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Vector Image Control Strip (ICS) Test Mark Causes Slow Process Submission in Prinergy Evo


Product

 
  • Prinergy® Evo 3.x and 1.x

  • Image Control Strip (ICS) version 2.0


Error

 

No error appears.


Symptoms

 

For Preps PDF-PDF jobs, Prinergy Evo takes a very long time to open the Process Start window after you submit a populated portable job ticket format file (PJTF) or job definition format file (JDF) with an ICS mark in the PDF marks file.


Cause

 

The ICS file has a very large number of image mask calls. When submitted as a PDF rather than PostScript in a PDF marks file, Prinergy Evo reviews the whole document to determine the colorants of each image mask. For example, in one case, there were 122,000 image mask calls, and Prinergy Evo took up to 45 minutes to display the Process Start window.


Solution

 

Do not use ICS marks on a template in Preps to be used with a PDF-PDF job. Creo should have an alternative for PDF-PDF jobs in the future.


Technical contact(s)
 

Josh Garrett

Date submitted
 

31 Mar 2005


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