System information

Map the Paper Catalog

You must set up the printer's paper catalog and associate printer trays with paper catalog media before printing for

correct operation. Printers are assumed to have paper catalog media stocked at all times.

In the Add/Remove Printers window, select a printer in the Selected Printers list and click Edit/Configure.

To access the Add/Remove Printers window, you must be adding or editing a printer group.

Do one of the following:

• In the Edit/Configure Printer window, click Paper Catalog Map.

• In Command WorkStation, on the Fiery Central Server, click Device Center > Resources > Paper

Catalog, and then click Mapping. This is not available on client computers.

The Paper Catalog Map utility appears. If a printer has a paper catalog, you must map the printer's paper catalog

entries to the appropriate Fiery Central Paper Catalog.

You can import the printer's paper catalog entries into the Fiery Central Paper Catalog by selecting Add as New

in the Fiery Central Paper Catalog column.

If a printer does not have a paper catalog, you must map the Fiery Central Paper Catalog entries to appropriate

media attributes for that printer.

Set up VDP file search paths

Fiery Central Manager allows you to specify shared locations for VDP resources.

You can set up file search paths that can be used globally for all jobs for the following types of variable data printing

elements: common resources, PPML objects, or VPS objects.

Note: To define job specific search paths, use the VDP tab of Command WorkStation Job Properties for the specific

job.

In the Fiery Central Manager window, click the VDP tab.

Click Add for the type of resources you want to add locations for: Common, PPML, or VPS.

• PPML objects use PPML (Personalized Print Markup Language), an XML-based language developed by PODi,

considered an industry standard. To print documents in PPML format, use a third-party software application

that is compatible with PPML format.

• VPS objects use Creo VPS, an extension of the PostScript language developed by Creo. All of the page elements

must be packaged inside the Creo VPS file. To print, you must have an application that emits the Creo VPS

data stream.

Note: Some PPML and Creo VPS jobs do not contain all of the variable data job resources in a single file. In

these cases, specify the location of the variable data job external resources so that Fiery Central can access them.

These shared locations must have read permissions from Fiery Central and the Fiery Servers.

Browse to the location of the stored objects and click OK.

Fiery Command WorkStation

Managing Fiery Central workflows