Fiery FS350 Pro and FS350

There are many Fiery® tools that help you increase your productivity and improve the efficiency and quality of your print jobs. To help you take advantage of these tools, EFI has developed a comprehensive set of how-to guides that walk you through each tool. You can select any of the following tool categories for access to the how-to guides any time you need it.

Note: The how-to guides are intended for use with Fiery Command WorkStation® 6 and Fiery FS350/Fiery FS350 Pro software. Some files may work with previous Fiery software versions. Also, some Fiery features are dependent on specific engine capabilities. If you have any questions about your Fiery server, please contact your Fiery supplier.

For additional Fiery how-to guides visit the Resources section in Fiery ImposeFiery ComposeFiery JobMasterFiery Graphic Arts Package, Premium EditionFiery JobFlowFiery Color Profiler SuiteVariable Data PrintingFiery Central and Fiery Productivity Package.

Select the how-to guides from the following categories:

Document Preparation

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Automate offline finishing with MBM AeroCut Prime and Velocity finishers

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

1.74 MB Download

Produce notepads

Automate the process of printing pads with minimal manual collation.

2.98 MB Download

Produce NCR forms with Fiery JobMaster

Quickly create multi-part forms and fulfill complex numbering and stamping requirements typical in NCR form orders.

3.05 MB Download

Automate offline finishing with Morgana AutoCut Pro finishers

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

3.36 MB Download

Print multi-up jobs

The gangup or multi-up imposition type is commonly used when printing business cards, postcards, tickets, and coupons. Fiery Impose offers workflows to optimize the layout composition of multi-up jobs depending on the properties of the source file, media size and automation requirements.

3.49 MB Download

Gangup imposition automation by media size

The Fiery Impose finish size setting, Based on Trim Box, calculates the best layout (n-up and orientation) on the fly, considering the desired media size to print on. It enables the creation of a single imposition template for all gangup layouts like business cards, postcards, and tickets, printing on the same sheet size. The imposition template is applied to a Fiery Hot Folder workflow.

6.18 MB Download

Apply unique ticket numbers

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

6.63 MB Download

Automate offline finishing with Uchida AeroCut Prime and AeroCut One finishers

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

7.36 MB Download

Automate offline finishing with MBM Triumph cutters

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

8.10 MB Download

Automate offline finishing with Ausjetech 8335BSC, 8336BSC, and 9375BSC finishers

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

8.40 MB Download

Automate offline finishing with Horizon SmartSlitter SMSL-100 finishers

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

8.93 MB Download

Automate offline finishing with Graphic Whizard PT 335SCC Multi finishers

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

9.23 MB Download

Insert scanned pages into a job

Learn how to insert scanned pages when assembling a job with Fiery JobMaster. Pages can be pre-scanned or users can initiate the scan process using Fiery Remote Scan or any TWAIN compliant scanner.

15.30 MB Download

Automatic tab creation

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

16.60 MB Download

Produce documents with bleed-edge tabs

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 colors to show.

16.63 MB Download

Convert pages to grayscale

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

16.73 MB Download

Produce jobs with different finishing requirements

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.

16.78 MB Download

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.

16.82 MB Download

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.

17.55 MB Download

Assemble a catalog with page numbers

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.

17.63 MB Download

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!

23.93 MB Download

Print a simple booklet from the driver

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

31.03 MB Download

Apply advanced page numbering and stamping

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

38.81 MB Download

Produce documents with two sets of tabs

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

39.52 MB Download

Auto page rotation in Fiery Impose

Automate the rotation for pages in long documents to ensure all pages have the orientation originally specified with Fiery Impose.

67.43 MB Download

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.

68.29 MB Download

Job Management

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Create a job error report

Learn how to create a job error report to enable faster communication and replication of technical issues.

2.60 MB Download

Automate job submission with Fiery tools

Configure a virtual printer, a job preset or a Fiery Hot Folder to set job ticket specifications including imposition templates in order to automate most of your jobs. Take automation to the next level by using Fiery JobFlow Base workflows.

4.94 MB Download

Paper stock management with Fiery Paper Catalog

Have a centralized 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 color profile for each print job.

30.97 MB Download

Graphic Arts

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Calibrate printer with EFI ES-2000 spectrophotometer

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

2.72 MB Download

Capture spot colors and reproduce them accurately

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

2.90 MB Download

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.

6.54 MB Download

Create custom control bars for color consistency and quality control

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

11.00 MB Download

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.

18.42 MB Download

Optimize color quality of documents

Produce great color quality documents with the standard state-of-the-art Fiery color reproduction capabilities including spot colors, color substitution, auto-trapping, image smoothing, spot color composite overprint, fine black elementes and RGB transparencies.

21.80 MB Download

Variable Data Printing

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Prepare and produce personalized postcards

The production of personalized 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.

7.46 MB Download

Prepare and print a personalized newsletter using FreeForm

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

35.28 MB Download

Prepare and produce personalized booklets

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

587.17 MB Download