Enfocus’ PitStop 24.03 and Griffin 24.03 releases introduce innovative features designed to streamline wide format print production. With an emphasis on powerful new editing capabilities and seamless workflow integration, these updates enhance efficiency, qualit, and collaboration for print service providers.
PitStop Pro and Griffin now work effortlessly together. For printers using Griffin, it’s as simple as opening a 1-Up file, sending it to PitStop Pro to add cut lines and bleed, performing preflight – or using any other PitStop feature – then saving to update the file in Griffin. This unified solution will enhance operational efficiency for wide format printers, enabling them to get optimised files requiring cut paths, bleed and other modifications to press faster.
PitStop 24.03 introduces features that address significant challenges in the print production process, including Fill to Stroke. A typical pain point in cutting is when the cut lines are converted into a shape and are no longer usable as cut lines in production. For example, instead of a stroked circle with a clear cut line, you get a shape made of two sub paths (an outer circle and an inner circle). Those shapes cannot be sent to production for print and cutting. Typical fixes are time-consuming, stall production, and require asking the customer to supply a new file or getting prepress to redraw the shape and take ownership of any unexpected changes.
PitStop’s new, patent-pending Fill to Stroke feature solves this challenge, by reverting the incorrectly converted shape to its original cut path. It is a major time-saver, enabling the file to be sent to production in seconds. Fill to Stroke can be performed manually or fully automated.
Simplify paths reduces the number of nodes on a path, enhancing performance across PDF renderers, RIP engines, and cutting devices.
The enhanced bookmark management allows for the selection, addition and removal of bookmarks, streamlining document navigation and organisation.
New Actions designed for colour management and large format printing have been added, including detecting overlapping cut lines and reporting pages per colour type.
Griffin’s 24.03 release positions it as an alternative to Esko’s i-cut Layout for wide format printers and brings many key enhancements, including PitStop Detour, a groundbreaking feature allowing Griffin users to send and edit 1-ups in PitStop Pro to add bleed, create cut paths, and use all other PitStop features before simply saving to update automatically in Griffin. The dedicated Onyx RIP export offers seamless integration with Onyx RIPs.
‘We are thrilled to unveil these updates to PitStop and Griffin. By enabling these products to work together more closely and adding a host of new features, we’re enabling print professionals to tackle many time-consuming and challenging aspects of modern print production head-on. This is evidence of our focus on innovation, efficiency, and most importantly, our commitment to the print community,’ said Loïc Aigon, PitStop Product Manager.
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