Put a job on a press

Studio puts a job on a press by name. A press connector, which we set up with you, brings it down and writes it into the folder your RIP watches. A person at the press starts it. Studio never starts, stops or reorders anything on the RIP.

Before you start

• The stock needs a Quick Set. See Give each stock its Quick Set.
• The preflight must have no stops. A stop holds the job, and a stop cannot be clicked past. See Read the preflight.
• The press must be one of your presses, and your press connector must be set up. See The press board and your press connector.

Put it on

1. Open the job. If Take it shows on the bar, because the job is somebody else's, press it first.
2. Press Put on a press… at the right of the bar. A saved job also has Put on a press… on its row in Jobs.
3. WHAT GOES TO THE PRESS shows the file, every separation and every page, as the press would be sent them. A line says the job is saved in your shop's account with its print file in it, and that your press connector brings it down.
4. Under Press, the press this stock prints on is already chosen. If none is, choose one by name.
5. Press Put it on and the press's name.

If the preflight has a stop, the button carries the red count and takes you to the list instead. A press made from a cutter is greyed out in the list, with the reason. A cutter takes no print.

What you see next

Studio says … is put on and the press's name, and then who brings it down. Until the press connector has, the board says waiting for the press.

In Jobs the job's row follows it. First it reads that it was put on the press, at what time and by whom, waiting for the press. Once your press connector has brought it down, it reads that it was fetched by your press connector, and when. If the connector is not running, the row stays at waiting for the press, which is then the true state.

Fetched means the connector has the file. It is not the same as printed. The connector writes the print file kept in the job into the hot folder you named for that press, and your RIP takes it from there.

Take it off

Take it off takes the job off the press's list again, even after the connector has fetched it, and says who fetches. A file already written into the hot folder is in your RIP's hands, and Studio cannot take it back.

Check the names of your cut lines

A RIP decides what to do with a separation by its name. A cut line called CutContour Kiss on a Quick Set that knows Cut Contour Kiss does not fail and does not warn. It prints the cut line as a thin black outline round every sticker on the roll, for the sake of one space. Nothing in any RIP tells you. The hand-over lists every separation. Most show a dash, which reads Not checked, Studio cannot ask the RIP. So read the cut names against what your RIP expects before the first sheet of a new job.

What Studio does not do

• It does not start, stop, pause or cancel a job on your RIP.
• It does not reach your RIP in any other way. The file in the hot folder is the only way out.
• It does not print without a person: someone at the press starts the job.

Where the connector stands

So far we have tried the connector against a stand-in press, not yet beside a shop's own. We set it up with you and watch the first job through.