In the past, many prepress companies did not place much emphasis on the packaging market, and often forced packaging issues into commercial printing solutions when needed. Now, the situation has changed a lot.
At the Print '01 exhibition that just concluded last year, both large and small packaging companies displayed rare vitality and information, which is even more precious in the context of poor economic conditions throughout the industry. The packaging field seems to have been biting his teeth for the most difficult period. The dawn is just around the corner. The main products launched by CreoScitex and Artwork Systems show that they have increased investment in R&D in the packaging field, demonstrating their confidence in the potential of the packaging market. Some small-scale manufacturers, such as EngView and ScenicSoft, have also introduced innovative new products in this area. In general, the lack of automation of workflow management in the packaging field is being alleviated.
EngView Synergy
EngView Systems Inc. (foundation in 1999) is a Canadian company with a research and development office at the SIRMA Group R&D center in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. The core technology of EngView software has been developed since 1996.
EV Synergy is the latest product of EngView Systems Inc. and is an artificial intelligence-based drawing software for designing packaging components or entire packaging products. The software features snap-to-lines and the ability to automatically memorize angles and lengths when manually changing packaged components and to achieve "artificial intelligence." A component library containing more than 300 reference components can be used during the design process to pick the desired element or as a starting point for the design. The component library follows ECMA and FEFCO's corrugated paper box's internal and external dimensions and folding carton standards, so it does not cause any trouble with the output.
Images can be exported to design or CAD systems and saved in DXF, DDS, CF2, and EPS file formats. This is also consistent with ArtiosCAD, other Barco systems, Arden's Impact software, and of course, EngView's own EV Package Designer software.
EV Package Designer is a very good application software that combines the design components in EV Synergy (which can be selected from the library of more than 300 reference design components) and the processed graphic images imported from other desktop software.
EV Package Designer's user interface is exactly the same as EV Synergy's, and the combination of design components and processed elements can be combined with just dragging and dropping of the mouse. You can then manually lay out your completed designs within a given paper size range, or you can use the Layout Wizard Layout Wizard to automate this function, all with the goal of maximizing the use of information resources. Manual and automatic layouts can be clearly seen on an electronic schedule to estimate the cost of the operation. The cost estimates resulting from any subsequent changes to the layout will also be reflected in the table. (The cost estimation module is a separate product.) The file formats imported and exported by the Package Designer software are DXF, DDS, CFF2, and EPS.
The 3D Presenter module combines packaged components and image data and allows for 3D presentations that allow the user to interactively observe the situation when the carton is folded up and unfolded, and can see through to the internal structure of the package. The three-dimensional data file is a small virtual reality markup language (VRML) file, which can be sent via E-mail and can be viewed at any time in a browser equipped with a VRML plug-in plug-in. VRML for Windows and Macintosh (including Mac OS X) is freely available on the web site. The 3D Presenter module can be used on works from any CAD system design or on files stored in JPEG, BMP, GIF or other types of vector image formats.
EngView is currently aggressively marketing their products in North America and they plan to promote them globally. The company has formed a strategic partnership with Heidelberg.
Artwork Systems upgrades ArtPro Artwork Systems Inc. has introduced three newest ArtPro modules for the packaging market on Print '01: PowerLock for copyright management, Artlink for multiple publications, and PowerOptimizer for labels.
PowerLock leverages a new, easy-to-use screening technology to support the growing digital rights management community while using a film-based spyware viewer to detect and verify counterfeit packaging products that appear on the market. Screening technology is mainly applied to a small object of a packaged product, such as an icon, an image or a decorative pattern, and embedded in these areas. Consumers can't see these micro-patterns with the naked eye. Users can see these micro-patterns only when a piece of transparencies is used as a checker. Textures used in PowerLock can be generated by either type of RIP or generated by Artwork's own FlexoCal technology for Windows and Macintosh (including Mac OS X).
The Artlink module in ArtPro is a set of efficient tools linked to the database, allowing for automatic layout and batch changes to the final packaging design. The various components of the work clearly show in the component description in a database that any changes made in the database will be reflected in the work, and vice versa. Using this method can be flexible to control the work, the control of the content, including color, the location of the elements and text replacement. Artwork Systems uses a database from dbase that can run under Windows and Macintosh (including Mac OS X) operating systems.
ArtPro's PowerOptimizer is designed to calculate the arrangement of labels on paper, film, or plates. It takes into account almost all design parameters such as name, color, size, bleeding, printing, cutting direction, cutting size and maximum Paper size, etc. After setting these parameters, an optimal layout design can be automatically output. You can also manually change or re-layout all the labels on the layout.
PowerOptimizer can be integrated into ArtPro's PowerLayout module or integrated into an ArtPro workstation with PowerLayout as an option. For the treasurer, this module becomes a valuable tool for job planning and cost control in the front end; at the same time, for the production operator who prepares for output, this module becomes a planning tool in the back end.
At the same time ArtPro was launched, Artwork also promoted their Nexus product line to packaging users. This series of products consists of several modules, including a workflow manager NexusManager, an editor that modifies text and images, and an interactive communication tool NexusWebWay that communicates using the Internet.
NexusWebWay is a new element of this workflow solution. It is a new browser-based tool for submitting jobs, preflighting files, job auditing, and downloading PDF files for remote proofing.
In addition to Nexus workflow products, Artwork Systems has officially launched their Nexus RIP module FlexoCal. The goal of packaging and printing companies is to accurately reflect the color and structure of products, but unfortunately the mechanical structure of past flexo rollers has limited the quality of products that can be achieved. Nowadays, the calibration of non-linear RIP within the FlexoCal module has been a breakthrough, and together with other technologies of Artwork Systems, the quality of the flexographic product can be completely comparable to that of offset and gravure printing.
ScenicSoft's Pandora
ScenicSoft's Pandora has been on the market for more than a year, and now there are some new technological advances. The newly introduced version 1.1 solves the problem of compatibility with CreoScitex Prinergy Powerpack, IMPact, Direct and Connect. Version 1.2 will include features that are compatible with Brisque Pack, while providing full control and tools for editing specific, complex bleeding paths.
Version 1.5 has a new marketing strategy. The product will be divided into two levels: Pandora Plus and Pandora Pro. The former is essentially the same as the 1.2 version, except that some new features have been added, such as two-way support for the PJT (portable job ticket) format.
Pandora Pro includes automatic stepping on the printing press paper, and cuts multiple pages into the CFF2 CAD format. The latest version also plans to include a straight-cut auto-fill option, which is installed on the cutting equipment console, such as the Polar Compucut cutter, and provides data export to CIP3. PPF format features.
Dalim's products are aimed at Rotary Print's Print '01, which ended last year. Dalim() places very little emphasis on packaging products and workflows. Obviously, the development of packaging products is stagnant. They focus on the field of commercial printing. . But the company's web-based printing-to-order document and job management software is linked to Dalim's Twist database toolkit, to a large extent with Internet access and job management from Packaging and Artworks and CreoScitex. The software is very similar.
One of the distinctive features of Dalim Twist and Dalim Litho 4.5 is the emphasis on PDF and PDF editing capabilities, and the product is currently in beta testing. With this product, you can think of PDF/P2 files as a set of standardized tools that clean up erroneous data in PDF files and produce predictable output. At the same time the product also supports PDF/X-1. Its purpose is to filter predictable files for Dalim workflows, while also providing standard exportable files for PDF-based workflows developed by other developers.
In addition, Dalim also announced that they will use Linux as a support platform for Swing workflow tools. The Dalim application support platform now includes: Mac, Windows, Irix, Solaris and Linux.
Heidelberg's metaDimension
Heidelberg () introduced the latest RIP and workflow solution metaDimension. It is a modular system consisting of several modules, including OPI, in-RIP trapping, color management and screening. It can drive most Heidelberg output devices and proofing. equipment. After more than 180 installations, a system designed for film output has recently been introduced, and a system for printing plates will soon be introduced.
Strictly speaking, metaDimension is not a packaged application. It is the core of the latest Heidelberg workflow system and can be used with other commercial applications developed in Heidelberg. Because it is a modular system, it can also be used with packaging products developed by other developers. For example, while the standard metaDimension in-RIP trap module can meet the needs of trademark printers, most packaging companies will also need Heidelberg's SuperTrap Plus. The metaDimension can work with Prinergy Powerpack and can also handle CIP3 and CFF2 files.
Signapack is a key application in Heidelberg's packaging workflow. It is a powerful tool that controls markers and provides full control over the location of the packaging and the path of the cut. Nested packaging products can be distorted like a single placed package.
CreoScitex Powerpack
Many people have been seeing CreoScitex's Prinergy Powerpack software suite for the first time on Print '01, including InSite for packaging, and CreonScitex's online submission and collaboration environment.
Conclusion In the past, prepress developers other than Barco viewed packaging as a small market, always imposing some problems encountered in packaging production on existing commercial printing systems. The situation has changed a lot now
At the Print '01 exhibition that just concluded last year, both large and small packaging companies displayed rare vitality and information, which is even more precious in the context of poor economic conditions throughout the industry. The packaging field seems to have been biting his teeth for the most difficult period. The dawn is just around the corner. The main products launched by CreoScitex and Artwork Systems show that they have increased investment in R&D in the packaging field, demonstrating their confidence in the potential of the packaging market. Some small-scale manufacturers, such as EngView and ScenicSoft, have also introduced innovative new products in this area. In general, the lack of automation of workflow management in the packaging field is being alleviated.
EngView Synergy
EngView Systems Inc. (foundation in 1999) is a Canadian company with a research and development office at the SIRMA Group R&D center in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. The core technology of EngView software has been developed since 1996.
EV Synergy is the latest product of EngView Systems Inc. and is an artificial intelligence-based drawing software for designing packaging components or entire packaging products. The software features snap-to-lines and the ability to automatically memorize angles and lengths when manually changing packaged components and to achieve "artificial intelligence." A component library containing more than 300 reference components can be used during the design process to pick the desired element or as a starting point for the design. The component library follows ECMA and FEFCO's corrugated paper box's internal and external dimensions and folding carton standards, so it does not cause any trouble with the output.
Images can be exported to design or CAD systems and saved in DXF, DDS, CF2, and EPS file formats. This is also consistent with ArtiosCAD, other Barco systems, Arden's Impact software, and of course, EngView's own EV Package Designer software.
EV Package Designer is a very good application software that combines the design components in EV Synergy (which can be selected from the library of more than 300 reference design components) and the processed graphic images imported from other desktop software.
EV Package Designer's user interface is exactly the same as EV Synergy's, and the combination of design components and processed elements can be combined with just dragging and dropping of the mouse. You can then manually lay out your completed designs within a given paper size range, or you can use the Layout Wizard Layout Wizard to automate this function, all with the goal of maximizing the use of information resources. Manual and automatic layouts can be clearly seen on an electronic schedule to estimate the cost of the operation. The cost estimates resulting from any subsequent changes to the layout will also be reflected in the table. (The cost estimation module is a separate product.) The file formats imported and exported by the Package Designer software are DXF, DDS, CFF2, and EPS.
The 3D Presenter module combines packaged components and image data and allows for 3D presentations that allow the user to interactively observe the situation when the carton is folded up and unfolded, and can see through to the internal structure of the package. The three-dimensional data file is a small virtual reality markup language (VRML) file, which can be sent via E-mail and can be viewed at any time in a browser equipped with a VRML plug-in plug-in. VRML for Windows and Macintosh (including Mac OS X) is freely available on the web site. The 3D Presenter module can be used on works from any CAD system design or on files stored in JPEG, BMP, GIF or other types of vector image formats.
EngView is currently aggressively marketing their products in North America and they plan to promote them globally. The company has formed a strategic partnership with Heidelberg.
Artwork Systems upgrades ArtPro Artwork Systems Inc. has introduced three newest ArtPro modules for the packaging market on Print '01: PowerLock for copyright management, Artlink for multiple publications, and PowerOptimizer for labels.
PowerLock leverages a new, easy-to-use screening technology to support the growing digital rights management community while using a film-based spyware viewer to detect and verify counterfeit packaging products that appear on the market. Screening technology is mainly applied to a small object of a packaged product, such as an icon, an image or a decorative pattern, and embedded in these areas. Consumers can't see these micro-patterns with the naked eye. Users can see these micro-patterns only when a piece of transparencies is used as a checker. Textures used in PowerLock can be generated by either type of RIP or generated by Artwork's own FlexoCal technology for Windows and Macintosh (including Mac OS X).
The Artlink module in ArtPro is a set of efficient tools linked to the database, allowing for automatic layout and batch changes to the final packaging design. The various components of the work clearly show in the component description in a database that any changes made in the database will be reflected in the work, and vice versa. Using this method can be flexible to control the work, the control of the content, including color, the location of the elements and text replacement. Artwork Systems uses a database from dbase that can run under Windows and Macintosh (including Mac OS X) operating systems.
ArtPro's PowerOptimizer is designed to calculate the arrangement of labels on paper, film, or plates. It takes into account almost all design parameters such as name, color, size, bleeding, printing, cutting direction, cutting size and maximum Paper size, etc. After setting these parameters, an optimal layout design can be automatically output. You can also manually change or re-layout all the labels on the layout.
PowerOptimizer can be integrated into ArtPro's PowerLayout module or integrated into an ArtPro workstation with PowerLayout as an option. For the treasurer, this module becomes a valuable tool for job planning and cost control in the front end; at the same time, for the production operator who prepares for output, this module becomes a planning tool in the back end.
At the same time ArtPro was launched, Artwork also promoted their Nexus product line to packaging users. This series of products consists of several modules, including a workflow manager NexusManager, an editor that modifies text and images, and an interactive communication tool NexusWebWay that communicates using the Internet.
NexusWebWay is a new element of this workflow solution. It is a new browser-based tool for submitting jobs, preflighting files, job auditing, and downloading PDF files for remote proofing.
In addition to Nexus workflow products, Artwork Systems has officially launched their Nexus RIP module FlexoCal. The goal of packaging and printing companies is to accurately reflect the color and structure of products, but unfortunately the mechanical structure of past flexo rollers has limited the quality of products that can be achieved. Nowadays, the calibration of non-linear RIP within the FlexoCal module has been a breakthrough, and together with other technologies of Artwork Systems, the quality of the flexographic product can be completely comparable to that of offset and gravure printing.
ScenicSoft's Pandora
ScenicSoft's Pandora has been on the market for more than a year, and now there are some new technological advances. The newly introduced version 1.1 solves the problem of compatibility with CreoScitex Prinergy Powerpack, IMPact, Direct and Connect. Version 1.2 will include features that are compatible with Brisque Pack, while providing full control and tools for editing specific, complex bleeding paths.
Version 1.5 has a new marketing strategy. The product will be divided into two levels: Pandora Plus and Pandora Pro. The former is essentially the same as the 1.2 version, except that some new features have been added, such as two-way support for the PJT (portable job ticket) format.
Pandora Pro includes automatic stepping on the printing press paper, and cuts multiple pages into the CFF2 CAD format. The latest version also plans to include a straight-cut auto-fill option, which is installed on the cutting equipment console, such as the Polar Compucut cutter, and provides data export to CIP3. PPF format features.
Dalim's products are aimed at Rotary Print's Print '01, which ended last year. Dalim() places very little emphasis on packaging products and workflows. Obviously, the development of packaging products is stagnant. They focus on the field of commercial printing. . But the company's web-based printing-to-order document and job management software is linked to Dalim's Twist database toolkit, to a large extent with Internet access and job management from Packaging and Artworks and CreoScitex. The software is very similar.
One of the distinctive features of Dalim Twist and Dalim Litho 4.5 is the emphasis on PDF and PDF editing capabilities, and the product is currently in beta testing. With this product, you can think of PDF/P2 files as a set of standardized tools that clean up erroneous data in PDF files and produce predictable output. At the same time the product also supports PDF/X-1. Its purpose is to filter predictable files for Dalim workflows, while also providing standard exportable files for PDF-based workflows developed by other developers.
In addition, Dalim also announced that they will use Linux as a support platform for Swing workflow tools. The Dalim application support platform now includes: Mac, Windows, Irix, Solaris and Linux.
Heidelberg's metaDimension
Heidelberg () introduced the latest RIP and workflow solution metaDimension. It is a modular system consisting of several modules, including OPI, in-RIP trapping, color management and screening. It can drive most Heidelberg output devices and proofing. equipment. After more than 180 installations, a system designed for film output has recently been introduced, and a system for printing plates will soon be introduced.
Strictly speaking, metaDimension is not a packaged application. It is the core of the latest Heidelberg workflow system and can be used with other commercial applications developed in Heidelberg. Because it is a modular system, it can also be used with packaging products developed by other developers. For example, while the standard metaDimension in-RIP trap module can meet the needs of trademark printers, most packaging companies will also need Heidelberg's SuperTrap Plus. The metaDimension can work with Prinergy Powerpack and can also handle CIP3 and CFF2 files.
Signapack is a key application in Heidelberg's packaging workflow. It is a powerful tool that controls markers and provides full control over the location of the packaging and the path of the cut. Nested packaging products can be distorted like a single placed package.
CreoScitex Powerpack
Many people have been seeing CreoScitex's Prinergy Powerpack software suite for the first time on Print '01, including InSite for packaging, and CreonScitex's online submission and collaboration environment.
Conclusion In the past, prepress developers other than Barco viewed packaging as a small market, always imposing some problems encountered in packaging production on existing commercial printing systems. The situation has changed a lot now
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