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Alwan Color Expertise announces new range of standardization tools at Grafitalia 09
Wednesday 25. March 2009 - Providing Out-of-the-Box ISO12647 Compliance
Alwan Color Expertise, market leader in color management and standardization is presenting at Grafitalia its two new ISO 12647 standardization solutions for prepress and print. In partnership with Enfocus, Alwan recently has developed and released PDF Standardizer, a PDF standardization and quality control solution for PDF producers. Alwan will also be launching, as an industry-first, Print Standardizer. This automated print standardization solution for the pressroom was jointly developed in partnership with X-Rite. Both solutions prove Alwans commitment to become the standardization force in the graphic arts industry and to deliver out-of-the box ISO 12647 standardization tools.
Elie Khoury, President Alwan Color Expertise comments: “By teaming up with industry experts Enfocus, leader in PDF quality assurance and X-Rite, leader in color measurement and communication technologies we bring two major standardization tools to the market. With Alwan PDF Standardizer, we bring quality control and total ISO 15930 (PDF/X) and ISO 12647 (Print) compliancy to PDF files before they enter any print production workflow. With Alwan Print Standardizer, we bring the first automated quality control and total ISO 12647 compliancy to print production. Both are automated and stand alone tools that will remove many of the costs and implementation barriers publishing and printing professionals typically encounter during the ISO 12647 implementation process. Moreover, both offer a full return-on-investment in a record period of maximum six months in most cases. Alwan, the graphic industry leading standardization force confirms today its 12-year commitment by bringing to the industry the two easy and affordable standardization solutions that all professionals urgently need.”
Alwan Print Standardizer debuts at Grafitalia on the Color Consulting stand H01/I04 in Hall 14
On the Color Consulting stand H01-I04 in Hall 14 , visitors will be able to receive demonstrations of the newly launched Print Standardizer, the graphic industrys first automated press quality control and ISO 12647 standardization solution. Developed to address the graphic industrys growing need for standards compliance, it provides an affordable and easy-to-implement out-of-the-box ISO 12647 standardization solution for analog and digital presses. Featuring award-winning technologies from Alwan, X-Rite and its subsidiary Pantone, Print Standardizer includes: Alwans PDF and print standardization software CMYK Optimizer; the new PANTONE Goe digital libraries, featuring 2,058 new colors; and Intellitrax, X-Rites automated color measurement solution for press-side color control.
Print Standardizer establishes a new class of standardization in the graphic arts industry. The intuitive software wizard and interface allow users of any skill level to set their target printing conditions and achieve instantaneous compliance with ISO 12647 requirements. With Print Standardizer, users can match any ISO standard printing condition including Fogra 39 and GRACoL on each and every job thanks to the softwares unique automated press tracking and Dynamic PressCalibration system which requires no human intervention to calibrate the press.
The new solution allows printers to reduce make-ready time, match clients standard proofs, and dramatically cut waste paper and ink consumption, hence increasing overall pressroom productivity and profitability by an average 15%.
An additional major benefit of Print Standardizer is that it qualifies the controlled press to ISO 12647 certification. It also delivers print reports proving ISO 12647 compliance for each and every job. Print Standardizer is available from Alwan and X-Rite approved channel partners.
Alwan PDF Standardizer on display at Enfocus booth C13-D04 in Hall 14
PDF Standardizer offers a simple and reliable way to create PDFs that comply with ISO 15930-1 (PDF/X1-a), Ghent PDF Workgroup specifications as well as with ISO 12647 color printing standards. PDF Standardizer combines technologies from Alwan and Enfocus.
In addition to leveraging the automation and advanced preflighting capabilities of Enfocus Switch and Enfocus PitStop, PDF Standardizer also provides out-of-the-box compliance with ISO 12647 and 15930 color and PDF requirements. This brings a unique 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. PDF Standardizer is available from Alwan and Enfocus approved channel partners.
Alwan CMYK Optimizer 3.6 demonstrated at TWS H09/112 in Hall 14/1
The latest version of CMYK Optimizer, the industry leading software for color standardization and ink savings, will be demonstrated at TWS H09/112 in Hall 14/1
Version 3.6 offers new features and improvements to the 2008 PIA/GATF award recipient technology.
New features presented are:
– Automount Manager: establishing, tracking and automatically maintaining network connection with any production workflow system
– Transparencies management: Detection, color management as well as possible flattenning and rasterization of problematic transparensies.
– Enhanced PDF Report: including completely new Error, Warnings and Fixed issues reporting as well as High TAC areas visual display.