K2 is the culmination of 25 years of print production workflow development. It was designed to be a first class commercial print prepress workflow environment.
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Table of contents
Installation guide (& system requirements)
Quick start guide. Step by step instructions to quickly run a booklet job
- Impose; our comprehensive and integrated application for commercial print imposition.
- XiPosition; resize either pages or imposed sheets, enabling precise placement at the desired location.
- XiStep; PDF step & repeat.
There are many ways to submit a job for processing in K2. Some are manual, some are automated, some are for software developers looking for ways to integrate an upstream application with K2.
The standard K2 workflow would have you proceeding from the Job Submission UI, to a printer output workflow. But sometimes you have work that will flow through automatically and doesn't need the finer controls of the Job Submission UI. For example, if you have a repeat job that uses an existing imposition template, you can set up a workflow for this job and just drop a PDF into that output workflow and have the whole thing process from PDF to imposed, screened output without any intervention. In that case you would submit your PDF via a hotfolder or by dragging and dropping directly onto an automated workflow.
- Submit (and plan) a job via the K2 Job Submission UI
- Submit a job via watched folders (hotfolder)
- Submit a job via drag & drop
And, for software developers doing technical integrations:
K2 Client (This is going to cover Hotfolder, RIP, Previews in Proofscope, Output, plus all the dialogs and menus. And general function. Then, each workflow action will have it's own chapter/manual)
- How to create a new workflow
- Edit workflow
- Trapping
- Color Management
- Calibration and Tone Curves
- Preflight -
- including some clever routing preflight routines.
- Stabilizer
- Hotfolder scripting
- RIP configuration
- Pagesetup Manager/separation setup. (yank this out of the HMR manual)
- Ink remapping /separation and screen angle control
Troubleshooting
- Server database structure and backup
- How to submit issue reports (For technical support people or technically minded users)
- Logs. Where they are, how to change the logging level so you can gather relevant data.
- How to contact support (for plain ol' users)
- FAQs
APIs (version 2)
I'm suggesting that we offer two levels of API support with this product.
Level 1 is simple job submission with a documented format for sending jobs into a specific workflow, and a simple method for getting status on that job. This could be a one page document and included for anybody at all. Supported by Support Dept.
Level 2 is more dramatic and requires yearly fee of $5k so they can ask for help upon version changes on their side or ours and during their initial integration. This would be more like full API support.
K2 2.0 upgrade concerns regarding the RIP change
Specifically compare HMR ways of doing stuff with HHR ways of doing stuff so people can get their heads around HHR.