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PRE-PRESS Press room finishing and Dispatch
General IT

The Pre-Press production line

From the start of the printing process we use the best equipment available, ensuring consistency and the highest of standards.

Heidelberg Computer to Plate
Topsetter Thermal Plate Setter Installation Spring '05 (20pph @ 2450dpi)
Suprasetter H 74 Thermal Plate Setter (30pph @ 2450dpi) - Installation Spring '05
All plate output devices are calibrated to meet ISO Standard 12647-2
Prinect Printready (PDF and JDF workfl ow) - Installation Spring '05
CIP3 (direct link between prepress and press)
Suite of 15 Macs and PC's
Printers/Proofers
e-mail proof facility within Prinect Printready System
Epson Stylus Pro 7600
(max image area 600x1500mm - 2880x1440dpi - icc colour calibrated contract proofing system)
Hewlett Packard Designjet 1050c (max image area 740x520mm - low res colour proof)
Scanner
Agfa duoscan Ti200 (refl ective/transmission) ScanMaker 6800 (refl ective/transmission)
Applications Mac
Acrobat, Illustrator, Pagemaker, Photoshop, Barcoda, Fontographer, Freehand, Indesign, MicroSoft Office standard:- Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Explorer, Word. Quark-Xpress, Wamnet Transmission Manager (ISDN software)
Applications PC
Acrobat, Illustrator, Pagemaker, Photoshop, Indesign, Coreldraw, Freehand, Quark-Xpress MicroSoft Offi ce standard:- Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Explorer, Word
Drives
31/2" Floppy, 250mb/100mb Zip, CD/DVDR, 2gb Jaz
Storage
730mb CD, 4.7gb DVDR, 220/320gb DLT, 144gb Raid, 288gb Raid
Workflow
Heidelberg® Printready is the power behind our fully digital workflow. The technology behind Printready is as current as it is fast. Its flexibility allows it to never become dated and is also expandable to meet the demands of the market place.
That means that files can now be accessed through the internet. It is also the same file that produces the proofs, and if approved, will also be used to produce the final output - the plate (thus retaining data integrity)
Heidelberg® Prinect Printready System is a workflow system for our pre-press production line. The Prinect Printready System enables us to work with a flexible, transparent, safe and automated workflow completely based on PDF and JDF. (Input formats: PS, EPS, PDF,TIFF 'B', COMDOT, PXI - Output format: PDF) - Installation Spring '05

It is our policy to ensure we have a wide range of applications to meet all our customers needs. Applications will be upgraded as and when they are released. If you have a favoured application not listed, then please contact us.