The whole roll and the roll view

Studio lays a sheet out to the roll's real width, says how much of the roll a job uses, and draws waiting jobs along the whole roll, colour-coded.

What it does

The whole roll. Pick the stock and the sheet can be as wide as the roll, less only what the press cannot print at its edges. Every job says how much of the roll it uses: the figure on the bar above the sheet, the note in the preflight and the Job tab all say the same number.

The roll view. Jobs on the same stock for the same press wait together on one roll. On All sites, each waiting roll is drawn whole, lengthwise and zoomed out, as one strip:

  • Each job is a box, its length by its width, colour-coded by running number. The number is on every box big enough to hold one, and a key line names them, so colour is never the only clue.
  • Hover for a job's order and customer. Click a box to pick it, and the picked job also shows close up under the strip.
  • A job that has no length is listed and not drawn.
  • The colours are for you and are never printed.
  • If the roll's width is not known, the picture says so in its caption rather than pretending.

Beside each job you may change, Edit opens it, and Take out of the roll takes it off the roll.

Why it matters for your shop

  • You see what you are using. A job that takes a quarter of a roll says so. A sheet narrower than the roll says to widen it to the roll's width, or to gang it on a roll with another job.
  • You see the whole roll at once. A long roll is drawn as one true strip, not a list of rows, so a gap in the roll is something you can see.
  • Nothing is hidden inside the roll. The roll's edge is the boundary, with no margin bands drawn inside it.

How to use it

  1. Start a job by its stock. The sheet opens to the stock's opening size.
  2. Widen the sheet to the roll's width on the Job tab where the preflight tells you to.
  3. Put the job on a press. It joins the waiting roll for that press and stock. Studio says so: It joins the waiting roll on Test press A: 3 jobs on it now.
  4. Press All sites in the column and find the roll's card. Read the strip, hover and click.
  5. When the roll is full enough, see Ganged rolls and Print at N% full.

Learn more

Put a job on a press is the how-to guide for the step that puts a job on a roll.

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