Pre-Separated Page Prints as 16 Plates to Scitex

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When you download a PostScript file to the Scitex RIP software, the RIP uses certain PostScript and OPI (Open Press Interface) comments in that PostScript file to figure out how to separate it. Specifically, it looks for these comments:

   %%PageOrder: Special
   %%PlateColor: ( )
   %%Page: # #
				

The PostScript printer driver writes these comments to the PostScript files it creates, but it writes them in a way that is inappropriate for color separations. Publisher tries to override the printer driver and write the correct comments, but it can't (unless you are running version 5.0 (or later) of the Adobe PostScript Driver for Windows NT.)
For example, if you print a two-page publication to CMYK color separations, the %%Page comments should look like this:

   %%Page: 1 1
      %(Code for the cyan plate of page 1 goes here)
   %%Page: 1 2
      %(Code for the magenta plate of page 1 goes here)
   %%Page: 1 3
      %(Code for the yellow plate of page 1 goes here)
   %%Page: 1 4
      %(Code for the black plate of page 1 goes here)
   %%Page: 2 5
      %(Code for the cyan plate of page 2 goes here)
   %%Page: 2 6
      %(Code for the magenta plate of page 2 goes here)
   %%Page: 2 7
      %(Code for the yellow plate of page 2 goes here)
   %%Page: 2 8
      %(Code for the black plate of page 1 goes here)
				

However, unless Publisher can override it, the Windows PostScript driver makes the %%Page: comments look like this:

   %%Page: 1 1
      %(Code for the cyan plate of page 1 goes here)
   %%Page: 2 2
      %(Code for the magenta plate of page 1 goes here)
   %%Page: 3 3
      %(Code for the yellow plate of page 1 goes here)
   %%Page: 4 4
      %(Code for the black plate of page 1 goes here)
   %%Page: 5 5
      %(Code for the cyan plate of page 2 goes here)
   %%Page: 6 6
      %(Code for the magenta plate of page 2 goes here)
   %%Page: 7 7
      %(Code for the yellow plate of page 2 goes here)
   %%Page: 8 8
      %(Code for the black plate of page 1 goes here)
				

The Scitex RIP therefore interprets this as an eight-page file that needs to be separated instead of a two-page file that is already separated.

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