OneVision Software will demonstrate how its Wide Format Automation Suite acts as the idea link, the so-called middleware, between the webshop system/MIS and RIP.
An extensive prepress suite that includes not only preflighting, colour management and file normalisation, but also flattening of transparencies or automatic generation of bleed and white masks together with a flexible workflow management system, helping to automate time-consuming manual prepress work to a large extent. In the first step, incoming files are checked for errors, corrected and normalised, then bleed, varnish or white masks are created or adapted and colour space conversions are performed.
The company will demonstrate this product at the SGIA Expo from 18-20 October. Innovative functions such as nesting and tiling and panelling allow print subjects to be grouped or positioned dynamically. This leads to lower substrate and ink consumption. If required, several print runs can be combined into one via the ganging function, shortening production times.
To simplify the implementation of a holistic end-to-end workflow for print shops, the Wide Format Automation Suite also includes a cut line manager that repairs broken cut lines and generates a cut line PDF analogue to the print PDF. This gives the cutter instructions for a seamless finishing process.
Just in time for SGIA, the company is also releasing its new software version 18.2, which focuses on extended barcode functionality. The user now receives extended possibilities for the placement of barcodes. The nesting function has also been further expanded, so that it is now also optimised for guillotine-ganging cutting machines, which greatly simplifies the nesting of labels that are cut with a conventional cutting machine. With the ‘tiling’ function, file formats larger than the maximum print format can now be automatically tiled and divided into several smaller individual parts for production.
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