Best Fit for Gangup Repeat

Best Fit for Gangup Repeat automatically lays out the content on the sheet for optimal use of the sheet size, using a Gangup and Repeat workflow.

Fiery Impose calculates how many sheets of the media are needed for the number of finished products required. Best Fit for Gangup Repeat is ideal for business cards, or any kind of job where the printer is producing a large quantity of repeatable content. The layout is calculated using either Based on Crop Box finish size or User Defined finish size, whatever the setting is for Finish Size in the Settings pane.

Using Best Fit for Gangup Repeat with Hot Folders and Job Properties

To use Best Fit for Gangup Repeat when editing Fiery Impose templates from Hot Folders, you must first:

Specify the sheet size.
Set the finish size for imposed jobs to User Defined or Based on Crop Box.

These pre-requisites also apply when you edit Fiery Impose templates from Job Properties.

Specify Best Fit for Gangup Repeat

Select the Best Fit for Gangup Repeat option for automatic layout of your gangup and repeat job.

The job must be one that is suitable for a gangup and repeat layout, for example, a business card.

Import a job to the Hold queue in Command WorkStation.

Select a job in the Held list in Command WorkStation and open Fiery Impose in one of the following ways:
- Select Impose from the Actions menu.
- Right-click the job and select Impose.
In the Impose window, select Best Fit for Gangup Repeat from the Actions menu. You can also click the Best Fit for Gangup Repeat button in the Settings pane when Gangup Repeat is selected as the product intent workflow.

Set the following:

Option	Description
Number of finished products	Automatically populates as 100, but can be set to more or less. Note: The maximum number of finished products cannot result in a copy count which exceeds 9999. In this case the copy count will show as “Invalid”. To correct this, change one of the values until the copy count is less than 10,000.
Sheet	Select from the menu of supported media..
Layout orientation	Automatic, Portrait, or Landscape.
Margin	Allows control of the space outside the layout for other uses than the layout. To enable margins, click the toggle button to display the green check mark. To disable margins, click the toggle button to display the red 'X'. Margin enabled: Margin disabled: Disabled: Populated with the non-printable margins from the printer driver. Enabled-Zero: Entering zero produces the same behavior as the Use Non-printable area check box in the Settings pane. Enabled-Custom: Enter a custom margin.
Gutter	Enter parameters for the space between adjacent products in the layout, both horizontally and vertically. Note the difference between gutter and the margin, which is the space around the layout.
Spoilage	Specify the number of additional sheets that need to be produced to account for clamp marks from equipment, dirt on bottom sheets, or other reasons that may cause spoilage.
Copies	The number of copies of the job which are necessary to produce the quantity of finished products. This value is for information only and cannot be overridden. Note: This does not necessarily reflect the number of sheets, because the original document may consist of multiple items, for example, two distinct business cards.
Overage	The number of finished products that are produced above the required number. Overage occurs when the required number of finished products does not fill an entire sheet. Fiery Impose will always fill the sheet, thus creating overage.

You can override the settings and make changes in the Settings pane after closing the Best Fit for Gangup Repeat dialog, but doing so may result in more or less finished products being printed, unless you manually adjust the copy count in the Copies option in Settings. If you want auto calculation of the layout, you must open the Best Fit for Gangup Repeat dialog again.