Preps Ganging - Kodak

8 PREPS GANGING 5.3.2 GETTING STARTED GUIDE
Adding marks to the Marks list
There are many ways to create a new SmartMark. For example, you
can use any of these methods:
• From the Resource menu, choose New SmartMark, and choose
the mark type. Edit its properties and save it with a new name.
• On the press sheet, double-click a mark. Edit the properties and
save it with a new name.
• In the Marks list, right-click a mark and choose Edit. Edit the
properties and save it with a new name.
• Use any Preps software that uses the same Marks folder to create
new SmartMarks, add custom mark files, and organize marks into
groups.
Templates
In Preps Ganging, you are always working with templates, whether
you are reusing an existing template or building a new one. A template
is a container that holds one template signature for each unique layout
in that template. Each job's layouts are stored in its job-specific
template, and you can also save a copy of the job's unique layouts to
a new reusable template.
A template signature provides the information that determines a
press sheet layout, including its target device and media, press sheet
size, work style, template page positions, and marks. A job can use
template signatures with different work styles, including sheetwise,
work and turn, work and tumble, single-sided, and perfector. You can
select and change the work style per press sheet.
In any job, you might work with reusable template signatures or jobspecific
template signatures that you create for a job's layout
requirements, or a combination of these.
Template pages define the placement of content pages and act as
containers for them. There is one template page for each content
page, and each template page is numbered. The method by which
pages are numbered depends on how the template is created.
The positioning information about the template pages on each press
sheet is stored in the template signature and includes the final page
size (trim box), orientation, and bleed dimensions.