US Newspaper Conference Sees Workflow System Debut

Fusion Systems International will launch its new Workflow ESP, fully automated post-RIP imposition product at the annual America East Newspaper Conference from March 27-29.

Fusion Systems International will launch its new Workflow ESP, fully automated post-RIP imposition product at the annual America East Newspaper Conference from March 27-29.

The company will also show for the first time its new browser-based Print Production Manager and Remote Client Soft-Proofing on its stand - 64 at the show.

Fusion's Workflow ESP incorporates template-based naming, true-page numbering and open-scriptable processing to enable pre-press automation.

Workflow ESP will be demonstrated in conjunction with the Fusion RIP and Digipage ROOM plug-in to fully automate Post-RIP page-pairing and output.

Template-based naming is said to facilitate automated workflows across platform operating systems and open applications.

True-page numbering ensures the accuracy of imposition lists and multi-section page-pairing, which is especially critical throughout correction cycles.

Post process scripting provides automation of different pre-press operations.

Workflow ESP is open, user-configurable and available for Windows, OS X, and Linux-based Harlequin RIPs, added the company.

The new Fusion Print Production Manager is a means for controlling and monitoring production processes, such as pre-flight, imposition, trapping, colour management, RIP and proofing, film setting or plating.

Print Production Manager (PPM) provides a browser-based graphic interface for monitoring production processes to keep work moving on time to completion.

Fusion Systems said that PPM covers three critical elements of job process control - queue management, job control and real-time status information.

Extended ROAM capabilities allow up to five LAN client workstations to preview raster data prior to output, it is claimed.

More extensive raster soft-proofing capabilities will be demonstrated at the conference, using the latest release of Firstproof, a client-based application that allows raster data to be soft-proofed from any workstation on the network.

Firstproof allows users to remotely view and approve output from multiple RIPs prior to imaging.

Features include plate merging, plate deletion, fast selectable image magnification, and the verification of maximum and minimum ink limits.

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