Digital front-end that connects your digital business with established workflows
The Océ PRISMA®colorworks Server, enabled by CREO™ Color Server Technology, is a digital front-end exclusively designed for Océ digital printing systems. It is a high-performance, high-end colour server based on the CREO Color Server flexible architecture, offering an extensive set of features that delivers excellent colour capability, speed, and the best value proposition for publishers, professional graphic arts and commercial printers. Based on JDF technology, it has been engineered for maximum connectivity with other workflow solutions such as Kodak Prinergy, Agfa :Apogee or Kodak Brisque software. With the Océ PRISMAcolorworks Server, it is a matter of a few clicks to integrate your Océ digital printing solutions into classic offset environments, making intelligent job routing to the connected production equipment very easy.
Advanced colour management and imaging technologies
The Océ PRISMAcolorworks server provides many features that ensure maximum print quality for the press. Proven, automated colour management and image enhancement tools provide accurate reproduction of colour applications. Take, for example, the powerful spot colour editing tool, which ensures spot colour reliability and consistency both within a job and between different jobs. Use spot colour variations to generate visual comparisons of fine differences. For CMYK work, the full support of ICC version 4 lets novice users achieve professional colour results due to the optimum colour conversion. Moreover, another option allows you to preserve pure colours, removing stray colours from black or pure CMY colour elements and thus improving quality and saving unnecessary colour ink consumption. In addition, automatic image improvement features such as the different handling of screenshots and image elements, and improved vignettes and text within images, increase the output significantly.
Flexible and easy to use
The CREO workflow philosophy is well known for its excellent usability due to its straightforward, self-explanatory GUI, which has evolved across many years to give optimum support to print professionals in their daily work. There are, for example, previews for many different states of the job such as the pre-RIP preview, permitting review of the file before production, but which can also be utilised for RIPed jobs in order to check that the file is once again straight, including imposition and marks, before printing it.
A powerful imposition template builder enables the operator to create customised templates and save them for future use. Integrated into the digital front-end are highly effective editing tools such as the Enfocus PitStop Edit tool that permits easy editing of jobs requiring last-minute corrections. It is possible to export ripped jobs to PDF format, thus providing a true representation of the final document before printing as a soft-proof validation. For distributed workflow control, the server also incorporates remote workspace and site manager features, enabling remote operation and control of Océ PRISMAcolorworks from multiple workstations.
Exceptional workflow productivity
The Océ PRISMAcolorworks server offers improved operational productivity by means of its unique Fusion board architecture and dataflow. This includes hot folder/virtual printer technology for ease of use through preset workflows – define a job’s settings once, then repeat it automatically (imposition, duplex printing, colour management, finishing, etc.). You additionally benefit from the ready-to-print (RTP) format that allows post-RIP adjusting of RTP files without the need to re-RIP the job, resulting in increased productivity. The parallel RIP architecture ensures highly efficient production time by deploying multiple RIP processes for a single job, or processing up to three jobs simultaneously.
Built-in JDF connectivity
The built-in JDF support means you benefit from process optimisation through intelligent, JDF-enabled automation. Because of this architecture the press can be seamlessly integrated into different stages of production for faster turnaround times and reduced labour efforts. The unique CREO Color Server Remote Job Ticket software can create a job definition format (JDF) file that contains a set of printing parameters (job ticket). This provides full support of all job parameters on 3rd party software – for example, Kodak Prinergy Workflow System or other Graphic Arts ports, perfect job integrity and speed with the ability to import TIFF, TIFF IT and Kodak Brisque files without reRIPing. Moreover you gain premium connectivity to Kodak Unified Workflow Solutions by providing integration with commercial print workflow solutions and routing of jobs between offset and digital systems. In combination with the Workflow Partnership Programme this ensures tested connectivity between Océ PRISMAcolorworks and a broad array of third-party workflow solutions.