Progressives; Progressives Workflow - EFI DocuColor 5000 User Manual

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Progressives

The term "Progressives" refers to printing variations in a multi-color document.
The variations may use from one to all of the available color channels in a print device.
The majority of printing processes that involve more than one or two colorants apply the
colorants sequentially. Traditionally, progressives are the intermediate states after some and
before all colorants have been applied. The Progressives feature is more flexible, because it
allows you to select which color is printed, using up to four sheets per original document
page.
N : The Progressives feature is designed to show you the toner separations used by the job
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on the print device. The feature is not intended to be used to proof for another non-Fiery
driven print device.
Progressives show the separations that the Fiery EXP8000/50 sends to the print device,
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not the separations contained in the job source file.
N : Progressives is a "reporting" feature. It is not designed to be used with production
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features such as VDP and Imposition. Progressives is offered for diagnostic situations. With
high volume applications or production environments, use Progressives only on the individual
pages that need testing.
Progressives workflow
You can inspect the result of each channel with the default values for color channels in
Progressives. However, if you must customize the selection of color channels or number of
sheets to print, you can do so by specifying the color channels in the Progressives pane in
Color Setup. After specifying the color channels, print a job with the customized Progressives
by setting the print option to On from the printer driver.
You cannot use the Progressives and Postflight features at the same time. A constraint
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is set for these print options from the printer driver.
N : Clearing plates in ImageViewer does not have an effect on a Progressives job printed
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from ImageViewer. It prints with the values specified in the Progressives pane. For more
information, see
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"ImageViewer" on page 53.
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