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News Release from: Artwork Systems | Subject: Odystar 2.5, PA:CT, Neo, Nexus, Webway 4.0
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 17 February 2006
Ipex 2006 Sees Workflow And PDF Software
Artwork Systems is planning to launch an array of software at Ipex 2006, with new products for all of its core markets.
Artwork Systems is planning to launch an array of software at Ipex 2006, with new products for all of its core markets Those sectors include commercial printing, packaging and publishing
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 25 Apr 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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Visitors to the Artwork Systems stand - 6-A20 - will be able to see demonstrations of the Odystar 2.5 workflow, now available for the commercial and the packaging markets, with its ability to enable existing output equipment to handle native 1.5 PDF files.
Artwork Systems said that it has had a strong response to its certified PDF system for the packaging market - PA:CT - and expects that total traceability throughout a job will be one of the most important trends during 2006.
Other new software on the company's Ipex stand will include Neo, a system that allows last minute changes to be made to PDF files, resulting in savings in time and money.
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Artwork Systems' UK managing director Jan Ruysschaert said: "Neo gives the operator all the high-end editing and correction functionality in a native PDF environment that previously only existed in proprietary non-PDF systems.
We are convinced that many Odystar users will see Neo as a huge asset in drastically reducing the approval and correction cycles that are unavoidable in today's demanding pre-press environments." Neo's functions include separation handling, advanced text and paragraph editing, object transforms, image editing and re-linking, clip path handling and page box handling.
Neo is said to fully embrace certified PDF technology.
All Certified PDF sessions remain in the PDF file, and the edits performed in Neo are added to the certified PDF information in the PDF file, said the company.
Artwork Systems will be taking a new halftone dot technology to Ipex 2006 with the introduction of Concentric Screening, which divides the conventional round dot in to thin concentric rings.
These rings limit ink build-up on the plate - thereby providing greater latitude on press and increased colour saturation, added the company.
Printers are able to increase, or even double screen rulings without experiencing the traditional problems of mottle, dot gain and variability previously associated with high screen rulings, it is claimed.
Other products on the Artwork Systems stand will include the Nexus workflow and the pre-press production software Artpro.
There will be a new version of Webway internet collaboration.
Featuring a closer integration with Artwork Systems' applications and workflows, Webway 4.0 will incorporate a base of new technologies and functions, added the company.
Jan Ruysschaert commented: "Webway does not require the installation of software to allow remote users to view and annotate production jobs online.
Instead, a sophisticated applet enables the remote user to stream and view pixels of high resolution files, whether they are Artpro, PDF or 1 bit data files, to a standard internet browser.
The user then has the option to view the job in a variety of formats, annotate the job, preview separations or traps and measure densities, for instance." And he added: "In the new Webway 4.0 this applet has undergone some major developments and along with an improved user interface incorporates many new functions, including a new page layout, improved previewing functions, a navigation window, multi-page support with thumbnail previews, plus the ability to download a printable and colour managed proof.".
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