Tailor-made digital workflow

Although the current digital workflow has been promoted to a certain extent in the country, most printing companies are still in the process of transforming from the traditional process to the modern process. Due to various restrictions, the benefits of the digital workflow cannot be fully enjoyed. Even companies that have applied digital workflows rarely apply the entire JDF process completely. The production and processing systems and management information systems have not reached a true sense of communication, even the prepress, printing, and printing required by CIP3. After the information communication was not realized. At present, most of the applications of digital workflows are still limited to the digital integration of prepress processing.

In view of the current status of digital workflow application, how to provide different printing companies with digital workflows suitable for their equipment, processes, and personnel in order to satisfy the users' digital requirements to the maximum is a major issue to be considered when Gaoshu provides solutions. Gaoshuo divides the application of digital workflow into two types: business and newspaper, and provides different digital workflow solutions for the differences between these two areas. Gaoshu uses a combination of agency and independent development to provide users with diversified solutions that best suit the user's actual situation. In the commercial field, the company has promoted the excellent digital workflows “Wisdom” and “Huitong” of the screen company. In the newspaper industry, the main push has been the digital work flow of “Gao Tong”.

"Trueflow3" is a mature digital workflow for screens. It is not only aimed at driving high-end CTP and digital printing production, but also aims at establishing the most advanced, most reasonable, most automated, and most suitable network production environment. Program. Huizhi is based entirely on the workflow of JDF and PDF 1.4/1.5. It can help users easily transition from the PDF and Postscript workflows to the JDF production workflow to realize the management information system, prepress, printing and postpress production processes. Smooth communication between. It uses a JDF-based work ticket to make bi-directional communication possible in the JDF environment and allows the production process to work directly with the management information system. In addition, it is also scalable, supports multiple JDF-based file formats, and can work efficiently and closely with other JDF-based technologies.

"PixelStream" is a powerful and reliable prepress integration system. "Huitong" integrates all the processes of the digital prepress process into one, and is a highly effective prepress independent solution. With the highly integrated Huitong system, it is no longer necessary to combine OPI, trapping, RIP, and imposition software produced by many different manufacturers. All trapping, imaging, screening, imposition, film output, and plate output work are performed in one system.

Gao Shu's "Reporting" digital work flow is a digital work flow for the newspaper industry environment. It aims to achieve digital, automated, and orderly production of the newspaper industry. The Gaoshu "Reporting" digital workflow is divided into standard and enhanced (database) two levels.
Gaoshu "Reporting" standard model aims at realizing the digitization and automation of newspaper production and establishing a set of digital workflows suitable for newspaper production characteristics. It can be widely compatible with all typesetting systems in the newspaper industry, automatically make imposition and output work, and is well connected with various prepress output devices such as CTP, CTF, digital proofing, etc. to achieve efficient, safe, and stable newspaper production.

The Gaoshu “Reporting” enhanced (database type), while realizing the digitalization and automation of newspaper production, introduced the management of newspaper ranking tables, managed and tracked the production time and progress of newspapers, according to the edition of newspaper pages. The time and the order of planned newspapers are automatically balanced to achieve orderly production and on-time production of newspapers.

After the pre-press output is completed, the ink information data of the job can be obtained and used by a printer having a CIP3 digital device to transfer the data from pre-press to print. In addition, for traditional printing equipment without digital equipment, printing ink information data can be printed out for printing press reference, so that the traditional printing equipment can also obtain CIP3 data.
Full implementation of digital workflow requires an overall digital work environment, which is also a gradual process. In fact, any printing company can find a suitable workflow. The key is that it must meet the specific conditions of the current company's equipment, processes and personnel.

Reprinted from: Ke Yin Media