Heidelberg Presents New Workflow Solutions
05/17/2000
Prinergy workflow management system Version 2.0 - New functions
and new products
More than 200 businesses in the graphic arts industry are already using the Prinergy workflow management solution from Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg) to deliver a significant boost in prepress productivity. Heidelberg will be using drupa 2000 to present the new Prinergy version 2.0 which will be marketed under the name "Prinergy Connect". Version 2.0 incorporates a whole raft of customer "wants" in the form of new features and optimizations. Visitors will also be able to see "Prinergy Direct", the Prinergy entry-level solution for direct output on imposed PDF and PostScript sheets. "Prinergy Powerpack" will also be on display. This is the first PDF workflow management solution for packaging printers which ensures reliable and automatic processing of all packaging jobs (folding boxes, labels, etc.).
Prinergy Connect - Open and transparent concept for users and their customers
Prinergy Insite (Prinergy Web Client) is an important function for reinforcing customer loyalty to a printshop or prepress business. It can be used to access the Prinergy system via a standard browser and the Internet. This enables external production engineers to check that PDF pages meet the needs of the specific job, to download these pages, to perform remote proofing or to directly identify the job's specific location and processing status.
A further new feature is the Jetbase interface to Prinergy. If a job is created in Jetbase, the content management database solution from Heidelberg, a job with the same name and file structures is automatically generated in Prinergy. If the external production engineer prints a ready-assembled page (in PostScript form) from Jetbase to Prinergy into a hot folder, then automatic processing and output of the job by Prinergy can start immediately. This extends the prepress workflow to the customer's workplace - a process which saves considerable time and effort.
This is also the objective of integrating the Signastation impositioning software. Visitors to drupa will be able to experience interactive cooperation between Signastation 6.0 and Prinergy. Both software products can exchange job information via job tickets, and the Signastation can now be started directly from Prinergy. The unique CIP3 functionality for printing and finishing by Signastation can thus be utilized to the full by Prinergy.
Additional new Prinergy functions:
Efficient handling of different versions, e.g. different language versions of a single job.
Prinergy Direct - The gateway to the PDF-based workflow with a full range of upgrade options
Prinergy Direct is an entry-level solution for users wanting to add a PDF-based workflow to their operations. The "small version" of Prinergy adopts imposed PostScript jobs or PDF assemblies and processes these into PDF pages which can be output on a filmsetter or plate recorder. Prinergy Direct can also process finished print jobs from job-ticket-based systems such as Prinergy Connect. The print jobs are printed directly from the application into a hot folder which is linked with a Prinergy process plan and automatically performs all processing operations.
Prinergy Powerpack was developed specifically for packaging printers and incorporates a whole range of specific functions which satisfy users expectations of a digital workflow system for this particular industry. This integrated, automated solution for prepress production of packaging jobs (folding boxes, labels, etc.) is the first PDF workflow management system on the market.
Prinergy Powerpack can naturally also import designed individual repeats from various applications and supports PDF and PostScript/EPS/DCS formats. Since brilliant color quality is what is needed in the packaging industry, new functions have been integrated into Prinergy Powerpack, particularly as regards trapping and Color Management.
Image Web Client
Heidelberg will be presenting the new Version 2.0 of Prinergy at DRUPA 2000. Version 2.0 integrates many customer requirements into new features and optimizations. Using the new Internet-based client, the end customer can track the production status of his jobs in the printshop online.
Image Workflow
Heidelberg will be presenting the new Version 2.0 of Prinergy at DRUPA 2000. Version 2.0 integrates many customer requirements into new features and optimizations. Workflow automation has been enhanced. The customer can now automatically search all work stages, from data entry to the impositioned form proof, at the click of mouse.
Image Trapping
Heidelberg will be presenting the new Version 2.0 of Prinergy at DRUPA 2000. Version 2.0 integrates many customer requirements into new features and optimizations. The extended Trap Editor enables packaging printers to match traps to the punching form, to define the trap corner shape and to perform three-color traps.
For further information:
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
Thomas Fichtl
Tel.: +49 (0)6221 92 47 47
E-mail: thomas.fichtl@heidelberg.com
More than 200 businesses in the graphic arts industry are already using the Prinergy workflow management solution from Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg) to deliver a significant boost in prepress productivity. Heidelberg will be using drupa 2000 to present the new Prinergy version 2.0 which will be marketed under the name "Prinergy Connect". Version 2.0 incorporates a whole raft of customer "wants" in the form of new features and optimizations. Visitors will also be able to see "Prinergy Direct", the Prinergy entry-level solution for direct output on imposed PDF and PostScript sheets. "Prinergy Powerpack" will also be on display. This is the first PDF workflow management solution for packaging printers which ensures reliable and automatic processing of all packaging jobs (folding boxes, labels, etc.).
Prinergy Connect - Open and transparent concept for users and their customers
Prinergy Insite (Prinergy Web Client) is an important function for reinforcing customer loyalty to a printshop or prepress business. It can be used to access the Prinergy system via a standard browser and the Internet. This enables external production engineers to check that PDF pages meet the needs of the specific job, to download these pages, to perform remote proofing or to directly identify the job's specific location and processing status.
A further new feature is the Jetbase interface to Prinergy. If a job is created in Jetbase, the content management database solution from Heidelberg, a job with the same name and file structures is automatically generated in Prinergy. If the external production engineer prints a ready-assembled page (in PostScript form) from Jetbase to Prinergy into a hot folder, then automatic processing and output of the job by Prinergy can start immediately. This extends the prepress workflow to the customer's workplace - a process which saves considerable time and effort.
This is also the objective of integrating the Signastation impositioning software. Visitors to drupa will be able to experience interactive cooperation between Signastation 6.0 and Prinergy. Both software products can exchange job information via job tickets, and the Signastation can now be started directly from Prinergy. The unique CIP3 functionality for printing and finishing by Signastation can thus be utilized to the full by Prinergy.
Additional new Prinergy functions:
Efficient handling of different versions, e.g. different language versions of a single job.
- Export of reports from the Prinergy database for business management evaluation in commercial systems; retrieval of information, e.g. regarding RIP utilization and imaging operations
- Export of information on a specific job (PDF pages, PDF sheets, job tickets with impositioning information) as a .zip archive from one Prinergy system and import into another Prinergy system to allow simple exchange of jobs between different production sites.
- Extended automation through workflow process plans which register the data, undertake refining (conversion to PDF, preflight check and correction, trapping, CMM) and perform subsequent impositioning.
Prinergy Direct - The gateway to the PDF-based workflow with a full range of upgrade options
Prinergy Direct is an entry-level solution for users wanting to add a PDF-based workflow to their operations. The "small version" of Prinergy adopts imposed PostScript jobs or PDF assemblies and processes these into PDF pages which can be output on a filmsetter or plate recorder. Prinergy Direct can also process finished print jobs from job-ticket-based systems such as Prinergy Connect. The print jobs are printed directly from the application into a hot folder which is linked with a Prinergy process plan and automatically performs all processing operations.
- Prinergy Direct performs refining (embedding of fonts, normalization to PDF, treatment of special colors, OPI including, conversion from RGB to CMYK) and output. The result is an optimized PDF document which is free of errors and contains all data which the output device requires for imaging. The imposed print jobs can be proofed on the monitor or on plotters. The "VPS" (Visual Proof System) software can be used for soft proofs on the Macintosh and allows the user to view individual separations, including verso and recto simultaneously, even zoomed.
Prinergy Powerpack was developed specifically for packaging printers and incorporates a whole range of specific functions which satisfy users expectations of a digital workflow system for this particular industry. This integrated, automated solution for prepress production of packaging jobs (folding boxes, labels, etc.) is the first PDF workflow management system on the market.
Prinergy Powerpack can naturally also import designed individual repeats from various applications and supports PDF and PostScript/EPS/DCS formats. Since brilliant color quality is what is needed in the packaging industry, new functions have been integrated into Prinergy Powerpack, particularly as regards trapping and Color Management.
- Improved trapping incorporating the specific requirements of packaging printing, e.g. definition of trap corner shapes and three-color traps
- High-quality implementation of spot colors on a proofer such as the EPSON 9000 by supporting HiFi or Hexachrome colors in Color Management when performing refining and proofing operations; use of Pantone color tables in the color database.
Image Web Client
Heidelberg will be presenting the new Version 2.0 of Prinergy at DRUPA 2000. Version 2.0 integrates many customer requirements into new features and optimizations. Using the new Internet-based client, the end customer can track the production status of his jobs in the printshop online.
Image Workflow
Heidelberg will be presenting the new Version 2.0 of Prinergy at DRUPA 2000. Version 2.0 integrates many customer requirements into new features and optimizations. Workflow automation has been enhanced. The customer can now automatically search all work stages, from data entry to the impositioned form proof, at the click of mouse.
Image Trapping
Heidelberg will be presenting the new Version 2.0 of Prinergy at DRUPA 2000. Version 2.0 integrates many customer requirements into new features and optimizations. The extended Trap Editor enables packaging printers to match traps to the punching form, to define the trap corner shape and to perform three-color traps.
For further information:
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
Thomas Fichtl
Tel.: +49 (0)6221 92 47 47
E-mail: thomas.fichtl@heidelberg.com
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