Anyone know how to change custom spot colors and not have to respool the file over? It seems that every time we make a change to a custom spot, in order for it to print we need to resubmit the file? Is that how it should work?

Isn't that because during the normalization process spot color mappings are encoded in the pdf?

What other changes require re-normalizing?

Hello Patrick and rugby148,

the spot color mapping is done during the process of the ResourceCheck. It's a so called 'silent fix' option. This is also true although you disable the ResourceCheck (silent fixes are always applied and can not be disabled).

The normalizing process is only applied on PostScript or EPS files. A PDF will never be normalized since the normalizer is just a kind of 'Acrobat distiller'.

Cheers,
deltaE

So I'm confused, is there a way to then re-resource check the file then? A nice feature would be an option to revert to source / spooled file.

patrick,

the easiest way to re-ResourceCheck the job is to change the screening system for example.

But the only way to force the NexStation to use the 'changed custom spot color' is to re-submit the file to a HotFolder (or print it to a NetworkPrinter) as you already mentioned.

Yes, it would be a real nice feature (for some users) to revert to source / spooled file.
This would need additional software engineering.
Drawback: you would need to keep the PDF (PS) twice in the spool directory of the NexStation and this would really downsize this in a fast way (just think of PDFs with more than 1 GB).

So I'm pretty sure that NexPress would never implement that function.

Cheers,
deltaE