LARGE FORMAT PRINT WORKFLOW

Errors can be quickly corrected by users with minimal prepress experience. In order to be able to carry out 90 percent of the daily prepress work directly in the Workflow, over 95 Corrections are made available to the user. These include resizing and calculating distortions, Spot Color adjustment, creating cutting information, creating white or varnish forms, controlling overprint behavior, converting fonts to paths, rotating or mirroring print data, controlling the definition of black, and trimming print data based on the cut line to minimize ink consumption.

When print data is uploaded, a complete check and normalization of the data, which can be configured by the user, as well as calculation of ink consumption for the print file is carried out. Whether the production is cheaper only with CMYK or with the use of the additional OVG colors can be calculated immediately. The essential factor, ink price, is hence immediately available in the system.

Once the assembly has been completed, the production job is ready to be Send to the Printer. The integrated Harlequin RIP is optimized for parallel processing of multiple production jobs and the use of adapted dither algorithms from different printing systems.

All setting information from the printing system as well as consumption of materials and ink during printing of the production job are sent by the printer and are displayed in the production job.

Sophisticated options are available for optimizing the ink application or for controlling the black build-up and the grey axis, which can be used for profile calculation.

Different profiles can be created for one set of measurement data, which can be used in production depending on the subject. A reduction of up to 20% ink can be achieved quickly and realistically.

Print Jobs can either be quickly created using a Force To Print dialog or created based on a collection of files assigned to a customer making it easy to store customer related job information.

Material Information can be imported directly from the printer.

Once processing is complete, individual Print Approvals can be created and sent to the customer. The report is an InDesign template and can be defined to your specific layout requirements.