Special Drupa Coverage — Drupa Foretells Digital Future

Xanté took specialty digital printing in a different direction by introducing the Ilumina 3D press for printing directly on lenticular sheets in sizes up to 12.9x19˝.

Workflows Getting Connected

There are still a number of dedicated digital printing workflow solutions being offered, but the systems originally designed for offset/CTP production increasingly are being extended to feed digital presses. This trend toward universal workflows is also leading to more agreements between vendors, especially in terms of Web-to-print solutions tying into production. Another development seen at Drupa that spans workflow solutions was Adobe’s announcement of Adobe PDF Print Engine 2, which offers improvements for processing “graphically rich,” variable data printing.