Checked on your screen, before the RIP
Type each stock's Quick Set once. A job on a stock with none is stopped on your screen, and the hand-over shows every separation before anything goes.
The usual way
Media settings are typed at the RIP, job by job or from memory. A wrong name, or none, is found when the job is ripped. A cut line called CutContour Kiss on a Quick Set that knows Cut Contour Kiss does not fail and does not warn: it prints as a thin black outline round every sticker on the roll, for the sake of one space. Nothing in a RIP tells you.
What Studio Cloud does
- The Quick Set is typed once for each stock, in Materials, and saved in your shop's account for everyone. A new stock is typed in and works the same afternoon.
- A missing Quick Set is a stop on your screen. Without one the press has no media profile and the job cannot be ripped. Studio says so before you have laid anything out, and the stock's card says No Quick Set — nothing can be sent on it.
- Studio ships every Quick Set blank, because a plausible-looking guess is how a job gets ripped on the wrong media.
- The hand-over lists every separation. WHAT GOES TO THE PRESS shows each layer of the print file by name, with what it is for. A cut line's name that has to match your RIP is where your eye lands. Most names show a dash, which reads Not checked, Studio cannot ask the RIP, so you read them against what your RIP expects before the first sheet of a new job.
- Checks at the press end too. The hand-over stops a put on a press with no hot folder to write into, or a hot folder another press has too, before the job leaves your screen.
What it means for a shop
- A whole class of mistakes, the missing or blank Quick Set, is found at your desk instead of at the RIP.
- A hot folder that would take a job nowhere is a stop, not a mystery.
- The one thing nobody can check for you, a Quick Set name your RIP does not have, is called out as yours to copy exactly.
What it does not do
Studio cannot see your RIP's list of Quick Sets, so it cannot catch a misspelled one. The Quick Set box offers names your shop has already used, which helps you type the same name twice. A name your RIP does not have fails at the RIP, not in Studio.