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Well. I've spent most of the day here puttering through the imposition controls - built my first impo to my liking.  Where do you save this wonderful first template once you've completed it?  The only place looks like the imposition Template Folder .   I guess I'm confused.  I've been told that I need to work from impos saved as Stripping SHEET templates - how do I get them to there ?  Do I sound confused enough ???

Well, I've made it through day 3 of XMF.. Didn't get much work done, though......
Like the Fuji rep told me, this impo program is not as 'robust' as the Dynastrip program is.
There are some features that my pressroom and bindery are used to, that they may have to do without now, as if I don't receive enough complaining already about everything under the sun  ....
We don't know if we will stick with this or not - we've already called Fuji and there will  probably be more discussion tomorrow...
Frailer, thanks for all of your input.  I guess the best thing one should do if one wants to change something major like this, is to go spend a day or 2 where someone is using it, rather than viewing a twenty minute webinar or seeing a slick presentation at the Trade Show ...

Sorry, impodave. If I was a Help Line...I'd be sacked!     No 'net at work for 2 days. Super-flaky 'net at home. (It's 8PM here now). After diving under the desk like a gopher several times to reconnect modem and router...I have it back for...maybe 5 mins.   

All I can say is, I think you'll be able to wring what you need out of it. You wiil wrestle it to the ground over 2-3 weeks. TBH, I haven't encountered too much that Dyna could do that it can't. It does a lot of things better, IMO.

Just trying to address your Marks thing. I didn't use Static Marks much, so can't comment too much. I have a feeling that the Color squares in the standard marks area should give you a similar functionality to Dyna Density bars. I've got used to using Custom Marks in XMF, as our printers like solid 3mm cmyk marks at the back. Have built up a Library of them, pretty quickly from Illy. Just varying lengths through the range. I find their 'repeat' function too clunky...anyway, mine's broke anyway, on my Client.   




Clipping...I don't see why you couldn't extend them so they let your marks fall off whatever sheet you are setting up. Once they're in a SST...shouldn't have to think about it again. They're adjustable 4 ways, and pretty arbitrary, as far as I can tell.
I think in Dyna you could attach stuff to either, page, sig, or sheet. Personally, I got badly bitten by attaching to a Sheet in Dyna. Color markers fell inside a job after editing the Sig. Ouch! Just saying...

Unwanted colors at output time. Yep, you can uncheck 'em at plate-release time. I do it all the time. In fact, it's default, I believe, for it to ask you via check boxes, whether you want them all released. You may be able to disable delete further upstream. It's something I'd need to look at.
having said that, sounds like the tech's set you up OK....for each press, Mono, process, Process+Spot....

OK, made a point of noting at work today. 'Save As Template' for saving a SST is under the Sheets menu. As is the 'Replace' button, for prompting the SST list into view. Makes sense, as you're adding Template Sheets, Like Dyna.

I've just received, finally, a new cable modem by postal courier today. After I reset this for 5 mins., I may take the plunge and try and hook it up. Wish me luck...

Talk soon, and fire 'em off at me. I;m still learning stuff inside it, but am getting very attached to it. I don't really take the Fuji tech's comments too seriously about Dyna being 'robust'. I never found it so. But we only got to 4.6.2.

In particular, the lower left (bottom)corner of the paper is positioned right at the lower left corner of the  plate.  Not sure what to do about this one...... I've tried everything ....anything I send out of Dyna is perfect..... I should be able to spec any run size paper right ??  I just don't  get it.

Hey....
I'm home now - 11 hour day +
Thanks for the help. I somehow got it right later in the day.  Not sure what I did, but I think it was an entry error in the base template. I'll review the job files in the morning. Either I misunderstood the exchange this morning, or the Fuji support person was in error. What I perceived that he told me to do didn't seem to work.  So, Do you use punch depth ?  It looks like one big gripper from here. DB

The first capture seems easy.  The second one...err......not so sure.

Anyway. I'm off to bed ....didn't have much of an evening tonite.

By the by, don't you think it would've been nice if someone (Fuji) had mentioned that I would need a G5 at my station?  Three freezeups and a call later, I had switched to the server computer for the afternoon/evening...
Going to have to change some 'puters around ....
Take Care...Later....

A bit (too) quiet here. Have taken some captures which are little things I tripped up on in the past few weeks/months.
-under Assembly Sections, watch out for that little drop-down at the bottom. (pic1). You can be going around in circles wondering why something's not working...you're probably in Perfect Bound...should be in None...or something. It's a 'lurker'. 
-make sure your Work Style is set correctly here! Pic4.
-when you're kicking off on a new impo. you can always start here. But it's the lower 'New" button. Not the top one.
The lower one will take you into an editing space, where you can set number of pages vertically/horizontally, single/double sided etc.
there are too many random 'New' buttons in XMF. Just be aware of what they do.
 

Ahem...I love Preps!