JDF in Apogee Seybold JDF Seminar Amsterdam Jef Mertens Marketing Manager Apogee Agfa HQ Mortsel.

JDF in Apogee

Seybold JDF SeminarAmsterdam

Jef MertensMarketing Manager Apogee

Agfa HQ Mortsel

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:Apogee

First workflow based on PDF and Digital FilmFirst workflow based on PDF and Digital Film

:Apogee PrintDrive

Manage the Digital Film

:Apogee RIP

Render into Digital Film

:Apogee Pilot

Normalize into PDF Digital Master Files

Modular System of All Independent Components

Modular System of All Independent Components

– Introduced in 1997

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:Apogee Pilot

• Job management

• Job ticketing - PJTF

• File input

• PDF generation and editing

• Preflight

• Separation control and spot color handling

• Layout and color proof

• Imposition

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:Apogee PDF RIP

• PostScript 3 and PDF RIP

• Based on Adobe CPSI

• In-RIP-Trapping

• In-RIP-Separation

• Agfa Screening

• Page-based or flat-based operation

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:Apogee Create

CreatorCreator

Expanding the workflow ideaExpanding the workflow idea

PrinterPrinterPre-PressPre-Press

:Apogee PrintDrive:Apogee PDF RIP:Apogee Pilot

THINKTHINK INKINKTOTO

:Apogee Series3 – 2002

Automate – Integrate - DistributeAutomate – Integrate - Distribute

… even more!

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:Apogee Series3

• Based on industry standards– PDF– PS3– ICC color management– PJTF Job tickets– CIP-3– Certified PDF

– JDF input for Prepress and automatic job ticket merge

Enabling automation ofPrint production

Enabling automation ofPrint production

GoalGoal

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Case: ET Heron & Co Ltd - UK

• Part of the Wyndeham Group

• Established in 1885

• Magazines, catalogues and brochures

• Employ 466 people

• 350+ magazines a month

• 250+ tonnes of paper a day

• 7 Web presses producing 294,000 cut-offs per hours

• 34,000 PDFs per month

• 3,700 plates a week

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Case: ET Heron & Co Ltd - UK

Prepress automation through JDF in Apogee Series3– MIS system creates JDF job tickets

• Customer and job info• Automatic Preps imposition template selection based on

press name, number of pages, binding method, trim size, reel width

• Device selection sets RIP controls s.a. separation, resolution, screening and plate selection

– Apogee Pilot merges the JDF info into a job ticket attached to an input channel and automatically creates the job in the prepress workflow system

– Operators only still assign pages to the jobs and run lists out of a structured page store according to job naming conventions

– CIP-3 data created at PrintDrive during platemaking

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:Apogee Pilot :Apogee PDF RIP:Apogee PDF RIP :Apogee Proofer RIP:Apogee Proofer RIP :Apogee PrintDrive:Apogee PrintDrive

:ApogeeX

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:ApogeeX

• All the functions of Apogee and MORE:– Completely new scalable software architecture– Unified :Apogee User Interface– More advanced management capabilities– Designed with prepress automation in mind– Designed for Full JDF support - JDF Controller

• Reading JDF include– Proofing specifications - multiflow– Scheduling hints– Administrator info– JDF Job input from CS Pandora

• Writing JDF• Dispatching JDF• JMF Messaging• Capability Reporting