Specifies the length of the mark.
Choose a pen to draw the lines; lines have a different thickness.
Selected by default and hides the marks between adjacent pages.
Specify whether shingling is to be applied or not.
NOTE: Crop marks only have the Layer settings to be defined in the Position tab.

Cut Mark Details

Mark Sets Category: Fold Sheet

A Cut Mark is a horizontal and a vertical line in the corners of a Fold Sheet to
indicate the boundaries of the Fold Sheet and where it is to be cut.

Distance from corner

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Click a Shingling Rule to display the settings.

Shingling Rule
Name
Method

A meaningful name, such as Scale inwards, Shift inwards, etc.

Shift pages: The content of the pages is shifted inwards or outwards to align the
trim boxes of the different pages.
Scale pages: The content is scaled slightly in the same direction as the creep.

Direction

Shift Both ways (align with face trim): Shifts/scales the inner pages towards the
spine and the outer pages towards the face edge. The target of this shingling is
the final trim width of the Product, indicated by the red line.

Inwards (towards spine): Shifts/scales all the pages, except the outer ones,
towards the spine. The target of this shingling is the face edge of the outer pages.

Outwards (towards face): Shifts/scales all the pages, except the inner ones,
towards the face. The target of this shingling is the face edge of the inner pages

Binding Options

The Binding Options resource defines the bindings that are available for a
Product and its Parts. Binding is a key aspect of imposition and these resources

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Preparing :Apogee
Impose Tickets in the
Product Tab
In the Product tab you will edit the Product, its Parts and Production Sets and
also access the main :Apogee Impose windows. The Product tab is visible but
disabled if the job does not include an Impose Task Processor.
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What are Parts?

Product .............................................................................................................
Product Editor ................................................................................................
Parts ...................................................................................................................
Part Editor ........................................................................................................
Imposition .......................................................................................................
Production Sets .............................................................................................
Setup Stage (:Apogee Portal jobs) ..........................................................

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A book may consist of a jacket, a cover and a text block. Often, these different
parts are made of different materials and have to be processed and printed differently. Parts could also be used to structure a product into content- oriented
sections. In this case, parts do not necessarily require different materials or
processing, but they help structure the job for content delivery and proofing.
Every job contains at least one default product part. This is the only part in a
single-part job. It is a plain part with the name body, and has continuous page
numbering. The number of pages and page ranges is calculated automatically,
and the part receives extra pages when you increase the total number of pages.
It also receives the pages that you remove from other parts.

What are
Production Sets?

A production set is a group of plates that are all processed in the same way. For
example, a simple publication may comprise a production set for the cover
printed in color, and another for the body printed in black. Each production set
can have its own individual settings, and can be sent to a different press. This is
done by separating the output plates into sections, and processing each section
differently.

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Colors
Spot Colors

The selected color space resource (process colors).

You can specify one or more spot color placeholders or actual spot color names
that you want to include in the selected part. The list displays all colors from all
parts. You should select only the colors required for the part, and leave the
others unchecked. You can add a spot color when needed, remove one when no
longer needed, or change it's name.
The specified colors are added as manually added colors to the Keep colors in
the separation settings. Placeholder spot color names are later mapped to the
actual document colors.
The check box in the Match column specifies whether the color is an actual color
name (i.e., whether the document's color must match the given one) or a generic
placeholder.

Comments

This is a free form text box for comments. If set by JDF, the field is read-only.
For more information on using these options, refer to About Parts and Page
Ranges on page 129.

Imposition
The Imposition pane provides access to the main :Apogee Impose windows and
settings.

Auto Impose button

Opens the Auto Impose window where you define the settings for automatic
imposition.

Edit Imposition button

Opens the Product View where you can create the imposition interactively.

Press Sheet Layout

Clicking the arrow icon takes you to the Press Sheet Layout editor where you can
modify the binding options specifically for the current job.

Impose TP
Clicking the arrow icon takes you to the Impose parameter set view in the Plan
tab, if it is present in the plan. Otherwise, it only takes you as far as the Plan tab.

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Glossary
This glossary defines many of the terms used in this document with which the
user may not be familiar.
Action There are 2 types of Actions:
Flow Control Actions control the
flow of job data through a Production Plan; Result Actions keep track
of job results in the processing chain.

Bottling The adjustment required to

compensate for the undesired
rotation of pages as a result of
folding a press sheet to obtain a
signature.

:APOGEE Prepress System The

:APOGEE Prepress System manages
all data and processing functionality, and runs on one or more
dedicated Windows 2003/2008
servers.

Calibration The process of calculating

and compensating for irregularities
in the output of a press or imaging
system due to dot gain. Dot gain
occurs when the ink dots that make
up a printed image are larger (for
example, due to spreading on paper)
than in the halftone screen.

Archive A job which has been saved

as a .arch file. In the Job Ticket
Options you can define which parts
of the job are archived (input files,
marked results, all results, imposition resources, Preflight profiles,
etc.).
Assembly The arrangement of signatures which are bound to create a
finished printed product.
Bleed Margin The distance that a
printed image extends beyond the
trim size of a page, in order to avoid
white space at the edges of pages in
the trimmed product.
Binding style The method used to
bind the signatures of a printed
product. See Saddle Stitch, Perfect
Bound, Come and Go, Cut and Stack,
Flat Work, Mechanical.

CID Font The CID-keyed font file

format is designed for fonts with
large character sets, and can be used
with PostScript printing software. It
is the ideal format for Chinese,
Japanese, or Korean fonts, and may
also be used for Roman fonts with
very large character sets. CID
refers to the Character ID numbers
that are used to index and access the
characters in the font.
CIELab CIELab is the color space that
ICC Profiles and CMMs often use as
an intermediary space when
converting colors. So a monitor to
printer match translates colors from
the monitors space (RGB) into Lab
and then into the printer's color
space (CMYK for example). The L
component is the lightness of the
color. The a component is the red/
green scale (+a is red, -a is green)
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The b component is the blue/yellow

scale (+b is yellow, -b is blue).
Client The :APOGEE Prepress Client
application allows you to access and
control the :APOGEE Prepress
System remotely from any Macintosh or PC on the network.
CMYK Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and
Black - the standard ink colors used
in four-color printing. CMYK is a
color model based on the subtractive
color theory, and is used by professional printers to reproduce color
using offset lithography.
Coated Stock Any paper that has a
mineral coating applied after the
paper is made, giving the paper a
smoother finish.
Color Bar A color test strip that is
printed on the waste portion of a
press sheet. It allows a pressman to
determine the quality of the printed
material relative to ink density,
registration and dot gain. It also
includes the Star Target, which is a
similar system designed to detect
ink problems.
Color-managed Display Proofing
Displays the job data on-screen in
Raster Preview. However, in this
case you have a preview of the
rendered result using color management to convert the press color
space to the monitor color space
based on ICC profiles. With a
calibrated monitor environment and
correctly configured monitor
profile, contract-proofing quality
should be achieved.

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Color Separation In traditional

prepress, the separation of a color
image into four layers corresponding to the four process colors
(CMYK) used in process printing.
Come and Go A term used to refer to
a binding style whereby the bound
signature contains two complete
products; the bound signature is
subsequently cut in two.
Composite A term used to refer to
multi-color files (i.e. composite
printing).
Copy Dot High resolution scanning
software which produces files
suitable for input to the :APOGEE
Prepress System.
CPSI Configurable PostScript Interpreter. This is the core software used
in all Agfa rendering devices.
Creep The undesired result of the
nesting of pages inside each other
whereby the inside pages extend
slightly beyond the outside pages.
Crop Marks Short vertical and
horizontal lines, printed on an
output medium which is larger than
the page size of a document, to
indicate the finished page area.
CSA A Color Space Array is the
PostScript profile for a color. The
CSA has the information to translate
the color data from the origin space
to the XYZ space. It is either inserted
into the PostScript print stream
when the image is printed or is
resident in an EPS image. CSA colors
are referred to as device-independent, or CIEBased colors.
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Index
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Actions
definition 151
Apogee Prepress Client
definition 152
menus 66
Apogee Prepress System
definition 151
archive
definition 151
assembly
definition 151
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binding style
come and go 152
cut and stack 153
definition 151
flat work 154
mechanical 157
perfect bound 158
saddle-stitched 161
bleed margin
definition 151
bottling
definition 151
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Calibration
definition 151
CID fonts
definition 151
CIELab
definition 151
CMYK
definition 152
coated stock
definition 152
color bar
definition 152
color separation
definition 152
color-managed

display proof
definition 152
come and go
definition 152
composite
definition 152
copy dot
definition 152
CPSI
definition 152
creep
definition 152
crop marks
definition 152
CtF/CtP
definitions 153
cut and stack
definition 153
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DCS
definition 153
densitometer
definition 153
density
definition 153
Digital Film
definition 153
Digital Step&Repeat
definition 153
display resolution
definition 153
dot
definition 153
dot gain
definition 153
dot pitch
definition 153
dot-for-dot proofing
definition 153
downsampling
definition 154
DQS
definition 154

dynamic resubmit
definition 154
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elliptical dot
definition
EPS
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flat work
definition 154
flats
definition 154
Flatten
definition 154
flows
definition 154
Fonts
definition 154
outlining 154
foot to foot
definition 154
FTP
definition 154
G
ganging
definition 154
grayscale
definition 155
grayscale image
definition 155
gripper edge
definition 155
H
halftone
definition 155
Halftone Screens
definition 155
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definition
head to head
definition
Hi-Fi color
definition
Hot Folder
definition
Hot Tickets
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mechanical
definition
menus 66
Milestone
definition
milling
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MIME
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moir
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multi-part job
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ICC profiles
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imagesetters
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imposition
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Ink Sets
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inkdrive file
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input channel
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nesting
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Normalize
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Keep Results
definition 156
keyboard shortcuts 139
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lay 156
lay edge
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Linearization
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LPR
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JDF
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job tickets
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jog
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opaque ink
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OPI
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output device
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overfold
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overprinting
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parameter sets
definition 158
parts 121
PDF files
definition 158
PDF job
definition 158
perfect
definition 158
perfect bound
definition 158
perfecting
definition 158
perfecting press

definition 158
pica
definition 158
PJTF
definition 158
placeholders
definition 158
plane
definition 158
platesetters
definition 158
point
definition 158
PostScript
definition 158
PPD
definition 158
Preflight
definition 159
Preflight Profiles
definition 159
pre-separated
definition 159
Printing Stock 118
Private Page Store
definition 159
process color
definition 159
product
definition 159
Production Plan
definition 159
production sets 121
proofers
definition 159
proofs
definition 159
Public Page Store
definition 159
punch calibration
definition 160
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QMS
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registration marks
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Remote Proofer Controller

definition 160
Render
definition 160
render resolution
definition 160
resolution
definition 160
Resources 73
->Printing Stock 118
definition 160
results
definition 160
RGB
definition 160
Rule-up
definition 160
Run List
definition 161
rush jobs
definition 161
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saddle stitch
definition 161
screen angles
definition 161
screen font
definition 161
screen frequency
definition 161

screen ruling
definition 161
screening
definition 161
seamless printing
definition 161
Separation
definition 161
Server
definition 161
sheetwise
definition 161
shingling
creep 152
definition 161
shortcuts
keyboard 139
signatures
definition 161
Simulation
definition 162
Soft Proof
definition 162
spot colors
definition 162
Step&Repeat
definition 162
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Task Processors
definition 162

TCP/IP
definition
TIFF
definition
Trap
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Type area
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versioning
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VLF
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web browser
definition 163
web growth
definition 163
work and tumble
definition 163
work and turn
definition 163
workstyle
definition 163
perfecting 158
sheetwise 161
work and tumble 163
work and turn 163

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