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)


How to start and stop K2 


Quick start guide.   Step by step instructions to quickly run a booklet job


K2 Client 



Page positioning tools

  • 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. 



Job Submission

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.


And, for software developers doing technical integrations:


Harlequin RIP


Troubleshooting