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Setting up for Offset
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Setting up for Offset
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Setting up for Offset
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Setting up for Offset
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Setting up for Offset
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Overview
This topic describes how to update your offset presses and change their status. With offset, changing the status affects pricing. That's why an offset press should never be taken off line because it's down for a few days, waiting for a part to come in. The only reason you would deactivate your four-color press is because you don't have a four-color press. It's a way of telling Morning Flight to automatically assign all four-color runs to the two-color press, twice through.
To emphasize, taking an offset press off line won't change the number of colors you can quote. What it will do, without fail, is change your pricing.
Changing the Status
| 1. |  Click the My Shop button, then click the Presses button. |
| 2. |   Click the Delete button in the press selection window to take the highlighted press off line. Clicking the same button when a check-mark is showing will reinstate the press. A press that's off-line will have a red bullet in front of it. |
The one-color offset press can't be taken off line. Morning Flight assumes that virtually every offset shop either has such a press, or at least offers one-color printing.
Updating the Press
| 1. | Click the My Shop button, then click Presses. |
| 2. | Double-click the press you want to update. |
| 3. | Select the number of Colors (towers or printheads) and the Hourly Rate. |
The price in the upper black panel updates as you type. This speeds up finding the right hourly rate. If you swipe the cursor over the three icons, you'll instantly see the letterhead, envelope, and catalog sheet prices that will result from the rate you entered. Clicking one of the icons will lock in the product you want to use as your main reference. To view different quantities, click the up arrow. To change those quantities (they're the same as your personal preference for quotes), go to My World > My Preferences.
| 4. | Click the Sheetsize buttons to set minimum and maximum sheet sizes. |
| 5. | Check or uncheck the plates available for this press, then enter Plate Prices (not your cost, but what you charge your customers), excluding film. |
| 6. | Click the Standard Plate button, then set your preferred plate. The standard plate is what Morning Flight selects when it sees AutoSet as a plate choice in a product's properties. |
| 7. | Enter Makeready and Maximum Speed. The defaults are: |
Offset Press |
Makeready |
Maximum Speed |
1-Color |
10 Minutes |
8,000 IPH |
2-Color |
15 Minutes |
10,000 IPH |
4-Color |
30 Minutes |
8,000 IPH |
Makeready is based on the number of print heads. If the press has four heads, the program assumes you're entering total makeready for a 4-color run. In other words, the total number of minutes it takes to set up all four print heads. If you're running a 1 or 2-color job through a 4-color press, the program automatically compensates by reducing the actual minutes.
In Morning Flight, there are two kinds of makeready and run speed. Product makeready is a property of the product, not the press, ranging from very low to very high. So is product run speed. Both are unique to each product and are set (in the product window you see below) when you change or create a product.
The press makeready you're setting in step 7 is a property of the press, and is a contributing factor in how Morning Flight calculates the actual makeready minutes. Similarly, maximum press speed is a contributing factor in how the program calculates total run time. Other factors that come into play are the type of paper and the run length. The longer the run, the higher the actual run speed.
Designating it as a Primary
A primary press is the press Morning Flight selects by default when you create a quote or enter an order. Primary presses act much like primary products. You can designate any offset press as your primary for 1-color, 2-color, or 4-color. Or designate a single press as your primary for all three. A single press may be all you have for printing by offset.
Say you add a new press and make that press your primary for 1-color, replacing the built-in Multi. Morning Flight will now select the new press instead of the Multi for all 1-color work. You can still hand-pick the Multi, but your new press will come up as the default.
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