Sample Apogee Impose Basic Tutorial
Sample Apogee Impose Basic Tutorial
Sample Apogee Impose Basic Tutorial
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How to create the Job with Cover and Body Parts .........................................130
How to input documents for your job ..................................................................134
How to shift inner and outer pages for shingling (manual) .........................138
How to disable shingling ..........................................................................................140
How to scale inner and outer pages for shingling (manual) .......................142
How to set up automatic shingling ......................................................................144
Tutorial Objectives
This Tutorial is divided into a series of lessons. In these lessons, you will learn
how to:
apply shingling
create an unbound job and fill a Press Sheet with different elements
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ApogeePrepress Brochure.pdf
ApogeePrepress Brochure_A5.pdf
BusinessCard.pdf
Compliments.pdf
TableCard.pdf
Datasheet.pdf
NOTE: While working through the lessons in this Tutorial, do not forget to
replace studentname with your own name in the Administration tab.
Open the Preferences and change the display units to mm and set the access
level to Administrator.
Duration
You will need approximately 30 minutes to complete each lesson.
Contact Us
Agfa welcomes your suggestions, questions or comments about this documenta-
tion. You can send e-mail feedback to: ApogeeX@agfa.com.
When :APOGEE Prepress is running, you can access the Online Help by doing
one of the following:
Press F1
Context-click the icon or pane in the interface for which you want informa-
tion and select Help from the context menu. The relevant Online Help page
for this item appears.
Some dialog boxes have a question mark button (?) to open the Online Help.
The :APOGEE Prepress Online Help also contains overviews of all icons, short-
cuts and variables that are used throughout the application.
You can use the printed version of the Icon Overview as a Quick Reference
Card. It is recommended to print the overview on a color printer.
You can use this same procedure to view and print the Keyboard Shortcuts
and Variables overviews.
Keyboard Conventions
All key names are shown in capital letters. For example, the Control key is shown
as CTRL.
Mouse Conventions
To... Do this...
Click Point to an item, and then quickly press and release the mouse
button without moving the mouse.
Double-click Point to an item, and then quickly press and release the mouse
button twice.
Context-click on Windows Click the right mouse button.
Drag Point to an item. Press and hold down the mouse button as you
move the mouse to a new location, then release the mouse but-
ton.
Related Documentation
The following documents can be referred to for more information:
First you will make a new job with a Product consisting of one part and then edit
the imposition in the main imposition windows: the Product view and Press
Sheet view.
16 A4 pages
1 Press Sheet
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Number of Pages: 16
3 Click Open.
The Job Ticket opens in the Product tab because the Impose Task Processor
is set to Apogee Impose.
At this stage you will see an error notification indicating that there are 2
problems with the Job Ticket.
The Product Definition and the Press Sheet Layout are both incom-
plete.These errors will be resolved after the Product has been defined in the
following steps.
5 Close the Problem Report and go to the Product tab to complete the Product
for this job.
Some fields are in red because they are required in :Apogee Impose mode
and this template job is set for :Apogee Impose. If the job is in another mode,
these fields would be blue because the Product has not been defined.
6 Click in the Product drop-down list and select Bound Nested Matt Coated
A4.
In the Product pane, the settings for the Part are now changed to those of the
predefined Product definition and they are now displayed in black and no
longer in red.
7 In the Imposition pane, choose Center Bottom from the Press Sheet Layout
drop-down list.
This option positions the Fold Sheet in the center of the Press Sheet and
aligned along the bottom.
In the Assembly pane at the top you can see that the Product consists of 1
Fold Sheet:
FS1
16 pages
In the Product pane below you see the other settings for the Product:
The Fold Sheet node has a red outline, indicating that no folding scheme has
been chosen yet.
2 Click in the Folding Scheme drop-down list in the top right corner of the Fold
Sheet node and choose F16-6 (4x2) which is for 4 by 2 pages.
The outline of the Fold Scheme node is now blue indicating that a scheme has
been selected and you see the following information in this node:
Number of pages: 16
3 Click once in the Press Sheet node which is next to the Fold Sheet node.
Here you see how the Fold Sheet is positioned on the Press Sheet and the size
of the Press Sheet (1000 x 650 mm).
NOTE: The smallest press sheet size on which the Fold Sheet fits is selected
automatically by :Apogee Impose.
4 Click the red error icon in the bottom right corner to open the Snag List.
In the Product view, click in the Press Sheet node title bar (PS 1) and drag the
Press Sheet to the Large Press to assign the Press Sheet to this press.
The Press Sheet turns blue with a Parameter Set automatically selected. Now
that the Press Sheet has been assigned, all the nodes, from Product to Press,
are connected with a grey line and error indication is no longer displayed.
You will now open the Press Sheet view to examine the Press Sheet in more
detail.
3 Click the next inner box and then choose FS1 on PS1 to select the Fold Sheet.
The Fold Sheet is highlighted in light blue and you see that it is centered
along the bottom edge of the Press Sheet, as specified in the Press Sheet
Layout rules in the Product tab.
5 Now increase the zoom factor so the Press Sheet fills your screen and you can
take a closer look at the various elements on the Press Sheet:
Fold Line Marks that indicate where the book signature will be folded
A Text Mark which has been added automatically and resolved as much
as possible
Fold Sheet Lay: the red triangle in the bottom left corner
TIP: The Press Sheet view You can use this palette to check the Press Sheet rule-ups in more detail and
palettes can be switched on to resolve conflicts.
and off with buttons in the
toolbar or from the View 1 Click the Show/Hide View Options button in the Toolbar or choose
menu. Window > View Options to show the View palette.
2 Double-click the color patch for the Gripper and change the color to yellow
by selecting the yellow color patch.
3 Click OK.
NOTE: These colors will be used for all :Apogee Impose jobs that you open
with this Client.
4 Close the View palette and click the Product button in the Toolbar to return
to the Product view.
2 Now click in the title bar of Press Sheet 1 (PS 1) and see how the settings are
displayed for PS 1.
It’s recommended to have the Inspector visible when working in the Imposi-
tion windows. It allows you to inspect and change the settings for the
selected node.
The Inspector shows the setting for the Fold Sheet on PS 1. Notice how the
selected pages are indicated in grey in the Product node.
6 In the Inspector, click the grey arrow next to the node name to highlight the
selected node.
In the Product view, save your changes to an imposition by clicking the Close
button and then Yes in the confirmation window.
You return to the Product tab of the Job Ticket Editor and 1 Production Set
has been added in the Imposition pane.
NOTE: If you click the Submit Job button, you submit the job and go to the
Jobs Window.
In the Production Plan, the Large Press has been selected for the Generic
Press. This is the result of the imposition set-up performed with :Apogee
Impose.
2 In the Generic Press settings, select the Type tab and you see the following
settings as defined with :Apogee Impose:
Gripper width: 11 mm
3 Select the correct plate size and imaging size for the TIFF Platesetter -
Output and Imaging:
2 In the Pages tab, wait until the documents are uploaded and drag them to the
Run List.
3 Submit the Job and check how the files are rendered in the Results tab.
5 Open the Rules Ups palette (Window > Palettes) and select the Expected
Page Size and Press Sheet Size.
The Press Sheet width is less than the available plate width.
At the bottom, the Press Sheet is offset 20 mm from the edge of the plate
as defined by the ‘Distance plate to sheet edge’ setting.
2 Introduction to Marks
In this lesson you learn how to place a Text Mark manually on a Press Sheet and
edit the setting for a colorbar File Mark. You will briefly look at the Mark
Engraver resource and see how Marks are organized in Mark Sets.
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TIP: Select a job and press 3 Double-click the PS 1 Press Sheet to open the Press Sheet view.
CTRL+SHIFT+Enter to jump
to the imposition Product 4 Zoom into the bottom left corner of the Press Sheet.
view. 5 Open the Marks palette by clicking the button in the toolbar.
Page
Fold Sheet
Press Sheet
6 Select the Page Text Mark icon and drag it onto the bottom of Page 6.
You can now enter the actual text for your Mark, which will be the page
number generated by a variable.
7 In the Attributes tab, delete ‘Text Mark’ and type ‘page’ in the Text box:
As you type, all the available variables that contain ‘page’ appear in the drop-
down list.
TIP: The variables in :Apogee 8 Scroll down to the bottom of the list using the arrow and select:
Impose have a different
structure than the other $page.rlpage
:APOGEE Prepress variables.
Refer to the Online Help for a This variable is added to the Text box and will generate the Run List page
list of the variables. number.
9 Change the font size to 8 pt. Do not change the other options in the Attributes
tab and select the Position tab to set the position of the Mark relative to a
Page.
10 As Anchor Point, choose the top centre position (T) and for Target choose:
Reference: Page
TIP: Page Mark settings are The position of the mark changes immediately as you modify these settings.
similar to the Mark settings
in the Border resource.
NOTE: The initial values for Vertical and Horizontal depend on where you
dragged and placed the mark on the Press Sheet.
11 Zoom into the mark to see the actual content of the mark.
folding lines and the lowest page (p. 1) is now on top of the folded book
signature.
The Binding Edge and the location of the pages have changed. In other words,
you can have 2 different Folding Schemes with the same Folding Sequence.
5 Click the Save button to save your changes to the new Folding Scheme.
The Product view opens and you see that all the Press Sheets have the same
Folding Scheme selected: F16-6, with a ‘Head to Head’ page arrangement.
The top page of the folded book signature (blue triangle) is on the Back of
the Press Sheet
In the Fold Sheet node, the lowest page is wrong-reading, again indicating
that the lowest page number is on the Back of the Press Sheet
This means that after printing the Back of the Press Sheet, the lowest page is
on the top of the sheet and you need to turn the sheets before starting the
folding process.
3 In the first Fold Sheet node (FS1), choose the F16-6 F2F Folding Scheme you
created previously, from the drop-down list.
Notice how the page arrangement changes to Foot to Foot with the page that
is on top after folding and the lowest page number on the Back of the press
sheet.
However, we want to use the same Press Sheet size for the Large Press.
1000 x 650 mm
The Fold Sheet is now assigned to a large Press Sheet and to the Large Press
but we are not using the maximum available space on the Press Sheet. This
will be remedied by repeating the same Fold Sheet on the Press Sheet and
consequently reducing the press run length for this book signature by 50%.
1 Click FS2 in the PS2 Press Sheet node and then click the Rotate
Counterclockwise button in the toolbar to rotate the Fold Sheet on the Press
Sheet.
NOTE: The Rotate buttons are only activated when you select a Fold Sheet on
a Press Sheet.
2 Drag the FS2 Fold Sheet from the FS node on to the PS2 Press Sheet.
The Fold Sheet does not have the correct orientation to be placed next to the
Fold Sheet which is already on the Press Sheet.
3 To rotate the Fold Sheet while dragging it on the Press Sheet, press the space
bar.
You can release the mouse button and the second instance of FS2 is placed
next to the first instance of FS2 on PS.
Alternatively, you can use the Repeat Tool to achieve the same results.
4 Press CTRL+Z to undo the previous actions so you only have one instance of
the FS2 Fold Sheet on the Press Sheet.
... and select the FS2 Fold Sheet on the PS2 Press Sheet.
Inspect the other side of the Press Sheet with the Light Table tool and you see
that the color patches change position because the content of the mark is not
mirrored.
Inspect the other side of the Press Sheet with the Light Table tool and you see
that the color patches no longer change position which means the content of
this mark has been mirrored on the other side of the Press Sheet.
9 Clear the Mirror Content on back check box again to reset the mark.
1 Select the solid line and review the settings in the Position tab of the
Inspector.
The default reference for clipping is the Target Reference used to position
the mark, in this case the Press Sheet. The Horizontal Margin is set to 0 mm.
The solid line aligns with the edge of the Press Sheet because it is set to 0 mm.
3 In the Clip Mark To drop-down list, choose Fold sheets block to change the
reference point for clipping the mark.
NOTE: The area of the Fold Sheets Block is the same as the area of the Fold
Sheet if you only have a single Fold Sheet on your Press Sheet.
4 Select another component, e.g. a Page, to see how the clipping margin has
changed
The solid line now aligns with the Fold Sheet Block.
TIP: Show/hide Hidden 5 Change the reference for clipping and the horizontal margin for the other two
Marks in the View palette to line marks:
better view the clippings.
for the register line mark:
Clip Horizontally with Margin -10 mm and in the Clip Mark To drop-
down list, choose Fold sheets block: this means the mark extends 10 mm
beyond the width of the Fold Sheet Block.
1 In the System Overview, open the Marks resource of the Impose task
processor.
2 Click the Import button and browse to the following colorbar file:
ApogeeColorbar_Gray.pdf
NOTE: This file is not provided but you can use a colorbar file of your choice.
3 Click Open to add this grayscale colorbar to your Marks resource list and then
close the Marks resource.
4 Open the Mark Engraver and choose the 1000x650 Mark Set in the Press
Sheet Marks category.
6 Now select the 1000x650 Mark Set again and extend the condition so that
the Mark Set is only applied for CMYK jobs; click the + button and add the
following condition:
equals
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We now have a colorbar for the CMYK part of our job but we still need a
grayscale colorbar for the gray body part.
7 With the 1000x650 Mark Set still selected, click the duplicate button above
the column and name the duplicate set 1000x650 Gray.
For this Mark Set, set the second condition so it is used for parts to be
rendered with one color:
$press_sheet.side.process_colors
equals
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With :Apogee Impose you can have 2 or 3 book signatures on a single bindery
signature and also choose the page arrangement, Foot to Foot, or Head to Head.
In addition, you can choose a reversed Come & Go binding if the lowest page of
the book signature is not to be positioned along the closed, jogging edge of the
signature.
You can create the Folding Scheme manually from a folding dummy or choose a
standard folding sequence. In these lessons we use standard Folding Schemes.
Regular 2-Up The regular 2-up binding flows the same pages twice on a Fold Sheet, with
identical pages side-by-side. In our lesson, each Fold Sheet uses a 16-page
Folding Scheme to flow the pages into 32 cells.
The width of the Face Page Trim Margins has now increased equally for all
pages in order to fit the Fold Sheet on the Press Sheet.
The Face Page Trim Margins are now 38.5 mm in order to expand the Fold
Sheet horizontally. The overfold lip size is now reverted to 3 mm because the
maximum Face Page Trim Margin of 50 mm was not exceeded.
The left and right margins between the Fold Sheet and the Press Sheet edge
are now 0 mm
You will now redistribute the available margins at the top and bottom of the Fold
Sheet in order to increase the Head and Foot trims for all pages.
1 Return to the Product view and in the Binding Options, set the Maximum
Page Trim Margins as follows:
Face: 50 mm
Head: 50 mm
Foot: 50 mm
2 In the Sheet Fitting Strategy pane, you can choose how you want the
maximum values to be distributed vertically. Choose Head and foot evenly.
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until the Fold Sheet fills the Press Sheet and until the maximum Head and
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