| Contents | 5 |
| Using help | 21 |
| Getting started | 23 |
| What is Prinergy Workshop? | 23 |
| Starting Prinergy Workshop | 24 |
| Connect to Server dialog box | 25 |
| Updating Workshop on the client | 26 |
| Starting Dashboard | 27 |
| How do I start processing jobs? | 27 |
| Remote access to Workshop and a Prinergy server | 27 |
| Prinergy Direct | 29 |
| Adobe software components | 30 |
| Quitting Prinergy Workshop | 32 |
| Pinging a remote Prinergy server | 32 |
| Locating translated documents | 33 |
| Job Finder | 35 |
| Job Manager | 49 |
| About the Job Manager window | 49 |
| About user and job favorites | 49 |
| Changing views in Job Manager | 50 |
| Selecting items in Job Manager | 50 |
| Expanding and collapsing items in the Process Templates pane | 51 |
| Getting information about an element | 51 |
| Managing process templates on the job and user tab | 51 |
| Job Manager window | 52 |
| Pages view | 53 |
| Signatures view | 59 |
| Separations view | 66 |
| Storage view | 68 |
| History view | 71 |
| Process Templates pane | 72 |
| Processes pane | 73 |
| Get Info dialog box | 73 |
| Manage Job/User Favorites dialog box | 78 |
| Menus in Job Manager | 79 |
| Workflow | 95 |
| Jobs | 101 |
| Creating jobs | 101 |
| Job attributes | 109 |
| Managing jobs | 116 |
| Job management | 116 |
| Getting information on jobs | 117 |
| Finding jobs and pre-jobs | 118 |
| Find Job dialog box | 118 |
| Find Job Results dialog box | 118 |
| Opening jobs and pre-jobs | 119 |
| Open Job dialog box | 119 |
| Renaming jobs and pre-jobs | 120 |
| Rename Job dialog box | 120 |
| Using job notes | 120 |
| Job Notes dialog box | 121 |
| Destroying jobs and pre-jobs | 122 |
| Destroy Job dialog box | 122 |
| Viewing information about jobs and pre-jobs | 122 |
| Job Info dialog box | 123 |
| Changing a job to a pre-job or a pre-job to a job | 127 |
| Move Job dialog box | 127 |
| Job groups | 128 |
| Copying and moving jobs between servers | 131 |
| Custom fields | 138 |
| Input files | 145 |
| Customer files | 145 |
| About preparing customer files | 145 |
| About supported input file types | 146 |
| About FreeHand | 146 |
| About Illustrator | 147 |
| About InDesign | 148 |
| About PageMaker | 148 |
| About Photoshop | 149 |
| About copydot scans and other DCS files | 149 |
| About duotones | 150 |
| About QuarkXPress | 150 |
| What's New in QuarkXPress 8 | 151 |
| What's New in QuarkXPress 7 | 151 |
| What's New in QuarkXPress 6.5 | 152 |
| QuarkXPress 8.1 and later | 153 |
| QuarkXPress 7 and 8.0: Issues and observations | 153 |
| QuarkXPress 6.5: Issues and observations | 155 |
| QuarkXPress 5: Issues and observations | 157 |
| PostScript versus PDF | 158 |
| Outputting a PDF using Export | 158 |
| Outputting a PostScript file using Export | 159 |
| Outputting a PostScript file using Print | 159 |
| Setting Up Output Styles | 162 |
| Adding and deleting files | 163 |
| Correcting input files | 170 |
| CT/LW and TIFF/IT files | 173 |
| PDF files | 180 |
| Raster-separated data | 187 |
| Starting processes | 191 |
| About starting processes | 191 |
| Starting processes | 191 |
| Bypassing the Start Process dialog box | 192 |
| Stopping, pausing, and resuming processes | 192 |
| Deleting completed processes | 193 |
| Generating a process report for troubleshooting | 193 |
| Choose process template dialog box | 194 |
| Start Process dialog box | 194 |
| Start Process for Digital Printing dialog box | 197 |
| Process templates | 203 |
| About process templates | 203 |
| About modifying process templates | 203 |
| About temporarily modifying process templates | 203 |
| About protecting process templates | 204 |
| What are JTPs? | 204 |
| Creating process templates | 205 |
| Creating process templates based on an existing process template | 206 |
| Save process template dialog box | 206 |
| Modifying process templates | 207 |
| Temporarily modifying process templates | 207 |
| Renaming process templates | 207 |
| Deleting process templates | 208 |
| Process Template Editor | 208 |
| Saving factory templates | 209 |
| Factory templates | 209 |
| File Browser dialog box | 210 |
| Menus in Process Template Editor | 210 |
| Workshop menu in Process Template Editor | 210 |
| File menu in Process Template Editor | 211 |
| Edit menu in Process Template Editor | 212 |
| View menu in Process Template Editor | 213 |
| Tools menu in Process Template Editor | 213 |
| Help menu in Process Template Editor | 215 |
| Keyboard shortcuts in Process Template Editor | 215 |
| Process template groups | 216 |
| Refining | 219 |
| About refining | 219 |
| Refining input files manually | 220 |
| Refining input files using a hot folder | 220 |
| Refine process template | 221 |
| CEPS Conversion section of the Refine process template | 221 |
| Fonts and Images section of the Refine process template | 222 |
| Normalize section of the refine process template | 229 |
| PDF Preflight section of the Refine process template | 238 |
| Copydot section of the Refine process template | 240 |
| Spot Color Handling section of the Refine process template | 241 |
| ColorConvert section of the refine process template | 245 |
| Trap section of the refine process template | 253 |
| Optimize section of the Refine process template | 265 |
| Thumbnail section of the Refine process template | 271 |
| Impose section of the Refine process template | 271 |
| About bypassing refine | 272 |
| Bypass Refine process template | 273 |
| Why PDF? | 275 |
| About common density limit | 276 |
| About neutral density | 276 |
| About overprint conversion | 277 |
| About overprint handling | 277 |
| About reader spread splitting | 280 |
| About step limit | 282 |
| About thumbnails | 282 |
| Trapping examples | 285 |
| About using OPI with transparent effects | 287 |
| Using soft masks during OPI | 288 |
| Using drop shadows during OPI | 289 |
| Including clipping paths during OPI | 290 |
| Including spot color channels during OPI | 290 |
| PDF preflight | 291 |
| About PDF preflight | 291 |
| About page box layout | 292 |
| Preflighting PDF files | 294 |
| Managing Preflight profiles | 294 |
| Viewing PDF Preflight reports | 295 |
| Generating PDF Preflight reports for distribution | 295 |
| Preflight Profile Manager | 296 |
| Preflight Profile Editor | 296 |
| Document settings in Preflight Editor | 298 |
| Page settings in Preflight Editor | 303 |
| Font settings in Preflight Editor | 306 |
| Color settings in Preflight Editor | 309 |
| Image settings in Preflight Editor | 316 |
| OPI settings in Preflight Editor | 319 |
| Text and Line Art settings in Preflight Editor | 320 |
| PDF/X settings in Preflight Editor | 322 |
| Image search paths | 324 |
| Fonts | 332 |
| Adobe in Prinergy | 343 |
| About Adobe applications | 343 |
| About trapping tools | 343 |
| About plug-ins for Adobe Acrobat | 345 |
| Viewing or editing pages | 346 |
| Viewing or editing traps | 346 |
| Deleting traps | 347 |
| Starting a plug-in for Adobe Acrobat | 347 |
| Prinergy PDF File Editor | 347 |
| Editing PDF files in Adobe Illustrator | 349 |
| Resolving conflicts in Prinergy PDF File Editor | 350 |
| Kodak Distiller Assistant | 351 |
| Page sets and impositions | 361 |
| Page sets | 361 |
| Page sets | 361 |
| About assigning pages | 362 |
| About assigning specific positions to pages | 363 |
| About copying page assignments between page sets | 365 |
| About deleting page sets | 365 |
| About layering pages in page sets | 365 |
| About page sets and multiple imposition plans | 366 |
| Adding page sets | 367 |
| Add Page Set dialog box | 367 |
| Layering pages | 368 |
| Deleting page sets | 369 |
| Manually assigning pages to page sets and imposition plans | 369 |
| Assign Page to Page Set Position dialog box | 369 |
| Copying page assignments between page sets | 370 |
| Copy Page Assignments dialog box | 371 |
| Unassigning pages from page set positions | 371 |
| Impositions | 371 |
| About imposition plans | 371 |
| Supported imposition file types | 372 |
| About importing populated job tickets from Preps | 373 |
| About importing impositions | 374 |
| About removing vs. destroying imposition plans | 374 |
| Importing impositions | 375 |
| Importing a populated job ticket from Preps | 376 |
| Updating imposition plans | 376 |
| Removing imposition plans | 377 |
| Destroying imposition plans | 377 |
| Preserving cutting data from Preps | 378 |
| Import process template (impositions) | 378 |
| Destroy Imposition dialog box | 388 |
| Import Imposition dialog box | 388 |
| Page geometry | 391 |
| Centering pages | 399 |
| Automated Page Assignment (APA) | 400 |
| About Automated Page Assignment | 400 |
| About the names and location of APA files | 402 |
| About geometry assignments | 402 |
| Examples: APA page assignment | 405 |
| About rules for APA | 412 |
| About adding and subtracting page positions in APA | 414 |
| About wild cards and pattern matching in APA | 418 |
| About page set position wild cards in APA | 421 |
| About creating raw APA | 429 |
| About wild cards in raw APA | 432 |
| About named patterns as back references in raw APA | 432 |
| Creating or editing APA files in the APA editor | 435 |
| Creating or editing APA files in a text editor | 436 |
| Enable APA in process templates | 437 |
| Automated Page Assignment Editor | 437 |
| Open APA File dialog box | 443 |
| Save APA File as dialog box | 443 |
| Menus in Automated Page Assignment Editor | 444 |
| Ganging | 450 |
| Outputs | 453 |
| Generating loose page output | 453 |
| Loose Page Output process template | 453 |
| Copydot section of the Loose Page Output process template | 453 |
| ColorFlow section of the Loose Page Output process template | 454 |
| ColorConvert section of the Loose Page Output process template | 460 |
| Layout section of the Loose Page Output process template | 465 |
| Render section of the Loose Page Output process template | 472 |
| Calibration and Screening section of the loose page output process template | 479 |
| Processed File Options section of the Loose Page Output process template | 489 |
| File Format section of the Loose Page Output process template | 491 |
| Device section of the Loose Page Output process template | 496 |
| Include JDF for Digital Print section of the Loose Page Output process template | 499 |
| Marks section in the Loose Page Output process template | 503 |
| Generating imposition outputs | 509 |
| Imposition Output process template | 509 |
| Copydot section of the Imposition Output process template | 510 |
| ColorFlow section of the Imposition Output process template | 511 |
| ColorConvert section of the Imposition Output process template | 517 |
| Layout section of the Imposition Output process template | 521 |
| Render section of the Imposition Output process template | 530 |
| Calibration and Screening section of the imposition output process template | 533 |
| Processed File Options section of the Imposition Output process template | 544 |
| File Format section of the Imposition Output process template | 546 |
| Device section of the Imposition Output process template | 551 |
| Include JDF for Digital Print section of the Imposition Output process template | 554 |
| Marks section in the imposition output process template | 558 |
| Generating final output | 563 |
| Final Output process template | 564 |
| Copydot section of the Final Output process template | 564 |
| ColorFlow section of the final output process template | 565 |
| ColorConvert section of the Final Output process template | 571 |
| Layout section of the Final Output process template | 576 |
| Render section of the Final Output process template | 582 |
| Calibration and Screening section of the Final Output process template | 585 |
| PrintLink section of the Final Output process template | 595 |
| Processed Files section of the Final Output process template | 598 |
| Device section of the Final Output process template | 600 |
| File Format section of the Final Output process template | 603 |
| Marks section in the Final Output process template | 608 |
| Creating page and sheet mark files that include variable marks | 611 |
| Generating CT/LW output for the Karat digital device | 613 |
| CTLW Karat Output process template | 614 |
| ColorFlow section of the CTLW Karat Output process template | 614 |
| ColorConvert section of the CTLW Karat Output process template | 616 |
| Layout section of the CTLW Karat Output process template | 620 |
| Render section of the CTLW Karat output process template | 626 |
| Device section of the CTLW Karat Output process template | 633 |
| Marks section in the CTLW Karat Output process template | 634 |
| Proofs and final output | 640 |
| About supported output formats | 640 |
| About support output file types | 645 |
| About generating proofs and final output | 646 |
| Remaking plates | 646 |
| Plate Remake dialog box | 647 |
| Applying ColorFlow curves and making tonal adjustments | 648 |
| Tonal Control dialog box | 649 |
| About PDF/X | 650 |
| About soft proofs | 656 |
| About document screening | 657 |
| About dot shapes | 658 |
| About minimum dot size calculation | 660 |
| Screen types | 661 |
| About screen systems | 663 |
| Staccato Dot Size and Screen Ruling Equivalents | 667 |
| About screen angles | 669 |
| About seamless imaging | 670 |
| About advanced TIFF tags | 670 |
| About TIFF compression | 671 |
| What is PJTF? | 672 |
| Example: crop marks | 673 |
| Example: add extra vertical space | 673 |
| Example: orientation | 673 |
| Example: add extra horizontal space | 674 |
| Example: shifting images horizontally and vertically | 674 |
| About tiling output | 675 |
| About custom file naming | 677 |
| About outputting to a file | 681 |
| Using the Altona Test Suite | 682 |
| Setting up Maxtone screens | 683 |
| Setting up Staccato screens | 684 |
| IS Screening | 685 |
| Digital printers | 689 |
| Marks | 709 |
| About marks | 709 |
| Methods of adding marks files | 711 |
| Sheet marks on final output | 711 |
| Calculating the at distance value on final output | 712 |
| Recommended Acrobat Distiller 8, 9, and X settings for marks | 712 |
| Sheet marks options explained | 715 |
| Overview of adding marks | 717 |
| Importing imposition marks files | 718 |
| Configuring Distiller for marks | 718 |
| Distilling PostScript marks files | 718 |
| Setting a process template to use marks file | 719 |
| Marks options in the process template | 720 |
| Variable marks | 720 |
| Text-file-based marks | 739 |
| Publish to PDF | 744 |
| Web growth | 748 |
| Web growth profiles | 749 |
| Example: web growth profile | 750 |
| Example: nonlinear web growth profile | 751 |
| Example: Trapezoidal/pillow sheet growth profile | 754 |
| Example: tower-color file | 755 |
| Calculating web growth | 756 |
| Creating a web growth profile | 759 |
| Setting up a tower-color profile | 759 |
| Applying and removing a web growth profile | 759 |
| Set Web Growth Profile dialog box | 761 |
| PrintLink | 762 |
| Previewing loose pages | 772 |
| Special output | 774 |
| Page set booklets | 780 |
| Signature booklets | 782 |
| Approvals | 791 |
| Color | 795 |
| Color spaces | 795 |
| Color libraries and definitions | 801 |
| About color libraries and definitions | 801 |
| About how Prinergy searches for color definitions | 803 |
| About the PANTONE library | 804 |
| Adding or changing colors in separations | 805 |
| Adding or changing color definitions while refining | 806 |
| Adding or changing color definitions while generating loose proofs | 807 |
| Color Editor window | 808 |
| Managing color definitions | 810 |
| Job Color Picker dialog box | 811 |
| Global Color Picker dialog box | 811 |
| Managing color libraries | 811 |
| Add New Color Library dialog box | 812 |
| Import Color Library dialog box | 812 |
| Export Color Library dialog box | 813 |
| Copying a color between the Job and Global tabs | 813 |
| Select a Color Library dialog box | 813 |
| Menus in Color Editor | 814 |
| Separations | 818 |
| Spot colors | 824 |
| About reducing and preserving spot colors (overview) | 824 |
| About Color Combiner | 825 |
| About reducing and preserving spot colors during refine | 827 |
| About reducing and preserving spot colors in proofs | 829 |
| About reducing and preserving spot colors in final output | 832 |
| Reducing spot colors (workflow) | 834 |
| Aliasing spot colors to different names | 835 |
| Preserving spot colors during refine | 836 |
| Reducing all spot colors during refine | 836 |
| Reducing individual spot colors during refine | 837 |
| Preserving spot colors in loose page output | 838 |
| Reducing all spot colors in loose page output | 838 |
| Reducing individual spot colors in loose page output | 839 |
| Preserving spot colors in imposition output | 841 |
| Reducing all spot colors in imposition output | 841 |
| Reducing individual spot colors in imposition output | 842 |
| Preserving spot colors in final output | 843 |
| Reducing all spot colors in final output | 844 |
| Reducing individual spot colors in final output | 845 |
| Color Mappings dialog box | 846 |
| Color Output dialog box | 848 |
| About Spotless Extended Color Management | 850 |
| Die line and varnishes | 850 |
| Using ColorFlow software | 851 |
| Monitoring | 859 |
| Processes | 859 |
| Queue Manager | 863 |
| System History | 874 |
| Job history | 881 |
| Job export/import | 883 |
| Archives | 895 |
| Archive, purge, and retrieve | 895 |
| About archiving, purging, and retrieving jobs | 895 |
| About status and state changes after archiving, purging, and retrieving | 897 |
| Archiving | 898 |
| Archive process template | 899 |
| Purging | 901 |
| Purge process template | 902 |
| Retrieving | 904 |
| Retrieve process template | 905 |
| Moving from Archive-to-tape to Archive-to-disk | 907 |
| Media Manager | 908 |
| About managing storage media | 908 |
| About verifying a medium | 908 |
| About copying a medium | 909 |
| About completing a tape | 910 |
| Viewing information about media pools and disk volumes | 910 |
| Verifying that a media pool or disk volume is readable | 911 |
| Copying an entire medium | 911 |
| Making a tape read only | 912 |
| Archive Medium Logical Copy process template | 912 |
| Media Manager window | 915 |
| Menus in Media Manager | 918 |
| Automation | 925 |
| Hot folders | 925 |
| About hot folders | 925 |
| About adding files to a hot folder | 926 |
| About hot folders functions | 927 |
| Adding files to a hot folder | 927 |
| Creating hot folders | 928 |
| Deleting hot folders | 929 |
| Editing hot folders | 929 |
| Reusing hot folders with a template job | 929 |
| Disabling hot folders | 930 |
| Create/Edit Hot Folder for Job dialog box | 930 |
| Manage Hot Folders for Job dialog box | 932 |
| Smart hot folders | 932 |
| Smart hot folders | 932 |
| Examples: invalid naming patterns | 934 |
| About the hot folder type options | 936 |
| Examples: valid naming patterns | 937 |
| About naming patterns in smart hot folders | 939 |
| Case study: smart hot folder | 941 |
| Diagram: create jobs and process, move, and rename files using smart hot folders | 943 |
| Diagram: create jobs and process files using smart hot folders | 944 |
| Diagram: create jobs, process, and move files using smart hot folders | 945 |
| Diagram: create jobs using smart hot folders | 946 |
| Diagram: move files using smart hot folders | 946 |
| Diagram: process files using smart hot folders | 947 |
| Diagram: rename files using smart hot folders | 947 |
| Working with smart hot folders | 948 |
| Smart Hot Folder Manager dialog box | 948 |
| Configuring smart hot folders | 949 |
| Navigating the Add/Edit Smart Hot Folder dialog box | 952 |
| Add/Edit Smart Hot Folder dialog box | 952 |
| Select Target Group dialog box | 956 |
| Checking whether the smart hot folder worked | 956 |
| Workflow templates | 957 |
| Versions | 961 |
| About versioning | 961 |
| Layered PDF Versioning | 961 |
| About Layered PDF Versioning | 961 |
| Introduction | 962 |
| LPV terms and concepts | 964 |
| Setting up an LPV job | 978 |
| Introduction | 978 |
| Creating an LPV job | 980 |
| Adding and refining input files | 983 |
| Creating the version plan | 985 |
| Adding versioned pages | 990 |
| Linking refined pages | 990 |
| Overriding color extractions | 999 |
| The Generate process | 1001 |
| Monitoring generation status | 1005 |
| Viewing generated pages in Acrobat | 1007 |
| Investigating generate warnings | 1009 |
| Assigning versioned pages to a page set or imposition plan | 1011 |
| Versioned white objects | 1012 |
| Outputting from an LPV job | 1013 |
| Automating LPV jobs | 1026 |
| Working with input file models | 1034 |
| Legacy versioning | 1042 |
| About legacy versioning | 1042 |
| Overview of legacy versioning steps | 1044 |
| Preparing the base and version input files | 1045 |
| Importing versioning impositions | 1045 |
| Importing versioning impositions and use existing page sets | 1046 |
| Copying source page assignments to other imposition plans | 1047 |
| Reordering page layers | 1047 |
| Enter Number of Versions dialog box | 1047 |
| Import Versioning Imposition dialog box | 1048 |
| Reorder Page Assignments dialog box | 1050 |
| Select Page Set dialog box | 1051 |
| Outputting versioned separations | 1051 |
| Customization | 1053 |
| About customizing Workshop | 1053 |
| Displaying and hiding columns | 1054 |
| Moving columns | 1054 |
| Sorting items by column | 1054 |
| Displaying lists or thumbnails | 1055 |
| Expanding and collapsing all items in a view or pane | 1055 |
| Setting Workshop preferences | 1055 |
| Overriding the default mode (Connect or Powerpack) on a client | 1056 |
| Workshop Preferences dialog box | 1056 |
| Visible Columns dialog box in History view | 1061 |
| Visible Columns dialog box in Imposition Plans pane | 1061 |
| Visible Columns dialog box in Input Files pane | 1063 |
| Visible Columns dialog box in Job Finder | 1064 |
| Visible Columns dialog box in Media Manager | 1067 |
| Visible Columns dialog box in Page Sets pane | 1070 |
| Visible Columns dialog box in Pages pane | 1070 |
| Visible Columns dialog box in Queue Manager | 1073 |
| Visible Columns dialog box in Separations view | 1075 |
| Visible Columns dialog box in Storage view | 1077 |
| Visible Columns dialog box in System History | 1078 |