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Juergen May wrote:
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> I'm wondering if it's possible to adapt a PPD to do the following... When I select my printer (AGFA AccuSet 800) and go to print (from QuarkXPress), depending on the PPD I choose I'd like to determine whether the In-RIP Separations feature is selected or not. Does that make sense!?
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> You see, what I'd like to see in my list of PPDs in Quark is 'AccuSet' and 'AccuSet with In-RIP Seps', so that I can choose on-the-fly whichever is appropriate for the particular job I happen to be outputting.
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What would the difference be between the two PPDs? Here we have an
ECRM RIP that drives both a Stingray imagesetter and an Epson 7600
inkjet -- two very different devices -- but we use the same PPD for
both. The appropriate printer still has to be chosen; a PPD alone
will not make the selection. (We don't use in-RIP separations often,
but the RIP can be configured to separate composite jobs while
leaving pre-separated ones alone.)

Unless I'm missing something, it sounds as if setting up a couple of
different Print Styles in XPress (e.g. one with "Separations" chosen
and one that uses "Composite CMYK" instead), both using the same PPD,
would be what you're looking for.

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