Kodak PDF software helps printing companies

Kodak Graphic and Video Group (GCG) exhibited the award-winning technology “PDF comparison” and “PDF merge” software at Print 05 (Booth No. 6707). This is an ADOBE ACROBAT plug-in for Prinergy, Prinergy Power Pack and Prinergy Evo Workflow Management System. The plug-in allows prepress operators to make temporary modifications in an automated manner when preparing production documents, which can significantly save time and costs for commercial and packaging printers.

The "PDF Compare" and "PDF Consolidation" software recently received the 2005 GATF InterTech Technology Award, which provides an automated, reliable, and cost-effective way to modify work patterns in the prepress workflow. The PDF comparison software is a quality control software that analyzes two PDF files and determines the differences. The PDF merge software is a prepress production software that allows the operator to extract the elements of a previous job (eg, trapping, screening, overprint settings, etc.) and incorporate all the elements into the newly modified production file.

"PDF Comparison" Helps Commercial Printers Significantly Save Time

The Banta Publishing Group is located in Liberty and provides leading magazine publishers with printing and digital imaging solutions. The group's PDF comparison software is mainly used to modify the files by comparing the original files. They found that this function is very practical when modifying the customer's files. “This software helps our prepress staff save time and increase efficiency. Since our job is mainly magazine printing, it is very difficult to determine what text on a page has been modified,” said Dan Kinney, Systems Administrator at Banta Publishing Group. Said, "In the past, we could only spend a lot of time checking the two proofs to check the changes. Now we just need to open the PDF comparison software and compare the files on the screen."

Packing prepress center to handle temporary modifications is more handy

Cyber ​​Graphics is the prepress division of Bryce Corporation, located in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. Bryce is a successful flexible packaging processor whose customers include Frito-Lay, Kraft Nabisco and Kellogg`s. Cyber ​​Graphics offers a complete prepress service from color separation to design to final flexography. With the help of PDF comparison and PDF merge software, Cyber ​​Graphics has successfully implemented quick modifications of expedited jobs and different versions of job management in the same type of print product.

"The PDF comparison and the PDF merge helped us a lot with the temporary changes - temporary changes in the past took 30 to 45 minutes, but now it takes only 10 to 15 minutes," said Kevin Bourquin, technical pre-press R&D manager at Cyber ​​Graphics. "If we One job later added the other processing to the customer, or there are different language versions in the same series of prints. We can find the changes immediately and quickly merge all the original trapping, marking and screening.”


Source: Eastman Kodak Company