PDF Workflow System Gives Ability To Compete

The Drupa 2008 exhibition will see Xante unveil a new version of its OpenRIP Symphony PDF workflow system.

The latest release is claimed to include new features that give small and mid-sized offset printers the ability to compete for higher end business.

Xante said that OpenRIP Symphony can help printers achieve that with minimal investment.

The company said that latest version continues the OpenRIP tradition of offering features with an easy-to-use software interface.

According to the company, OpenRIP Symphony 3.0 now offers high-end enhanced imposition that allows mixing of page sizes and orientations on a press sheet, together with Freeform Ganging, which provides flexible output, saving time and media.

It also provides linearisation and dot gain enhancements.

Xante added that it has also integrated Pantone Matching System and Pantone Goe Systemcolor Library support, including CMYK, RGB and Lab colour space definitions for improved process, RGB and spot colour representation throughout the workflow.

Expanded colour support provides better representation of overprinting inks and traps for soft proofing (monitor preview) and inkjet proofs.

Chief executive officer of Xante, Robert Ross, commented: "This iteration of OpenRIP Symphony, one of our most important to date, gives our customers the most advanced, all-in-one PDF workflow to meet a printing shop's complete pre-press production needs.

The Adobe PDF Print Engine is the future of PDF workflow and we're all about providing advanced features in an affordable system that can grow as production needs require." He continued: "OpenRIP workflow features the AdobePDF Print Engine and Adobe PostScript 3 technologies.

That robust core, combined with the OpenRIP workflow system, streamlines pre-press production for unparalleled scalability and flexibility and, most importantly, it is priced to fit the budget of small to mid-sized companies." Raman Nagpal, director of product marketing and engineering of the printing systems group at Adobe, said: "Xante has been a committed Adobe partner for over 15 years, helping small to mid-sized printers use Adobe PDF technologies effectively.

Xante was one of the earliest partners to implement the Adobe PDF Print Engine (APPE), ensuring that customers have file integrity and output consistency throughout their workflows.

The integration of APPE gives Xante's customers a true PDF workflow on a par with the industry's leading technology." Xante described OpenRIP Symphony 3.0 as a comprehensive, turnkey PDF workflow that drives all output devices, including platesetters, imagesetters, laser printers, digital colour presses, copiers, inkjet printers and plotters from a single RIP.

That centralised control is said to maintain file consistency from preview, to proof and plate.

OpenRIP Symphony is also said to improve productivity and reduces human error by automating tedious and error-prone pre-press tasks.

It provides colour management and automates complex pre-press tasks, such as file set-up, trapping, screening, imposition and application of linearisation and dot gain compensation.

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