Drupa2000 Prepress Products Overview

The five-year Drupa printing exhibition is the most important exhibition in the printing industry and a great event in the printing industry. The Drupa 2000, which has just ended, is the largest Drupa exhibition to date, with nearly 1,800 exhibitors and over 400,000 visitors.
“Digitalization” is a hot spot in this exhibition. The digitization of printing is a clear trend. It includes various aspects such as digital prepress processes, digital management, digital printing business, and digital mechanical equipment. The digital process based on the PDF file format at this exhibition has become more and more mature under the active promotion of various manufacturers, among which Brisque, Prlnergy, Apogee and others have relatively great influence. Digital management and printing e-commerce are becoming more and more closely linked. E-commerce uses the Internet to link printing plants with customers. Digital management can make this connection more smooth. The digital presses that have emerged on Drupa 95, at a speed of 100 pages per minute, have grown to Drupa 2000. The speed of digital presses has reached 2,000 color pages per minute or 8,000 monochrome pages per minute, and the number of manufacturers growing in this area is also increasing. The more you come.
Below, we will briefly introduce some of the specific technologies and products displayed at this exhibition. Groupware For a long time, groupware was actually a competition between two products, Quark's Xpress and Adobe's Page-Maher. The situation has changed. In the future, Adobe's professional groupware will be InDesign, and the current version of the software is version 1.5. In response, Quark won't stage Xpress5 at this Drupa and it is expected that the software will be officially released this fall. In this exhibition, there are many professional-oriented groupware products. For example, ArtWorld showed packaging design software, STEP's Sigmalink is an SGML editing software, and Virtua's PowerPublisher is a multilingual software that now supports XML. There are also some companies on Drupa 2000 that have shown suitable groupware for newspapers, such as CGS, DeIta, IP, Atex, FiveFifteen, etc. Among them, FiveFifteen shows classified advertising software using InDesign as an engine. The focus of the scanner scanner market is the mid-range A3 format CCD scanner, which costs in the thousands to tens of thousands of dollars. Among the scanners in this grade are the Jazz series from Scitex, the F4 series from ScanView, and the Linoscan series from Heidelberg. Their low prices are mainly due to the production in the Far East, which results in lower costs. .
Now more manufacturers are beginning to compete in this market. For example, Fuji was previously an important player in high-end roller scanner manufacturers, and now also plans to introduce a mid-range platform scanner using XY stitching technology. Dunvegan, which previously focused only on the high-end market, has also launched the A3 format platform scanner. Shown in this grade scanner are Graphics One and Quatographic. The Workflow System PDF workflow system has blossomed and is maturing. Of course, the support of Chinese systems for these systems and their adaptability to Chinese typesetting software have yet to be verified.
The expected Adobe Stifton was not displayed. It is estimated that it will wait until August of this year in the United States; the Seybold exhibition held at Nikko will only be displayed. The official name may be “InSC0pe”.
In this exhibition, the Trueflow launched by Screen, KIM displayed by Krause, and the ApogeeSeries 2 workflow system including Apogee Create launched by Asfa Company are all based on the classic PDF file format. The Prinergy 2.0 exhibited by Heidelberg and Creo-Sei-tex has included a number of related products in addition to the main process system, such as Prinergy Insite with the Electronic Commerce System PrintCate, and PowerPack for packaging. Harlequln, on the other hand, gave up its own EP2000 plan and instead partnered with Harris to launch MaxWorkFlow to provide its own RIP users with process solutions. ECRM also uses MaxWorkFlow as its own process solution. In addition, there are some noteworthy work flow systems, such as the CelebraNT PIus of Fuji, the new-generation FastLane of Barco, and the Ultimate Company. ez-WorkFlow, and the systems of Dalim, CGS, IPTech, Shira, and ArtQuest. Digital Proofing Digital proofing systems based on color inkjet and color laser printing have become mainstream products. The quality of proofing has gradually approached the requirements of contract proofing, and its price has great advantages. From the equipment point of view, the use of EPSON and Canon's color inkjet equipment as the most popular proofing system. In addition, some of the original high-end professional proofing systems manufacturers have begun to pay attention to popular inkjet devices, such as CreoScitex's iProof is based on Canon 8500, and DuPont's Cromalin Designer Proof is based on EPSON equipment. There are many digital proofing systems participating in the show. Examples include Aurelon's DeskCheck, Best's BestProof, Composc's ProofJet, CGS ORIS's Color Tuner, Storm's Proofink, HighWater's Torrent-Proof, and ColorSpan. Companies, Pixels' systems, etc. Among them, the proofing quality of some systems has been well received by experts. E-commerce So far, the vast majority of manufacturers that provide e-commerce services for printing are U.S. companies. This is related to the development of the U.S. Intenet. In this exhibition, there are also non-US companies, such as Israel's ProImage and British Optichrome. In addition, the following companies have demonstrated print e-commerce solutions: Col-labria, Fujifilm, Impresse, Noosh. PrintCafe, PrintChannel, PrintConnect, Printware, PrintMountain. These companies have their own characteristics in providing services, business models, and cost methods. Printing users can bid on the Internet through a standard web browser. The printing factory automatically obtains tender information through the network, and then bids for bidding. After the user selects the printing factory, the job is transmitted to the printing factory through the network, and the job can be tracked through the network. The printing factory process, for example, the user can know whether his job is printing or has been completed for shipment. Print e-commerce provides a web platform that enables people to complete the printing process without leaving the home, saving costs and improving efficiency. The Drupa 2000 exhibition also has many new technologies and new products. It is impossible to introduce them in detail here. However, it is believed that in the near future, the schoolmasters in these new technologies and new products will compete to visit the Chinese market. Colleagues can look at their style.