CIP3 Comes Home

With the PPF, ink key settings on the press can be handled automatically using data downloaded from RIPed files. The goal: Use prepress automation to allow a print job to speak in one voice, digitally, from prepress to the pressroom and, ultimately, the bindery.

PPF files are generated as early as possible in the life cycle of a print job. Along with information such as the client's name and address, the print job's name and the applications used to create the data for the print job, the PPF contains as much information about the job as possible—from format size to inks and finishing information.