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[Sheet Marks] Pane

In [Sheet Marks] pane, you can set the sheet edge mark and colour patch.

You can also use a global sheet mark to place a common mark on all sheets with a single operation or place a printer-specific mark.

Note

To reflect the changed settings in the preview, click [].

To display the sheet marks in the preview, click [] on the toolbar (viewer tools) and set the dynamic marks to display.

Global Sheet Marks

When global sheet marks are used, you can place a common mark on all sheets with a single operation by specifying a stripping sheet template in which the mark has been placed in advance. If the mark placement specified in the press device profile is used, switching the press device profile when changing the printer will also automatically switch the placed mark.

ID Setting Description

1

Use Global Sheet Marks

Checking the checkbox enables [Sheet Template] and [Search Templates] and displays []. The stripping sheet template to use as a global sheet mark can be selected.

When the checkbox is cleared, the content of the placed global sheet mark is deleted.

2

Sheet Template

Click [] and select the stripping sheet template containing the mark to use as a global sheet mark. When [Defined by Press Profile] is selected, a global sheet mark is placed based on the settings in the press device profile.

A global sheet mark is placed on all sheets in the stripping imposition based on the selected stripping sheet template or press device profile.

Note
  • Of the objects placed in a stripping sheet template, only the marks below are placed as global sheet marks.
    Custom marks, sheet edge marks, and press control strips
  • The stripping sheet templates that can be selected are described below.
  • Templates where no signatures have been placed, or where one signature has been placed.
  • Templates where a custom mark, sheet edge mark, or press control strip has been placed.
  • Templates where the custom marks have been linked to a paper, plate or signature, or set to the default location.
  • Global sheet marks have not been set.
  • For pagination setting, the following applies.
  • When a sheet group in which global sheet marks are set is assigned to a workflow item, the global sheet marks in the workflow item imposition are set to [Defined by the pagination sheet group (GSM)]. The global sheet marks set in the pagination sheet are applied.
  • If the global sheet marks are changed to a setting other than [Defined by the pagination sheet group (GSM)], it is not possible to restore the setting by selecting [Defined by the pagination sheet group (GSM)] again. To restore the global sheet marks of the pagination settings, right-click the sheet group and select [Reset imposition to Sheet Templates], or assign the sheet group to the workflow item again.
  • When [Defined by Press Profile] is selected and the press is changed, all the sheet marks can be changed in a single operation by changing the press device profile.
  • When [Press Profile Controls Global Sheet Marks] is selected in the press workflow item, the setting is fixed automatically to [Defined by Press Profile].
  • When [Press Profile Controls Global Sheet Marks] in the press workflow item is changed from selected to deselected, the global sheet marks set on the imposition are discarded and are no longer used. To restore the global sheet marks of the pagination settings, right-click the sheet group and select [Reset imposition to Sheet Templates], or assign the sheet group to the workflow item again.
  • For impositions where multiple signatures are placed on a sheet, custom marks whose default position is set relative to a reference point on the signature cannot be loaded as global sheet marks.
  • Although marks placed as global sheet marks can be edited, there are no indicators to show that they have been changed from their original setting.

3

Search Templates

Click to display [Global Sheet Mark Template] dialog. You can search for and select stripping sheet templates to use as global sheet marks.

Note

When the context menu is opened by right-clicking [] in the toolbar (Viewer tools), [] is displayed in the custom mark, sheet edge mark or press control strip placed as a global sheet mark.

Sheet Edge Marks

The sheet edge mark which indicates the edge of a signature can be configured.

Note

If the set sheet edge mark is a global sheet mark, [] is displayed next to the setting item name.

ID Setting Description

1

Enable Sheet Edge Marks

Check the checkbox to place a sheet edge mark.

The settings for a sheet edge mark can be configured.

2

(Sheet Edge Mark Icon)

Set a type for the sheet edge mark. Select a sheet edge mark to use by double-clicking an icon.

3

Recalculate Offsets

When some operations such as changing the position of a signature are performed after a sheet edge mark is applied, the sheet edge mark is re-located in accordance with the new setting.

4

Top (c)

Left (a)

Right (b)

Bottom(d)

Set a position for the sheet edge mark.

Enter each position value in accordance with "a", "b", "c", and "d" in the placement image displayed on the top of the setting items.

5

Length (e)

Width (f)

Set a length and width for the sheet edge mark.

Enter the length and width values in accordance with "e" and "f" in the placement image displayed on the top of the setting items.

6

Line Width

Set a line width for the sheet edge mark.

7

Colour

Set a colour to use for the sheet edge mark.

Use Registration Black: Sets the colour of the sheet edge mark to registration black. The sheet edge mark is output to all colour separations.

Use CMYK: Select to display the CMYK colour settings to use for sheet edge marks. When a colour chip is double-clicked, [Edit Colour] dialog is displayed. Set the sheet edge mark colour by clicking a preset colour located underneath or directly entering the CMYK values.

Use Darkest Ink: Displays the density text box. Enter the density of the most dense ink to use for sheet edge marks as a percentage in the density text box.

Press Control Strips

You can set a press control strip mark, which is a colour patch, to use for the colour management of a press.

Typically, the mark is output on the edge of a sheet.

Note

If the set press control strip is a global sheet mark, [] is displayed next to the setting item name.

ID Setting Description

1

Enable Press Control Strip

Check the checkbox to place a colour patch. The settings for the colour patch can be configured.

Copy to All Sheets: Copies the settings of the colour patch to all sheets.

2

Use Different Settings for Back Surface

You can set a colour patch individually to the front and back of a sheet. When the checkbox is checked, displays [Front Surface] tab and [Back Surface] tab.

3

Front Surface

Back Surface

Set the colour patch for the front or back. Displayed when [Use Different Settings for Back Surface] checkbox is checked. Click a tab to select the surface to set.

4

KCMY Patches

Check the checkbox to place the CMYK colour patch.

5

KCMY Tints

Check the checkbox to place the CMYK screening.

Click [] and select the density of the screening. Select from [40/80] and [25/50/75].

6

Spot Colour Patches

Check the checkbox to place the spot colour patch. Enter the number of spot colours to print as the colour patch in the entry field on the right.

Note
  1. The spot colour patch which can be printed is only for a spot colour which is used in assigned pages. The colour patch is added in the separation order set in a workflow item.
    When the set number is less than the number of spot colours used, the colour patch for a spot colour which has a bigger number in the separation order is not printed.

7

RGB Patches

Check the checkbox to place the RGB colour patch.

8

Grey Patch

Check the checkbox to place the grey patch. Enter the grey density in the entry field on the right.

9

Custom Patch

Places a colour patch by setting any CMYK values.

When the checkbox is checked, the CMYK colour settings used for a custom colour patch are displayed. When a colour chip is double-clicked, [Edit Colour] dialog is displayed. Set the custom colour patch by clicking a preset colour located underneath or directly entering the CMYK values.

Note
  1. Up to 5 custom colour patches can be set.

10

Patch Label

Places the colour patch label (text for indicating each colour).

Click [] and select a position for the colour patch label. Select from [None], [Above], [Below] and [Inside].

11

Font

Set the font used for the colour patch label. Set when a setting other than [None] is selected in [Patch Label].

Click [], select a font to use, and enter the font size in the entry field on the right.

12

Repeat Distance

Set a width for repeating the colour patch.

13

Paper Margin

Set a margin from the paper edge.

14

Patch Size

Set a colour patch size. Enter a horizontal value in [X] and vertical value in [Y].

15

Alignment

Click [] and select the alignment of the colour patch position.

Select from [Left], [Centre] and [Right].

16

Direction

Click [] and select a direction to line up the colour patch.

Select from [Left to Right] and [Right to Left].

17

Apply colour management

Check the checkbox to perform the 2nd stage or 3rd stage of colour conversion for the press control strips according to the workflow item setting.

Note
  • Colour conversion uses the settings on the first page number within the selected surfaces.
  • For RGB press control strips, the 1st stage of colour conversion is performed regardless of the setting of this item.
  • When performing the 2nd stage of colour conversion, the colour conversion is performed according to the setting for line art.

18

Apply characterisation curve

Check the checkbox to apply a characterisation curve to the press control strips.

Note
  • This is only applied to 1-bit TIFF output. Characterisation is not applied to other outputs.

19

Repeat Alignment

Places the colour patch based on the set reference point.

Setting is enabled when the colour patch to be set is selected in the Preview pane.

20

Click to display [Set Origin] dialog. Set the reference point for the paper or plate, and arrange the colour patch in an exact position.

21

Click to display [Set Mark Reference] dialog. Set the reference point for the colour patch, and arrange the colour patch in an exact position.

22

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The setting switches on each click.

: Links the paper or plate reference point and colour patch reference point. The relative positions for both linked points are maintained if the size or position of the paper or plate is changed.

: The link is disabled.

23

X

Y

Set the distance from the reference point for the paper or plate to the reference point for the colour patch.

Note

Colour patches are aligned as shown below. Use the following as a reference for setting each item.

  1. Repeat Distance
  2. Paper Margin
  3. Patch Size X
  4. Patch Size Y
  5. Alignment Left
  6. Alignment Centre
  7. Alignment Right
  8. Direction Left to Right
  9. Direction Right to Left

When the number of the colour patches which exceed the repeat distance is set, the overlapped colour patches caused by repeating are overwritten and not printed.

The colour patches are repeatedly placed edge to edge on a sheet, excluding the width set in [Paper Margin].