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BIG BOOK WINTER 2011

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PREPRESS & PREMEDIA Prinect Business Manager Heidelberg USA's Prinect Business Manager is a new, flexible, powerful MIS solution. For printers, it is essen- tial to optimize your production workflow to be both flexible in estimation and to produce efficiently. This means any software solution must be adaptable to the precise requirements of your print shop. Prinect Business Manager provides fast, flexible estimates. An intuitive user interface guides you through steps for costing, ensures your equipment is running at full capacity, and provides an overview of materials you have in stock. Your current production schedule is readily available and the activities of your staff are recorded in real time. This provides precise information on your overall profitability, enabling you to make sound business decisions, and offer accurate quotes to your customer. www.MyPrintResource.com/10005802 Costview 3.0 Caldera's CostView 3.0 has been improved with new features, a brand new design and an industry premier module for carbon footprint moni- toring. Positioned as a dashboard for a manager sensitive to production costs, CostView now has an eco-sensitive dimension. Its newest and most important feature is the addition of a carbon footprint analysis tool. Users can now indicate the CO2 rejected by each of the elements of the job: ink, media, electricity, additional costs. The new 3.0 version is above all a tool intended for printers to monitor all costs pertaining to printing. It is a fully integrated production manage- ment tool which extracts information about jobs directly from the RIP spooler, thus enabling a production manager to control, modify, study and export all costs pertaining to a job. With CostView 3.0, any production manager can view all jobs in the spooler, monitor ink and media costs add optional or automatic costs to each job and export the job listing with all relevant costs as a spreadsheet ready for further analysis. Its web driven interface can be accessed by any user in your company network using a simple web browser. www.MyPrintResource.com/10004280 Scanera TopFace Pro Newly Corporation's Scanera TopFace Pro provides high resolution scanning of 3D objects. The large format 23x33x4-inch top face scanning bed enables the scanning of food, artwork, stone, tile and other 3D objects. With a depth of field up to four inches, the scanera can cap- ture 3D objects and true-to-life textures, including wood grains and individual brush strokes, which are precisely captured at 130 million pixels. For unprecedented realism, the Scanera is equipped with a large scale integrated circuit (LSI), enabling the capture of realistic images and Intelligence Image Enhancement. A unique variable light source brings out shadows and highlights to further enhance quality. Uniquely scan- ning objects from an angle, the Scanera captures details and topographic elements lost by flat bed scanners. The angles of the unit's fluorescent lights are adjusted throughout the scan to better capture 3D object features. A pro- prietary video circuit interprets scanned data and creates a realistic replication. www.MyPrintResource.com/10449983 Professional Multi-function Peripheral (MFP) Solutions Four new wide-format Professional Multi-function Peripheral (MFP) solutions providing a full range ofwide-format scan, copy, share and print capabilities for users of wide-format printers are now available from Colortrac. Ranging from the affordable ultra-compact and space-saving 24-inch solution for the small office or home office creating CAD based technical drawings, to the full 42-inch version pro- viding high speed volume technical imaging & high fidelity color reproduction for the Bureaux and Repro services professionals. Colortrac have a Professional MFP solution to match your individual needs. Each Professional MFP solution has a built-in competitive advantage based on the Scan- Once workflow technology built into the SmartWorks Pro scanning and copying software, users have instant control over the output quality of their scanned images by selecting any one of the 10 pre-set filters to control the key quality attributes of the document being scanned, copied or shared through. www.MyPrintResource.com/10004542 B20 BIG BOOK WINTER 2011 | Cygnus Graphics Media SD3600 The SD3600 is a compact and lightweight 36-inch addition to Contex's SD wide-format scanner series. The SD3600 is a 1200-dpi techni- cal document scanner for drawings, schematics, blueprints, and sketches. This 36-inch scanner is completely upgradable in the field, which enables users to increase a scanner's speed or resolution, or to switch from monochrome to color. The wide-format scanner provides precise, accurate images with a high optical resolution of 1200 dpi and 48-bit color capture. Its 16-bit black-and-white capture brings out detail and depth in any drawing. The SD3600 black-and-white adaptive threshold technology works simultaneously on foreground, background, edges, and other aspects of the original document to produce a copy that is as clean and clear as the original. Additional features of the SD3600 include instant-on scanning and one-touch interface. A new, automatic scanner maintenance system also keeps the SD3600 scanner tuned and ready. The SD3600 is Energy Star-compliant and competitively priced to ensure a quick return on investment. www.MyPrintResource.com/10004587 :Apogee Prepress 7.1 Agfa's :Apogee Prepress 7.1 is Agfa's JDF-enabled prepress production hub that provides automation throughout the production environment. :Apogee Prepress 7.1 is a major upgrade to the :Apogee Workflow Management Suite. :Apogee Prepress supports the latest version of Adobe PDF Print Engine and offers multi- part job support, reducing setup time and allowing for easy status tracking. Integration between :Apogee Prepress and a digital press is accom- plished through CIP4's Digital Print ICS compliant JDF/JMF. :Apogee Prepress becomes the facilitator in a "hybrid workflow." It manages the creation of proofs, plates and the digital print-ready files. Automated job processing can be controlled and job tracking and job cost calculations can be performed by communicating accounting-specific information to a JDF/JMF-enabled MIS system. Proofing and color management enhancers control and provide proofing accuracy. :Apogee now supports a wider range of third-party CtP devices and the latest inkjet proof- ers. New functionality in Digital Printing capabilities include SKU-based job control and enhanced VDP support for Agfa's :Dotrix and :M-Press, and JDF integration to third-party digi- tal presses. Enhancements to :Apogee Impose provide higher levels of automation, customiza- tion and JDF connectivity to planning and MIS systems. www.MyPrintResource.com/10003665 Presstek Aurora EXP Plate Presstek's Aurora EXP combines the performance of grained anodized aluminum plates with the benefits of chemistry-free imaging for superior prepress and pressroom performance. Once imaged, the Aurora EXP plate requires only a simple water wash, and it is ready to print. No devel- oping, baking or gumming is required. Aurora EXP reduces the total cost of CTP operation by eliminating chemicals and the associated steps and variables in the plating process. It is rated up to 50,000 impressions and can be imaged at a resolution of one to 99 percent at 200 lpi. Aurora EXP has a strong resistance to UV inks and solvents and can be used in both UV and conventional printing with- out any sacrifice in productivity and quality. The non-proprietary plates are compatible with a range of thermal platesetters, including Presstek, Scitex, Heidelberg, and Kodak. Aurora EXP non-ablative plates are well-suited for operations using two-, four-, and eight-page formats that want a chemistry-free operation without sacrificing quality and productivity. www.MyPrintResource.com/10007359 Quite Imposing Plus 3 Quite Software's Quite Imposing Plus 3 features full support for Acrobat X (10.0). It enables users to tile (split) pages into multiple separate pages, or split only spreads; duplicate pages, with or without collation, without large increases in file size; scale pages equally or anamor- phically (change shape), or use crop/add white space to resize; keep bleed when resizing (Adjust Page Sizes); and insert pages from a file, with the option of duplicating pages as they are inserted. Users can also mirror alignment on the back of sheets, add variable data on pages or sheets, fix orientation to deal with documents that have both portrait and landscape pages, conditionally add pages from file or blank pages to meet a page count or signature size, and set up more complex automated sequences and duplicate automation sequences easily. www.MyPrintResource.com/10147773 www.MyPrintResource.com

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