How do you deal with reprint job's in Prinergy?

[RMPrepress]

So if Prinergy lets you rename page sets now, does it also let you change the number of pages in a set? That used to bug me.

Ahhhh... that would be a no.
I agree it does suck sometimes.

[RMPrepress]

Our slug is pulling info from the job and Preps using SmartMark as well.

$[Jobname_offset] Form$[SIG] $[SurfaceName] $[Workstyle] $SheetHeight x $SheetWidth $[Color_offset]

The jobname_offset is pulling the first 6 characters from the jobname. As our job numbers are always 6 digits.

And I set it up a long time ago, and everything was spaced out nicely, but looks like I should mess with it, but no one has complained about it. So I will probably leave it alone.

And this way, even when we do reprints, it pulls all current information.

So you are using that info in all your Preps impositions and as a plate slug too?
We need to do this in this manner but we are so entrenched with years of impositions that have a different slug line it would be a nightmare to edit thousands of templates and the endless sigs in all of them.
Might just have to start with the most common templates.
I wonder if RBA could be used to change them...hmmm?

[DCurry]

I think you can open the templates with a text editor (I like BBEdit). Then you can do a find/change on the slugs pretty easily. Back them up first just in case something goes wrong!

[scottrsimons]

So you are using that info in all your Preps impositions and as a plate slug too?

Yes, we put that on all Preps Impos. Plate slugs are different.

$[PlateID]    $[JOBNAME] $[SIG] $[SN] $[COLOR] $[outputdate] $[outputtime]    $[WORKSTYLE]    $[ProcessTemplateName]

We use the PlateID in case a pressman has an issue with the plate and they don't know how to select all the options to replate. They can just punch this code into Workshop and it will replate it with all the same settings as before. Very nice for different presses and paper settings.

And I agree with @DCurry you can use a text editor to find and replace for either the SmartMarks or the templates. You could also ask Kodak for help.