Creating Papers

Papers represent the paper, envelopes, forms, labels, or transparencies that jobs are printed on. TotalFlow Production Manager assigns each job to a printer that uses the papers that the job requires.

In certain cases, TotalFlow Production Manager automatically creates papers to represent the papers that are defined for a printer device. Printer devices that use a controller option let you export the paper catalog and import the papers into TotalFlow Production Manager. You can also create papers manually.

In this section:

  1. Papers in TotalFlow Production Manager and in Other Programs
    Papers can be defined in many different places, including the TotalFlow Production Manager paper catalog, the applications that submit jobs, the paper catalogs of some printers, and the input tray settings of some printers. This means that papers with the same names can have different properties and papers with the same properties can have different names. This topic explains how TotalFlow Production Manager determines whether the paper requested by a job and the paper in a printer input tray, or the paper in a printer paper catalog and a paper in the TotalFlow Production Manager paper catalog are the same.
  2. Creating Papers Automatically
    For some printers, TotalFlow Production Manager automatically creates papers to represent the printer device when you create the printer.
  3. Importing a Printer Paper Catalog
    Printer devices that use the EFI Fiery controller option let you export the paper catalog as an XML file. You can create papers by importing the catalog into TotalFlow Production Manager.
  4. Creating Papers Manually
    You can create papers for TotalFlow Production Manager manually.
Parent topic: Configuration