Heidelberg likes to tell you that it can do all this stuff, but after multiple complaints they sent out reps to my old shop and we had a "sit down." After an hour of arguing and showing them issues, the reps admitting there were "flaws" and they assured me that they would be resolved in future releases. Trapping is suspect (if you buy the optional trapping software) - you need to check Signa's Acrobat trapping plug in's work. It can do a flood varnish, but not a spot varnish (unless you create it outside of Signa). Other issues - the Acrobat plug ins conflict with PitStop and Fusion Pro, so you basically need a Signa dedicated machine. And on the iteration of Signa I was using many years ago, forget about transparencies - Signa just plain can't do them, unless they originated in PhotoShop. I'd also highly recommend converting fonts to outline also, as Signa is notorious for font substitution and/or misdisplaying them. Also, if you do have to use fat pdfs, I highly recommend trapping (as Signa (alone) does not trap to my knowledge) them first (if you aren't doing so already), and be sure to check your overprints AFTER imposition. I hope to God you're using a RIP and not imposing fat pdfs Signa will totally foul them up. SignaStation is a lousy piece of imposing software that does require at least minimal training.
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