Digital Workflow Boosters for Domestic Printing Industry Take-off

In recent years, China has a large number of advanced plate making, printing and post-press equipment. As China's accession to the WTO approaches, many manufacturers have realized that they will soon compete with their foreign counterparts. To be eliminated in the competition, it is indispensable for the domestic printing industry to rely on the introduction of advanced and applicable digital workflows to integrate and communicate the various processes in order to realize the integration of prepress, India-China and post-press, and to increase the number of printed products. Quality, shortened preparation time, improved production efficiency. At this exhibition, Heidelberg, Creo Sai Angel, Komori, Agfa, Peking Founder, Dainippon Screen, and other companies all exhibited their latest digital workflow products. Heidelberg continued its "overall solution" advocated at last year's DRUPA and provided comprehensive prepress and printing products. In terms of digital workflow, it provided pre-press delta (pre-press process based on PS file) technology, meta Dimension (PDF-based prepress process) technology, prepress, print-connected CPC32 software, and printing. A series of digital workflow products, such as CPC24, which controls the color of prints in the process. In this exhibition, Heidelberg also demonstrated its world-leading image scanning software: the latest version of NewColor 7000 (2.0 Beta). This version has greatly improved functions such as color management and negative scan. Clio Seychelles demonstrated a wealth of prepress and digital workflow products. There is the latest version of Brisque Extreme series of software, which includes: RIP functions based on PDF files, ICC-based color management capabilities, direct drive Iris proofer for digital proofing and other functions. There are also Prinergy Connect workflow management software, Iris digital proofers, Spectrum Proofsetter halftone digital proofers, and Quansheng series of platesetters. The Prinergy features are demonstrated in detail. Prinergy is based on open standards such as Adobe Extreme, portable work ticket format, and PDF files, and has built-in Oracle database capabilities that enable it to excel in team communication, optimizing prepress production management, shortening production cycles, and using the Internet; There are a certain number of commercial printing and book printing companies. Spectrum Proofsetter is a computerized platesetter that integrates Imation's Matchprint digital half-tone proofing technology; it can be directly plated and can be used for high-precision AM screening (conventional halftone screen) proofing. Up to 200 lines per inch for screens. North Polytechnic is launching a digital prepress production process and a digital management product line at this exhibition. The digitized immediate production aspect includes: Founder PDF flow, Founder Century RIP, Founder Super Fonts, Super Packing, NEWSWAY flow, and color management system. The digital management products of the printing factory have not appeared in previous exhibitions, including: "All Founder" (digital management of large and medium-sized printing plants), "Fangzheng Cailu" (universal printing business settlement management system), "Founder objects" (printing Enterprise supplies management system) and other products. This is an area where foreign products are difficult to access. In addition, Peking Founder cooperated with Xerox Corporation to launch the factory digital printing system (Founder RIP+ Xerox Digital Press). Komori pushed its DoNet "digital open print network" at this exhibition. DoNet has established an interactive smooth workflow between production management, prepress production, and print jobs. The system first converts the CIP4/PPF file generated by the prepress system through PCC (PQC CIP Communicator), and obtains the PQO, a production control document for the printing press. Through the K-Station, the PQO and production management information are transferred to the printing press, and the printing press is preset. The system adjusts the press to ready for printing, which saves a lot of print preparation time and reduces the amount of overprinted paper. The system also includes a PDC-S (Print Density Control Spectrophotometer) for controlling the color stability of the printing process. The instrument measures the density value and Lab value of the color control strip printed on the edge of the paper and feeds it back to the PQC console to control the entire printing process. Another component of the system: K-ColorProfiler can establish the ICC profile of the printing press based on the data measured by the PDC-S, and feed back the profile to the pre-press system to ensure the correct scanning, color separation, and digital proofing of the prepress system. And other operations. Dainippon Screen's digital workflow products are mainly TrueFlow's prepress workflow management system and TruePress 544 digital printing system. Huizhi is the world's first workflow management system running on a web browser. Support PDF, PS, ICC color management, layout, CIP3 PPF file output, job ticket, hot folder, CIP3 PPF file output and other functions. And there are supporting digital proofing software LabProof, which will output color proofs on the large-format inkjet printer with 1-bit TIFF data and CMYK TIFF data completed by RIP. The TruePress 544 is a machine format digital press with quality close to traditional printing. The machine has a very short preparation time and is suitable for short runs below 10,000 prints. The machine also has an ink pre-adjustment system that can accept CIP3 PPF and a real-time quality monitoring system to ensure the quality of printed products and the stability of the printing process. There are still many manufacturers exhibiting digital workflow products at this exhibition, which is a bright spot for this exhibition; it will also be a hot spot for domestic development and application in the next few years.