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

2. 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

3. :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

4. :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

5. :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)

6. :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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

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

12. :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