Andrew Bailes-Collins, director of product management at Ultimate TechnoGraphics and technical director of the Ghent Workgroup, describes the capabilities of the Processing Steps standard in his article.
Printing
Four Pees Café about Quite Imposing
Belgian distributor Four Pees hosted a webinar on Quite Imposing (43’06”), a longtime Acrobat plug-in for the imposition of printed pages, as part of its regular online event, Four Pees Café:
Ghent Workgroup launches Ghent PDF Output Suite 5 Conformance Certification
The Ghent Workgoup (GWG) has officially announced the availability of the Ghent PDF Output Suite 5 Conformance Certification. As the chair of the GWG Process Control subcommittee, I have been preparing the project over the last few months.
The new service is aimed at print service providers. With this certification they can prove that their PDF workflow is compliant with the PDF/X-4 standard (ISO 15930-7:2010):
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Variable Data Printing
and Harlequin VariData
Global Graphics, developer of the Harlequin RIP, has published a YouTube video (24’25”) with Martin Bailey, CTO of Global Graphics. In the video, the special features and requirements for a RIP when printing variable data are explained clearly using understandable examples:
Barcode project of Fogra
and free check tool from Callas
In a research project, Fogra looked at the print quality of PDF barcodes with high-speed inkjet printing systems. For this purpose, a specially developed test form was output and analyzed on 50 different printing situations.
Callas Software has developed a barcode check function for this purpose, which is part of the free tools in the new Callas pdfToolbox 12: