| Agfa’s Apogee Prepress brings the latest in prepress workflow to the market |
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AGFA Graphics’ Apogee Prepress has been designed to provide enhanced connectivity, controlled automation, extended JDF/JMF support and ease-of-use. The Apogee Prepress is the latest prepress workflow release. Got a Question about this product? Agfa says the Apogee Prepress fully supports the latest version of Adobe PDF Print Engine which significantly enhances the rendering performance, since PDF files are rendered natively and included transparencies are automatically resolved during the rendering process. The Apogee’s multi part job support allows the user to combine the different parts of a job, like the cover and the body part, in one. It reduces the setup time significantly and allows for easy status tracking. Agfa says the Apogee Preflight looks at incoming PDF files, checks the production plan for its specific issues such as Quark's spot blends, or converts PDF files to ISO standard PDF/X-1a or PDF/X-4 for correct processing outside of Apogee Prepress. Additionally, Agfa claims integration between Apogee Prepress and a digital press is accomplished through CIP4's Digital Print ICS compliant JDF/JMF. Once integrated, Apogee Prepress becomes the facilitator in a "hybrid workflow". It has been designed to manage the creation of proofs, plates and the digital print-ready files. Depending on the requirement, the digital print-ready file can either be a "vector PDF" or a "raster PDF". The Apogee is also equipped with the InkSave module, which Agfa believes provides enormous cost savings for the press room. It separates CMYK jobs in such a way that with less CMYK ink on press, the same overall print appearance and quality is achieved. Due to InkSave, additional benefits are provided such as greater press stability, better tolerance to miss-registration, shorter drying time and faster press make-ready. |
