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News Release from: Creo | Subject: Networked Graphic Production
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 27 February 2003
Software Enables Creative Collaboration
Networked Graphic Production is designed to link the creative desktop into a completely integrated production environment
European users will have to wait until autumn before using Creo's latest product, Six Degrees It will be released at Macworld New York in July for North American users at US$249
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 18 Mar 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Creo's networked graphic production is designed to link the creative desktop into a completely integrated production environment that extends to the delivery of the finished product, bringing creative professionals, print buyers, publishers, and printers together in a networked environment, enabling them to communicate and collaborate in real time.
Using the Internet, print buyers can submit jobs online, as well as proof and approve print jobs remotely.
By eliminating many of the traditionally manual steps in this process, Creo allows printers to reduce cycle times, minimise errors on press, and reduce compromises imposed on creativity.
Synapse Prepare software is used to create a production-ready PDF file and allows printers to create locked 'Directives' - a set of specific instructions from the print vendor that can be used by document creators to generate safe PDFs using Adobe Distiller and a number of output methods.
The forthcoming Six Degrees software, through a single easy-to-use interface, helps the user organise job files, contacts, and email messages related to each active project.
Designed to increase creative productivity, Six Degrees connects messages, files and people so that users can quickly navigate through project-related information.
It operates cross-media, cross-platform (Mac OS X and Windows), Six Degrees is a new type of application: rather than replace existing tools, it looks at the relationship between files, messages and people and creates connections.
It presents the user with all the information about a project, regardless of where the project files or messages are stored, and without imposing a different way of working on the user.
"Six Degrees allows the user to move quickly through the clutter of the desktop and focus on the messages, files and people that are connected and relevant to the projects the user is working on.
It filters out everything else," explained Creo director Mark Lemmons.
"While most systems force you to store related files in a central depository, Six Degrees actively makes connections for you as you work," added Lemmons.
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