LARGE-FORMAT SHEETFED PRESSES -- Printing to Perfection

Looking beyond the press itself, Heidelberg sees integration with the digital workflow as being of prime importance, Dowey says. "Our Prinect suite of products offers bi-directional transfer of production information to and from the presses. Prinance, our JDF-based MIS system, has the ability to digitally preset the press to the next job, and get production data online in real time. With PrepressInterface, we set ink fountains directly from CIP4-compatible data. Even our ImageControl closed-loop color system can be digitally preset based on actual color values from prepress," he reports.