Kodak releases Prinergy workflow system

Kodak has released its Prinergy digital workflow system, which is designed for higher job volumes and shorter runs.

Kodak says that Prinergy provides a central production hub for digital print service providers and enables full job control with zero-touch automation and connectivity to a range of digital presses.

With the new Prinergy digital workflow, the company added that customers can increase the profit potential of digital print by increasing press utilisation and productivity using the Smart Lists function.

At the same time, Kodak's digital direct software application is said to allow users to batch process, filter, sort, manage, print and queue digital jobs to single or multiple presses.

Prinergy includes a set of digital production tools that provide the extended automation, job handling and flexibility required to drive productivity and efficiency for digital jobs, said Kodak.

Smart Lists, for example, serves as a job scheduling tool that maximises control and visibility over the production schedule by enabling digital printers to queue jobs according to production critical criteria such as stock type, due date, estimated time to print and customer information.

Via integrated JDF/JMF bi-directional connectivity options for digital presses, Prinergy is claimed to provide instant live device status feedback, report on job status, and log and track all production history.

In addition, the system can integrate with Kodak's web-to-print systems, which allow print service providers to turn their digital presses into 24-hour stores, providing profitable, hands-free work and providing customers with flexible ways to do business.

The integration with web-to-print systems also provides an avenue for print service providers to change to marketing service providers by helping them broaden their portfolios of customer services and generate new revenue streams, adds Kodak.

With extended support for industry standard VDP file formats, such as PPML/VDX and VPS, Prinergy is claimed to provide personalised variable data applications to a range of digital presses complete with all job specifications through integrated support for JDF.

Prinergy provides JDF driven rules-based automation that uses conditions and logic to automatically process jobs.

'Prinergy allows commercial, packaging and publishing customers to achieve operational efficiency, improve control and visibility, and maximise overall digital press utilisation,' said Jon Bracken, vice-president of marketing and channels for enterprise solutions at Kodak.

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