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Product Calculation - Production

Select printing mode, define material, determine signatures

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Written by Patric
Updated over 3 years ago

Probably the most important part of the calculation.
Here you can select the quantity to be produced with using the check mark. With the paper plane you define whether the scaled edition  should appear in the offer. (This can be helpful, if you want to calculate e.g. an old scale in relation to set, without the customer in the offer see that)

In the second row you can view the planned Imposing Mode, control the production flow (the tasks), define the quantity and duplicate the complete product if the customer wants to offer several echelons. (in practice, it makes sense to completely configure the product and only then duplicate the whole scales).

  • Imposing: Here you can define the printing technique, the printing machines, the imposing mode, MUP orientation, optionally the max number of Ups per sheet, the default bleed and the folding pattern are set here, too. Optionally, you can also print inside gripper margin if the job permits this (if there is enough white margin in the layout or you want to print on a final format). The gripper margin can be defined individually for each means of production (admin area/company) If you do not want to fold the product although a folding scheme has been selected, you can prevent the creation of the work process here.

  • Cutting: here you can define how to cut. Whether with cropping margin, only separation cut and with how much numbers up the finishing will be running. 

  • Paper: The print material is selected here. All  imported papers via lists and manually created individually are listed here. If the format still has to be cut for print production, enter the size of the print sheet under "Pre-cut dimensions". Keyline will then automatically add a Cutting without printing task. 

  • Signatures: Here you can change the signature scheme for folding. If Keyline has not already selected it as desired. All technically possible schemes are listed. If you miss a scheme, you can create it yourself in the admin area under templates/folding patterns.

  • Product: Here you can see the planned production time, the calculated weight and the dimensions.

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