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Correct Joe! I have used Preps with an old Dolev PSM and impositioned full res files... Bad idea! Takes way too long to do anything.
I haven't used Xiflow or Navigator, we are using Xenith Xitron Extreme and I love it. I don't use the screened hi res tiff for imposition but rather the low res placment files (36dpi eps file).
In my workflow, when you RIP a job it creates a new job ticket within the workflow. That job ticket contains both the low res and high res files and they are linked together. I impose the low res files in preps and print out of preps, back into the workflow and the workflow knows to replace the placement files with the hi res (sideline) files when I release the file to the Raster Blaster plate queue. By the time the separation gets to Raster Blaster, it is a large composite 1 bit tiff that images to the plate.
The only part of this process that takes much time is the ripping of the original PDF.
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