Web-Based Proofing System's Post-RIP Page Pairing

Fusion Systems has launched the latest version of its web-based soft-proofing workflow system for newspapers and publishers.

Version 2.0 of Fusion Systems' Publication Proofing System (PPS) is claimed to be designed for automated post-RIP page-pairing and imposition, as well as integration with popular imposition applications, job approval and rejection control and file-flow automation based on standardised publication naming conventions.

The company added that with PPS workflow automation is decoupled from the need for communications to an up-front publication planning system, whilst ease of use is also a features of PPS 2.0.

In addition, it is said to provide press-accurate proofing and can email, delete and print job proofs.

With a web-based interface PPS is said to also provide production personnel with an immediate understanding of what stage of production a page or jobs are at, whether RIPped, approved or rejected, deleted, or imposed and plated.

PPS puts oversight and control of advertisements and publication pages in to the hands of the production managers, designers and employees who need it most.

It also provides access from within a corporate network, or from outwith it, together with proper network security.

With PPS 2.0, it is claimed that a full PDF workflow and rasterised PDF files are created directly from plate separations to provide a press-accurate Dotlocked preview of exactly how production pages will print.

It provides automated, post-RIP, page proofing in almost any web browser.

Optimised for newspaper and publication environments, it is also said to provide an organised way to soft proof and approve pages and advertisements exactly as they will print on the press.

Customer service representatives, sales people and customers, if required, can view halftone press-accurate proofs as soon as a page is RIPped, said Fusion Systems.

PPS 2.0 is a core component of Fusion Systems' Workflow ESP automated pre-press workflow system.

It is designed to work with any Harlequin-based RIP or workflow, including Fusion Systems' own Workflow ESP workflows, automated pre-press systems and the Fusion RIP, added the company.

Fusion Systems will give demonstrations of PPS 2.0, as well as other releases of its latest Apple Mac OS X pre-press workflow systems at the America East Newspaper Conference, in Hershey, Pennsylvania from March 11 - 12 on stand 76 and on stand 1442 at Nexpo from April 12 - 15.

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