Submitting jobs to a Hot Folder

You can submit one or more jobs from the Fiery Hot Folders Console or the desktop. Submitted jobs are sent to the specified queue or processed according to the specified action.

Job Properties settings apply to the jobs submitted to the Hot Folder. If you set Default for Job Properties, jobs are printed with the default settings of the Fiery server. If you choose a preset, jobs are printed with the preset settings. For more information, see Job Properties.

The Preflight check detects potential job errors. You can configure which errors to check for and which action to perform if a critical error is found. Preflight is a feature of Fiery Graphic Arts Package, Premium Edition, which must be enabled on the Fiery server.

Certain file formats (CT/LW or DCS 2.0, for example) comprise multiple files, some of which are not visible and which contain header and other information. When using a Hot Folder to process multi-part jobs, submit all of the files for the job within a folder. This ensures that all files (including invisible files) are processed together. We also recommend that you set the time interval to check for jobs to 10 seconds or more to ensure that all files are in place before processing begins.

Submit a job to a Hot Folder

You can send a job to a Fiery server through a Hot Folder or from the desktop.

Do one of the following.

In the Fiery Hot Folders Console, select the Hot Folder and click Download Files on the taskbar. Then browse to the file you want to download, or type the name of the file, and click Select.
Drag and drop or copy and paste the file to a Hot Folder.

When you drag a file onto a Hot Folder that resides on the same disk partition, the file is moved, not copied, because it is on the same partition. When you drag a file onto a Hot Folder that is on a separate partition or drive, the file is copied, not moved.
Print to a file from a document’s original application and specify the Hot Folder as the target destination.

Submit multiple jobs as a folder

With certain file formats (JPEG, PDF, or TIFF), you can submit multiple files that are inside an ordinary folder to a Hot Folder.

Note: If Merge all files if submitted as a folder is selected in the Output file type setting for the particular input format (JPEG, PDF, or TIFF), the individual files are merged into a single PDF file. Only files of the same type (e.g., all JPEG or all PDF) can be merged into a single file.

Submit a folder to the Hot Folder in one of the following ways:

Drag and drop the folder onto the Hot Folder.
Copy and paste the folder into a Hot Folder.
Right-click the folder, choose Download to Hot Folder, and then choose the Hot Folder name (Windows only).

Submit multi-part jobs in a folder

Certain file formats (CT/LW or DCS 2.0, for example) consist of multiple files, some of which are not visible and which contain header and other information. A multi-part job requires all these files when you submit the job.

Note: We recommend that you set the time interval to check for jobs to 10 seconds or more to ensure that all files are in place before processing begins (see Advanced Settings under Create a new Hot Folder).

When using a Hot Folder to process multi-part jobs, submit all of the files for the job within a folder to ensure that all required files are processed together.