The Seybold Report

Enfocus Releases Updates for PitStop Pro and PitStop Server

Enfocus has announced immediate availability of the first set of updates for PitStop Pro 11 and PitStop Server 11 and an update 2 release for Enfocus Switch 11. The company says the updates add new preflight profiles to PitStop Pro and Server and expanded functionality and features to all three products. more

Output Factory for InDesign on Adobe Exchange

Zevrix Solutions’ Output Factory for Adobe InDesign CS6 is now available on Adobe Exchange, the new Creative Suite extension marketplace. The plug-in appears as a panel within several CS6 applications and automates batch printing, layer versioning, preflighting, and other time-saving features. more

Enfocus Updates PitStop with Smart Preflight and Correction

Enfocus has announced version 11 of PitStop and will release PitStop Pro and PitStop Server 11at drupa 2012. The new Smart Preflight and Correction module is a part of Enfocus' strategy to support real-time interactions of user and job-fed Preflight Profile settings. more

Zevrix Releases Output Factor for InDesign

Zevrix Solutions has announced its output automation solution for Adobe InDesign, Output Factor 1.0. The company says the product automates printing, exporting, and post-processing from InDesign and is a major upgrade of Zevrix BatchOutput. more

Enfocus Announces Instant PDF 10

Enfocus has released a major upgrade to Instant PDF, which includes a frequently requested feature: annotated error reporting. Instant PDF 10 also supports OSX 10.7 Lion, Adobe CS 5.5 Illustrator, InDesign, and Acrobat X/Distiller. The new version is available to licensed users from the Enfocus Web site. more 

Enfocus Releases PitStop Connect 09 Update

Enfocus has released update 1 to PitStop Connect 09, designed to further streamline communication between printers, publishers, and creative professionals. The updated tool allows printers and publishers to create connectors containing PDF specifications for preflight and delivery and to deliver documents in other formats including JPEG and TIFF automatically via FTP to the receiving site or directly into an Enfocus Switch automated workflow. more

Enfocus Announces PitStop Pro 10

PitStop Pro 10, the newest version of Enfocus’ PDF preflight and editing plug-in, provides improved color management, expanded collaborative working tools, and several user-requested features. Enfocus will show the new version in the Enfocus booth (#217) at at Graph Expo in October. more

Enfocus Announces Instant PDF 09

Enfocus has introduced Instant PDF 09, the latest version of its tool for producing press-ready Certified PDFs. PDF 09 simplifies PDF preparation by preflighting and automatically correcting PDF files after creation, ensuring standards compliance. The new version supports Adobe CS 5 and QuarkXPress 8 and the latest industry standards. more

Enfocus Introduces PitStop Connect Preflight Connector Creation Software at Ipex

The Enfocus PitStop Connect tool allows printers and publishers to create connectors, which are small desktop tools containing PDF specifications for preflight that can be branded for designers and creative professional customers. Files dropped on one of these connectors are converted into PDFs with those specifications, eliminating the potential for errors. The successful beta test has generated very positive responses from testers. more

Agfa Adds User-Requested Features to :Apogee Portal

Agfa Graphics has added advanced functionality for file upload, preflight, and soft-proofing to version 7 of its :Apogee Portal. Users can provide :Apogee Portal 7 access to their customers through a standard browser and broadband Internet connection without purchasing extra client software or licenses. more

EskoArtWork to Introduce Suite 10 Preproduction Software at IPEX

EskoArtWork will introduce Suite 10, an upgrade release of its packaging and print pre-production software, at IPEX. Suite 10 is designed to provide improved productivity and efficiencies to EskoArtwork customers. more

Zevrix Updates its PDF Preflight and Conversion Software

Zevrix has introduced PDF Checkpoint 1.2, an update of its PDF preflight and conversion software. Checkpoint exports PDFs as images and splits and reduces the size of PDF files, allowing hundreds of files to be handled at a time via drag-and-drop batch processing. more

FineEye Hosting Bimonthly Webinars

FineEye Color Solutions has announced a series of bimonthly Webinars on improving offset print quality while saving money using FineEye's ICEserver-Litho, a hot folder-enabled Macintosh application that processes press-ready CMYK PDF files prior to output on lithographic presses. more

Dalim Adds Preflight and Normalization Capabilities to Online Approval Platform

Dalim Software has introduced ES Connect, adding preflighting and normalization capabilities to its ES customer-facing environment for online file delivery and approval. ES Connect integrates DALiM TwiST and DALiM MiSTRAL into ES. more