1. HP Indigo EPM Preflight Solution
HP Indigo Certified

2. Goal Challenge Innovation
Enlarge EPM usage to increase productivity on HP Indigo digital presses
Challenge
Manual guess work of selecting suitable jobs + RIP and printing overhead
Innovation
Provide a solution which automatically decides and recommends suitable jobs for printing in EPM

3. HP Indigo EPM Preflight Solution* An Enfocus innovation
Combines Switch, PitStop Server and the HP Indigo EPM Kit to automatically preflight print ready PDF files, and based on a set of rules, sorts the files and routes them to EPM and non-EPM specific hot folders.
* Available for PC and Mac
HP Indigo Certified

4. The HP Indigo EPM Kit Is an extensive set of resources
Five EPM configurators for Switch
Predefined Switch flows; one main and five test flows
Four PitStop Server preflight profiles
One Action List
One PitStop variable set
HP Indigo EPM Device Link Creator application
Set of 41 test files
Documentation

5. How it
works

6. Five main inspection points are automatically executed
Unwanted spot colors Amount of black used in a job Ink coverage, font size and line thickness Color differences Chroma (gray level) differences Optionally converts black only pages to DeviceGray

7. Automated inspection, sorting and routing
Percentage or number of black pages within tolerance?
Rich black coverage within tolerance?
Any allowed spot colors in the job?
HP Indigo Digital Press
Yes
Yes
EPM
Input Folder No
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HP Indigo DFE
Non-EPM

8. Automated inspection, sorting and routing
Percentage or number of black pages within tolerance?
Rich black coverage within tolerance?
HP Indigo Digital Press
EPM
Input Folder No
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HP Indigo DFE
Non-EPM

9. Automated inspection, sorting and routing
Percentage or number of black pages within tolerance?
Rich black coverage within tolerance?
Ink coverage below threshold?
Font size above threshold?
Fine lines above threshold?
HP Indigo Digital Press
Yes
Yes
EPM
Input Folder
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HP Indigo DFE
Non-EPM

10. What’s in it for me?
Value Proposition

11. What are your benefits?
Increased total throughput of print jobs Increased revenue due to increased print volume Time savings since the need to manually determine which jobs can print in EPM mode is reduced Reduced cost by avoiding the need to print samples to decide if the job is suitable for EPM Optimized manufacturing processes due to standardized production methods

12. What are your benefits? Save money & make more money
Lower costs per page by ~14%
Increased productivity by 33%
Increased profitability
Printing fewer separations = higher print production = ability to print more jobs

13. What’s in it for me?
What
other
customers
say

14. What other customers say
“Implementing the HP Indigo EPM Preflight Solution from Enfocus has enabled us to significantly reduce our pre-press workload and improve press utilization, providing us with substantial cost savings which can be scaled as our business continues to grow”
Richard Charnley Director at NXP Europe, UK

15. What other customers say
“The HP Indigo EPM Preflight Solution from Enfocus allows us to define very specific parameters for our devices. It’s given us a confident automated workflow to save us more money with technology that we already had in place.”
Brian Scott President at Blooming Color, US

16. What other customers say
“From the moment we used the HP Indigo Preflight Solution from Enfocus, it removed the challenges we faced in our daily operations. Now we have a workflow which automatically decides which files are suitable for printing in HP Indigo EPM mode”
Ariel Rauch Business Development & Technology at C-Copy 1986 Ltd, Israel

17. Want to learn more? Contact your local HP Indigo representative
Contact your local Enfocus channel partner
Contact Enfocus