Screen’s TrueFlow SE Version 6.0 is the latest version of Screen’s JDF-enabled, PDF fully automated prepress production workflow. The TrueFlow SE v6.0 incorporates the Adobe PDF Print Engine to ensure consistent and predictable output. It builds upon the previous generation of TrueFlow SE features by offering a number of innovative productivity-driven functionality that is increasingly in demand by the multi-faceted print production industry.

TrueFlow SE v6.0 offers improved printing quality and productivity. It also features standard file checking, OPI support, trapping and imposition and many other prepress functions. TrueFlow SE is designed to drive optimized computer-to-plate production and digital printing presses while also providing an advanced automated and streamlined workflow environment. It also allows existing users to move easily from a PDF and PostScript workflow into a JDF-based environment and achieve seamless communication with Management Information Systems.

Some new functions in the TrueFlow SE v6.0 include: Outline PDF Advance, the most versatile and interchangeable format; Digital page inspection, which significantly improves output reliability by offering an automated method of checking the post RIP’d file against the original PDF; Versioning, which is useful when creating multiple variations of a document by replacing parts of the document; PDF Trapeditor, an Adobe Acrobat plug-in that makes it possible to edit traps created by TrueFlow SE; and compatible with the latest PitStop profiles, an Adobe Acrobat plug-in that optimizes PDFs for their intended use.

Adobe Systems Incorporated announced Adobe PDF Print Engine 2, the next generation, full-featured printing software that enables end-to-end workflows for graphically rich publishing based on Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). Adobe PDF Print Engine 2 is designed for offset and digital printing and enables Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) and print providers to fulfill the promise of variable data printing (VDP) and help their customers to develop personalized campaigns for different target audiences.

More than 2,000 systems incorporate Adobe Print Engine since its inception in 2006 and are in production from the industry’s biggest names: Agfa, FUJIFILM, Kodak, EFI, Xerox, and others. Adobe PDF Print Engine 2 addresses the complexity and limitations of variable data printing workflows that have hampered VDP adoption. The software offers print providers with an easy on-ramp to add VDP to their existing workflows. Adobe PDF Print Engine 2 makes personalized publishing more practical and broadly accessible.

For example, the Printing Department at the University of Southern Queensland in Australia are finding that the Adobe PDF Print Engine makes jobs twice as fast their previous systems. Adobe PDF Print Engine 2 uses the same core PDF technology, across end-to-end workflow-designing with Adobe Creative Suite, reviewing and proofing with Adobe Acrobat Professional and printing with Adobe PDF Print Engine.

Print industry insiders no longer consider the Internet as an enemy to print but rather as “part of the toolbox” as one person put it. Web-to-Print is considered to be the workshop of the digital salesroom for those who produce media. Web-to-Print is defined as server-based online creation of individualized documents, including business processes, in the print and media industry.

The classic links between print and publishing can include document management in any organization. It also recognizes media other than print, as they may be a part of related workflows. Most major print solution providers have an approach to Web-to-Print. So far, Apple has not expanded their take on Web-to-Print. Some speculate that they see print as only one media option and that podcasting is a more-immediate form of publishing.

Adobe still has an interest in print and recently announced an update for the PDF Print Engine that allows better connections with variable data in digital printing. Adobe has also announced Acrobat 9 and this new release supports Flash and proposes a concept of a document that includes video, sound and animation.