Using a Printing Condition

After making your printing condition in the Print Control Wizard, you use it when RIP'ing your jobs with Imaging Engine to get great results on press.

Important:

You can only use a printing condition that you have completed (you can see a green check in the Print Control Wizard).

If you are still working on your printing condition in the Print Control Wizard, you will not be able to select it in Imaging Engine yet.
After making a printing condition for your production workflow, you should always use it in Imaging Engine when printing with that production workflow.

If you make changes to your workflow (for example you print on a different substrate, or you switch to a different ink vendor), we recommend you make a new printing condition in the Print Control Wizard.

You can use a printing condition by selecting it in the Printing Condition list, using a SmartName or a public parameter.

When you select a printing condition, it automatically fills in several settings in the Image to Screened Separations ticket for you:

The output File Type is always LENX.
The output Resolution is always 4000 ppi.
By default, Imaging Engine will generate print simulations files for quality control (however you can choose not to generate them).
No Plate Curve is used, and it is not possible to use press curves from the input file (as the printing condition already contains curves).
For each separation, the printing condition provides the Dot, Ruling and Press Curve to use. These settings are stored as exceptions. You can see them in the Separations tab's Preview table, and in the Exceptions tab.
Dot cleanup is always performed in the highlights, and the printing condition sets the Ruling and Minimum Dot Size used.

The settings filled in by the printing condition are uneditable (except for the print simulation files), as the printing condition contains settings tailored to your production workflow (that the Print Control Wizard calculated from your print sample results).

If you still want to edit them, you need to remove the printing condition first.