Templates and presets

Save a job's set-up for repeat work, and see PostPress's preset for each press model beside the presets you add yourself. Yours win where set.

What it does

Templates. A template is a saved set-up, not artwork: the stock, the sheet, the cut and the other decisions somebody would otherwise make again. Repeat work is most of a sticker shop's week, the same customer on the same clear vinyl at the same size with a wider gap because it weeds badly. The tedious part is never the artwork, so a template saves everything but that. A day's artwork comes in through Add a day's files at once. Saved shapes are listed under Templates, under Saved shapes, where Put away takes one out of every list.

Presets for your presses. Under your presses, Presets for your presses shows our preset for each press model beside your shop's own. Ours are marked as not yet tested until the test kit has a date for them. Where you set your own for a media, yours is the one chosen. Presets of your own lets anybody add a preset for a model, name it and edit it later: Add a preset of your own, Edit, Put away. Everybody sees it under its owner's name. The shop's presets above stay with your supervisor.

Why it matters for your shop

  • Repeat work starts from what worked. The set-up is remembered, so the weeding gap and the cutter's marks are not decided again.
  • A template never goes stale. It does not carry a picture's path, so tidying a folder breaks nothing.
  • Your own measurement wins. A preset you made beats ours.
  • Everything is kept in your shop's account, the same in every browser. Anything put away is put away, not deleted.

How to use it

  1. Set a job up as you want it.
  2. Press File, then Templates…. Under Save this set-up, type a name in Call it, tick what it starts a job with (the stock, the sheet, the cut, a recipe) and press Save. The form is there only while a job is open.
  3. Next time, press Templates in the column, or File, Templates…, and press Use it beside the template. Then bring the artwork in with Import. Remove takes a template out of the list.
  4. For presets, open Presses, and add one of your own under Presets of your own.

Learn more

Add your presses and presets is the how-to guide. See also The shop's Library.

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