JDF in Apogee Seybold JDF Seminar Amsterdam Jef Mertens Marketing Manager Apogee Agfa HQ Mortsel

Modular System of All Independent Components :Apogee – Introduced in 1997 First workflow based on PDF and Digital Film :Apogee Pilot Normalize into PDF Digital Master Files :Apogee RIP Render into Digital Film :Apogee PrintDrive Manage the Digital Film Modular System of All Independent Components

:Apogee Pilot Job management Job ticketing - PJTF File input PDF generation and editing Preflight Separation control and spot color handling Layout and color proof Imposition

:Apogee PDF RIP PostScript 3 and PDF RIP Based on Adobe CPSI In-RIP-Trapping In-RIP-Separation Agfa Screening Page-based or flat-based operation

:Apogee PrintDrive Management of Digital Film and output Distributed plate making and remake Imposition proofing Digital QuickStrip - page based workflow Double burn/Versioning CIP-3 data generation (InkDrive)

:Apogee Series2 – 2000 Expanding the workflow idea THINK TO INK :Apogee Pilot :Apogee PDF RIP :Apogee PrintDrive :Apogee Create Creator Pre-Press Printer THINK TO INK

Automate – Integrate - Distribute :Apogee Series3 – 2002 Expanding the workflow idea … even more! :Apogee Pilot :Apogee PDF RIP :Apogee PrintDrive :Apogee Create Creator Automate – Integrate - Distribute Pre-Press Printer THINK TO INK

Enabling automation of :Apogee Series3 Based on industry standards PDF PS3 ICC color management PJTF Job tickets CIP-3 Certified PDF JDF input for Prepress and automatic job ticket merge Enabling automation of Print production Goal

Case: ET Heron & Co Ltd - UK Part of the Wyndeham Group Established in 1885 Magazines, catalogues and brochures Employ 466 people 350+ magazines a month 250+ tonnes of paper a day 7 Web presses producing 294,000 cut-offs per hours 34,000 PDFs per month 3,700 plates a week

Case: ET Heron & Co Ltd - UK Prepress automation through JDF in Apogee Series3 MIS system creates JDF job tickets Customer and job info Automatic Preps imposition template selection based on press name, number of pages, binding method, trim size, reel width Device selection sets RIP controls s.a. separation, resolution, screening and plate selection Apogee Pilot merges the JDF info into a job ticket attached to an input channel and automatically creates the job in the prepress workflow system Operators only still assign pages to the jobs and run lists out of a structured page store according to job naming conventions CIP-3 data created at PrintDrive during platemaking

:ApogeeX :Apogee Pilot :Apogee PDF RIP :Apogee Proofer RIP :Apogee PrintDrive

:ApogeeX All the functions of Apogee and MORE: Completely new scalable software architecture Unified :Apogee User Interface More advanced management capabilities Designed with prepress automation in mind Designed for Full JDF support - JDF Controller Reading JDF include Proofing specifications - multiflow Scheduling hints Administrator info JDF Job input from CS Pandora Writing JDF Dispatching JDF JMF Messaging Capability Reporting