New RICOH ProcessDirector subscription pricing option

Ricoh Europe today announced that RICOH ProcessDirector, an award-winning, scalable workflow automation solution, will be offered via a subscription pricing option as of October 1, 2020. With multi-year subscriptions available, this new pricing option significantly decreases upfront costs for clients looking to streamline operations, improve process integrity, reduce errors, and drive efficiencies with RICOH ProcessDirector.

Innovative new Esko Trapper scoops 2020 InterTech Technology Award

Esko has scooped a 2020 InterTech Technology Award from PRINTING United Alliance, after developing a new prepress tool to make trapping jobs up to 70 per cent faster and unerringly accurate. As a leading developer of integrated software solutions, Esko has been investing in not just R&D but also customer research to further innovate trapping technology, looking to deliver to the industry better tools to achieve the goal of 100 per cent right first time trapping.

GMG ColorCard secures GMG the second Label Industry Global Award in a row

GMG once again has reason to celebrate: the successful color management company has won the Label Industry Global Award 2020 – Award for Innovation (for companies with up to 300 employees) – for the second year running. The awards jury, consists of industry experts from the label and packaging industry, and the criteria of the competition are as varied as they are demanding.

New software release for automated print file preparation

The last few months have made one thing quite obvious: in order to emerge stronger from crisis situations, it is essential to be able to rely on automated processes in unforeseeable situations and to intervene flexibly and quickly in print production. OneVision, the specialist for automation solutions in print data preparation, has considered these aspects, among others, when further developing its prepress software Asura over the past months and has equipped it with three new, powerful functionalities.

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Solimar Systems ReadyPDF Reduces Test File Size Nearly 14 x and Processes PDFs 24 x Faster

ReadyPDF server is a PDF-centric production print solution that features a host of industrial file cleansing and optimization capabilities as well as standard print management functionality. Upon learning of this solution, Solimar Customer Advisory Council Member, Chris Beech, Manager, Composition Services at Gilmore Doculink, was an early tester and adopter. With ReadyPDF, Beech reported the reduction in the size of one application resulted in the processing time being cut by a staggering 23 hours.

U. Günthers Flexo Breakfast Events cast a spotlight on current flexo and packaging issues

A chance to discuss key market and technology trends, communicate new insights from the packaging industry, facilitate an exchange of expertise among prepress specialists, flexo printers and buyers at brand owners – these were the goals U. Günther GmbH of Hamburg had in mind when the Flexo Breakfast Events series kicked off last year.