2022.2
Table Of Contents
- Welcome to PrintShop Mail Connect 2022.2
- Setup And Configuration
- System and Hardware Considerations
- Installation and Activation
- Preferences
- Clean-up Service preferences
- Database Connection preferences
- Editing preferences
- Email preferences
- Emmet preferences
- Engines preferences
- Hardware for Digital Signing preferences
- Language preferences
- Logging preferences
- Parallel Processing preferences
- Print preferences
- Sample Projects preferences
- Save preferences
- Scripting preferences
- Versioning preferences
- Engines preferences
- Parallel Processing preferences
- Known Issues
- Uninstalling
- General information
- Versioned projects
- The Designer
- Designer basics
- Content elements
- Snippets
- Styling and formatting
- Personalizing content
- Variable data in the text
- Conditional content
- Dynamic images and Print section backgrounds
- Snippets
- Scripts
- Loading data
- Variable data in text: expressions
- Variable data in text: scripts and placeholders
- Formatting variable data
- Showing content conditionally
- Conditional Print sections
- Dynamic images
- Dynamic Print section backgrounds
- Handlebars in OL Connect
- Preferences
- Clean-up Service preferences
- Database Connection preferences
- Editing preferences
- Email preferences
- Emmet preferences
- Engines preferences
- Hardware for Digital Signing preferences
- Language preferences
- Logging preferences
- Parallel Processing preferences
- Print preferences
- Sample Projects preferences
- Save preferences
- Scripting preferences
- Versioning preferences
- Writing your own scripts
- Script types
- Creating a new Standard Script
- Writing a script
- Setting the scope of a script
- Managing scripts
- Testing scripts
- Optimizing scripts
- The script flow: when scripts run
- Selectors in OL Connect
- Loading a snippet via a script
- Loading content using a server's API
- Using scripts in Dynamic Tables
- Control Scripts
- Post Pagination Scripts
- Translating templates
- Designer User Interface
- Designer Script API
- Generating output
- Print Manager
- PrintShop Mail Connect Release Notes
- OL PrintShop Mail Connect Release Notes 2022.2.3
- Previous Releases
- OL PrintShop Mail Connect Release Notes 2022.1.5
- OL PrintShop Mail Connect Release Notes 2021.2.1
- OL PrintShop Mail Connect Release Notes 2021.1
- OL PrintShop Mail ConnectRelease Notes 2020.2.1
- OL PrintShop Mail Connect Release Notes 2020.1
- OL PrintShop Mail Connect Release Notes 2019.2
- OL PrintShop Mail Connect Release Notes 2019.1
- PrintShop Mail Connect Release Notes 2018.2.1
- PrintShop Mail Connect Release Notes 2018.1.6
- PrintShop Mail Connect Release Notes 1.8
- PrintShop Mail Connect Release Notes 1.7.1
- PrintShop Mail Connect Release Notes 1.6.1
- PrintShop Mail Connect Release Notes 1.5
- PrintShop Mail Connect Release Notes 1.4.2
- Knowledge Base
- Legal Notices and Acknowledgements
Setting the bleed
Thebleedistheprintablespacearoundapage.Itcanbeusedonsomeprinterstoensurethatno
unprintededgesoccurinthefinaltrimmeddocument.Thebleedisoneofthesettingsforasection.See
"Pagesettings:size,marginsandbleed"onpage135.
Overprint and black overprint
Normally,whentwocolorsoverlapinPrintoutput,theunderlyingcolorisnotprinted.Itis"knockedout",
fortworeasons:firstly,theunderlyingcolormayaffectthetopcolor,especiallyifthetopcolorislighter
thantheunderlyingcolor.Secondly,notprintinganunderlyingcolor,whichisnotvisibleanyway,will
saveinkortoner.
However,therearecaseswhenunderlyingcolorsshouldnotbeknockedout:
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Ifthetopcolorisaspecial ink or toner,suchasvarnishorUV,itshouldgooveranyothercol-
ors,asitismeanttobetransparentandgooverothercontent.InConnectyoumayenableover-
printwhenyoudefineaspotcolor;see"Definingcolors,spotcolorsandtints"onpage288.
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Ifsmall black textisprintedoveracoloredarea,mis-registrationmaycausewhiteareastobe
visiblearoundthetextiftheunderlyingcolorisknockedout.
Theoptiontoprintsmallblacktextoverothercolorsisreferredtoasblack overprint.Toenableblack
overprintfortextsmallerthanagivensize:
1. Right-clickthePrint contextintheResourcespaneandselectColor Output,orselectthe
MenuContext > Color Outputoption.
2. IntheText smaller thanfield,enteratextsize(inpoints,forexample:3pt).
Note: BlackoverprintonlyworkswithCMYKblack.
Converting RGB black to CMYK black
InPrintoutput,blackisbydefaultoutputasaCMYKcolor.RGBblackisconvertedintoCMYKblack.
Ifthatisnotdesirableforanyreason,itispossibletopreventit:
1. Right-clickthePrint contextintheResourcespaneandselectColor Output,orselectthe
MenuContext > Color Outputoption.
2. EnabletheKeep RGB black in outputoption.
InConnectversionspriorto2018.2,RGBblackwasnotautomaticallyconvertedtoCMYKblack.There-
fore,thisoptionisbydefaultenabledintemplatesmadewithanearlierversion.Innewtemplates,this
optionisdisabledbydefault.
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