Focus on Digital Front Ends

On-Q is an advanced and automated OPI, trapping and imposition solution for Macintosh and Windows NT. Mark Scott, director of marketing at Ultimate, reports that On-Q derives its name from its functionality—users define preferences for various print queues and then access them under a chooser.

"Over the next several years, the DFE market will continue to simplify the process of print management—OPI, imposition and trapping," Scott projects. "At present, all the different DFE solutions and different workflows combine the main prepress steps to achieve the needed result—getting data through the RIP, to the output device and out the door, in as simplified of manner as possible."