How to Create and Use Quick Sets

This section describes how to create and use Quick Sets. A Quick Set contains a set of printer configuration parameters that are defined and then saved for use with print jobs that will benefit from that particular set of parameters.

When you edit and/or create a Quick Set you can customize it to meet your print setup needs. Quick Sets can dramatically increase your productivity since they can be designed to offer a predefined set of configurations to support the white ink workflow. Once you create a Quick Set you can copy and then edit it to create as many variations as required to support various workflow options.

Use Quick Sets to manage your jobs more efficiently. A Quick Set is a RIP-Queue tool that automatically applies your selected set of settings when you choose it for your print job. Quick Sets are convenient when working with white ink because they can be used to predefine the ink layer configurations and optionally can reference Filters that contain pre-defined Color Correction and Spot Layer Tool settings (think of the Filter as a group of particular Color Management settings that can be contained within a more general group of settings - the Quick Set). Once you create and apply Quick Sets to a print job, the job will have the appropriate settings automatically selected.

Quick Set Options Specific to White Ink Workflow

In the Quick Set dialog, you can click on any of the tabs to modify any of the Advanced Options. The options shown here are the ones that will provide the most benefit to white ink workflow productivity:

Quick Set Name

The Quick Set Name is the name that will appear in the RIP-Queue menu. If you edit the default Quick Set, you cannot change the Quick Set Name. Use identifying features in your Quick Set Names to help you pick the appropriate Quick Set later on. For example, if your Quick Set indicates 2 layers of white flood, including the term 2 Layer Flood in the name will help you correctly identify and use that Quick Set.

NOTE

We recommend a standard Quick Set Naming Convention that helps to identify the print order of your layers in the following order; "Top Layer Definition"; "Middle Layer Definition"; and "Bottom Layer Definition". You can use shortcut terms like: 4c wf ws, or 4c ws 4c. You can also use longer terms like 4color whitefill whitespot, or wspot wfill CMYK to remind you of the order.

Media

Media includes the following settings:

• Get Media and Page Size from Printer

  Unselect "Get Media and Page Size From Printer" so that you can select the media, print mode, and layer definitions to be associated with the Quick Set. First select a media name that contains a Quality Layered Printer Print Mode, then verify/select a Print Mode that contains a Quality Layered Print Mode " Media Options"

• Media Configuration Name

  Choose the Media Configuration Name that best matches the media or ink configuration of the media you will use.

• Media Options

  Allows you to verify the Printer Print Mode is Quality Layered. From here you can select "Define Layers" to specify the layer definitions.

• Media Name

  Select the name of the Media that you want to use for this Quick Set. See section xxx for information on how to create a media.

• Print Mode

  Always select Quality-Layered Printer Print Mode if you want to use the layered printing capabilities of theOcé Arizona 318.

Advanced Quick Set Options

To access the Advanced Quick Set Options click the Advanced button. The tabs you need to access for white ink workflow are:

• Postscript

  In this window ensure that 2-stage processing is turned off in order for Rip to successfully process your white ink data. Note that the default setting is to not use Two Stage Processing so it is not necessary to check this each time you create or edit a Quick Set based on the defaults as long as it has not been enabled in the Default Quick Set.

• Color Correction

  This area will link to an existing Filter that has been exported from Preflight's Color Correction area. From Preflight you can export all the settings made using the Spot Layer Tool or any other Color Correction parameters as a Filter for use on files to be prepared for white ink printing. When you link to a Filter the Quick Set will use the same set of parameters that were present when you exported it from Preflight.