Canon Agfa :Apogee Integration Brochure

AGFA GRAPHICS

Unified hybrid prepress workflow solution
• Manage prepress workflows for offset litho print production and automate  

   on-demand print jobs on digital presses using one prepress workflow

• Content and colour quality defined and controlled by prepress workflow 

• Common use of processing components and resources

- Normalizer, Renderer, ICC-profiles, fonts, … 

• Identical workflow

- Common processing adds consistency and provides print integrity

Integration of the digital press is based on CIP4’s Digital Print ICS
(Job Definition Format/Job Messaging Format)
• JDF is used to submit jobs from Apogee Prepress including. digital press  

   specific parameters, such as paper type and size, screening and finishing 

• JMF is used to

- receive information about the digital press capabilities, which will  

  show up as selectable features/parameters in Apogee Prepress 

- to receive information about the configured media

- receive information on print production status and various digital press related

  notifications s.a. door open, out of media, cancelled and deleted jobs

- receive notifications when job is printed for accounting & cost calculation purposes

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