Calibrate printer with Fiery ES-2000 spectrophotometer

Calibrate your Fiery Driven print engine to achieveconsistent colour documents. This how-to guide describes the calibration method using the ES-2000 spectrophotometer.

Capture spot colours and reproduce them accurately

Use the ES-2000 spectrophotometer to capture colours from your business card and reproduce them accurately in your colour documents.

Print the Ghent PDF Output Suite v5.0 on Fiery servers

Instructions on how to properly print the Ghent PDF Output Suite v5.0 on Fiery digital print servers.

Optimise colour quality of documents

Produce great colour quality documents with the standard state-of-the-art Fiery colour reproduction capabilities including spot colours, colour substitution, auto-trapping, image smoothing, spot colour composite overprint, text & graphics enhancement.

Enhance image quality of pictures with Fiery Image Enhance Visual Editor

Improve the output quality of amateur digital photos with Fiery Image Enhance Visual Editor and save prepress time by eliminating lengthy image editing and file manipulation tasks to make photos look their best.

Create custom control bars for colour consistency and quality control

Control Bar Builder has a WYSIWYG interface, which displays different colour bars and job information. Each custom control bar can be used across all media sizes, reducing setup time and simplifying the operator’s job.

Use prepress tools at the Fiery server to troubleshoot file issues

Preflight, PostFlight and ImageViewer are features included in the Fiery Graphic Arts Package, Premium Edition. Preflight evaluates print jobs for potential printing errors. PostFlight is diagnostic tool that provides global and object-specific information about how files are color managed at the Fiery server. ImageViewer is a powerful interface for softproofing and applying last minute colors edits to jobs.

Produce notepads

Automate the process of printing pads with minimal manual collation.

Apply unique ticket numbers – FS200

Quickly insert a custom incremental ticket numbering sequence at the makeready stage.

Produce documents with two sets of tabs – FS200

Produce a job with two different sets of tabs to better differentiate chapters from subchapters in book.

Apply advanced page numbering

Use a combination of custom text, formats and macros to create unique numbering sequences for multiple page sections.

Print business cards

Prepare and automate the production of business cards using Fiery Impose, a server-based imposition application option that streamlines and automates the imposition process, making production more efficient.

Automatic tab creation – FS200

Create tab sheets, place them in the right location, and populate the tab ear content automatically by using bookmark links from PDF documents.

Automate offline finishing with Duplo finishers

Fiery Impose templates can include barcodes and registration marks recognizable by Duplo finishing equipment. These instruct the Duplo finisher on how to position its blades, cutters, and creasers to finish the document appropriately. The integration of Fiery Impose with Duplo finishers brings drastic productivity gains by automating the offline finishing process.

Produce documents with bleed-edge tabs – FS200

Produce well defined sections in a long document without using tab media. Bleed-edge tabs requires the finished job to be trimmed on the fore edge in order for the tab colours to show.

Print a perfect bound booklet

This binding method consists of individual leaves glued together at the spine with a flexible adhesive which is glued along the edges of the body sheets and binds the text to a wraparound cover.

Print a booklet from Fiery Impose

Booklet imposition in Fiery Impose is a fully visual and intuitive process. It allows you to print multiple pages in a booklet style using any file format.

Print a booklet from the driver

Produce booklets using saddlestitch imposition schemes from any application without the need for more advanced imposition programs.

Print a calendar booklet

Produce professional looking calendars using Fiery Impose, a server-based imposition application option that streamlines and automates the imposition process, making production more efficient.

Create a custom imposition that requires automatic rotation of the back slot

Use Fiery Impose to create a custom imposition to print a calendar that requires gangup imposition, coil bound finishing and rotation of the back slot to show correct orientation of the finished spread.

Auto tab and text stamping by PDF bookmark level

Learn how to peed up composition of long jobs including chapter and subchapters by treating all bookmark levels independently and easily program multi-bank tabs or insert bookmark text as a stamp on the page. Spend only seconds or a few minutes on what usually takes hours to achieve!

Prepare complex long documents for print

Fiery JobMaster provides advanced document makeready including fully visual tab insertion and design; media assignment, page numbering, finishing and scanning; plus powerful late-stage editing features.

Produce jobs with different finishing requirements – FS200

Use Fiery Compose or Fiery JobMaster to apply different finishing options to multiple chapters within a document. These finishing options will vary based on the in-line finisher available at the print engine.

Convert pages to greyscale – FS200

Easily specify any page or sheet surface to print in black and white during the makeready stage.

Merge JPEG files and print a photo booklet

Submit and merge JPEG files from the same folder and automate job settings like imposition to create a photo booklet in a few clicks.

Automate job submission with Fiery tools

Configure a virtual printer, a job preset or a Fiery Hot Folder to set job ticket specifications, and assign imposition properties in order to automate any type of job submission process you adopt.

Paper stock management with Fiery Paper Catalog

Have a centralised paper warehouse database to store attributes of the media stock and make it easy to associate paper trays with the loaded media stock at the print engine in order to ensure the operator uses the right media, with the right colour profile for each print job.

Job management workflow in Fiery Command WorkStation

Fiery Command WorkStation makes operators more productive via intuitive, flexible job management tools. The state-of-the-art user interface design is focused on the end user experience and boasts an uncluttered at a glance workspace.

Prepare and produce personalised postcards

The production of personalised postcards with Fiery servers is as easy as producing static ones. The how-to guide showcases Fiery Impose to produce effective one-to-one communications.

Prepare and print a personalised newsletter using FreeForm

Utilise Fiery FreeForm technology to enable variable data printing. Master element data for a VDP job is sent to the Fiery and rasterised separately from variable element data in order to achieve engine rated speeds.

Prepare and produce personalised booklets

Produce impactful one-to-one booklets to promote products and services by personalising them with customer contact information and products offerings related to their personal preference. The how-to guide showcases PPML format support and Fiery Impose.