Give each stock its Quick Set
Type the Quick Set each stock rips with, once, in Materials, so a job on that stock is never found out at the RIP.
A Quick Set is the media setting your RIP rips a job with. Studio needs to know which one each stock uses, because without it the press has no media profile and the job cannot be ripped. You type it once, in Materials.
Why it comes blank
Studio ships every Quick Set blank. A Quick Set's name exists on your RIP and nowhere else, so a plausible-looking guess is how a job gets ripped on the wrong media. The preflight stops a job on a stock with no Quick Set, and finds it out on your screen rather than at the RIP.
Add a stock and its Quick Set
- Press Materials in the column, or Press, then Materials….
- Add a material, or open one that is there.
- Type the Quick Set exactly as it is named in your RIP. The box offers names your shop has already used.
It saves to your shop's account. Everyone in the shop sees the same list, and a supervisor keeps it. A plain shop person sees the list to read, with a line saying so.
What else a material holds
A material is a roll on a shelf. Beside the Quick Set it holds:
| Name, description | whatever the floor calls it |
| Material type | the shelf it sits on, which is the first thing somebody picks |
| Press | which press it is loaded on |
| Used for | the products it can make, so the job screen offers only those |
| Roll size, width by length | the roll as you buy it |
| Roll width | the hard limit across |
| On a liner | whether a blade can stop at the backing |
| Finishes | and a Quick Set for any finish that rips differently |
| Default finish | the one a new job on this stock opens on |
| Opening size | the sheet and the piece a job on this stock opens at |
| Lowest dpi this stock will take | the lowest resolution it will take |
| Smallest piece | the smallest design the cutter can cut on this stock |
| Smallest gutter | the smallest gap between pieces the blade can separate |
Most weeks need no new Studio. A new stock is typed into Materials and works the same afternoon.
Spelling
The preflight can catch a Quick Set that is missing. It cannot catch one that is misspelled, because Studio cannot see your RIP's list. The Quick Set box offers names your shop has already used, which helps you type the same name twice. Copy the name from your RIP. A name your RIP does not have fails at the RIP, not in Studio.