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CIP3 Output Plugin

Version 1.4r11
August 2010

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Contents

1.1 Introduction 2
Requirements 2
Capabilities of the plugin 3
Typical workflow 3

1.2 Software installation 3

Supplying passwords 5

1.3 Device configuration 6

Filename setup 7
DIG comments 8
Extents and Transforms 9
Output file contents 13
Coding text entries for Job Name and Sheet Name 15
Double-sided styles 17

1.4 Routine use 18

Page Setup settings 18
Producing acceptable input jobs 20

1.5 Related documentation 20

1.6 Example output 21

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1 CIP3 Output Plugin

This document describes the use of the CIP3 output plugin with the Harlequin RIP.)
This document describes the CIP3 plugin version 1.4r11, for use with the Harlequin
RIP. The plugin is available for the RIP running under the Windows Server 2003,
2008, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems, and on Intel
and PowerPC Macintosh OS X v10.4.x (Tiger), 10.5.x (Leopard), 10.6.x (Snow Leop-
ard) and above.

1.1 Introduction
Plugins are a way of extending the capabilities of the Harlequin RIP in a way that does
not require any programming or other technical skills from the person installing the
plugin. Typical plugins allow the RIP to accept jobs from various sources of input, to
process the data in various ways, to report on the progress of rasterizing the image,
and to provide page images in new formats, and to send the final image to output
devices or interface systems.
The CIP3 plugin allows the RIP to produce Print Production Format (PPF) files as
specified by a group called International Cooperation for Integration of Processes in
Pre-press, Press, and Post-press (CIP4). PPF files contain information about print jobs
including administrative data, information about inks and register marks, comments,
and preview images.

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The PPF specification is available on the World Wide Web, as described in Section 1.5
on page 20. Briefly, the group wish to provide enabling standards for applying Com-
puter Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) techniques to printing workflows by avoiding
the need for recalculation or re-entry of information. The result of this work is the
Print Production Format (PPF) file specification.
In the Harlequin RIP, you can use the same RIP that generates your film or plates to
create PPF files enabling ink-keys to be set quickly and easily on press. PPF file gen-
eration is just as easy and automatic as generating the plates and films themselves, and
using those files with your press can bring you to color far faster, reducing make-
ready times and wastage, and removing the need for plate scanners.

1.1.1 Requirements
The CIP3 plugin has no special requirements; its output is to file only, typically at a
low resolution.

1.1.2 Capabilities of the plugin

The plugin has the following options:
* CMYK color preview images, 8 bits per pixel, separated or unseparated. Spot
colors are supported, but only for separated output files. (The preview image is
the starting point for calculating the ink-keys in the software that reads PPF
files.)
* Uncompressed or run length encoded compressed files.
* A choice of resolution for the preview image.
* A choice of work styles for single and double-sided sheets.
Version 1.4r11 of the plugin supports the version 2.0, version 2.1 and version 3.0 PPF
specifications.

1.1.3 Typical workflow

Because the purpose of the PPF specification is to provide PPF files that accurately
predict the characteristics of a film or plate, you can expect to have pairs of page set-
ups. In each pair, one page setup should produce the high resolution data required by

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your actual output device and the one for CIP3 should mimic all settings of that page
setup except that it should have Calibration set to (None) and produce a lower resolu-
tion version of the image on film or plate.
In use, you should send a job twice: once to the page setup for the real device and once
to the page setup using the CIP3 plugin. (Jobs sent to the CIP3 plugin run quickly
because the resolution used in a PPF file is typically very low compared to the real
device.)

1.2 Software installation

The plugin may be supplied as part of your standard Harlequin RIP installation media.
If so, installing the RIP is sufficient to install the plugin.
If you receive separate installation media, or an updated plugin, install it using this
procedure.
1. The CIP3 plugin requires the Harlequin RIP to be installed on the target
machine. Install the RIP, if this is a new installation.
2. Insert the Harlequin RIP Plugin CD-ROM and access its contents. At the top
level of the CD run the setup program for the operating system you are running.
3. Click Next to move onto the next screen. Use Previous to go back to the previous
screen.
4. In the Choose Plugins window choose Other Plugins, and CIP Plugin
X.Xrx plugin along with any other plugins you want to install. Click Next.

5. In the Choose Install Folderwindow you must specify the Harlequin RIP instal-
lation folder as the destination for the plugin files. Click Next.
If you select an invalid or incorrect RIP folder an error message will appear. Use
the browser to select the correct RIP folder and click Next.
6. Read the agreement displayed in the Output Plugin License Agreement window.
You must click the I accept... option to continue. Click Next.
7. In the Pre-installation Summary window, check that your selections are correct
and then click Install.
8. When the Install Complete window appears click Done.

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9. After installing the plugin start the Harlequin RIP.

If you have correctly installed the plugin the following message will appear in
the RIP monitor when you next start up the RIP:
CIP3 plugin: Version 1.4r11 - Copyright (C) 1997-2010 Global
Graphics Software Ltd. All Rights Reserved.

To use the plugin, choose CIP3 in the Device list in the Page Setup dialog box. Config-
ure the device as described in Section 1.3 on page 6 and choose options in the Page
Setup dialog box as described in Section 1.4 on page 18.
Note: If CIP3 does not appear as an option in the Device list in the Page Setup dialog,
see Section 1.2.1.

1.2.1 Supplying passwords

Some installations of the RIP may require you to enter a password before you can use
a plugin or other options such as color management. If the CIP3 option does not
appear as an option in the Device list in the Page Setup dialog box, follow this proce-
dure.
When requesting the password from your supplier you may be asked to give the serial
number of your RIP. The RIP displays this number in the main Harlequin RIP window
when starting up, in the form:
Serial number: 1234-56

You must also tell your supplier the platform for which you require the password. The
platform is the combination of operating system and processor type. For example, you
might specify Windows XP, and Intel processor.
Once you have a password, use the File > Configure RIP menu option to display the
Configure RIP dialog box. Click the Extras button in the Configure RIP dialog box to
display the Extras dialog box. Select the platform-dependent entry for CIP3, and click
Add. (For example, the entry for Windows NT, and Intel processor is
cip3.i32, CIP3.) Enter the password for this option given to you by your supplier,
and click OK.
Click OK in each of the Extras and Configure RIP dialog boxes.

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Once the plugin is installed fully, you can choose it as an entry in the Device list in the
Page Setup dialog box. Once you have chosen the device, you can click Configure
Device to see the configuration dialog box shown in Figure 1.1.

1.3 Device configuration

Figure 1.1 CIP3 file converter configuration dialog box

The controls in this dialog box fall into categories:

* Output filename setup
* Inclusion of Digital Imposition Geometry (DIG) comments
* Inclusion of extents and transforms
* Format of the output file contents

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Make the settings you wish then click OK.

Note: Not all CIP3 consuming applications can read all combinations of options in a
PPF file. Choose a combination of device configuration in this dialog box and a Style
in the Page Setup dialog box that matches the capabilities of the consuming applica-
tion that you intend to use.

1.3.1 Filename setup

The settings in this section allow you to name the PPF files simply and uniquely. In all
cases, the file name is based on the PostScript-language jobname, but you have con-
trol over the length of the name, an optional numerical sequence, and the file exten-
sion.
Directory

Click the button to use a file browser to choose the directory to hold the output
file.
Alternatively, type in the text field to enter the full path to the directory you
want to use. This path must specify the disk name and all directories to an exist-
ing directory.
If you do not choose a directory, the plugin creates the files in the SW folder of
the RIP installation that you are using.
Use 8.3 Filenames
Select this check box to use DOS-compatible short file names. Leave this check
box unselected to use long file names, upon which you can make some restric-
tions by selecting the remaining controls in this section.
Limit jobname to characters

Select this check box to base the name of the file created on an initial substring
of the jobname set in the PostScript-language file which describes the page. Use
the text field to specify the maximum number of characters you want to take
from the jobname, starting from the beginning of the name.
Leave this check box unselected to use all the alphabetic and numeric characters
in the jobname.

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Append digits
Enter a number here to append a known length of numerical string to the job
name in order to create a unique name for each file produced. The number is an
integer starting at 0 (zero). For example, enter 3 in this field to generate num-
bers of the form: 000, 001, 002, and so on.
Extension

Enter a text string to act as an extension to the file name. The default is PPF, but
you can choose another extension if it is required by your workflow.

1.3.2 DIG comments

If Digital Imposition Geometry (DIG) comments are present in incoming jobs, the
controls in this section allow you to use some of the names included in these com-
ments as parts of CIP3 comments specified in the Contents section of this dialog box.
DIG comments follow a specification created and maintained by ScenicSoft, Inc. The
comments are included in PostScript-language files produced by Preps from Scenic-
Soft and ImpoStrip from Ultimate Technographics Inc. The comments provide
enhanced support for large format imagesetters using more than one imaging head.
It is safe to select these check boxes for jobs that do not contain the relevant DIG com-
ments.
Read Title

Select this check box to read the title given in any %SSiDIGTitle: comment
from the incoming job. (This title may be used to set the file name for use in the
Job Name or Sheet Name fields lower in this dialog box.)

Leave this check box unselected if you wish to ignore any %SSiDIGTitle:
comment.
Read Surface

Select this check box to read the surface given in any %SSiDIGSurface: com-
ment from the incoming job. (This title may be used to set the file name for use
in the Job Name or Sheet Name fields.)
Leave this check box unselected if you wish to ignore any %SSiDIGSurface:
comment.

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1.3.3 Extents and Transforms

There are several very similar subsections under this heading, one each for Film, Plate,
Press, and Paper. You can set all of these values or leave some at the default values.

Extents refer to the physical area of the image. Transforms are the offsets, rotation,
and mirroring that it is possible to apply. Depending on the choice that you make for
Work Style, also in this section of the dialog box, there may be a back to the sheets
requiring different but related transforms.
The transforms are cumulative and executed in the top to bottom order used in this
dialog box. The transforms defined for Film are applied in moving from the raster data
to the film image, the transforms for Plate are applied in moving from the film image
to the plate, and so on.
A sufficiently large offset or inappropriate rotation can cause loss of image data, as
Figure 1.2 shows. In each of the cases, the bold outline represents the total area of the
film, and the light outline represents the image area. The shaded (gray) areas show
where parts of the image are not imaged because of a transform.

A A A

No transform Offset Rotation

Figure 1.2 Transforms and possible image clipping

Note: The extents and transforms do not affect the raster that you can view in Roam.
They are a record of how the following stages of the printing workflow should handle
the raster and the physical images in order to achieve a correct product after printing,
cutting, and folding.

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The CIP3 PPF specification defines all geometry with respect to an origin at bottom
left of the relevant coordinate system. However, the specification does not clearly
define what is the bottom left of a plate, what is the imageable area of a press, and so
on. You may encounter some conventions that are specific to the way in which various
vendors have interpreted the specification.
Note: All Width, Height and Offset values must be entered in points.
Width and as Job

Select the as Job check box to use the width set in the job.
Alternatively, to set a fixed value, deselect the check box and enter a value in
the Width text field. The value set here is ignored if you select the as Job check
box.
Height and as Job

Select the as Job check box to use the height set in the job.
Alternatively, to set a fixed value, deselect the check box and enter a value in
the Height text field. The value set here is ignored if you select the as Job check
box.
Left Offset and Center

Select this Center check box to center the image horizontally on the film.
Alternatively, to set a fixed offset, deselect the check box and enter a value in
the Left Offset text field. A positive value moves the image to the right. The
value set here is ignored if you select the Center check box.
Note: Figure 1.2, page 9, shows the effect of positive values for left and bottom
offsets. You can also enter negative values.
Bottom Offset and Center

Select this Center check box to center the image vertically on the film.
Alternatively, to set a fixed offset, deselect the check box and enter a value in
the Bottom Offset text field. A positive value moves the image upwards. The
value set here is ignored if you select the Center check box.

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Rotation
Select one of the rotations available in this list. The default is 0 (zero) degrees
for no rotation.
Mirror

Select one of the choices available in this list. The default is None for no mirror-
ing, but you can choose Horizontal or Vertical for cases that require it. For
example, you may require mirroring where outputting the image emulsion-
down.
These controls re-occur in each of the following subsections. In each case, the process
the controls are describing is the one that places the image on the item that is the title
of the subsection. For example, the settings in the Plate subsection control how the
film is treated in arriving at a position on the plate.
At the end of the Film, Plate, Press, and Paper sections, there are some controls that are
more general.
Work Style

This control sets the production of single or double-sided sheets, and the rela-
tionship between the front and back of double-sided sheets. (See Section 1.3.6
on page 17 for more details.) Choose one of the entries in this list, to match the
choice made during imposition and be careful of some imposition terms that
have two possible meanings.

Work style Comments

Single Sided These jobs do not have backs.

Sheetwise Invert paper transform left/right for the back.

Swap sheet lay for back.

Work & Turn These jobs do not have backs. (The same plate
is used for the back with the sheet turned over
to maintain the same gripper or leading edge.)
Also known as: Work and Flop (but this name
is sometimes used for other styles).

Table 1.1 Work styles

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Work style Comments

Work & Tumble These jobs do not have backs. (The same plate
is used for the back with the sheet tumbled
over to use a different gripper or leading
edge.)
Also known as: Work and Flop, Work and
Roll.

Perfecting Sheetwise Invert paper transform top/bottom for the

back. The sheet lay is the same on the back as
on the front. Similar to: Work and Twist

Perfecting Work & These jobs do not have backs. (There are two
Turn identical plates with the plate for the back
rotated by 180ℜ° on the press, relative to the
plate for the front.)

Perfecting Work & These jobs do not have backs.

Tumble
Also known as: Perfecting Work and Roll.

Double Sided Web Invert paper transform left/right for the back.
The sheet lay is the same on the back as on the
front. (For a web, it is more common to use the
terms top form and bottom form, rather than
front and back.)

Table 1.1 Work styles

Sheet Lay

Choose Left or Right from this list. This choice sets the lay for the front of a
double-sided sheet. The lay for the back of the sheet, if it is required, and differ-
ent from the front, is determined by the Work Style. (The lay is the guiding edge
of the paper in the press, viewed in the direction of paper flow.)

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Include all Extents and Transforms

Select this check box to include values in the PPF file for all settings in the
Extents and Transforms section, even if they are at their default values. The
default values have no effect, but the software reading the PPF files may require
the settings to be present in the PPF file.
If you leave this box unselected, the PPF file includes only the values for con-
trols that you have set explicitly. For example, if you have set values only for
the Film and Plate subsections then only those values (and any defaults dis-
played higher in this section of the dialog box) appear in the PPF file.

1.3.4 Output file contents

Note: Several options in the Page Setup dialog box also affect the contents of the file.
Version
This setting controls the CIP3 version number included in the PPF file.
The options are Version 2.0, Version 2.1, and Version 3.0.
Compression
The options are None and Run length.
None produces an uncompressed file. Run length produces a compressed file.
(The compression technique is lossless so there is no effect on image quality.)
Encoding
The options are Binary (raw), Hexadecimal, and ASCII 85.
Note: ASCII 85 is an encoding using 85 printable characters of the ASCII set
from character 33 (!) with limited line length and EOD markers
This controls the storage format of the preview images, giving various compro-
mises between portability and file size but does not affect the image. If you want
to transfer the PPF file over networks where conversion of the line-end charac-
ters within the file is possible, then you should use ASCII 85 or Hexadecimal.
If this is not the case, use the more compact Binary format.
Job Name

Enter fixed text or a code sequence (or both) to set a value for the
CIP3AdmJobName comment in the PPF files. Section 1.3.5 on page 15 describes

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the possible codes and their meanings. The default value is the code %J which
inserts the job name taken from the PostScript-language job or a DIG comment
if present.
Note: Together with the setting for Sheet Name the settings you make here allow
the CIP3 plugin to pass information to the PPF reader software that associates
the sheets with a job and to identify sheets in a double-sided job as being front
or back sides.
Sheet Name
Enter fixed text or a code sequence (or both) to set a value for the
CIP3AdmSheetName comment in a PPF file. The default value is the code
Sheet %S which inserts the strings: Sheet 1, Sheet 2, and so on.
Section 1.3.5 on page 15 describes the possible codes and their meanings. See
also the note for Job Name.
Sequence of Image Data
Allows the sequence of image data to be changed to match the expectation of a
downstream CIP3 reader.
The default setting of Left to right, top to bottom matches the behavior
of earlier plugins.
AntiAlias

Select this box to antialias the preview image.

1.3.5 Coding text entries for Job Name and Sheet Name
Both of these text fields are coded in exactly the same way. They may include: plain
text, which appears exactly as entered; with or without control sequences, which are
replaced by variable text specific to the job or sheet as the job is processed.
Use the default values if you are in doubt about what you should include in these
fields. The default values have been selected to be compatible with many CIP3 PPF
readers. If you have problems with the defaults, please check for recommendations
from the supplier of your PPF reader.
Control sequences must start with a percent character ( % ). This must be followed
immediately with either of:
* A character taken from the list below

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* An integer and then a character taken from the list below

There must be no spaces between the percent character, the integer (if present), and
the control character itself.
The recognized control characters are:

%F Inserts Front for the front of a two-sided sheet and Back for
the back. All single-sided sheets are regarded as front sides.

%G Inserts the signature number of the imposition. This number

is always 1 unless the job contains %SSiDIGSignature:
comments.

%J Inserts the job name. This name is usually set by a PostScript-

language or PDF job. If a job does not set the name, this
sequence inserts the input filename instead.

%N Inserts the file name of the job being processed. If Read Title
comments has been checked in the DIG comments section and
the job contains a %SSiDIGTitle: comment then this
sequence inserts the value of that comment.

%P Inserts the plate (surface) number, starting at 1 for the first

plate in the job.

%S Inserts the sheet number within the signature, starting at 1 for

the first sheet in the job.

%T Inserts the title description set by %%Title in the PostScript

language job.

%% Inserts a single percent character.

If you give the sequences as shown, the text inserted is the full length of a string or the
required (variable) number of digits for an integer.
If you include an integer in the control sequence, for example, %3S, it is used to spec-
ify the length or precision of the value entered into the final string. If the result of the
control sequence is a string, and that string is longer than the precision, then it is trun-

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cated after the specified number of characters. If the result of the control sequence is
an integer that has fewer digits than the precision then it will be left-padded with zeros
to equal the precision.

1.3.5.1 Examples
The exact strings to enter in these fields may vary both with your workflow and with
the PPF reader or readers that you intend to use.
In the following examples, the job name defined in the job is:
8476065 Master Document

In Job Name In the PPF file Notes

%J 8476065 Master Default

Document

%7J 8476065

%J SIG%3G 8476065 Master

Document SIG001

%P. %J 1. 8476065 Master Matches CIP3

Document plugin v1.18 and
earlier

Table 1.2 Useful Job Name values

In Sheet Name In the PPF file Notes

Sheet %S Sheet 1 Default

%S/%G 1/1

%P. %J 1. 8476065 Master Matches plugin

Document v1.18 and earlier

Table 1.3 Useful Sheet Name values

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1.3.6 Double-sided styles

There are several ways to achieve a double-sided sheet, involving various imposition
styles that may require one or two plates. The Work Style control allows you to set up
the CIP3 plugin to suit these styles.
Whether or not the same plate is used on both the front and back of a sheet, the front to
back registration must be maintained and there is frequently a need to alter the orienta-
tion or offsets for use on the back. Figure 1.3 shows the dimensions that can be
affected by such changes. For example, left/right inversion means that the horizontal
offset of the back is calculated from the values on the front as (Paper width - Plate width -
Horizontal offset).

Paper width
Front
Plate width

Paper
Plate
height
height
Horizontal
offset

Vertical offset Horizontal offset after

left/right inversion

Back

Horizontal
offset

Figure 1.3 Left/right inversion of offsets

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1.4 Routine use

The remaining controls that you need to consider are in the Page Setup dialog box. In
general, you should make the settings that you would when producing real output.

1.4.1 Page Setup settings

The default value for Resolution is 50.8 dpi (or the equivalent 20 dpcm and 2 dpmm).
This resolution is the value suggested in the CIP3 specification referenced in
Section 1.5 on page 20.
Note: Version 1.1r8 of the CIP3 plugin applied a special interpretation to resolution
which is no longer used.
When producing the CIP3 file, the margins and alignment may need to match the
films or plates exactly; you need to be aware of this when switching PostScript Printer
Descriptions (PPDs) to generate composite color PostScript-language jobs because
margins and orientation may change also. Instead you could use the Recombine presep-
arated jobs check box (in the Edit Style dialog box) so that you can use the same jobs
for film or plates and CIP3 generation.
Style (Color generation)

The options are in the Style list in the Separations, Screening & Color section of
the Page Setup dialog box:
•CMYK Composite (Pixel)
•CMYK Composite (Frame)
These choices control the layout of the data inside the CIP3 file. The CIP3
plugin will always create files with CMYK data in them, even if you send only a
single separation. (The unused separations are empty, so with run length com-
pression enabled they are very small.)
The CMYK Composite (Frame) setting is readable by more applications that
read PPF files.
Note: If you use the Separations Manager (by clicking the button alongside the
Style list), you can copy the CMYK Composite (Frame) style and edit it to
include spot colors either by name for specific colors or by using the existing
setting (Other colors in job) to include all spot colors found and not
named elsewhere in the list. However you choose to add spot colors, set the

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Print? column for your colors to Yes or Not Blank. Take care when you do this
to properly duplicate the settings in the separations style for the page setup that
sends output to your real imagesetter, or you may find different separations in
the real output and in the PPF file.
Using the CIP3 output plugin you are able to change the output order of separa-
tions. The standard order is CMYK, you can however change this to suit your
requirements. For example, some customers like to produce KMCY output. To
change the order, drag and drop the colorant names in the upper window of the
Edit Style dialog. The separations are generated in list order.
If you are sending a preseparated job to the RIP, you can use the Recombine pre-
separated jobs option (in the Edit Style dialog box) to recombine the separations
into a composite output, so that only one CIP3 file gets produced. The CIP3
option to produce separated or unseparated PPF files still applies.
Calibration
Choose None in the page setup used for CIP3. (Make your normal setting for
linearization in the page setup used for output to film or plate.)
Intended Press and Actual Press

These controls are available so that you can accurately match the page setup
used for output to film or plate. The settings for CIP3 output must be the same
as ones in the page setup used for output to film or plate.

1.4.2 Producing acceptable input jobs

To produce composite color PostScript-language jobs correctly, you (or the customers
supplying you with jobs) must use a PPD that supports color. You can check that you
are getting composite color jobs by checking the page buffers in the Output Controller,
using the Roam button.
Similarly, you can supply jobs as any other form of input acceptable to the RIP. Note
that PostScript-language and PDF jobs can be preseparated rather than composite.
Preseparated jobs will produce one PPF file for each separation, unless you select the
Recombine preseparated jobs option in the Edit Style dialog box.

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1.5 Related documentation

For more details about the CIP3 format, see:
* Specification of the CIP3 Print Production Format
This specification is available from:
http://www.cip4.org/

1.6 Example output

The bulk of the CIP3 output file is a preview image, included as raw binary data or in
an encoded form, but the file does contain some header and trailer lines that are human
readable.

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Here is a simple example for a CMYK job, prepared using the CMYK Composite
(Pixel) setting:

%!PS-Adobe-3.0
%%CIP3-File Version 2.0
% Generated by the Harlequin CIP3 plugin version 1.4r11
CIP3BeginSheet
/CIP3AdmJobName (eDocument Library) def
/CIP3AdmSheetName (Sheet 6) def
/CIP3AdmSoftware (Harlequin CIP3 plugin version 1.4r11) def
/CIP3AdmCreationTime (Fri Aug 20 13:02:54 2010) def
/CIP3AdmSheetLay /Left def
/CIP3AdmPSExtent [596.693 795.118] def
/CIP3AdmFilmTrf [ 1 0 0 1 0 0 ] def
/CIP3AdmFilmExtent [ 596.693 795.118 ] def
/CIP3AdmPlateTrf [ 1 0 0 1 0 0 ] def
/CIP3AdmPlateExtent [ 596.693 795.118 ] def
/CIP3AdmPressTrf [ 1 0 0 1 0 0 ] def
/CIP3AdmPressExtent [ 596.693 795.118 ] def
/CIP3AdmPaperTrf [ 1 0 0 1 0 0 ] def
/CIP3AdmPaperExtent [ 596.693 795.118 ] def
/CIP3TransferFilmCurveData [ 0.0 0.0 1.0 1.0 ] def
/CIP3TransferPlateCurveData [ 0.0 0.0 1.0 1.0 ] def
/CIP3AdmSeparationNames
.....................[ (Cyan) (Magenta) (Yellow) (Black) ] def
CIP3BeginFront
CIP3BeginPreviewImage
/CIP3PreviewImageWidth 421 def
/CIP3PreviewImageHeight 561 def
/CIP3PreviewImageBitsPerComp 8 def
/CIP3PreviewImageMatrix [ 421 0 0 -561 0 561 ] def
/CIP3PreviewImageResolution [ 50.800000 50.800000 ] def
/CIP3PreviewImageEncoding /Binary def
/CIP3PreviewImageCompression /None def
/CIP3PreviewImageByteAlign 1 def
/CIP3PreviewImageComponents 4 def
CIP3PreviewImage
.......lines of data.......
CIP3EndPreviewImage
CIP3EndFront
CIP3EndSheet
%%CIP3EndOfFile

Note: In this example, the entry for CIP3AdmSeparationNames is actually a single

line but appears here on multiple lines for clarity. Also ... lines of data ... is
used to represent large regions of data omitted from this listing.

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