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| September 2009: Printers Can Extend Life of Offset Presses and Trim Costs |
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Printers Can Extend Life of Offset Presses and Trim Costs with Alwan Print Standardizer New software brings offset an digital presses up to international standards, guarantees ROI in six months, and on average boosts productivity by 15% Lyon, September, 2009 - Print houses can now deliver standardized production without investing in new offset or digital presses thanks to Alwan Color Expertise, the graphic industry's leading color standardization company. For offset printers, Alwan has opened its Print Standardizer to popular press-side automatic scanning technologies – including X-Rite IntelliTrax, X-Rite ATS, Komori PDC S-II and Heidelberg’s Image Control – ensuring international standards are within reach of all printers. For digital printers, Print Standardizer operates with X-Rite's prepress instruments, and this new version works with a number of X-Rite measuring devices including I1, IO, iSis and Spectroscan. The new software maximizes quality and profitability, and ensures meeting standards on a digital printer and press is simple, cost effective and guaranteed. Implementing Alwan Print Standardizer is simple and only takes a few hours, plus standards are guaranteed for every job. Companies already using the system are enjoying a return on their investment in less than six months. Says Elie Khoury, Alwan's founder and CEO: " Print Standardizer gives offset presses unequaled stability and ensures they work at maximum capacity. It also delivers results that are compliant with applicable international standards, such as ISO 12647-2. “Print Standardizer is the ideal solution for printers wanting to streamline their operations. It allows them to reduce make-ready times, match clients’ standard proofs, and dramatically cut waste paper and ink consumption. The solution typically increases overall pressroom productivity and profitability by an average of 15%.” Alwan Print Standardizer now includes Dynamic Press Calibration (DPC)Press dot gain is the toughest variable to control and stabilize on the press. But this age-old issue is now a thing of the past with Alwan's Dynamic Press Calibration (DPC), an automated dot-gain compensation technology. The software is installed in less than two hours, controls production without any human intervention, and guarantees consistent and standardized print quality. DPC tracks dot gain for each press and paper combination, and automatically compensates for any drift during the day or over longer periods, ensuring production always remains within given specifications. Accurate dot-gain correction curves are calculated and applied automatically, either to the output files or exported directly to the plate setter. Alwan Print Standardizer also continually assesses the press calibration state and issues local and remote warnings when something is wrong in the printing process. For example, an ink problem, excessively high or low dot gain on a unit, imbalance in dot gain between units etc. André Menet, Printing Plant Director of the leading French newspaper Le Figaro, fully supports Alwan's vision on standardization: "Ten years ago, Alwan advised us to keep our presses when we were going to invest in more modern machines. We trusted their advice and instead installed Alwan file and print standardization solutions, as well as process control tools. Since then our presses haven’t faltered and churn out millions of copies every week. " Mr. Menet continues: “Since implementing the Alwan solutions our production has been fully compliant with ISO 12647 standards. Plus because our operators were trained by Alwan to work according to PSO/ISO requirements, we received IFRA Color-Quality Club Certification on our first application. Having this endorsement has helped us attract advertisers. With the Alwan solutions, we never experience any quality issues or delays, paper and ink wastage has been minimized, and our ROI has been fast. Also today, Alwan remains a trusted partner we have called upon once again to help us standardize our new KBA Cortina waterless presses.” About Alwan Color Expertise Today, Alwan provides software, consultancy and training to key players throughout the graphic arts industry, from printers to publishers and from software developers to hardware manufacturers. Alwan Color Expertise offers a choice of four full-featured software solutions within the Alwan CMYK Optimizer product family. Each delivers specialized capabilities that enable all partners along the graphic production line to guarantee the color accuracy of their work, while ensuring optimum production further down the line. Alwan has recently established very strong partnerships with many graphic industry players who are involved in standardization worldwide. They include research organizations, Universities, software publishers and OEMs. The outcome of these co-operations is the recent release of two new and unique ISO 12647 out-of-the-box standardization solutions: Alwan Color Expertise has appointed specialist distributors for each of the targeted market segments. An ever-growing number of leading pre-press manufacturers are either bundling Alwan software with their products or recommending it with their systems, such as Compose System, Dalim, Enfocus, Nazdar, X-Rite and others... For more information, please contact: Lutt Willems All products and services are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners and are hereby acknowledged. |