Navigator Installation (Please make sure that the Navigator Dongle is plugged into the PC)

  1. Download and run NavigatorInstaller.exe located in OneDrive_2024-04-03.zip.
  2. Select RIP and Workflow for installation type.
  3. Enter this software LDK code below when asked during the installation.
  4. Place folder SmartFlexo located in the Screening Templates folder in dropbox to C:\Navigator\Navigator\Config
  5. After installation, double click the Launcher shortcut on the desktop to start the server, RIP and client.
  6. You will see a message asking you to install cloudflow. Click OK. A black screen will appear while Cloudflow is installing. This process takes some time. Just let it run until it stops.
  7. Once the system installs cloudflow the server will launch.

 

Next, a page setup will need to be built in the RIP so that a PDF can be rendered to separated contone TIFFs. The same resolution as the 1bit tiff output from SmartFlexo.

Create 2540 Contone tiff RIP page setup

  1. To create a new page setup, go to Navigator RIP and click Navigator>Page Setup Manager…
  2. Click New
  3. Select Tiff for Output Device
  4. Click Configure device…
  5. Select Template-based next to File name generation.
  6. Type <jobonly> (<sepname>).TIF in the Template field
  7. Check boxes Use jobname as stem, Del page num prefix, and Use jobname unchanged, click OK.
  8. Select 2540 Resolution
  9. Select Separation Style CMYK Separations (Contone).
  10. Click Save as and Name the page setup Render 2540.

 

A workflow action is needed so that SmartFlexo can be used in the Navigator workflow.

Create the SmartFlexo workflow action

  1. Go to Navigator Server and select Server Setup>Administrator Login. The user name is Administrator with no password. Click ok.
  2. Go back to ServerSetup>Manage Workflow Actions
  3. Click New Action
  4. Select SmartFlexo from the Workflow Agent Dropdown and enter SmartFlexo for the name and click OK and Done to exit.

 

Next, build a SmartFlexo workflow that processes PDFs.

Workflow Configuration

  1. Log into the Navigator Client (User name is User with no password or Administrator no password)
  2. Select Workflows>New Workflow…
  3. Name the workflow PDF – SmartFlexo
  4. From the left window, drag the RIP icon next to the hod folder
  5. Click Refresh Page Setups so that the Render 2540 page setup you created earlier shows up in the Page Setup dropdown.
  6. Select the 2540 Render page setup.
  7. Check the box TIFF Mode.
  8. Now drag and drop the SmartFlexo action after the RIP.
  9. In the SmartFlexo action select one of the 3 sample templates supplied.
  10. Check the Pause after button so that you can view the final SmartFlexo tiffs in the viewer after screening.
  11. Now drag and drop the one the test PDFs supplied onto the workflow in the client so that the SmartFlexo engine can create a dongle file (.c2v) for your computer.
  12. You should see an error when the job is being processed that says, “Error creating screening object”. This error indicates that the dongle file has been created.
  13. Next go to C:\Navigator\Navigator\Utilities. In the utilities folder you will find the .c2v file (Example: dongleInfo9.c2v). Email this file to me and I will generate a .v2c file for you to place in the Utilities folder to license SmartFlexo.