Setting Up A Roll Fed Digital Press Follow
Creating Press standards are an important part of setting up Press machines. In order to get to the menu where you can edit and create Press Standards, click the gear icon to go to the admin menu, and select the Print category on the left side. From the Print drop-down, click the Press Standard button to view the list of Press Standards.
To add a new Press Standard, click the Quick Link drop down in the top right, and select Add Press Standard. Clicking that will take you to the Press Details screen. This is the same screen as clicking on any of the Press Standards in the list, except the amount of information may vary.
Press Details
The fields in the top of the screen are used to describe the Press itself. The fields here are:
- Press type: The type of Press. The options here are Digital, Offset, and Wide Format.
- Material type: The type of Material the Press uses, whether it is a sheet or a roll.
- Press Name: The name of the press, such as the make and model.
- Minimum cost: The minimum amount that the system will charge for the press when selected.
The fields below the Press type and Name are for the parameters of the press. These detail how the press works.
- Default Run Type: Whether it runs 1 or 2 sided.
- Hourly Rate: How much it costs per hour to run the Press.
- Spoilage %: How much paper will be wasted when the press is in use.
- Run Rate Factor: This option speeds up and slows down the press.
- Max Roll Width: The largest width of a roll that the Press will accept.
- Registration Marks: Used in the imposition calculation to automatically account for the space taken up by registration marks.
- Max Image Area: The maximum area of an image that can be printed on the press.
- Margin L/R: Used to define the unprintable area along the edge of a sheet on a digital press.
- Setup/Consumables: This setting allows a user to set a charge either by job or by piece that will be applied whenever this press is selected.
- Setup Time (Min): How long it takes to set up the press in minutes.
- Setup Feet: The length of material in feet that will be wasted in setting up the machine.
Run Quality Setup
Below the fields describing the press details, are the fields to set up the different run qualities. Adding new quality presets is done by typing in a Name, Resolution, Feet per minute, and whether it is a default run quality in the bottom of the table, and then clicking the save button on the right side. The fields above the new field are:
- Name: The name for the run quality.
- Resolution: The resolution the run quality will use, such as image quality.
- Feet Per Minute: The feet per minute the press will run at.
- Default run quality: Whether it is the default quality option.
Editing entries here can be done by selecting the pencil and paper icon
Click Setup
The click setup is about setting up the different charges for clicks.
- Name: The name of the click charge
- Click Area: Lets you define what area the click charge is associated with. Currently there is no functionality in midnight for this field.
- Rate: The price in dollars or fractions of dollars.
As with other fields, the pencil and paper allows you to edit the data in it, and the red X deletes the data in the field.
Ink Setup
Midnight arranges the area below by Name and Cost Per Square Inch. The name is the name of the color, and the Cost is how much the color is per square inch. New entries can be created by typing in the information in fields at the bottom of the display, and then clicking the save button at the right side.
The Area option in ink setup allows a user to calculate ink cost based on the square inch. This grid has 4 columns detailed below. This will calculate the square inch cost for the printed area of a job based on your selection int he calculator.
- Name: name of the ink option
- Cost Per Square Inch: this allows you to define the cost per square inch in fractions of a dollar
- Edit: Edit the existing data in the tables.
- Delete: Delete the row of data in the table.
- New Area Option: to add a new entry into this grid fill out the fields at the bottom and click the blue disk save icon.
The Piece option in the ink setup section allows a user to define the total ink cost based on the piece by size. The options in this grid are as follows.
- Name: Name of Piece option
- Piece Size: The length and width of piece
- Coverage %: The default ink coverage for this option
- Cost Per Piece @ 100%: cost per piece at 100% coverage
- Edit: Edit the existing data in the tables.
- Delete: Delete the row of data in the table.
- New Area Option: to add a new entry into this grid fill out the fields at the bottom and click the blue save icon.
The volume option for ink setup allows a user to setup all the available inks that are used on that printer and the user can define the coverage for each ink on each job that is estimated. The options for the volume grid are as follows.
- Name: Name of Volume Option
- Cost Per/ml: Cost per millilitre for the defined ink
- Coverage/ML (in sq inches): coverage in square inches for each millilitre for the defined ink
- Default Coverage: default coverage for the defined ink
- Edit: Standard edit functionality
- Delete: Standard Delete functionality
- New Area Option: to add a new entry into this grid fill out the fields at the bottom and click the blue disk save icon.
