Prinergy Automates Page-based Workflow

BY MARIE RANOIA ALONSO

Prinergy, a page-based workflow solution being launched this month at Seybold San Francisco by Creo and Heidelberg Prepress, elevates Adobe's PDF file format and Extreme prepress architecture to new levels of prepress performance.

All hype aside: Prinergy is big.

Besides being the first joint venture technology brought to the table by Vancouver-based Creo Products and Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, Prinergy is the first workflow management system that utilizes not only Adobe PDF technology, but also Adobe Post-Script Extreme—a prepress architecture based on Adobe PostScript 3 that uses Adobe PDF and Adobe Portable Job Ticket Format (PJTF) to automate prepress processes, to provide a distributed digital workflow, to enable late-stage editing, to provide multi-RIP support and to ensure consistent output.