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Four Pees creates Ghent PDF Output Suite Conformance training

The Ghent Workgroup recently developed a conformance certification program around the Ghent PDF Output Suite 5.0. Printers who obtain the conformance certification label show they have a modern workflow, that is compatible with and optimized to process PDF/X-4 files. Certification is granted by the Ghent Workgroup but is always guided by a Ghent Workgroup member. As one of its newest members, Four Pees can not only guide printers through this process but has also created a full training course t

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Jul 8, 2021

callas software release pdfToolbox 12.3.

Recently callas software has released pdfToolbox 12.3. with all new fixups and features to further boost you productivity and efficiency. Discover all of them here. Features New Fixups Resolve ICCbased default color spaces into object color spaces Actions Save as image: Support for RGBA (RGB with transparency) for TIFF Save as image: Support for GrayA (Gray with transparency) for PNG and TIFF [CA1030406] Fixes PDF Standards PDF/A-1 conversion: Adjust or remove annotations: Setting for transparen

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Jul 6, 2021

Four Pees Café - Generating bleed in the print process: Different ways and tools

You receive a PDF from the client and guess what: no bleed! It’s one of the most common mistakes printers encounter when receiving documents from clients and it does create the occasional headache. If a PDF has been created without bleed, or if the bleed is not sufficient, generating bleed out of page content is needed to avoid register problems. How to add bleed where there is none? In our last Four Pees Café before the summer holidays (yes, we do take holidays), Michiel Van den Saffele and Dav

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Jul 2, 2021

Four Pees Café - Distributed processing options - Dealing with production peaks

Like life itself, print production also has its highs and lows! Perhaps you want to start as small as possible because you’re a startup. Perhaps you need to automate preflight and you see you’re growing. Perhaps you have peak production moments you want to be able to handle… callas pdfToolbox can handle all of these situations with ease and it can grow with you from small to world-conquering. In this Four Pees Café, Christian Blaise and David van Driessche explain what your options are, both fro

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Jul 1, 2021

Inkish TV - Web-to-print: Do I need one?

Web to print is a hot topic and can be a game changer to the graphic arts industry. Is it just a hype?, Who it is for?, and why it is NOT “just another” sales channel… In a recent episode of 10 to Inkish , our CTO David van Driessche went a bit deeper into the topic.

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Jun 28, 2021

Four Pees Café - The wonderfully confusing world of creating imposed print sheets

Imposition, ganging, (true shape) nesting, step-and-repeat, sheet optimization… All of those terms are used by people when they talk about generating efficient print sheets. But often different people use the same terminology for different processes. And it’s even less clear which software you should use to solve what problems efficiently. In this Four Pees Café, David van Driessche and Michiel Van den Saffele dive into the terminology first of all, and then take a look at some of the different

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Jun 14, 2021

Four Pees Café - Workflows in your RIP Software: simple to complex

A lot of people use CalderaRIP in a lot of different ways. Its tools allow for manual handling and processing of files or fully automated throughput. You can simply RIP and print a file, or use the Nesting or Tiling modules to prepare small or very big files for print first. In this Café, we’ll show you some of these manual tools. But also how to get files into Caldera automatically using hot folders, connect a printer configuration directly to that as well, and even automate that into nesting.

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Jun 7, 2021

Four Pees Café - PDF Standards, which one do you use?

So you’ve done your best and learned about PDF, the PDF/X standards, the GWG specifications… Now what? Which of the many PDF/X standard versions should you use? Or should you rather use the GWG specification? And if so, which version of those? The amount of standards and specifications easily fills a dense forest. Which one do you start using? In this Four Pees Café our CTO David van Driessche and Director of Professional Services & Support Christian Blaise take you by the hand and through t

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May 28, 2021

ColorLogic ZePrA 9 Smart Color Server is Here!

ColorLogic has today released it's newest version of ZePrA Color Management Software, discover what's new! New Features in ZePrA 9 DeviceLink Iteration Wizard Iteration can be necessary to achieve the best possible color match, especially when proofing. To apply an iteration, a special test chart must be converted with the desired color management settings of a given configuration, printed and measured. With the measurements the DeviceLink profile can be optimized. After one to three iteration c

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May 26, 2021

Four Pees Café - Sheet optimization: how can you fully automate your impositioning? - A case study

How do you optimize media usage and impositioning? To fully automate impositioning, with little to no media waste is an enormous added value, but how do you do it? To discuss this, we are welcoming Arkadiusz Szymosz from PM Solutions to our Four Pees Café, who did just this at Polish printer Chroma.pl. Based on an initial demo installation, his solution could save them over 54.000 euro’s in only six weeks. During this Café he dives deeper into his solution and how a complicated process like impo

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May 25, 2021

Four Pees joins Ghent Workgroup

GHENT, BELGIUM – 20 May 2021 – The Ghent Workgroup (GWG) is happy to announce its continuing global expansion as it welcomes Four Pees as its newest member. With 15 years of experience in the graphic and printing sector, Four Pees helps automate prepress and print processes. This experience as specialist software distributor and automation integrator gives Four Pees expert knowledge in a wide variety of market segments and puts it in an ideal position to contribute to the standardization efforts

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May 20, 2021

Four Pees Café - What's up with color? - Color, and you

This Four Pees Café is the final episode of a new series of Cafés where color is the main theme. As usual the Café’s are meant to be introductions to certain applications or areas of knowledge, so we’re starting from scratch and building up to the current state of color management and how it works. Of course, all of the topics we discussed in our previous Café’s on color is meant to bring us to the typical color management workflow. Once we’re able to accurately describe colors and communicate t

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May 17, 2021

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