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2 PREPS GANGING 5.3.2 GETTING STARTED GUIDE<br />
General steps for a typical job<br />
After you receive the job ticket information, you use the <strong>Preps</strong><br />
<strong>Ganging</strong> software to complete the job's requirements, following these<br />
general steps. Your actual steps might differ slightly between jobs,<br />
workflow types, and operations.<br />
Update note: See also the <strong>Preps</strong> 5.3.2 Release Notes for a<br />
description of the new AutoGang feature, which you can use for<br />
intelligent semi-automation of steps 3 to 8 in the following procedure.<br />
1. Open a new or existing job.<br />
2. Gather the input files, including customer content, placeholders, or<br />
both.<br />
3. Add the press sheet resources, using either a template or selected<br />
resources for a new layout:<br />
Or:<br />
Add a Template signature<br />
(includes: Media size + Stock size + Marks)<br />
Add a Media size<br />
(device<br />
configuration)<br />
+<br />
Stock size<br />
(press sheet<br />
size)<br />
+<br />
Marks<br />
(or add these later,<br />
after you add<br />
pages)<br />
4. Add the content pages to the press sheet.<br />
5. Lay out the pages.<br />
6. Add marks to the press sheet.<br />
7. Add more press sheets to the job as needed.<br />
8. Print the output, and save the job and template.<br />
Ganged layouts<br />
When creating a ganged layout, you add and arrange pages to<br />
maximize the press sheet usage. You can edit the margins and<br />
distances between pages, and work with such features as snap,<br />
rotation, scaling, aligning, grouping, and step-and-repeating.<br />
This example shows a ganged layout without content preview:
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