About incremental exports
Incremental exports are exports of certain parts of a job, based on
signatures.
Incremental exports are useful to:
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Break up a large job for printing at multiple sites
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Break up a large job into files that are small enough to transfer to a
remote site, which gradually reassembles the job
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Send jobs to sites with Prinergy Direct software, which requires only
signatures, not all aspects of the job. This is called a hub-and-spoke
operation, where the Prinergy Connect or Prinergy Powerpack
operator creates partial exports for sites with Prinergy Direct.
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Update a previous export
For an incremental export to be successful, the job must contain
refined PDF pages and an imposition plan.
When a site receives an incremental export, it must do an incremental
import to bring the file into Prinergy.
Hot folders with incremental exports
To import incremental exports, remote sites can create a pre-job and
link it to an import process template.
When you drop an incremental export into a pre-job hot folder, the file
name determines whether Prinergy creates a new job. If the
incremental export file name:
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Matches the name of an existing job, Prinergy adds the export to an
existing job
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Does not match the name of an existing job, Prinergy creates a new
job using the export file name
If you want to create more than one incremental export from the same
job for use by a remote site with a pre-job hot folder, you need to
rename the files. When you first create the incremental exports, give
the files different names so that they do not overwrite each other. But
before you send the files to the remote site, be sure to rename the file
names with the same name so that Prinergy imports the files into the
same job.
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Chapter 16—Job export/import
