Ganging
Gang pages or impositions from different jobs to save makeready,
plate, setup, and washup costs. Ganging is the act of combining pages
from different jobs or impositions onto one press sheet.
If you use Kodak Preps imposition software, take advantage of page
aliasing to help you manage ganged pages.
Identifying source pages and page aliases
If you use Preps to gang Prinergy pages, page aliases--instead of
copies--are created in the ganged job to help you manage changes.
Page aliases are links that are created from the original page to the
ganged job. Page aliases provide many benefits over copies, and are
automatically created when the populated imposition is imported into
Prinergy from Preps.
Benefits of page aliases
Page aliases provide the following benefits:
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Page aliases save file space because pages are not duplicated.
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Page edits are easily managed--for example:
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If a page's contents are updated, when output, the alias
automatically picks up the latest updates of the original. There's
no need to duplicate the updated content to the alias.
Note: This benefit applies to simple updates only—for example, text
changes. Some changes, such as changes to the number of inks or
geometry changes, may invalidate the existing ganged imposition. In this
case, you will likely need to rebuild the ganged imposition.
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If the approval status of a page changes, it is reflected in both
locations.
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If the page geometry of a page changes, it is reflected in both
locations.
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History entries about ganged pages are logged in both the source
job and the ganged job.
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The percentage of the media used by each source job is
automatically calculated and listed in the history entries. Note that
the percentage is calculated on the basis of the number of pages on
the sheet, not on the surface area of the pages.
Note: A detailed report of ganged material usage by source job is available
with Prinergy Business Link software.
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On refine, each page is tagged so that if you copy it to a different
location before ganging it, the source job and source page can still
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Chapter 11— Page sets and impositions
