production manager settings - ??????

[gabagoo]

I have learnt the hard way over time that Flexi's production manager defaults to the settings used on the previous print. Now I would think that would be true if I were to simply hit "new" and start a new file. What I can't figure out is if I open a previously saved file that has been printed before, why do not the settings that were used for that output actually over ride the settings from the previous job? I ask this as with this one file in particular that we set up I have all the colours tweaked and the contrast tweaked and colour correction turned off. When I open this file and rip and print I check all the settings and they are correct. Now when I am finished and open up a different previously saved file, the settings that this file were saved with don't register when I rip and print and the previous settings are still there with all the tweaking. I guess I can't understand how the file with all the tweaking seems to be able to set itself up when I open it and anything after that doesn't? Confused? yea so am I but I can't think of another way to explain it.

oh hell give me a corn dog!!!!!

 

[Stealth Ryder]

Make all changes from the PM, not RIP/PRINT. Go to Help, then about and search the manual for the answer...

 

[gabagoo]

are not both the same? I dont get it

 

[Steve Rife]

gabagoo,
To answer your last question... they are not the same. The RIP & Print dialog is actually a part of the Flexi design software and not Production Manager. What Stealth stated in regards to making changes in Default Job Properties of PM is the best method of maintaining your settings.

 

[gabagoo]

I still dont understand probably because every print job I have ever done was by using rip and print. So basically u set up your file in flexi or where ever then save it then open it in the print manager? I will have to experiment with this. Once in there do I get to select all the settings the same way as in the rip and print?

 

[Arstron]

When you press rip and print, it sends the file to the production manager automatically. What changes are you wanting to make? In production manager, if you go to setup, then default job properties you can create presets so that when you are in rip and print in flexi you choose from a drop down menu what preset you want. I have a few setup for vinyl, banners, etc.

 

[Steve Rife]

Starting in 8.5 I believe you can open FS files directly into PM.

However, I was referring to maintaining your workflow in RIP & Print and change the Default Job Properties, DJP, in PM. As you have probably noticed, once you select RIP & Print, PM launches. The information that populates this dialog can either be from previous jobs you have completed (as you have experienced), or from PM itself. You may have even seen an additional window that appears at first launch which enables you to select between both RIP and Print settings and the PM ones... see screenshot. By fine tuning the DJP in PM, you can utilize the "Use PM Settings" button and not run into the individual job interference on future jobs.

 

[Finishline Signs]

If you click on edit, then preferences then click on the tools tab. Use the scroll window to find "RIP and Print" and click on it then select "Always use Production Manager settings". In the PM you can have your different profiles setup for what your are working on. Hope this helps.

Stuart

 

[Graphics2u]

I use 7.6 and in the preferences you can choose if you want to be notified when the color settings are different in your saved file and what is in PM.

 

[Graphics2u]

I think he wants to be able to keep all the settings the same as the last time that file was printed. Example: You boost the cyan a little and cut the magenta in the rip and print dialouge box. And I think but I'm not sure that if you select the the preference the way the picture shows in above post, you can do that. When you click on Rip and Print a box pops up asking which setting you want to use and then it displays the rip and Print settings and your PM setting side by side.

I'm not sure how much of that info is saved with the file for later use though.

 

[Arstron]

I dont think that option will save the information from rip and print into production manager, I was thinking the same thing in my post earlier, until I tested it, I then rewrote my post.

 

[gabagoo]

what I was saying that if I open a saved file and in this instance it was a file that I worked with my client for 8 hours testing to get the colours perfect to a sample for a nationwide contract. Now when I open the saved file in Flexi and the go to rip and print, all the conditions in the rip are as they were when we tweaked it to how we wanted it. So my cmyk values and contrast were up and down. So now I print my job and everything is fine. Next job I have is also a previously saved file and when I open that and send it out, unlike the other file wherby it has the settings that it was saved with, this next file still has all the same conditions applied to it as the previous print. Thats the part that just doesn't make sense. I am not sure how one file retained the info (thank God it did) and the next saved file goes with the same settings as the first file. I might add here that it might be caused by at what point the file is saved, before or after it was ripped...this might be the reason, but I would have to test that theory.