Print Layouts and Merged Outputs with the Floor Module
This article details how we manage merged prints like integrated Front and Neck prints on relevant Kornit Pallets
The Floor Module allows products to be processed which make use of Print Layouts to produce merged outputs. A Print layout is used to create a new merged print ready artwork from one or more print areas on a Catalog Product. Some examples of where this might be used are.
- Greetings Card
A greetings card has 4 print areas, Front, Inside Left, Inside Right and Back. A print layout would all you to set up and just get 2 outputs from the system with Front and Back together and the insides together ready for printing.
- DTG Integrated Front and Neck Prints
With some DTG Technology such as Kornit you are able to to print the front of a garment and the neck at the same time to increase efficiency and save extra processing. You can create a single merged output that places these on one output in the right place for printing.
We call outputs that have been produced through a Print Layout "Merged Outputs" and those that have not "Unmerged Outputs"
These articles explain what Print Layouts are and how they work in more detail
IMPORTANT POINT - The Floor Module can only work with either merged outputs or unmerged outputs on a given item. This means if you need to use a merged output such as "Front and Neck" on a DTG garment then all outputs on that product must have a Print Layout. So if this garment also have "Left Sleeve" and "Right Sleeve" Print Areas then a Print Layout needs to be set up for each of these as well. These Print Layouts can just contain one print area and be the same size and setup as that area. If you run an item through the floor with both merged and unmerged outputs they will not function correctly.