A powerful automation, preflight & color application for unparalleled quality assurance and guaranteed ISO 12647 and 15930 compliance
Enfocus and Alwan Color Expertise, leaders in PDF quality assurance, color optimization and standards compliance, announce the commercial release of PDF Standardizer to bring simple, reliable PDF standardization and quality control to the graphic arts market. With the launch of Alwan PDF Standardizer, Enfocus and Alwan continue their industry leadership by creating a brand-new category of graphic communications software and standardization tools. “Enfocus is a leader in bringing simplicity, reliability and accuracy to PDF workflows,” said Peter Camps, Senior Vice President, Enfocus. “Alwan has played a similar role in the color space. This joint effort provides a missing link between our respective offerings. With PDF Standardizer, publishers, agencies and other content creators can produce predictable, problem-free PDFs, and print service providers can more easily preflight and normalize source PDFs before placing them into production.” In addition to leveraging the automation and advanced preflighting capabilities of Enfocus PitStop and Enfocus Switch, PDF Standardizer also provides out-of-the-box compliance with ISO 12647 and 15930 color requirements. This brings an innovative quality assurance process to global and print-on-demand digital workflows, simplifying production for both content creators and print service providers. It offers dynamic color management, flattening of transparencies, and normalization of PDF files, resulting in perfect workflow reliability. In addition, PDF Standardizer has the 2008 InterTech award-winning Alwan Dynamic Device Link technology embedded, and easily integrates with any existing workflow. “We are delighted to have partnered up with Enfocus to bring PDF Standardizer to the graphic arts community,” said Elie Khoury, President of Alwan Color Expertise. “PDF producers and print service providers can not afford file interpretation and reproduction problems as margins and cycle times continue to shrink. PDF Standardizer is the result of two years of sustained development effort and collaboration with Enfocus. We believe this inaugurates a new generation of fully automated and reliable quality assurance solutions for the graphic arts industry.” Alwan PDF Standardizer is available as of today 2009, through both Enfocus and Alwan’s distribution channels. The product is priced at 8.000 Euro (10.000 USD). Product DetailsAlwan PDF Standardizer delivers the best of both worlds from two industry leaders and brings a new level of standardization and ease-of-use to graphic arts workflows. It is the first product in the market to deliver the promise of problem-free PDFs for any prepress workflow. Key benefits include:
- Integrated PDF and color preflighting and standardization
- Brings simple PDF color management within reach for users at all skill levels
- A new level of reliability and quality assurance for global and print-on-demand workflows
- Ability to easily integrate with existing workflow and workflow systems
- Problem-free processing and conversion of source PDF files into reliable PDFs for printing in any environment
- Dynamic color management and dynamic management and flattening of transparencies for error-free PDF processing by both current and legacy workflow systems
- Automatic installation, and easy operating with a user-friendly wizard that enables fast set-up, including queues and system settings
- Instant compliance with ISO Standards 12647 and 15930
About Alwan Color ExpertiseAlwan Color Expertise was founded in Lyon, France, in 1997 by president Elie Khoury. His vision - to demonstrate how important standardizing and controlling color is throughout every stage of production - has resulted in the company becoming a world leader in standardization and color management implementation. Today, Alwan provides software to key players throughout the graphic arts industry, from printers to publishers and from software developers to hardware manufacturers. Alwan Color Expertise offers a choice of four full-featured software solutions within the Alwan CMYK Optimizer product family. Each delivers specialized capabilities that enable all partners along the graphic production line to guarantee the color accuracy of their work, while ensuring optimum production further down the line. The different versions of Alwan CMYK Optimizer can seamlessly communicate with each other via a Settings file that is integrated within the software. Photographers, publishers and printers can work using the same standards, in complete security. Alwan Color Expertise has appointed specialist distributors for each of the targeted market segments. An ever-growing number of leading pre-press manufacturers are either bundling Alwan software with their products or recommending it with their systems, such as Compose System, Dalim Software, Enfocus, PerfectProof and most recently, Chromix and Bodoni Software. Visit www.alwancolor.com for info.For more information contact Exell Technologies About EnfocusEnfocus provides modular and affordable tools safeguarding job quality and enabling automation throughout the complete production chain. Innovative solutions improve communication between design and production while enhancing productivity and predictability through automation of routine tasks. Step-by-step deployment dramatically increases added value without forcing users to completely rethink their way of doing business. Well-known brands include Instant, Neo, PitStop and Switch.Enfocus is a business unit of EskoArtwork and has its headquarters in Gent, Belgium. About EskoArtworkEskoArtwork is a global supplier and integrator of innovative solutions for packaging, commercial printing, sign and display finishing and professional publishing. Its products and services help customers raise productivity, reduce time-to-market, lower costs and expand business.EskoArtwork employs around 1,000 people worldwide. Its global sales and support organization covers Europe, the Americas, Asia Pacific and Japan, and is completed by a network of distribution partners in more than 40 countries.EskoArtwork is headquartered in Gent, Belgium, and has R&D and manufacturing facilities in 6 European countries and the United States. The consolidated full year revenue for 2007 amounted to EUR 170 million, with an EBITDA of EUR 30 million.
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