Workflow And Proofing Systems At Northprint

Compose System will demonstrate Express Workflow 3.0 for the first time in the UK during Northprint 2007, held in Harrogate from April 24 - 26.

Compose System will demonstrate Express Workflow 3.0 for the first time in the UK during Northprint 2007, held in Harrogate from April 24 - 26.

Demonstrations of Express Workflow 3.0 and Star Proof V5 will take place on the Compose System stand - A170.

Express Workflow 3.0 is claimed to handle all pre-press operations for CTP and digital printing applications, whilst Star Proof V5, provides contract screened proofs up to a claimed 200 lines per inch (lpi).

Compose System's Express Workflow is claimed to provide reliability and efficiency to meet the changing demands of the pre-press industry.

At its heart is the Compose Express RIP - a version of the Harlequin RIP.

A pre-press workflow system, Express Workflow combines practical functionality with ease of use, ensuring tight integration and smooth data delivery between all processes in the customer's pre-press workflow, said the company.

Express Workflow automates the production process and ensures data integrity, whether handling PDF or pure Postscript workflow.

Steve Donegan, European sales and marketing manager at Compose, said: "Our customers have expressed a great deal of interest in the latest version of Express Workflow 3.0.

The UK is our home market with a significant user base, so we are really looking forward to meeting with customers and demonstrating this system's powerful new features.

The latest release of Express Workflow has addressed users' productivity requirements with increased RIP speeds, enhanced imposition features, Java-based job submission, job monitoring and job tracking." Available for Mac and PC clients, additional new features include template creation and dynamic job logging system together with a detailed history reporting database.

Star Proof is the dot proofing for contract proofs on inkjet printers.

With its Actual Dot system to replicate original screening and dot patterns at proofing resolutions, Star Proof is claimed to provide proofs with a hard dot, sharp images, accurate colour and fine detail as they will appear on the press.

And with ROOM proofing architecture to resemble the same set of high resolution separations that are sent to the plate setter or image setter, Star Proof ensures data integrity between proof and print, claimed Compose System.

New features in Star Proof Version 5 include new ICS colour management that supports ICC profile, tools for the flexo and packaging market that allow the adjustment of individual separations, dot loss and extreme dot gain value.

In addition it includes colour adjustment features, colour shade supporting LAB value for spot colour, CS Reader version 2.0 support for density and LAB measurement and automated spectrophotometer device input support.

Star Proof V5 has also received official Fogra certification for halftone printing with the Epson Stylus Pro 9800.

Fogra Graphic Technology Research Association, a European printing organisation's certification of Star Proof ensured that the product conforms to industry standards for accurate colour proofing as defined in ISO 12647-7.

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