Transcript 7 minutes with PDF Products from Heidelberg

Heidelberg
Sep. 11, 2003
7 minutes with Prinect Printready,
the JDF Workflow from Heidelberg
Peter Leu
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
VP Product Management
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Prinect Printready – The JDF Workflow
Sep. 11, 2003
Stitching
Folding
Prinect Printready System:
Cutting
PostPress Control
Printing
Plate making
(inline)
Image Control
Print Control
Presetting
Plate making
Rendering
Color Separating
Forms Proofing
Impositioning
Page Proofing
Trapping
Color Conversion
Preflighting
Image including
Normalizing
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A fully JDF-automated
PDF workflow
Prinect Printready – The JDF Workflow
System Structure
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Desktop Tools: Interactivity
Job Handling, Process setup
View Job status, PDF editing
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Engine(s): Automation
Normalizing, Preflighting, Trapping, …
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Prinect Printready – The JDF Workflow
Sep. 11, 2003
Desktop Components
for Prinect Printready System V 1.0
• SignaStation 8.0
Set up JDF imposition templates
interactive Impositioning.
• Supertrap
Interactive trapping
– noted in JDF, when started from Printready Cockpit
• Supercolor
Interactive color preparation
– noted in JDF, when started from Printready Cockpit
• Printready System
Cockpit
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User Interface for all engine modules:
create and operate on job and its JDF,
view jobs, submit jobs / files,
configure processing setup, save in JDF.
Prinect Printready – The JDF Workflow
Sep. 11, 2003
JDF-controlled Engines
for automated PDF processing
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Normalizer
Import PS, generate PDF
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Preflighter
Preflight and correct PDF
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Image Handler
OPI-including on PDF
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Color Carver
PDF Color mapping and -matching
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Trapper
Automated PDF trapping
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Archiver
Archiving and Backup of job data
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PDF splitter
split (page-by-page)
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PDF merger
merge (many to one)
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PDF-Imposer
create imposed PDF-Forms (surfaces)
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Auto Assigner
Automatic page assignment
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Prinect Printready – The JDF Workflow
Sep. 11, 2003
Prinect Printready System V1 Workflow
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Business, control and production workflow
Business Management
Production Management
JDF
Production Resources
Printready
System
CREATION
PJTF
PREPRESS
PRESS
PPF
JDF
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POSTPRESS
& DELIVERY
PPF
Prinect Printready – The JDF Workflow
Sep. 11, 2003
Prinect Printready JDF/JMF communication
3rd Party MIS
Prinance 4
MIS System
Job
JDF
V2.0
Job JDF
Production System(s)
Printready
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Job creation
Job tracking and reporting
Shop floor data collection
Profit control
JMF Message Handling
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JDF process management
JDF Spawning and merging
JMF Message Handling
JDF based Job tracking and status
Monitoring of production resources
SubJDF
Production Processes
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Engines
• Execution of Process nodes in SubJDF according to resource information
• Writing of Audit elements
• JMF status messages
Heidelberg
Sep. 11, 2003
Prinect Printready –
the JDF Workflow from Heidelberg
See Printready in Booth 459
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