Files that reach the press

Put a job on a press by name and a connector writes the print file into the folder your RIP watches, instead of a file carried by hand. Outward only.

The usual way

A finished file is carried to the RIP: on a stick, by e-mail, over a share, or typed into a folder by the operator. Which file is current is a question for whoever last copied it. A job's name changes, a file is dropped twice, or a half-copied file is picked up by a RIP.

What Studio Cloud does

  • You put a job on a press by name. The job is saved in your shop's account with its print file in it. The website records who put it where and when.
  • A press connector beside the press does the carrying. It fetches the job, checks the file against the fingerprint the site gives, and writes it into the hot folder you named for that press.
  • Nothing half-written reaches the RIP. The file is written under a name the RIP ignores and renamed into place whole.
  • Never twice. A job is fetched once, and a name already in the folder is never replaced. A reprint is a new put, asked for by a supervisor.
  • You can see where it is. Put on, waiting for the press, then fetched by the press connector at 07:49. A job can be taken off the press until it has been written.
  • It works outward only. The connector reaches Studio, and Studio never reaches in. No firewall rule is needed to let anything in.
  • When the connector cannot reach the press, Download the print file gives you the same file to drop in the hot folder by hand.
  • A ganged roll goes as one file. Jobs on the same stock share a roll, and the connector writes the roll's file once, when somebody presses Print.

What it means for a shop

  • The file the RIP gets is the file Studio checked.
  • There is one record of what was put on which press, by whom.
  • A person at the press is still the one who starts the job.

What it does not do, and where it stands

Fetched means the connector has the file. It is not the same as printed. Studio never starts, stops or reorders a job on your RIP.

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.

Read more

Put on a press: the hand-over, The press connector and hot folders and Download the print file.

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