Using Esprit with More than One Press Configuration
Many users will have more than one press configuration to deal with either because the presses on their press hall are not identical or, perhaps, because they are operating across more than one printing facility. For example, a national title might be printed at a number of locations, each with very different press capabilities.

Suppose Esprit were being used in a global newspaper’s head office to optimize production across a number of international printing facilities. Esprit would be configured to know the press capabilities and running preferences at each facility.

From the list of configured presses, the user would select the presses he wished to produce his product on, using the screen below.

Each selected press would then have its individual options available, as with the single press example.

Once each press was set up, generation could begin across all selected presses simultaneously, with the results being shown on the screen below.

Once the calculations are complete, the user is able to see whether his required product is possible across all of his presses or whether, perhaps, he has to drop some color on some configurations.

Esprit in its Client/Server Configuration
Although Esprit can run on a single PC, it is sometimes desirable to adopt a client/server configuration. This might be the case for two reasons –

Esprit is used by more than one operator who need to share data between them such as penalty sets and product definitions

A powerful server can be used to perform the imposition generations, meaning that the clients can be lower specification PCs and still achieve good response times.

Integration with PRIMA MS
Customers that also have the PRIMA MS press management system can upload product specifications from the MS and download generated impositions to its catalogue.

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