Rampage Ships Version 11, Increases PDF trapping speed

Source: Press release issued by the company, unless otherwise noted.

June 10, 2008 – Rampage Systems of Waltham, MA announced that Version 11 of the Rampage Workflow System is shipping and improves the performance of PDF Trap Engine by as much as 75 percent.  Rampage Systems introduced PDF Trap Engine in 2006 to help printers deal with PDF files containing transparent effects.

Quad Core Workstation Offers Further Gains - The speed improvements to the software are compounded by the company’s move to faster workstations based on Quad Core Xeon processors.  Kevin McSweeney, Rampage Vice President of Sales and Marketing, said, “Speed was our primary focus for this initial release.  The majority of our customers will see speed improvements of 300 percent by running Version 11 on our Quad Core workstation.  In other words, they will be running faster software on faster hardware.”

Threaded RIP Option Doubles Performance - Version 11 also marks Rampage’s introduction of an option that runs two software RIPs on a single workstation.  The Threaded RIP option nearly doubles the performance of a conventional system.  For an existing Rampage customer, the cumulative effect of running Version 11 with the Threaded RIP option is a speed improvement of 300 to 700 percent depending on configuration. 

JDF Tightens Integration With Imposition Packages - Metrix from Lithotechnics (www.lithotechnics.com) combines job planning, estimating, and imposition into a comprehensive, yet easy-to-use package.   Businesses using Metrix 3.0 can now select predefined Rampage process plans (workflows) from within Metrix and generate a job in JDF that is picked up by Rampage for automatic processing.  Other imposition packages can actually run from within Rampage Version 11 and automatically generate a job including stripping instructions in JDF. 

Advanced Preflight Tool in Next Release - Version 11.1 of Rampage will include a comprehensive PDF preflight utility that will supplement Rampage’s existing Pre-Scan application.  McSweeney said, “There are many progressive businesses successfully using Rampage Remote for proofing and job submission.  The weak link in this automation chain is poorly constructed customer files.  Version 11.1 will address that issue and help our customers achieve even higher levels of automation.” 

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XChange International announce release of Printools plug-in for Adobe InDesign CS3

Press Release 6/11/08

 

XChange International, the source for extended technology worldwide, are pleased to announce the release of the Printools plug-in for Adobe InDesign CS3. Badia Printools for Adobe InDesign CS3 provides prepress and printing professionals with a powerful collection of printing tools for automated and error-free output. In one comprehensive package users get batch printing of multiple documents, the ability to rename at print, print to file in different formats and preflighting before output. Users can even combine several of these tools during the same print session to streamline complex printing tasks.

The batch printing tool allows users to print multiple files (up to 5000 documents) with the same print settings. The user simply selects the files they want to print, arranges them in any order they wish, and clicks the Print button. Printools even provides the ability to combine batch printing with Save to File to generate multiple PostScript files at once. The Save to File as PostScript, PDF or INX tool allows users to save the printout to a designated folder as a PostScript, PDF, or INX file. When combined with batch printing, users can generate hundreds of these files in one single step.

The preflighting engine quickly and thoroughly checks for potential problems that could lead to time and material waste. Users can customise the preflight checks by activating any of the following diagnostics: missing fonts, text overflows, non-printing graphics, broken picture links, RGB images, modified links, and poor image resolution.

Printools 5.0 for Adobe InDesign makes it easy to keep track of the printed files with the powerful Print Log window. This window reports in real time which files are being printed (or saved), plus any errors or warnings that may occur during the output process. It also shows the Preflight Results list with all the preflighting details, and the Skipped Documents list, with the documents that have been skipped for not meeting the preflight requirements.

Additionally, users can now rename the document during the output stage, without altering the actual document or file name. Print renaming is useful for identifying the document during the output stage, regardless of the actual file name. It is also helpful in keeping track of revisions or when printing individual pages for imposition. Printools lets users specify up to 3 variable components in the new file name.

System requirements:
Badia Printools 5.0 for InDesign is Universal Binary and requires Adobe InDesign CS3 and Mac OS X Tiger (10.4.2 or later) or Leopard (10.5.x). Printools is also available for QuarkXPress versions 4 through 7.

Printools for InDesign CS3 or QuarkXPress are available now through XChange International. To order, or for more information, users can visit www.xchangeuk.com, or call on +44(0)20 7490 4455 during UK business hours. Email address is info@xchangeuk.com.