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[View general information concerning your document] 

View general information concerning your document and the selected printer.

Specify the [Operator note]. The [Operator note] is displayed on the operator panel, if your printer supports this functionality.

Warning:

Error:

[View all errors and warnings] 

PRISMAprepare informs you about settings that are not supported by the selected printer. No icon is displayed when there are no errors, warnings, or information messages.

[View all errors and warnings] 

PRISMAprepare informs you about issues that you can solve for the selected printer. No icon is displayed when there are no errors, warnings, or information messages.

[Printer] 

Select the printer that you want to send your document to.

• If available, you can click the printer driver button to define options that are not available in the [Production] workspace. You can find this button next to the printer driver.

  For example, the printer driver of a color printer can offer color settings which are not supported by PRISMAprepare. If the [Production] workspace offers all driver settings, then the driver settings button is not added to the [Production] workspace.

The color of the icon informs about the state of the selected printer:

• Red: failure

• Orange: needs attention

• Green: printing

• Gray: idle

• Light gray: unknown

Use the "PRISMAprepare Administration" to add new printers. The newly added printer is not automatically available in PRISMAprepare. You have to close and then open PRISMAprepare again to load the printer in the application.

Click the list of available printers in the [Production] workspace. Click the cogwheel icon to select an available website.

• PRISMAsync Remote Manager

  When you add a new printer driven by a PRISMAsync Print Server, the URL of its PRISMAsync Remote Manager is automatically added to the available websites for the printer.

  The URL of the PRISMAsync Remote Manager is not automatically added for already available printers.

[Number of sets] 

A message can appear in information field [View general information concerning your document] concerning the number of sets:

• 'x' sets printed as 1 copy

  The print file is sent to the printer. The file is printed once.

• 'x' sets printed as 'y' copies

  The print file is sent to the printer along with an instruction to print the file 'y' times.

The maximum value for number of sets is 65000.

[Destination] 

Select to which queue or DocBox you want to submit the document.

All / selected sheets

[Print range] 

Select to print all sheets or only the sheets containing one or more marked pages.

[Proof PDF] 

Click this button to create a proof PDF or proof print. A proof is used to show a customer the final layout of the product before final production. Select an action for the proof PDF file:

• [Save] 

  Saves the proof PDF to the desired folder.

• [Save and send] 

  Saves the proof PDF to the desired folder and sends the Proof PDF to a customer via Email.

  Click [Tools] - [Proof PDF] - [Email server...] to configure the email server.

[Test print] 

Submit a document to the printer. The number of sets = 1.

[Print] 

Submit a document to the printer.

• [Defaults] 

  Restore the original print settings for the current document. The print settings are retrieved from the document.

• [Save] 

  You can change the settings in the [Production] workspace and save these to the document.

  You must enable option [Save the production settings] when you close or save the document.