Prinergy

Prinergy is a prepress workflow system created by Creo in 1999 and currently maintained and sold through Kodak [ [http://www.printweek.com/news/652769/Fujifilm-XMF/ Fujifilm XMF | printweek.com | Latest Print Industry News, Jobs, Features, Product Reviews, Used Printing and Packaging Machinery ] ] . It is a client/server system that integrates PDF creation, job proofing, imposition, and a Raster Image Processor (RIP) into one unified workflow.

History of Prinergy

Creo was the leading manufacturer of computer-to-plate technology in the 1990s, using thermal laser technology to capture a significant market share of the offset prepress industry. Because computer to plate technology allowed printers to image large numbers of plates at great speed, there arose a corresponding need to engineer a workflow that could process large amounts of data to feed the platemakers and ultimately the offset presses.

Prinergy Version 4.0 is currently in production. Prinergy 5.0 was demonstrated at Drupa 2008 [ [http://www.printweek.com/news/804258/Star-product-%E2%80%93-Kodak-Prinergy-50/ Star product – Kodak Prinergy 5.0 | printweek.com | Latest Print Industry News, Jobs, Features, Product Reviews, Used Printing and Packaging Machinery ] ]

Prinergy Function

The Prinergy system was designed from the ground up to automatically perform all functions on the data that are necessary to get a PDF "ready" for the press. The PDF is first processed (normalized) with sanity checks to ensure it will not cause the RIP to fail at later stages. Then it is color-managed, meaning that the necessary color look-up charts are attached to images and text. Then it is "trapped"; where colors join in a document, a slight overlap is created so that white space does not show on printing due to minute registration errors.

After the PDF is processed into the system, the operator has the option of a number of choices including sending single pages out to a proofer or impose the pages into a signature for platemaking.

Virtually all the large offset printers of the world (RRD, Quebecor, Mohnmedia, Quad Graphics) use Prinergy as their central workflow management system. Specifically, the telephone directory printers can process ten of thousands of pages through a single Prinergy system every day.

All files and jobs are stored in an Oracle database so Prinergy has archival and retrieving capabilities.

External links

* [http://graphics1.kodak.com/us/product/workflow_data_storage/printing_solutions/workflow_systems/prinergy/default.htm Prinergy Corporate Site]
* [https://ecentral.creo.com/ Kodak eCentral - Prinergy Support Site]

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