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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For technical documentation and help, you are in the right place.
This is our start page for K2. All of the topics you may be interested in are linked from this page.
Table of contents
Installation guide (& system requirements)
Quick start guide. Step by step instructions to quickly run a booklet job
- Deutscher Schnellstart (German)
- Guía de inicio rápido (Spanish)
- Guide de démarrage rapide (French)
- How to create a new workflow
- Edit workflow
- Trapping
- Color Management
- Preflight -
- including some clever routing preflight routines.
- Stabilizer
- Hotfolder scripting
- Ink remapping /separation and screen angle control
- 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:
Troubleshooting