Kodak launches Prinergy Workflow 7

Kodak said that all the enhancements to Prinergy Workflow 7 are designed protect the profit margins of today’s print service providers, including new features that limit human error, improve time to press, and enable faster and more informed decisions for keeping healthy margins. 

 

Prinergy Workflow 7 increases the level of automation in every core function of the printing process such as job creation, collaboration, file processing, trapping, proofing, imposition and color management. Kodak’s workflow automation software also delivers the flexibility to integrate with current, future and third-party technology, allowing customers to grow their workflow system alongside their business.  

 

Some other demand driven improvements include callas Preflight Profile integration, layered PDF versioning enhancements with improved error detection and better control over multiple layers of files. The new version also allows digital printing enhancements giving centralized control over digital and conventional presses and equipment. 

 

Kodak is leveraging these digital printing enhancements to enable an advanced level of automation and management of production presses. These new capabilities make it possible for Prinergy Workflow 7 to control job ticketing parameters both manually and through rules based automation (RBA) of multiple devices while monitoring and reporting the status of each alongside CtP devices and proofers.

 

Dietrich von Seggern, business development manager at callas software, said: ‘We are proud to incorporate our PDF technology into Prinergy Workflow 7. Our goal has always been to develop technology that is reliable, innovative and flexible, all key requirements for automation. We believe that the combination of a versatile client server system, Prinergy Workflow and our pdfToolbox technology will be the right answer for many customers.’

 

Jeff Clarke, chief executive officer at Eastman Kodak, said: ‘Kodak’s strength is in research and development. We listened to our customers when they told us that high-quality printing is not enough in today’s printing industry, they needed to further increase their advantage over their competitors. To address those needs we leveraged our software engineering expertise to create Prinergy Workflow 7.  Workflow software is a driver of efficiency and productivity and Prinergy Workflow 7 takes those to new heights and enables our customers to better compete in a challenging marketplace.’

 

Michael Clarke, process analyst at Dupli Envelope and Graphics, one of the first users of Prinergy Workflow 7, said; ‘Preflight+ is a great addition to Kodak Prinergy Workflow 7 for our company. We had been looking for a preflight solution that would highlight issue areas of problem files. We have used other vendor solutions, but none would provide the highlight function. Our team is looking forward to putting together a new preflight process to enable quick and effortless preflights of customer artwork. The fact that RBA can be set up to provide the reports automatically is just icing on the cake.’