1. Edge Printing capabilities in HP SmartStream Designer

2. Edge Printing Edge printing is a new Dynamic Image option
Printing an image on the front edge or side edge of a book
Designer automatically divides a selected image into slices, according to the number of pages in the book.
Each slice is printed on the edge of each page
The effect is noticeable on the imposed, printed, and finished job
Imposition for Edge Printing job: 1up + Step & Repeat, according to paper size
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3. Edge Printing – Step by Step
Edge printing is meant for printed books, notebooks and similar applications
Database
A DB with1 column, number of records is number of book pages divided by 2. Data can be a simple counter, as it is not printed.
Channels
Two types of Image channels are defined:
The book content as a Multipage PDF channel
The Edge printing content as a 1 page PDF assigned via Dynamic Image application
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4. Edge Printing – Step by Step
Create a 2 page InDesign document, with the size same as the book page size
Define the book content Image channel – Multipage PDF channel
Define 2 Image channels, 1 on each of the 2 pages, Channels size - entire page size
For each of the 2 channels: Double click the channel row in the Channels palette to open the Image channel window
In the Image Channel window
In the Type field select Multiple files
For File Name field, browse and
select the book multiple page PDF file
c. Click Settings
a b c
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5. Edge Printing – Steps by Step
For the channel on page 1
In the Multipage File Settings window, select Odd pages
Click OK
For the channel on page 2
In the Multiple File Settings window, select Even pages
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6. Edge Printing – Steps by Step
Define the Edge Printing channel
1. Create a PDF single page file for the content of the Edge Printing channel
The PDF size should fit the book Edge area size or smaller
On Page 1 of the main InDesign doc, Define an image channel
Size: width - same or less than the page size, height 1 mm
Edge Printing content PDF
b. Position: 0.5 mm at page net area, 0.5 on bleed area
(also possible: height 2 mm, position of 1 mm in net, 1 in bleed)
Double-click the channel row in the channel palette In the Image Channel window that opens:
In Type field, select Dynamic Image b. c.
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a b
For Application, select HP Edge Printing Click Settings c
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7. Edge Printing - Steps In the Dynamic Personalization Settings window:
Click Save as to save a copy of the Template. (The original template can not be edited)
In the Mapping table, map any DB field
Click Edit
In the Edge Printing Editor window:
Select the single page PDF file for Edge Print (also known as Seed file)
Type count:
number of book pages/2 a b c d
Optional steps:
Add a Seed, Duplicate Seed, Delete a Seed file
Click Save e
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8. Spine Printing capabilities – for a set of books
An additional option using Edge Printing: Printing a single picture on the spines of a set of books
Imposition for Edge Printing job – 1up + Step & Repeat,
according to paper size
Effect is achieved when the printed books are on display
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9. Spine printing – for a set of books - Steps
Design a 1 page InDesign document for the book cover (front cover, back cover and spine)
Define an Image channel on the Spine area, width same as spine 2
Make this Image channel a Dynamic Image, HP Edge Printing
Click Settings 3 4
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10. Spine printing – for a set of books - Steps
In the Dynamic Personalization Settings window
Click Save As to save a user defined template (the default template is protected and cannot be edited)
In the Mapping variables table, map any DB field
Click Edit 5 6 7
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11. Spine printing – for a set of books - Steps
In the Edge Printing Template Editor window:
Select the Spine Printing option (check box)
In the Image field select a
*PDF file that will serve as the spine printing content 8 9 10
10. In the Count field type the number of books in the set
* See next page for preparing the Spine Printing content PDF
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12. Preparing the Spine Printing Content PDF file
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Need to know:
Spine width
Number of books in the set
Multiply the width by the number of books = the Spine Printing Content PDF width
Example
Spine width – 15 mm
Number of books in the set – 7
Width of Spine Printing PDF – 105 mm
Number of DB records
The behavior is cyclic: Example, if there are 7 books in the set and a DB with 70 records, then Spine printing will prepare 10 sets of 7 books. Each 7 will have the complete Spine image 7
to change without notice.
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