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Collins & Darwell takes full ownership of prepress process

Collins and Darwell Printers Ltd Collins and Darwell Printers Ltd was first established in 1891. Since then, it has always been a local family printing business that strives to offer speedy service at...

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Jun 9, 2021 Customer Cases

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 News

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Outreach Inc. trusts pdfToolbox Server’s performance and capabilities

Outreach Inc. After seven years of experience with an automated workflow, Outreach Inc. would not be able to function anymore without the system pdfToolbox for their automated preflighting process. Ou...

Pre-print automation

Jun 2, 2021 Customer Cases

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 News

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Fastlabels is ready for any challenge with their automated workflow system

Fastlabels Fastlabels replaced their existing workflow system with a more modernized and flexible one to provide their customers with even better and faster service. Doncaster based Fastlabels special...

May 26, 2021 Customer Cases

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 News

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 News

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 News

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 News

callas software releases pdfaPilot 10.2

callas software, a leading provider of automated PDF quality assurance and archiving solutions, today released version 10.2 of its pdfaPilot product line. This major update offers support for the only...

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May 11, 2021 News

Four Pees Café - Web-to-print and MIS: can they play well together?

An important reason to implement a Web-to-print system is to reduce the administrative overhead and get correct prices to customers quickly. But how does that work if your products are defined in the MIS system and your price calculations are normally done there as well? Are you going to end up maintaining two disparate systems? In this Four Pees Café you will see how that can easily be avoided for the combination of Aleyant Pressero as Web-to-print system and Dataline MultiPress as MIS system.

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May 10, 2021 News

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

What is the best way to communicate about color? This Four Pees Café is the second episode of a new series of Cafés where color is the main theme. As usual the Four Pees 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. There are many ways to discuss color. We can for example use the Dutch term “appelblauwzeegroen” which translates to “apple-blue-sea-green”

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May 4, 2021 News