Helpful Terms; About Marks - Xerox CiPress 325 Customer Help Information

Helpful Terms

An understanding of these terms is useful in setting definitions.
• Web Frame - The virtual canvas, or virtual part of the web, on which the logical pages
are printed. The Web Frame is also called the imposition media.
• Form Length - The length of the Web Frame used to print images.
• Logical Page - A page of data from a source application. Multiple logical pages can
be placed on the imposition media.
• Imposed Page - A Web Frame that has been populated with logical pages.
• Process Direction - The direction in which the web is moving.
• Cross Process Direction - The direction across the width of the web (perpendicular
to the direction in which the web is moving).

About Marks

Different types of marks are used to ensure alignment.
• Tandem Marks (Registration Marks, Registration of Form (ROF) Marks, Page ID Marks)
Tandem marks are used in tandem, or duplex, print lines to ensure alignment of the
primary / upstream CiPress and the secondary / downstream CiPress .
Note
Tandem marks may also be used in a single-engine print line for duplex printing
employing an internal duplex path.
A tandem mark consists of a Registration Mark, optionally followed by a Page ID
Mark. The Registration Mark may be pre-printed but if it is not, it is printed by the
primary CiPress on all pages. (Pre-printed registration marks are referred to as Top
of Form (TOF) Marks.) The Page ID Mark is never pre-printed. Instead, it is printed
by the primary CiPress following the Registration Mark. The operator can choose to
disable printing of the Page ID Mark for job pages. The Page ID Mark is always printed
for job pages.
• Top of Form (TOF) Marks
Top of Form marks are used by the primary CiPress and post-processing equipment
for alignment and / or processing. TOF marks may be pre-printed, or printed by the
primary CiPress and / or secondary CiPress . TOF marks appear as a solid, filled
rectangle.
• Intelligent Printer Data Stream (IPDS) Marks
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