Prepress

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Transfer with just one click

Nearly all of our customers send us their work online. We have a server that can handle even the largest files. A user name and password, one click, and the transfer is done. With JDF integration, and for improved performance, we have also set up file sending procedures and precise specifications, in particular regarding the creation of PDF files, which make up most of our production flow.

Our standard: PDF-ILD

Digital file security is handled in PDF. Having been convinced of its effectiveness from the very beginning, we immediately opted for this format. Hand in hand with JDF technology and FTP transfer, your files are received and treated with optimal productivity and reliability, thanks to automated tasks. PDF files must be created according to the same criteria on the client side and the supplier side, so that we can guarantee perfect reproduction of your files. The parameters are available to you at all times.

With WEB BAT, it’s all to your advantage

Always working to benefit from technological innovation, and to use it to our clients’ advantage, we have set up an online validation server: WebBat. It’s like an on-screen contact proof. It’s reliable, and it saves time and materials, while providing maximum file security, because it is generated from the flat. It allows us to improve our responsiveness and shorten lead-times.

Checking all the angles

But enhanced processing speed should not crowd out approvals. Our prepress service, initially equipped with two-sided printers, assuring imposition of the work, also has a colorimetric proofing system (according to the EuroStandard) for use when the client does not provide proofs. This document is our press proof.

Our equipment

> Machines
- 6 Mac and PC workstations.
- Esko Graphics Flux Scope. JDF.
- 1 HP 5500 two-sided printers for proofs.
- 1 Ricoh 7000 two-sided laser printer.
- 1 Docucolor 252 proofing system - Norm 12647-2.
- 3 Fuji Luxel 9600 CTP platesetters that produce 32 plates per hour.
> 4 production teams, 6 days a week
> File transfer
- JDF FTP server electronic send and receive confirmation.
> Electronic BAT server
- WebBAT for online page approval
> Software used
- Rip Esko AE10.
- Suite Adobe CS, X press, Pitstop.

   Léonce Deprez printing uses JDF technology