Ok I'll just try to be as detailed as possible then. So this is happening across the board with all my workflows of all different sizes but lets take a single sided flyer for example. The key to the workflow is adding bleeds to flyers that have none. We have trouble getting our customers to add bleeds so thats what we are mostly using the software for. In my flow I have a basic preflight that looks for any files that are under 8.75" w x 11.25"h (bleed size). From there I have a route everything that is that size goes straight to the imposition, anything not that size goes to the optimaztion that I have set to add .125 mirror bleed. The bleed is added fine and then it goes to the impostion where it seems the trouble happens. Here are my imposition settings for the single sided flyer example:
- Press Sheet size (Tabloid extra 12 x 18)
- Orientation (Landscape)
- Sided (One Sided)
- Page Order (Repeated)
- Fixed Rows and Columns
- 1 Row 2 Columns
- Impose Relative to (Bleed Box)
- Cell Clustering (On)
- Horizontal and Verical Alignment (Center)
- Scale Mode none
- Horizontal and Vertical offset set to 0
- Gutters : Margins uniform .125 Row Gutter uniform .125 Column Gutter uniform .125
- Cut Marks are pdf trim box
So here is the issue. For some of the jobs the flyers come out fine 2 up on the front and 2up on the back they are butted together and have a .125 gutter inbetween the columns so you have cut marks like this at the bleed _ | | _ a cut mark on the left two in the center .125" apart and one on the right which work perfect for the cutter settings in the print shop. Yet other files you run through will have cut marks like this
_ |_ _| _ it adds those extra inbtween throwing off my column gutters. Or sometimes like this _ | _ with only one cut mark and no gutter at all. The only thing that seems to fix this is if I open the pdf in Adobe Illustrator and save it then run it though that seems to fix it but if I have to do that everytime it defeats the purpose of the software.
Dave - Sorry for such a long post and the crued drawings but I hope this helps make the issue clear because I really need to get this fixed we are trying to get a hands off approach to our printing. Thank you so much for your help.
