Prior to version 1.8.2, checking an item out always opened the Print Item or Article in Adobe Illustrator as a standalone document. Opening the document allows access and permission to modify and/or edit all objects in the document.

Starting with version 1.8.2, when you check out a file, you can choose whether to place the document or open it. When placing the file, none of the live/active objects in the PDF are loaded and can not be edited. However, variable content and/or new objects can be created using the Place variant. Follow these steps to place documents in Adobe Illustrator:

1. Open Adobe Illustrator and connect to the Workflow in the Adobe Illustrator Plug-in.
2. In the Plug-in, navigate to Durst Workflow > File Management.
3. Navigate to either the Article, Order, or Production Job list.
4. Select your desired Print Item/Article to load it into Illustrator.
5. Click on Check Out.
6. When the dialog appears, click on either Open or Place.
7. Place creates an artboard the size of the ImageBox with the appropriate Bleed (based on the Bleed contained in the Print Item), and places the Print Item on it. New objects and variable content can then be placed on their own layer in Illustrator.

Figure 1: Opening or placing Print Items in the Adobe Illustrator Plug-in.

Before version 1.8.2, the Impose Editor was initially opened in »Manual« Mode. From there, the user could switch to the desired impose mode using the desired Output Configuration. If the Impose Editor was opened in a Production Job, the desired mode could be selected in the Production Job. In this case the Output Configuration from the Production Job was used. This procedure has not been changed.

As of version 1.8.2, when opening the Impose Editor via Automation > Impose Editor, the user has the option to select whether a new imposition should be created or an existing imposition should be opened. Depending on the which option is chosen, the appropriate dialog is displayed.

Figure 2: The initial options when opening the Impose Editor under Automation > Impose Editor.

Proceed as follows if you want to create a new Production Job or a new imposition via Automation > Impose Editor:

1. Select the menu item Automation > Impose Editor
2. A dialog will open where you can select Create a new Imposition.
3. In the New Imposition dialog, select the following options:
   • Output Configuration of the Production Job [2] this can also be accomplished by selecting a Template [1].
   • Impose Sheet Size [3] The user can select either the existing Substrate Shape size or create a Custom shape using the Width and Height inputs.
   • Impose Mode [4] Here you can choose the Impose Mode and an appropriate Impose Template.
4. Click on Create to start the imposer.

Figure 3: The New Imposition dialog under Automation > Impose Editor.

Proceed as follows if you want to open an existing Production Job or a previously saved imposition via Automation > Impose Editor:

1. Select the menu item Automation > Impose Editor.
2. When the dialog opens, select the Open Imposition from Production Job option.
3. In the next dialog, select your desired Production Job.
4. Click Open to start or continue working on your imposition.

Figure 4: The Open Imposition from Production Job dialog.

We've added two additional features in the Print Items tab in the Impose Editor in version 1.8.2. In addition to adjustments in the user interface, the user has the option to change the number of copies [5] and the scaling factor [6] per Print Item. You can access the edit dialog by selecting the desired Print Item and clicking on the number displayed for copies or the percentages showing the current scale applied to the Print Item.

Figure 5: New functions offer the ability to change the number of copies or the scale for individual Print Items in the Print Items tab.

Since version 1.7.7, the imposition is continuously validated during the imposition process. Information, warnings and errors were displayed in a separate field in the Impose Editor. With version 1.8.2, warnings and errors in the imposition are now displayed when saving the imposition. In order to save the imposition, the user must first "accept" these warnings and error messages first.

As of this version, we have unified the errors and warnings that occur when imposing, so you see them immediately when they occur versus just in a separate field, where they may be overlooked. From now on, the same modal dialog is displayed when saving an imposition or under the Imposition Warning overlay. This dialog has also been visually adapted to match the new user interface.

When saving, only warning and error messages are displayed, which must be accepted in order to continue.

Figure 6: The Errors and Warnings dialog is displayed in the Impose Editor when saving and also during the process of creating the imposition.

In the Manual Mode, you can now expect more stability and improved handling of Bleed which now mirrors how this is handled in other impose modes.

In previous versions, users working in Manual Mode repeatedly encountered situations for example when moving, scaling and rotating a Print Item, the original placeholder frame remained on the artboard as a "ghost frame". These superfluous objects could only be eliminated by a reloading the page, combined with the loss of any progress.

By reworking the code in the underlying render engine, these problems have been resolved and this also resulted in a drastic improvement in on the fly rendering speeds, combined with a reduction in the amount of memory required by the browser.

Before version 1.8.2, the Bleed of a Print Item was not correctly rotated with the TrimBox content of the Print Item. In comparison to other rule-based impose modes, where the Bleed was always rotated with the Print Item(s). Furthermore, in Manual Mode, the value of the Bleed was always set in the entered absolute values and therefore were not scaled correctly. As a result of the old logic, differences between the individual impose modes were visible regarding the placement of Print items, especially when switching between impose modes.

As of version 1.8.2, in Manual Mode the Bleed is now correctly rotated when the Print Item is rotated.

Example: A Print Item is placed using a Bleed of:  Top: 0 mm, Right: 10 mm, Bottom: 10 mm, Left: 0 mm. If the Print Item is rotated by 90°, the resulting Bleed is: Top: 0 mm, Right: 0 mm, Bottom: 10 mm and Left: 10 mm. The corresponding values are displayed in the Bleed drop-down.

In addition, the Bleed is now scaled when the Print Item is scaled.

Example: A Print Item is placed with a Bleed: Top: 0 mm, Right: 10 mm, Bottom: 10 mm, Left: 0 mm. If the Print Item is scaled by 200%, the Bleed is now Top: 0 mm, Right: 0 mm, Bottom: 20 mm and Left: 20 mm. The scaled value is displayed in the Bleed drop-down. The Bleed can still be adjusted as need here.

Before version 1.8.2, the available Placeholders were opened as a list when using the @ character in the text input field. Starting from this version, instead of the list, a separate dialog is opened, which displays all available placeholders (depending on the impose mode selected). In this dialog the user can also search for available Placeholders using full text search. By entering text, Placeholders are filtered dynamically.

Figure 7: Adding Captions using the Caption Placeholder Select dialog.

Also in this version, additional Placeholders for Captions have been added, which can be selected in the Impose Editor. The following new Placeholders are available with version 1.8.2:

• Order Number – This allows the associated Order Number to be used for either the Print Item or the Artboard.
• External ID (Production Job) – With this placeholder, the ID from an external system, e.g., ERP or MIS, which has generated the Production Job can be displayed.
• Customer Number – This allows the ability to display the Customer Number, which should be matched with a leading system such as an ERP or MIS, for the Print Item or on the Artboard.

To create a primer separation for the printer, the printer must contain or support this »Color«. To accomplish this, the color must be added to the printer as a separate Color Configuration in the Workflow. Follow the steps below to do this:

1. Under Administration > Printers, open either an existing printer in the Workflow or create a new one and open it.
2. Open the Edit Print Color Configuration dialog.
3. Add the color Primer as Process Color to the printer.
4. Select an Ink Family and Ink Name for the primer.
5. Click on Save to complete your changes.

To ensure that the primer separation is created and rendered correctly when it is sent to the printer, a separate Profile (Color Setup) must be performed for each Print Configuration, more on this later.

Figure 9: The Edit Printer Configuration dialog with primer added as a separate Process Color.

After the »Primer« has been added to the printer as a separate color, the ink can be used when Profiling. When Profiling with primer, an additional Profiling Step »Primer« has been added in this version, which calculates the optimal application of the primer separation.

Follow the steps below to start Profiling with »Primer«

Step 1 – Add Color Setup

1. Switch to the Color > Color Setup menu item.
2. Add a new Color Setup by clicking on +New in the action bar.
3. Enter a Setup Name and select your desired Output Configuration: Printer, Print Configuration, Substrate and Channel Configuration.
4. Activate the Use Primer option if you want to create a Profile using Primer.
5. Click on Save to complete the Color Setup.

Figure 10: The Add Color Setup dialog with the Use Primer option activated.

Step 2 – Perform the Profiling and print a Primer Test Chart

1. Open the Profile that you created with Use Primer.
2. Switch to the Primer profiling step.
3. Click on the Print button.
4. Send the chart to the printer.
5. Print the chart on the printer side.

Figure 11: The Print Primer Calibration Chart dialog as seen when creating a Profile that uses Primer.

Step 3 – Perform the Profiling to determine optimal Primer application.

1. Analyze the printed Primer Test Chart.
2. Determine the optimal value for the Primer coverage.
3. Open the Define Primer Coverage substep in the Profile.
4. Enter your desired % value for the Primer Coverage.
5. Click on Save Primer Value.
6. Then finalize the Profile, the defined Primer Coverage is automatically output as a separation for each additional calibration chart.

Figure 12: The Define Primer Coverage dialog where the user can define Coverage using a percent value.

As soon as Profiling using Primer has been carried out, the defined percentage value of the Primer Coverage is saved in the calculated Color Policies. If the respective Color Policies are used in Production Jobs, the coverage of the Spot Color »Primer« in the Print Item is automatically adjusted when sent to the printer.

Example: If Primer Coverage was set to 55%, 100% tonal values from the Spot Color »Primer« will effectively be printed at 55%. A 40% tonal value from the Spot Color »Primer« is effectively printed with 22%.

The following criteria must be fulfilled by a Print Item and/or Production Job so that the Primer can be output correctly:

• The Print Item must contain a Spot Color called »Primer«.
• Areas to be printed with »Primer« must be set to »Overprint« in the print file.
• The tone value of the Spot Color »Primer« must be 100% in the print file so that the Primer job is printed according to the value defined.
• In the Output Configuration of the Production Job, a printer that has a separation called »Primer«  in the Color Configuration must be used.
• In the Output Configuration of the Production Job, a ColorPolicy that contains a Primer Profile must be used.

In the course of the development of 1.8.2, the Article List under the menu item Article > Article was completely overhauled, due to slow loading times and inaccurate information being displayed. Because of the restructuring of the list, loading times particularly for Articles that contain Spot Colors has been drastically reduced. As of this version Articles that contain Spot Colors are now loaded and calculated in parallel, therefore reducing loading times.

In addition to optimizing this list, two additional columns: Technical Colors and Output as Separation, have been added to the Article List and also to the Print Item List available under Orders > Print Items. Print Items that contain Spot Colors, Technical Colors and Spot Colors Output as a separation (e.g. white, primer, etc.) are displayed separately in the list view. This makes it easier to quickly determine if an Article/Print Item contains Spot Colors, Technical Colors, etc.

Figure 13: The Article List displaying two new columns for Spot Colors and Output as separation.

The unification of the user interface concerning different processing methods provides a strong improvement for guiding the user. In addition, we moved the processing methods (Auto-Nesting, ZIP,...) to the Processing Parameters tab. Proceed as follows when creating a Hotfolder:

1. Switch to the Automation > Hotfolder menu item.
2. Open the Hotfolder Setup dialog by clicking +New.
3. Under the General tab, specify a Name for the Hotfolder.
4. Switch to the Process Parameter tab.
5. Select the desired Processing Mode in this tab. For detailed information concerning each Processing Mode, simply choose a Mode and then hover over the information tooltip to see a description.

Figure 14: The Process Parameter tab in the Hotfolder Setup dialog.

The following areas have been changed:

• The Processing Modes, most of which were previously available in the Impose tab, have been moved to the Process Parameter tab.
• Processing XML files (XML job tickets) is now a separate Processing Mode.
• Depending on the Processing Mode selected, options within the Process Parameter tab and the Impose tab will be limited.
• File format types listed under Process Type are selected or activated by default.

For each Processing Mode, the Split Pages option can be activated with this version. This option ensures that multipage documents are split into individual pages when processed. For the Processing Mode: Single Files, the option Keep Split Sequence can also be activated, so that split pages are are combined in a single Production Job. If this option is not selected, a separate Production Job is created for each individual page.

Figure 15: The Process Parameter tab in the Hotfolder Setup dialog with the new Split Pages and Keep Split Sequence options.

After this version is installed, a Printer in the Workflow can be connected to the Analytics Collector. By connecting the Workflow with the Analytics Collector, you can access a list of Printer specific Substrates and import selected Substrates into the Workflow or link them to existing Substrates. To connect the Workflow with the Analytics Collector for a specific Printer, proceed as follows:

1. Go to the Administration > Printers menu item.
2. Select +New or Edit in the action bar to create a new Printer or edit an existing Printer.
3. In the Analytics Collector IP/Port input field, enter the Analytics Collector IP Address and Port 8083.
4. Connect the Workflow to the Analytics Controller by clicking on the icon [8] »Connection and setup registration. Data will be synchronized.«. If the connection can be established, the Analytics Controller will start transferring data to the Workflow immediately. If the connection has been established correctly, the Printer Type [9] is displayed below it and an icon for disconnecting the connection then appears. In addition, the fields Serial Number, Software Version, Printer Firmware are filled in automatically. If an invalid IP address or port is entered, the connection will not be established.
5. To stop the connection between the Analytics Controller and the Workflow, click on the icon [10] »Disconnect and cancel registration«.

Figure 16: The Edit Printer dialog with the new option to connect the Workflow with the Analytics Collector.

After the Workflow has been connected with the Analytics Collector, a complete list of Substrates that belong to the printer is transferred to the Workflow. The Substrates that have been transferred from the printer to the Workflow are listed under Administration > Substrate > Printer Substrate List. From this version on, these Printer Substrates can be imported into the Workflow. In addition, imported Substrates can also be linked to existing Substrates in the Workflow.

Follow the steps below to import printer Substrates into the Workflow:

1. Go to the Administration > Substrate menu item.
2. Navigate to the Import Printer Substrates tab and select the desired Printer in the Printer drop-down menu [11]. This tab is divided into three sections:
   • Workflow Substrates [12] – In this panel, all Substrates that are already associated with a selected Printer are listed.
   • Import Substrate [13] – In this panel you can select a Printer Substrate to be imported and choose whether a new Substrate should be created or if the Substrate should be linked to an existing Workflow Substrate.
   • Substrate Description and Classification [14] – In this panel you can determine how the Substrate to be imported should be created in the Workflow.
3. In the Workflow Substrates panel, check which Substrates are already available in the Workflow for the selected Printer. Substrates that are available for the Printer can either have been imported manually in the Workflow or have already been imported from a Printer's Substrate list. Imported Printer Substrates are labeled with an asterisk "*" [17] in the list.
4. In the Import Substrate panel, select the Printer Substrate [15] to be imported.
5. Determine whether the Substrate should be created as a new Workflow Substrate [16] or linked to a "related" Substrate [18].
6. If a new Substrate should be imported, define this information in the  Substrate Description and Classification panel and then press the Import button.
7. If the Substrate should be linked to an existing Workflow Substrate, select a "related" Substrate in the list and press the Use selected Substrate button.

Figure 17: The Import Printer Substrates tab of the Substrate Overview dialog under Administration > Substrate.

In this version, a Routine has been implemented which deletes all intermediate versions (PDF files) of Print Items or Articles. If this Routine is activated, these intermediate versions are deleted based on the selected configuration and cannot be restored. Follow these steps to activate and configure this Routine:

1. Go to the Administration > Routines menu item.
2. Select the Delete Print Item or Article Intermediate Versions Routine in the list.
3. Select Edit in the action bar.
4. In the Edit Routine dialog, activate the Routine.
5. Define the time in which the Routine should be executed. You can define this in the Cron expression input field.
6. Define which intermediate versions of Print Items/Articles should be deleted by entering the value in the Older than field. The value 90 days deletes all intermediate versions whose modification date is older than 90 days.
7. You can also specify for Articles or Print Items that have a certain status, that should be deleted. If for example, the value in Older than 90 days and the checkbox for the Status »Sent to Printer« is activated, only those intermediate versions of Print Items and Articles whose modification date is older than 90 days AND have the Status »Sent to Printer« will be deleted.
8. Save your configuration and start the Routine in the list, the status field is turquoise and the pause button is displayed.

Figure 18: The Edit Routine dialog for the Delete Print Item or Article Intermediate Versions Routine.

An additional Routine has been implemented, which moves all Production Jobs to the trash depending on their age or status.  Production Jobs which have been placed in the trash can be restored until the trash is emptied, (manually or by using a separate Routine). Follow the steps in the description below to activate and configure this Routine:

1. Go to the Administration > Routines menu item.
2. Select the »Move Production Jobs to trash« Routine.
3. Select Edit in the action bar.
4. In the Edit Routine dialog, activate the Routine.
5. Define a time for which the Routine should be executed. You can define this in the Cron expression input field.
6. Determine which Production jobs should be moved to the trash by entering a value in the Older than input field. Entering a value of 90 will move all Production Jobs whose modification date is older than 90 days to the trash.
7. You can also specify if a Production Jobs with a certain status should be moved to the trash. For example, if you enter a value of 90, in the Older than input and activate the status Printed, Quantity Reached or Closed, only these Production Jobs will be moved to the trash whose modification date is older than 90 days AND has the status: Printed, Quantity Reached or Closed.
8. Save the configuration and start the Routine in the list, the status field is turquoise and the pause button is displayed.

Figure 19: The Edit Routine dialog for the Routine Move Production Jobs to the trash.

This Fixup creates an unprinted rectangle based on the entered start point, using the entered width and height. By default, the starting point (X & Y Origin) for the rectangle is on the bottom left corner of the TrimBox.

Use case Scenario: Use this Fixup if you want to keep certain areas free of printed content, typically used in the packaging industry. The created rectangle is placed above printed elements. Objects which are created using a Technical Color will remain above them.

Figure 21: The Fixup Create Unprinted Rectangle.

This Fixup converts all page content into a pixel image using the selected color space. Selected objects such as: Text, Spot Colors or both can be excluded from the conversion when applying this Fixup, for example to avoid an unwanted color shift in the conversion of a Spot Color.

Use case scenario: Use this Fixup in case of unwanted effects/artefacts in the output or crashes using the integrated RIP when ripping the file. By converting the page content to a resolution that is sufficient for output, complex data structures become very easy to process for the output or possible errors are made visible even before the RIP process has begun.

Figure 22: The Convert Page Content to an Image Fixup.

This Fixup creates a Spot Color White separation using all areas that contain white in the image. This removes all other image content so that only the white areas remain as printable areas.

Figure 23: The Create White Only Separation Fixup.

This Fixup deletes selected color separations from objects of any type which were created using CMYK. Use it to remove parts or the entire image in a Print Item in order to retain only Spot Colors for example.

Use case scenario: Use this Fixup, for example, to remove marks in an Article or Print Item that have been created using magenta. However, this only makes sense if the remaining content in the Print Item does not use magenta. Note that removing a separation only removes the separation in the design. Due to the color conversion of Spot Colors as well as color areas by the color management, magenta can of course be used again in the print.

Figure 24: The Delete Separation Fixup.

This Fixup can assign an ICC profile for RGB objects that do not have a source profile (DeviceRGB). This allows the RGB object to be assigned a source profile that differs from the working color space.

Use case scenario: Use this Fixup on one hand to increase the radiance of color images, for example, by assigning AdobeRGB as the source profile to an sRGB image. On the other hand you can assign a source profile to a DeviceRGB object that deviates from the color management settings. For the first case, it should be mentioned that this can sometimes cause colors to shift significantly. For the second case, it should be noted that for DeviceRGB objects the selected color profile, which has been set as the working color space for RGB in the System Settings of the Workflow, is normally used for color matching.

Figure 25: The Assign Source Profile for RGB objects Fixup.

When applying this Fixup, the resolution for color, grayscale, or black-and-white images is upsampled to the specified target resolution. Use it to reduce the sawtooth effect often visible in certain objects types.

Figure 26: The Upscale Image Resolution Fixup.

PATCH /api/v1/articles/{id} – the status of an Article can now be updated using a PATCH request. Use this function to set the status of an Article from an external system.  Possible statuses are: CREATED, CHECKED_IN, CHECK_REQUIRED, FINAL_ARTWORK, WAITING_FOR_APPROVAL, APPROVED and LOCKED.

POST /api/v1/articles/{id}/splitPages – A multi-page Article can be split into single pages after checking-in. The response of this call contains a Workflow ID which represents the internal process flow and its retrieval via GET /api/v1/workflows/{id} outputs both the status (RUNNING, SUCCESS, ERROR) and the IDs of the new Articles.

PATCH /api/v1/printOrders/{id}/printOrderItems/{printOrderItemId}/motifs/{motifId} – The status of a Print Item can now be updated using a PATCH request. Use this function to set the status of a Print Item from an external system.  Possible statuses are: CREATED, CHECKED_IN, CHECK_REQUIRED, READY_FOR_PRINT, WAITING_FOR_APPROVAL, APPROVED, IMPOSED, SENT_TO_PRINTER, PRINTED and QUANTITY_REACHED.

POST /api/v1/printOrders/{id}/printOrderItems/{printOrderItemId}/motifs/{motifId}/splitPages – A multi-page Print Item within an Order can be split into single pages after checking-in. The response of this call contains a Workflow ID which represents the internal process flow and whose retrieval via GET /api/v1/workflows/{id} outputs both the status (RUNNING, SUCCESS, ERROR) and the IDs of the new Print Items.

PATCH /api/v1/productionJobs/{id}/motifs/{motifId} – The status of a Print Item within a Production Job can now be updated using a PATCH request. Use this function to set the status of a Print Item from an external system.  Possible statuses depend on whether the original Print Item is an Article (i.e, an Article from Article List which was assigned to a Production Job) or a Print Item from an Order or Production Job. This can be determined using the new motifType attribute. Possible statuses for Articles are CREATED, CHECKED_IN, CHECK_REQUIRED, FINAL_ARTWORK, WAITING_FOR_APPROVAL, APPROVED and LOCKED as well as CREATED, CHECKED_IN, CHECK_REQUIRED, READY_FOR_PRINT, WAITING_FOR_APPROVAL, APPROVED, IMPOSED, SENT_TO_PRINTER, PRINTED and QUANTITY_REACHED for Print Items. These statuses are also synchronized with the original document.

POST /api/v1/productionJobs/{id}/motifs/{motifId}/splitPages – A multi-page Print Item within a Production Job can be split into single pages after checking-in. The response of this call contains a Workflow ID, which represents the internal process flow and whose retrieval via GET /api/v1/workflows/{id} outputs both the status (RUNNING, SUCCESS, ERROR) and the IDs of the new Print Items. This call in a Production Job is independent from the motifType.

Read about improvements we've made to the Rest API in this section:

The Subscription Controller now allows the user to subscribe to internal processes. This includes, for example, the splitPages as well as the Apply Fixup function. Each started process is transmitted to a defined endpoint after its execution (status SUCCESS or ERROR). In the case of splitPages, the transmitted data also includes the IDs of the new Articles and Print Items. For this purpose, the topic field has been updated.

Examples:

WORFKLOW/* – A subscription to all processes triggered by splitPages, motif-apply-profile, calculate-ink-usage.

WORKFLOW/motif-split-pages – A subscription to processes triggered by splitPages

WORKFLOW/133 – A subscription to a defined Workflow

The following changes have been implemented:

• The preview image in the report is displayed without Bleed.
• For all fields in the report the internal IDs at the end have been removed

We've added the following changes to the Indesign Library, which are the basis for building Customer Specific Reports

• The preview image can be placed in the report using the Bleed
  • Preview image + Bleed – Use the new Item-Preview-Placeholder_<Landscape>_with-Bleed element from the Indesign Library delivered with the report template.
• For some fields, the internal ID of the system can also be output:
  • Substrate Category – Use the new element OutputInfo_Substrate-Category_Internal-ID from the Indesign library provided in the report template.
  • Substrate – Use the new OutputInfo_Substrate-Name_Internal-ID element from the Indesign library provided in the report template.
  • Color Policy – Use the new OutputInfo_ColorPolicy-Name_Internal-ID element from the Indesign library provided in the report template.
  • File Name – Use the new File-Name_Internal-ID element from the Indesign library provided in the report template.
  • Print Configuration – Use the new OutputInfo_PrintConfiguration-PrintMode_Internal-ID element from the Indesign library provided in the report template.
• Some new fields can be used in the report starting with this version:
  • Print Mode – Use the new OutputInfo_PrintConfiguration-PrintMode element from the Indesign library provided in the report template.
  • Print Configuration Resolution – Use the new OutputInfo_PrintConfiguration-Resolution element from the Indesign library provided in the report template.
  • Render Engine – Use the new OutputInfo_PrintConfiguration-RenderEngine element from the Indesign library provided in the report template.
  • Dither Mode – Use the new OutputInfo_PrintConfiguration-DitherMode element from the Indesign library provided in the report template.
  • Dither Bit Count – Use the new OutputInfo_PrintConfiguration-DitherBitCount element from the Indesign library provided in the report template.
  • Pass Type – Use the new OutputInfo_PrintConfiguration-Passes element from the Indesign library provided in the report template.

Learn how to create and use Customer Specific Reports in this section.

Measuring Calibration Charts (Barbieri LFP / LFPqb)

As of version 1.8.2, the Measuring Device, after a calibration chart has been correctly measured, moves to the »load position« so that the current chart can be removed or exchanged more easily.

Print Items using a Spot Color that must be output as a separation (e.g.: white) can be output on printing systems without this additional color

Before version 1.8.2, a Production Job was aborted with an error if the Production Job contained e.g. »White«, but the printer did not support »White«. As of this version, this unsupported color (white, varnish,...) is simply ignored or not used. The Production Job can now be sent to the printer and printed without causing errors. Please note, the unused Spot Color remains in the Production Job and is simply ignored when rendering.

CMYK Working Color Spaces

The ICC profile »eciCMYK« which can be found in the Workflow under Administration > Settings > Color Management > Working Color Spaces has been replaced in this version with a new version of the Profile called  »eciCMYK-v2«. This is a new version of the ICC profile and offers improved gray axis control and therefore extends the application possibilities of the CMYK exchange color space compared to the previous version. You can find out more about this topic using this link.

ZIP Hotfolder CleanUp

As of version 1.8.2, successfully processed ZIP files that were sent to the printer via a ZIP Hotfolder are deleted by the »File Management« workflow to prevent storage space problems. The ZIP files are no longer needed once the resulting Production Jobs have been fully processed.

Sending multi-page documents & Cutting Devices

When a multi-page document is sent to the Printer and Cutter in the Workflow, the names of the cut files are also adjusted. A single cut file is created per page and includes the page number in the file name so that cut files can also be manually assigned to the page to be cut.

Spanish translations

The Spanish language delineation has been corrected from »ES/ES Espania« to »ES/ES Español« in the language drop-down menu.

User-defined Fields

User-defined fields can be added as of this version in the Article, Print Item, Order and Production Job lists as a separate column in the list view so that they are visible at a glance.

Output Templates

In the Workflow with version 1.8.2, when selecting an Output Template, the Internal ID is also displayed for each Output Template so that they can be clearly identified if the names are similar.