Arkitex Director V7 - Agfa

Arkitex Director V7
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Software: Entry Level
• :Arkitex RipDrive
• Stand-alone
• Hybrid printers (commercial & newspapers)
• 3 rd party integration
:Arkitex RIPDrive
GrafixRIP + NewsDrive
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Software: Mid Range
• :Arkitex Foundation & Pair
• Stand-alone
• Basic workflow tasks
• Input > Hold > Softproof > Approval > Output
• Automatic pairing or imposition
:Arkitex GrafixRIP
:Arkitex Foundation
:Arkitex Pair
:Arkitex NewsDrive
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Software: High End
• :Arkitex Director
• Stand-alone
• Extended workflow tasks
• :Arkitex Foundation & Pair plus
– Multiple conversion and output control
– Advanced tracking
– Advanced copy control
– Automatic media management
– Automatic priority changes according to deadlines
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Arkitex Director V7
Features and benefits

Live Twinning
• Simplified Active Backup
• Rapid & Secure Failover
Line A
Line B
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Browser Interface
• Access :Arkitex from
everywhere in your LAN
• Supports
• Internet Explorer
• Firefox
• Safari
• Google Chorme
• …
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Shared Pages
• One page content can
be used in multiple
• Publications / Titles
• Editions
• Zones
• Sections
• Depending on the press
run those can result in
shared sheets / plates
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Improved Tracking
• Track progress of plate production for
• NewsDrive
• CtP
• Punch & Bender
• Sorter
• Press
• …
• Customizable barcode tracking
• Full control over number of copies
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Improved conversion
• Convert your incoming
files from
• EPS to PDF
• EPS to TIFF
• PDF to TIFF
:Arkitex 6.0
DISTILLER
• Track conversion
natively within :Arkitex
Client
• Plan based colour
conversion
GRAFIX Rip
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Active Backup
• Synchronise two identical
servers
on-the-fly
• Activate second server in
case first one fails
• Requires minimal user
intervention
• Up-and-running within
less than 3 minutes
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Advanced imposition
• Easy to use imposition
control
• Native EPS, PDF &
TIFF imposition
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Page version management
• Keep track of all page
versions
• Easy identification of
version applied
• Fall back to earlier
version when applicable
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Support for Windows users & groups
• Apply access rights to
native users & groups
• Take full advantage for
your Active Directory
environment
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Up-to-date OS and SQL support
• Stay up-to-date with
:Arkitex supporting the
latest Microsoft
Windows Operating
Systems and SQL
Server
• Windows 2008
Server
• Vista / Windows 7
• SQL Server 2005
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Fan-out and creep support
• Compensate for registration issues
with fan-out compensation and creep
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Native renaming in core engine
• Once set, the system
automatically renames
files according to
defined specification
• For each publication a
dedicated rule can be
defined
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Enhanced imager feedback
• Track from within the :Arkitex Client which imager was
used for a specific plate set
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Advanced page mapping
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Enhanced softproof
• :Arkitex allows the complete softproof creation task to be load
balanced over multiple platforms
• Faster softproof creation
• Reduce load on core engine
• Enhanced utilization of available hardware
• Supports incremental softproof
• ICC based colour managed softproofs
• Server or client based mode
• Shared softproofs through
editions
• High resolution softproofs
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TIFF compare
• Automatically compare TIFF versions to identify changes
• Set thresholds to define when changes are to be excepted
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Damage plate reason
• Define reasons why a plate was re-imaged
• Split plate
• Poor fit
• Worn plate
• Quality
• Editorial
• …
• Custom reasons can be defined
• Reasons part of :Arkitex Analyst reports
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Automatic purge
• Define per publication when it should be purged from
the system
• Benefits
• No user interventions
• Less possible mistakes
• Tidy system
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Preflight integration
• System can automatically route
(based on plan instructions for
each plate) pages to external
preflight system (e.g. Enfocus
PitStop, oneVision Asura etc.)
• Preflight system sends back
normalized page including report,
indicating success or failure
• Errors are highlighted within the
:Arkitex Client
• A preflight error can be overruled
automatically
• Makes it very easy to integrate
preflight solutions and automates
the process
Preflight Report
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Holding/Un-Holding Pages and Sheets
• Easy holding of all layers or selected
layers of any page.
• Both page and sheet icon provide clear
indication that hold exists and exactly
what is being held.
• Avoid unnecessary plate output
Held Page
Layer
Held Page in
Sheet
Held Sheet Layer
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Page Notes
• Improve communication between
departments and/or sites.
• Page notes are visible in page and
sheet view
• Notes can be included in production
reports
• Native Courier-to-Director and
Director-to-Courier integration
Entering Note
Sheet
Indicator
Page
Indicators
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Unapproving Pages and Sheets
• Correcting user mistakes
• Avoid unnecessary plate output
• An unapprove also attempts to stop the output of the
page if it had been sent for output
• The user is informed if the output cannot be stopped
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Rejecting Pages
• If a page is unacceptable (errors, incomplete
content, etc.) permitted users can now reject
pages
• The rejection appears in the :Arkitex Client
and provides clear indication
• Support for (mandatory) rejection notes
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Imaging Complete Plate Sets
• Newspapers that print publications with many editions/zones or that have
multiple presses and occasionally need to image an additional
set of plates to plate up a press.
• When pages change between Editions/Zones this complete set may
include shared plates from earlier Editions/Zones.
• Now from a single click in the Client the server will automatically image a
complete set of plates.
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Setting Parameters by Filename
• Automatic filename based
event sequence and plate
template selection
• Avoid manual selection in case
the information is unknown at
the planning stage
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Virtualisation
• :Arkitex now fully supports virtualization
• Key benefits
• Hardware Availability
• Time Availability
• Resource Wasting
• Downtime
• Hardware Maintenance
• Legacy Software
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Soft Proof Comparison
• Supports comparison between page versions
• Can be versions of the same page, or two completely
different pages.
• Allows people to see exactly what
changed before approving
layers (for example) and save
time and money.
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Soft/Hardproof furniture
• Allows furniture to appear only soft proof, hard proof, or high
resolution output
• Uses include placing marks on soft proof to visually insure page
content appears in the correct position on the plate
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Improved Fast Track
• Produce and image all plates without a plan:
• Supports 2/4/8-up imposition
• Double-burns
• How does it work?
• Extracts information from file names and folders
• Saves time by not
• requiring any plan for
• plate production.
• Great for:
• Small papers where
knowing what is
expected is not
critical
• Commercial jobs where they may not be aware of exactly
what is expected early in the process.
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Colour Composite Unplanned Softproofs
• Unplanned files can now have colour soft proofs.
• These make it easier to identify as well as quicker to
move into a publication since all layers are handled
together.
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Automatic Plate Loading
• Orders plate imaging of groups of plates even when the
plates contain different pages
• Important for newer presses where large numbers of plates
must image in a specific, pre-defined order
• Client user interface clearly indicates
different groupings of plates and the plates
within the group.
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Dynamic Double Burn
• Automatically double-burns page layers based on file
naming even if not planned.
• Ideal in situations where a complete page that
combines adverts with editorial will not RIP but ripping
the adverts and editorial separately RIP properly.
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Plate Annotation Approval
• Users can enter text annotations as part of the page
approval process.
• These annotations can then be imaged on plates
improving communication to the plate and press-room.
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Skipping Softproofs
• Soft proofing allows quickly moving to next colour
soft proof by skipping monochrome pages.
• This can be useful in the pressroom where the
focus is typically on the colour pages.
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3/6 Up Impositioning
• Plate layouts, publications, and the Client now support
3-up, 6-up, and even up to 32-up plates.
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Page Notes
• Improves communication between departments or
sites.
• Note can be written
before the page
arrives so there is
no need to wait.
• Notes can be used as “quality alerts” to plate-making
or the press-room notifying them of pages that require
extra attention.
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Automatic Client Logoff
• Defines an amount of idle time after which a user is
automatically logged off
• Useful in automatically releasing Client licenses when
users have forgotten to log off
• This flexible feature allows defining
the inactive time by user
• The system also includes
a server feature to manually
disconnect users
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Messaging
• Improve communication between editorial and print
sites using built in messaging.
• Interface button highlights to indicate when new
messages
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Hardproof on Multiple Printers
• From within the Client users can now target Hardcopy
proofs to specific printers.
• Each printer can have its own settings specific to the
printer hardware.
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Aborting Output
• When new versions of a page are sent for output the
previous version is aborted if it has not yet imaged.
• This results in savings by not imaging plates (or film)
when a replacement file has arrived.
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Late Black with PDF & TIFF
• With either data format the plan can indicate if late black
content is expected.
• In this case colour layers are imaged as soon as they are
ready.
• The black is held from output until
either a new version of the page
arrives or the layer is
manually released.
• In cases where the late black is
not known during planning this can
be set in the Client.
• This change is then visible
within the Client
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New features provided by Version 7

Soft Proof Comparison
• Minimize waste by visually comparing pages to
previous versions or editions
• Highlighted differences are easily
seen

Improved Client Speed
• Optimization of edition refreshing has eliminated a
great deal of overhead and data transfer
• Lab testing has shown:
• 25% speed reduction in simple case
• 1 edition open with 38 total pages
• Refresh reduced from 4.2 seconds to 3.1 seconds
• 91% speed reduction in complex case
• 50 editions open, average of 36 pages per edition
• Refresh reduced from 84 seconds to 7 seconds

Advanced Fast Track
• Allows production of plates without any planning
• Information is extracted from incoming file names and
folders including:
• Publication/Edition/Zone/Section
• Publication date
• Imposition, plate quantity, priority
• Plus more
• Tracking display automatically updates as new files
arrive

Soft/Hard Proof Furniture
• Soft Proof, Hard Proof, or final output can include or
exclude furniture such as position or cut marks.
• These marks are easily added in the Plate Builder
interface.
• Inclusion of marks makes it easy to verify that page
content is properly positioned
• This is very useful
when pages arrive
from outside sources

Color Composite Soft Proof
• Easily view and identify unplanned files by using color
soft proofs
• Dragging the composite file onto the proper page
automatically processes all layers of the unplanned
page.

Automatic Plate Loading Option
• Minimizes plate-making labor by imaging plates in plan
defined order
• Order is based on press or plate-making requirements
• Multiple plates – even from multiple
press units – are grouped and ordered
• Output of plates in the group wait until
all plates in the group are ready to
output (including waiting for approvals)
• Client clearly shows grouping and ordering of plates to
ease tracking
• Initial release of V7 requires input from AutoPlan

Dynamic Double Burn
• Automatically double burns pages based on file
naming even if double burn is not planned
• Ideal for use in resolving RIP issues. For example:
• A page fails in the RIP for unknown reasons despite the
fact the ad-stack successfully proofed. The cause is a
conflict between an ad and the editorial
• A common solution is to remove ads one at a time until
the page RIPs in order to identify the offending ad
• By sending ad-stack and editorial (without the ads) to
RIP separately the error is eliminated.
• These separately RIPed files are then automatically
double burned for output

Approval Annotation
• Improves communication by allowing the manual entry
– via the Client – of a message and then annotating
this message onto the plate
• Message can include information plate-making and/or
press-room such as when to mount plate on press
• This information may be easier to send in this way
than to modify the plat.

Hardproofing Multiple Proofers
• With Version 7 :Arkitex can be configured with up to 25
different printers for the user to select from.
• This allows Client users to select which proofer to
target.

Skipping Softproofs
• People in the press-room, or in other departments, are
often interested only in viewing soft proofs of color
pages since those are the pages they are most
concerned with.
• With Version 7 users can now quickly skip all
monochrome soft proofs and move directly to the next
color page making their job easier.

User Timeout
• Like users of other licensed servers requiring a login,
users of :Arkitex Client may occasionally forget to log
out when the leave for the day or when they are away
from their system.
• With Version 7 each user can be assigned a “time out”
as part of their login which causes an automatic logout
after the configured period of activity.
• This automatic logoff requires no interaction on the
part of an administrator other than simply assigning the
time out duration when creating the user.

3/6 Up Imposition
• Some newer presses, or with older presses where web
width reductions allow for it, are able to run 3 or 6
broadsheet pages (or 6 and 12 tabloid pages) across the
plate cylinder (this, of course, requires a device capable of
imaging a 6 page wide plate).
• In order to fully support this, Version 7 includes the ability to
define these impositions within the Publication Builder
interface and to save these imposition layouts for later use.
• In the initial release of V7 these impositions are created using
a special Excel spreadsheet we provide.
• In some cases the press, either as originally delivered or
through a retrofit, is able to run 3pages around the cylinder.
The ability to layout a 3 around plate will also be present in
Version 7.

Windows 2008 Support
• Version 7 supports Windows Server 2008 R2 allowing
it to take advantage of the additional memory
supported by the 64-bit operating system.

Summary of reasons to upgrade to Version 7
• Soft Proof Comparison
• Improved Client Speed
• Advanced Fast Track
• Soft/Hard Proof Furniture
• Color Composite Soft Proof
• Automatic Plate Loading Option
• Dynamic Double Burn
• Approval Annotation
• Hardproofing Multiple Proofers
• Skipping Softproofs
• User Timeout
• 3/6 Up Imposition
• Windows 2008 Support