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