ImageSmart Document Mastering 2.0 enables high-speed, direct
black-and-white and color printing
ORLANDO - Heidelberg is now making its latest version of
ImageSmart™ software available with both the Digimasterâ
9110 Network Imaging System and the NexPress™ 2100 digital
color production press - reinforcing its commitment to enhance
customers' workflows in both digital color and digital black-and
white printing.
ImageSmart Document Mastering 2.0 software is a complete
workflow package that is easy to use, featuring simple
"point-and-click" and "drag-and-drop" functionality with a simple
user interface for intuitive navigation.
Employing the open-architecture, PDF-based software, users of
both the Digimaster 9110 and NexPress 2100 systems can easily
manage their documents in black-and-white jobs, color jobs, and
combined jobs with color covers and inserts with black-and-white
body pages. ImageSmart software and Heidelberg's digital color and
digital black-and-white print systems combine to help customers
maximize every part of the production process.
"ImageSmart Document Mastering 2.0 software gives NexPress
2100 and Digimaster 9110 customers a total PDF-based workflow
package that helps them increase productivity and profitability,"
said Len Christopher, director of worldwide market planning for
NexPress Solutions LLC's Black and White Business, which markets
products manufactured by Heidelberg's Digital Print Solution
Center. "Customers can now save time and improve their workflow by
managing jobs on both machines from a single location."
The software's centerpiece is the new SmartBoard™
software plug-in developed by Heidelberg, which enables a range of
new functions to be completed within the ImageSmart Document
Mastering software application. It provides full support of job
tickets and enables users to easily change paper color or sizes
within a document, update paper catalogs, specify finishing options
such as stitching and bookletmaking, and import documents directly
from the ImageSmart Document Library, which provides a secure
storage area for electronic documents.
ImageSmart Document Mastering 2.0 is part of Heidelberg's
ImageSmart Workflow Suite, a product portfolio built on a scalable,
truly open architecture and designed to improve digital printing
workflow. ImageSmart software helps printers maximize their
capabilities and provides powerful job submission and document
mastering functions. ImageSmart Document Mastering 2.0 utilizes the
industry-standard Adobe® Acrobat® 5.0 software.
Software Solutions From Heidelberg
In its booth at the Xplor 2001 Global Conference (booth
#2642), Heidelberg also is demonstrating other key elements of its
total workflow solution for the Digimaster 9110, which are designed
to make the Digimaster more productive and profitable for customers
worldwide:
- DataXceed™ is a turnkey software solution targeted
toward the data center market. The software works seamlessly with
the Digimaster to recognize and process virtually all of the
popular file formats used in data centers in industry,
administration, banks and insurance companies - enabling cost
savings by pooling printing between functional departments.
- coXist™ software allows Xerox DigiPath and XDS job
submission software users to reap the benefits of the Digimaster
9110 - without changing their existing setup. It helps protect
customers' investments in job assembly and storage workflows
by enabling users to add another printer without requiring
additional equipment or training costs.
About the NexPress 2100
The NexPress 2100 expands the ability of printing businesses
to provide new services and produce higher-value print media,
including full variable-data jobs. Its rugged, press-like design
combines with hundreds of technology innovations to set new
standards for image quality, system uptime, reliability and
consistency. It produces ready-to-finish sets, automatically
collated, at the full engine speed of 2100, A3+ (350 x 470 mm) or
tabloid-sized (13.8 x 18.5 inches) sheets per hour. The NexPress
2100 is sold exclusively through Heidelberg.
(ImageSmart™, Digimaster™, SmartBoard™,
DataXceed™ and coXist™ are trademarks of Heidelberg.
Adobe™ and Acrobat™ are trademarks of Adobe Systems
Incorporated. NexPress™ is a trademark of NexPress Solutions
LLC)
For further information:
Heidelberg Digital Solution Center
Doug Sprei
Tel.: +1 716 512-8054
E-mail:
doug.sprei@heidelberg.com