When you select a media in the media catalog, all media attributes need to be specified. However, it can occur that not all media attributes in a JDF job ticket are specified. When you allow that not all media attributes in the JDF ticket are specified, media matching is used to find values for these attributes. The media catalog is queried with only the media attributes specified in the ticket. If there is a single, unique match found during the media matching, all attributes of that media are used, including media size. If there is more than one match, the missing attributes, except the size, are filled in from the first matching media. If no media size is specified, the size is taken from the PDL data. If no match was found in the media catalog, a temporary media is used with the missing attributes provided by the PDL data and/or defaults.
Open the Settings Editor and go to: .
Use the [Media attributes in JDF ticket] setting to define how to handle media attributes in a JDF ticket.
[Allow that not all media attributes are specified]: media matching is used to find values for these attributes.
[All media attributes must be specified]: the attributes of the JDF ticket, the print document, and the default media attributes are used.
Click [OK].