Job Workflows
Printing Extra-Long Sheets
Printing Extra-Long Sheets (XLS) with the EX and EX-P Print Servers
You can print on long sheets up to 330 x 660 mm (26 in.) using the standard XLS feature. This lets you create Banners, Advertisements, A4 Landscape Book Covers, Calendars, and Long Sheet Prints.
XLS specifications include:
• Print Speed: Up to 9 ppm, Simplex Mode only
• Paper Weights: Uncoated: 52–220 g/m2, Coated: 52–220 g/m2
• Maximum Paper Size: 330 x 660 mm
• Maximum Printable Area: 323 x 654 mm
To use this feature, you must feed sheets from Tray 5 and send them to an output destination of the Offset Catch Tray or a Top Tray of the High Capacity Feeder or Finisher.
To print Extra Long Sheets, follow these steps:
1. Load the paper into the Tray 5 (Bypass) located on top of the 2-Tray Advanced Oversized High Capacity Feeder. When no optional feeders are configured with the system, load the paper directly on the side of the press.
a. Open the Tray 5 paper guides wider than the paper so you can easily insert the paper.
b. Hold the center of the paper guides and close them so that they touch the edges of the stack.
c. Gently push the paper stack into Tray 5 until it stops.
2. From the print server, go to > .
3. Scan the barcode on the stock, then select Tray 5 from the Stock Wizard Load screen. To set up the stock, follow the steps in the Stock Wizard.
Note: For details on setting up the stock in the Stock Wizard, refer to Scanning a Media Barcode.
4. Submit the job file to the print server Hold queue. Send the job using > from a PC on the network, or use the Import function at the print server:
a. On the Fiery print server, click the Import shortcut.
b. Click Add.
c. Navigate to the file and select it.
d. Click Hold.
The job is sent to the Hold queue.
5. Set the Job Properties at the print server:
a. To open the Job Properties, in the Hold area, double-click the job.
b. On the Quick Access tab, set Copies to the number of prints that you want to make.
c. On the Quick Access tab, for Paper size, click Custom.
d. Set the Width and Height of the paper, as you did at the press Control Panel.
Note that the terms for the paper dimensions are different on the server:
The width is the measurement in the cross-process direction, and the height is the length of the paper in the process direction. The process direction is the direction in which the paper moves in the press.
e. Click OK.
f. On the Media tab, set Paper source to Tray 5 (bypass).
g. On the Finishing tab, for Delivery options, select the OCT or specific top tray that you want to use to collect the prints. Output is delivered to the Offset Catch Tray or Top Tray.
6. Click Print and monitor the job.