Overview

Why you should complete this activity

A step-and-repeat operation is used when positioning artwork without a die. This activity demonstrates how to manually step and repeat an artwork, creating a 6 x 4 staircase stagger layout and also wrapping top to bottom. 
Wrapping a step-and-repeat layout is used for certain types of flexographic sleeves or gravure cylinders that have no leading edge and are continuous.

Audience

Operators or anyone who will use the Prinergy Workflow Packaging Automation Expansion Pack together with the Kodak Pandora packaging layout software regularly 

Time required

Approximately 20-30 minutes

Recommended reading

• Pandora User Guide
• Prinergy Powerpack Workflow 7.5 Workshop User Guide search key words: Working with Artwork Sets, Working with Layouts, Generating Proofs and Output, Generating Output Proof

What you'll need

For this activity you need to locate

• Packaging Activity Source Files/Petra Bag/PetraBag_Red.pdf
• Packaging Activity Source Files/Petra Bag/ColorBars_CyBK.pdf
• Packaging Activity Source Files/Petra Bag/ColorBars_YeMa.pdf

Activity specifications

If you are confident that you can complete the activity on your own, view the following naming conventions and required process template settings.

Naming convention

• Job name: XX_Bag_Job (where XX represents your initials)

Process templates

• Refine: 1st Ref-Normz; 2ndRef-MapColors Trap
• Virtual proof: Virtual Proof.Imposed.600

Important: If using the translated Pandora software version in French, Spanish, or German, remember to use a comma (,) for fractional measurements instead of a period (.). For example, English = 456.7 French/Spanish/German = 456,7.