Software - Web-to-print

Kodak Users Get the Real Deal LAS VEGAS—More than 300 members of the Graphic Users Association (GUA) of Kodak Solutions recently gathered at the Wynn Las Vegas for the North American group’s annual meeting. “This year’s conference was our biggest and best yet,” said current GUA President Tom Clifford, who is also a prepress technology specialist with RR Donnelley. Having “unfiltered access to executives and product specialists from Kodak” is a key benefit of attending the event, Clifford noted. “Most important, the team from Kodak. . .genuinely listens to our feedback and takes it into consideration when developing new products and features.” He also

DÜSSELDORF, GERMANY—May 30, 2008—Presstek Inc., the leading manufacturer and marketer of digital offset printing business solutions, is showcasing its full range of environmentally friendly digital printing solutions at drupa 2008, the world’s largest printing trade show scheduled for May 29th through June 11th, 2008, at the Messe Düsseldorf in Germany. Presstek can be found in Stand A55, Hall 04. “This important global trade event provides a tremendous opportunity for the worldwide printing community to gather every four years to review the current state of the industry, and we are excited to have such an impressive collection of new and innovative digital

Düsseldorf, Germany—May 29, 2008—Objective Advantage (OA), the specialist print software developer, is presenting its latest version of Symbio V2.0, in a fully automated live web-to-finish production workflow at drupa 2008. Designed to enable optimum efficiency and scalability, Symbio is a suite of easy to use software management tools which seamlessly integrates and automates all aspects of print production and order management at the plant level. Symbio enables print jobs to enter via web submission, and pass seamlessly from one process to another, and through to delivery of the final product without any need for manual intervention. Version 2.0 of Symbio comprises

MONTREAL/DÜSSELDORF, GERMANY—May 29, 2008—Objectif Lune today announced it will present a broad array of personalized communications solutions at drupa, demonstrating the company’s innovative leadership in this ever-growing market. Using sample applications, Objectif Lune will demonstrate how to solve communications and document challenges and how to leverage data to increase sales and brand awareness. In Hall 9, Stand C19, Objectif Lune experts will guide attendees through the design, workflow, production and routing of a variety of personalized communications, transactional or promotional. Objectif Lune offers solutions for efficient design and high-volume printing of all kinds of variable content documents. The company’s portfolio includes PlanetPress Suite for

DÜSSELDORF, GERMANY—May 29, 2008—XMPie®, Inc., the leading provider of software for dynamic publishing, adds cross-media capabilities to the Web-to-print features of its uStore® marketing portal solution. Also, an individualized multilingual shopping experience for store visitors is now supported with an unlimited number of languages. uStore software allows print providers, creative agencies and corporate marketing departments to easily offer customized and personalized printed documents through e-commerce-enabled online stores. Now, with uStore 3.0 customizable e-mail campaigns are available for store visitors to choose, customize and blast. Regular SMTP e-mail is supported as well as e-mails sent via ExactTarget, a leading provider of on-demand e-mail marketing software

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA—May 22, 2008—LithoTechnics, developer of Metrix, award-winning, intelligent job planning and imposition system, announced today that their Drupa lineup will feature Metrix 3.1, premiering support for “jog to foot” or “low folio lap” books. Metrix 3.1 also includes enhanced JDF binding compatibility, adding support for Muller Martini saddle-stitchers and perfect binders. Australian and US representatives of LithoTechnics will be demonstrating Metrix in Hall 7, Stand 7.0 J, located in the Drupa Innovation Parc JDF Experience. LithoTechnics will participate in JDF interoperability demonstrations with numerous JDF Experience partners, including Dalim, Kodak, and Optimus. Rohan Holt, President of LithoTechnics, said, “We are proud to

NEW YORK—May 21, 2008—Integrated Color Solutions (ICS) today announces a new version of its Remote Director proofing system that the company expects will bring dramatically positive changes throughout the graphic arts industry. By moving Remote Director’s color computing to processors so powerful they are used for advanced scientific and sophisticated 3D and gaming applications, ICS engineering teams were able to move to a spectrally-based color system* and also add numerous, previously unavailable, functions to the graphic arts workflow. This newest version of Remote Director will be a featured solution at drupa 2008, being held in Dusseldorf, Germany, May 29-June 11, at ICS

05/20/08—Having taken the UK by storm and ready to do the same on the global digital printing scene, RedTie Ltd will be unveiling two unique web-to-print software solutions at the DRUPA: an instant quotation tool - RedTie Quotation-(RTQ) and a marketing template system - RedTie Template -(RTT). One of Red Tie’s biggest clients HP, has opted to feature the Red Tie solution as part of its showcase at DRUPA. Together, these solutions are helping blue chip giants such as HP and Suzuki, and independent print companies alike to drastically cut print production costs. In an increasingly environmentally conscious world, Red Tie’s solutions also help

OR AKIVA, ISRAEL—May 19, 2008—Press-sense today announced that Press-sense iWay™ 5.0 and Press-sense Manager™ 2.0 will be revealed at Drupa 2008. Already considered the leading e-solution for commercial printers and digital service providers, the new 5.0 upgrade sports a completely new user-friendly interface, and multiple features built upon an advanced infrastructure that fosters improved scalability, as well as rapid development and simpler integration of 3rd party products and plug-ins. These enhancements support new levels of efficiency within the print production workflow by simplifying the online experience of print buying customers. At the same time, the new features further encourage print service providers to entrust

QUEBEC, CANADA—May 15, 2008—Dynagram, the leader in innovative imposition technologies for the commercial print, digital print and prepress industries, and Global Graphics, world leading developer of technology for document and print solutions and developer of the Harlequin RIP®, will present live workflow demonstrations at drupa, in collaboration with MIS system providers GamSys and NovaVision. The demonstrations will illustrate live jobs created in an MIS system, moving to imposition and then sent to a RIP for final print processing. The live demos will be presented at the JDF Experience Parc on six occasions throughout the event. JDF Workflows During these demonstrations, the MIS creates