Download the print file
When the press connector cannot reach the press, Download the print file gives you the same PDF to drop into the press's hot folder by hand.
What it does
Download the print file is on the hand-over and on the row of any saved job in Jobs, in the browser. It hands you the PDF a put would give the press, made the same way, to drop into your RIP's hot folder yourself, from a USB stick or a shared folder.
It is never a put. Nothing is kept on a press and nothing is saved. After it, Studio says so in words: … is downloaded: the print file of the job as it is on the sheet. Drop it into the press's hot folder by hand. Nothing was put on a press.
- From an open job it makes the file of the job as it is on the sheet.
- From a saved job's row it hands over the print file that job already carries, which is what the connector would have written, byte for byte, as it was last saved. A job that carries none says where to make one: open the job, press Put on a press…, then Download the print file.
- The file is named from the job, as
<job>.pdf.
Why it matters for your shop
- A Tuesday the connector is down is not a lost Tuesday. The same file reaches your RIP by hand.
- The same checks stand. If the preflight stops the job, no file is made: No print file was made: the preflight stops this job (…). Fix that first, then download it. A file dropped by hand prints just the same as one a connector writes.
- You are offered it where it helps. When a put is refused because the press connector has no hot folder to write into, the refusal ends: Or download the print file and drop it in the press's hot folder.
How to use it
- Open the job and clear every stop.
- Press Put on a press…, then Download the print file. Or press it on the job's row in Jobs.
- Take the PDF to the computer that runs your RIP and drop it into the press's hot folder.
- Start it at the press, as you would any job.