Ganged rolls and Print at N% full

What it does

When you put a job on a press, it joins the waiting roll for that press and that stock, with the other jobs waiting for it. Each press has Ready to print at N%, 95 until a supervisor changes it, measured against the whole roll loaded on it. Studio never prints a roll by itself.

• At or above N%, Print is on and green.
• Below N%, it is greyed and reads Not ready, with the words written beside it.
• A supervisor can print a roll that is not full enough: Print anyway… opens a box that asks why (3 to 200 characters), and Print anyway in that box prints it. The reason is kept on the roll's line and in the audit log. Nobody else can.
• A roll longer than the roll on the press, or one the pre-check refuses, cannot be printed even by a supervisor.

When somebody presses Print, the website makes one print file for the whole roll, laid out from each job's saved file with the roll check run on the press's own figures. The press connector fetches that file and writes it into the press's hot folder as one file. A roll the check refuses goes back to waiting, with the words on its card, and writes nothing.

Why it matters for your shop

• Wait for a full roll without watching it. Studio does the sums against the roll on the press, and tells you when it is full enough.
• One file, one start. The press prints the roll as a single job, not as a handful.
• The check comes before the folder. A roll that would print wrongly never reaches your RIP.
• A person stays in charge. Studio says when it is ready. A person presses Print, and a person at the press starts it.
• A reprint joins the waiting roll like any job, and is never a save over the printed one.

How to use it

1. A supervisor opens Presses, opens the press, and sets Ready to print at (% full) and Roll loaded on this press, the length of the whole roll now on it. Studio is told the roll's length only by being typed here, so change it when a roll is changed.
2. Put jobs on the press. They join its waiting roll.
3. On All sites, open the roll's card. Read the strip and the fill.
4. When it is full enough, press Print. Or Take out of the roll for a job that should not go.
5. A person at the press starts the job in the RIP when the connector has written it.

So far we have tried the connector and a ganged roll's print file against a stand-in press, not yet beside a shop's own.

Learn more

See The whole roll and the roll view and Put a job on a press.