Introduction
PRIMA Esprit provides the production planner or pressroom manager with the ultimate tool to ensure production efficiency and maximize color availability – an automatic imposition generator with the following key features.

Calculates the best imposition

Takes into account unusable equipment

Provides press capability information

Shows additional color capability

Provides a clear print out for webbing up

Minimizes changeover effort

Accommodates user preferences

Incorporates the functionality of your press

Bay windows
Balloon formers
Half bars and dinky bars

Latest Features
The latest version of Esprit offers many new features and enhancements

Client/server configuration and interface to PRIMA Management System

Simultaneous optimization over multiple press types

More detailed print out and the ability to save it as an image for e-mailing

Even more detailed press configuration and user preferences options

Overview
Fast, Optimal Impositioning
PRIMA Esprit calculates impositions in seconds. Using pre-configured information on your press capabilities, and taking into account currently unusable equipment, Esprit will quickly and efficiently identify the best possible impositions to produce the product you have defined on the selected presses.

Easy Operation
Esprit has a standard Windows interface and runs on the Windows NT/2000 platform. For the user, the screen layouts are in a familiar format and intuitive to use. In use, the newspaper product specifications are quickly and easily entered with a user-friendly product input screen.

Identifies Opportunities to Utilize Color
Esprit will quickly show if additional color is available, to enable it to be utilized or sold to best advantage.

User Configurable
A ‘penalties’ system allows the user to superimpose preferences on the selection of the best imposition. Using the facility to ‘adjust the penalties’ Esprit can be told to avoid using a certain configuration or to prefer one scenario to another. Each user and each site can tailor Esprit to accommodate individual preferences, and suit preferred methods of working.

Operation Specifying a Product
Simple drop-down menus allow the user to easily and quickly select the press, input the number of sections, specify straight/collect, grant permission to allow cross-association, decide whether to take account of the current imposition and specify which set of penalties to apply.

Entering Product Specifications
Color is added to the product by clicking the color buttons at the top of the screen. In the case of a collect run, collect pairs of pages are automatically indicated. At this stage, the user can specify where to fix fly sheets or disallow them from certain pages, such as front and back. The user can also set panoramic double-trucks and center page spreads. The product specification can be saved for future use. Also from this window the user can input comments for each page that will be printed out with the imposition. For example, he may wish to include an advertiser’s name or color information for printers.

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