If you want to print data on your plate or output file, this RIP page feature will do that for you.
Here is a list of things you can output:
- Job name
- RIP Page Setup name
- Resolution
- Calibration
- Tone Curve
- Color Setup name
- screen angle
- Date & Time
- Scaling (distortion)
- Fixed custom text
Other options are
- use the incoming file name as the job name
- change the location and size of the text
- switch to shorter labels for the data e.g. "Cal:" vs "Calibration:"
NOTE: % (percent symbol) is a postscript comment. Nothing written on a line that begins with a % is executed.
What follows is the configurable part of the attached Page Feature.
%%%%%%% Customizable Section %%%%%%% /BottomGap 20 mm def /SlugLine true def /FontName /Courier def /FontSize 6 def /Xoffset 10 mm def /Yoffset 15 mm def /Y2offset 2.5 mm def %% Yoffset is measured downwards from the bottom of the image. %% Y2offset is the spacing when line breaks are introduced. %% To add a line break in the slugline remove the '%%' at %% the beginning of the appropriate lines below where 'newline' appears. /FixedText (Your text here) def /ShowFixedText false def /ShowJobName false def /UseFilenameAsJobName false def /ShowPageSetupName false def /ShowResolution false def /ShowCalibration true def /ShowToneCurve true def /ShowColorSetupName false def /ShowDateTime false def /ShowFreqAngle false def /ShowScaling true def /ShortLabels false def %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
This configuration above will give you a slug line with the calibration name, tone curve name, and will show the plate scaling in both the X and the Y directions.
If you would prefer to get something like this:
then remove the percents in front of one of the "newline" entries.
For example:
If you want to turn things on, change false to true. If you want to turn things off, change true to false.
I'll edit it to this:
%%%%%%% Customizable Section %%%%%%% /BottomGap 20 mm def /SlugLine true def /FontName /Courier def /FontSize 6 def /Xoffset 10 mm def /Yoffset 15 mm def /Y2offset 2.5 mm def %% Yoffset is measured downwards from the bottom of the image. %% Y2offset is the spacing when line breaks are introduced. %% To add a line break in the slugline remove the '%%' at %% the beginning of the appropriate lines below where 'newline' appears. /FixedText (SpeedMaster Plates) def /ShowFixedText true def /ShowJobName true def /UseFilenameAsJobName false def /ShowPageSetupName true def /ShowResolution true def /ShowCalibration true def /ShowToneCurve true def /ShowColorSetupName true def /ShowDateTime true def /ShowFreqAngle true def /ShowScaling true def /ShortLabels true def %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
here is the plate mark produced by the above configuration for the same job as before. (click to enlarge it)
Put the attached file into the RIP folder at SW/Page Features.
Select it by going to the Page Setup Manager, turn on Page Feature, and then choose it from the drop down menu.
To edit the configuration use something like Notepad++