Put jobs on one roll

Jobs on the same stock wait together on one roll. See how full the roll is and when a person at the press can print it.

When you put a job on a press, it does not print by itself. It joins the roll waiting on that stock, with the other jobs that will share it. When the roll is full enough, a person prints it. Nothing in Studio starts a press.

How a roll fills

  1. Put each job on a press. See Put a job on a press.
  2. The words you get back say which roll the job went to, and See the roll opens it.
  3. The roll shows how full it is: the length of the jobs on it against the whole roll loaded on the press.

When it is ready

Each press has Ready to print at (% full). Until someone changes it, it is 95. A supervisor sets it on the Presses screen.

  • At or above that figure, Print is available.
  • Below it, the button reads Not ready, with words beside it saying why.
  • A roll is never ready when it has nothing on it, when the stock has not been told its roll, or when a job has no length.
  • A roll longer than the roll on the press can never be printed.

Where Studio gets the roll's length

A supervisor types the length of the roll loaded on each press in Roll loaded on this press, on the Presses screen. The words beside the fill figure say the length is as typed there. If it has not been typed, the fill reads Studio does not know how long the roll on this press is, and only a supervisor can print the roll.

Print is a person's press of a button. It moves the roll on, so the press side can bring it down. After that, a person at the press starts it at the RIP.

A supervisor may print a roll that is not full enough, or on a press that does not say its roll. Print anyway asks for a reason of 3 to 200 characters and keeps it with the roll's history. Nobody else can. A lapsed licence refuses it, as it refuses every change.

A roll that the pre-check refuses (nothing on it, a stock never told its roll, a job with no length), or one longer than the roll on the press, cannot be printed even by a supervisor.

A press you have put away

A roll waiting on a press you have put away is not brought down. Take the roll off the board, or put the press back.

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