DRUPA 2000--Absorbing The Digital Impact

* On the prepress front, PDF was dominant, and imagesetters and platesetters coexisted. And, with the global debut of CreoScitex, the Creo/Heidelberg joint venture that once was, was—officially—no more.

DRUPA 2000 marked the true validation of the PDF movement—with more PDF workflows coming to market and existing PDF workflows, from Agfa's new Apogee, Apogee Series2 with new Create module, to CreoScitex's Prinergy, also being marketed by Heidelberg Prepress, undergoing next-generation refinements. CreoScitex and Heidelberg Prepress, separately, showed the latest bells and whistles crafted onto the PDF-based Prinergy workflow. Prinergy 2.0, offers the new, modular Prinergy Connect.