Launches European Printing Industry Research on Hardware and Software Investments and Business Trends. Key Highlights: Print volume that originates online is expected to grow dramatically in the course of the next two years – from 10% to 18% by 2014.There is sizable growth from a software adoption and print volume perspective in variable data, automated production, and web-to-print.Investment plans for digital color printing equipment top the list of planned investments.64% of respondents believe they need to transform or have already transformed from a print service provider (PSP) into a marketing services provider (MSP).
(Weymouth, MA) March 12, 2012…InfoTrends recently published two new research reports on the state of the European printing industry from a hardware and software perspective. Business Trends in Commercial Print focuses on hardware, applications, and volume trends while the Software Investment Outlook 2012 focuses on software, automation, and business strategy. Which of the following would best define your company? Copyright 2012 InfoTrends. All rights reserved. Indigo Presses Achieve a New Milestone. Color Separations - Composite vs Pre-Separated PostScript or PDF. On a printing press each color of ink used in a document is printed one at a time.
Each printing plate used on the press is made up only of components of the page in that one color. Separations are artwork split into component plates of cyan, magenta, yellow, and black in preparation for process printing (CMYK) or into the required number of plates for spot color printing - a plate for each color of ink. Each separation prints a single process or spot color.
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If you have not heard the term digital front end or DFE, don’t be concerned, like the artist formerly known as Prince - it is the product formerly known as the RIP (raster image processor). The difference is that new features are being offered which, in essence, combine functions that used to be done during output (i.e. creating separations), on separate machines (i.e. trapping) or on servers (i.e. imposition). DFEs drive output to a variety of devices, in this article however we will focus on DFEs for digital presses such as HP-Indigos, Nexpress, Xeikons, Canon and Xerox devices History The advantage of Postscript is that it was platform independent, you could print from different computers such as Mac, PC or UNIX systems.
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