Selected features and benefits

Flexible connectivity.
Output to offset and flexographic CTP devices, direct imaging offset presses, popular proofing devices, and digital presses.

Uncompromised quality.
Supports Kodak Screening Software including Kodak Staccato Screening, high-lpi AM, and Kodak Maxtone CX Screening with Kodak HyperFlex Resolution Enhancement Software.

Reliable high-speed processing.
Increases throughput with powerful, flexible, template-based workflow automation and proven Prinergy PDF technology.

Greater uptime.
Automatic error reporting, online troubleshooting and support are available to keep your prepress and pressroom running.

Open integration.
Software options allow you to import imposition information, specify digital print output, and export ink key pre-setting data via JDF.

Other Features:

• NEW: IS screening
  A specialty screen for flexo and/or gravure output. IS screening (Irrational Tangent Screening) enables seamless, or continuous, imaging of sleeves and cylinders.
• NEW: Normalizer 9
  The latest Adobe Normalizer 9 library—a component used in the refine process—for improved stability and consistency with Kodak Prinergy Connect Workflow Version 5.0.
• Proven, native PDF processing
  Standard, reliable, smaller files, with easy previewing and easy editing with third-party tools.
• Profile-based, automated preflight
  Checks and correct input files automatically; supports standard profiles and profile creation.
• Screening
  AM screening, Staccato Screening, Maxtone CX Screening, and HyperFlex Resolution Enhancement Software.
• Color management
  Converts RGB to CMYK and maps spot colors to process colors. Supports custom ICC profiles; Pantone® library included.
• Trapping
  Automated PDF-to-PDF trapping.
• Template-based automation
  Allows easy operation from the desktop to initiate processing and monitor progress, errors, and history.
• Workflow template automation
  Define a sequence of processing steps to increase throughput with less manual effort.
• Dynamic process templates
  Change process parameters on-the-fly.
• Image replacement (OPI)
  Automated OPI—supports image replacement in both PostScript and PDF files.
• Recombiner
  Enables quick and easy creation of composite files from pre-separated PDF and PostScript files. PDF Compare PDF Merge Acrobat plug-ins that allow prepress operators to compare two files, extract any revisions done and merge all of those elements into the revised production.
• PDF PlateBuilder
  Acrobat plug-in for creating custom plates, including white, varnish, and bump plates.
• DotShop Software
  Acrobat plug-in for setting/controlling screening in PDF files.
• Harmony tonal calibration software
  Allows users to create and manage tonal calibration curves to compensate for dot gain.
• Advanced copydot handling
  Optimize and reformat copydot data to accelerate rendering, change copydot resolution to match that of an output device, and apply tonal calibration to copydot files to eliminate moiré and image artifacts.
• TIFF downloader
  Output third-party, bi-level TIFF files.
• Spread splitting
  Automatically convert reader spreads into two separate PDF pages.
• Flat rotation
  Small-angle rotation of the output image to overcome artifacts (ghosting) on press.
• Raster scaling
  Compensate for physical distortions by scaling raster data during output.
• Web-growth compensation
  Registration compensation for linear and non-linear web growth (paper stretch on web presses).
• PrintLink Produces CIP3 and JDF-compliant files for automated ink-key setting on press.
• File types
  • Input
    NEW: PDF 9 SupportIncludes PDF (1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5), PostScript files level 2 and 3, EPS, TIFF/IT-P1, 1-bit TIFF, DCS1, DCS2, CT/LW Vector formats: PDF (1.3), PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3, EPS, DCS, PostScript files level 2 and 3
  • Output
    Raster formats: TIFF, CT/LW, TIFF/IT, RGB JPEG, EPS, DCS, VPS, and others for proofer connectivity
• Flexible server configurations
  Performance or Premium server configurations available