This can also be changed just on that one page.Īs you can see, creep in Signa Station goes far beyond just generating the creep itself. You can see where and how creep is occurring and even know how much on a given page. The solid yellow line represents the right page creeping into the left by 0.2”. The example below shows an extreme amount of creep for illustration purposes. This visually shows you how the creep is applied on a page. One truly unique feature of Signa Station is the “What you see is what you get” (WYSWYG) preview of the imposition. This brings up “Page Inspector,” which allows you to turn creep off on those particular pages. In this case, select “Offset.” You can still fix crossovers on a spread by double clicking on the pages you want to adjust.
Many printers do not want to change their customers’ artwork. You can also choose to scale the pages instead of just moving them towards the spine, which helps with pages where the artwork crosses over in a spread. In this example, the creep would be increased 20% from the base paper thickness calculation. You can measure the thickness of a few pieces in the pile to figure out a percentage for creep. Additionally, Signa Station has a very unique function Paper Thickness Factor, which compensates for any large variances in the thickness of the stock. In the Plates step, you define the thickness of the paper, and creep is automatically generated for you.īy selecting Automatic, if the number of forms changes due to a page number increase or decrease, creep will automatically be recalculated based on that change. This can create errors, and if any factors used to calculate the creep change, then it must be recalculated. Manual means someone needs to manually calculate the creep for the center spread, and Signa Station will reduce the creep to the outer pages. In Binding, the first thing we can configure is whether we want Manual or Automatic Creep. There are two areas in Signa Station that are important for setting up Creep: the Binding step and the Plates Step. Let’s look at the basics of setting it up: (If you haven’t used Signa Station before, it’s a truly great piece of software!). Creep can be set-up within Heidelberg Prinect’s Signa Station. Creep is used to compensate for page graphics being pushed out away from the spine – either due to the number of forms being bound and/or the thickness of the paper being used. In this month’s blog, we aren’t going to discuss the famous Radiohead song, but we are going to look at creeping pages in Signa Station.
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