Kodak and Konica Minolta showcased two new KODAK CREO Servers supporting bizhub digital presses at Graph Expo 2014. The demonstrations highlighted how the collaboration enables a common workflow process regardless of the device’s color capabilities. The new IC 312 and IC 312m CREO Servers will drive Konica Minolta’s fully managed monochrome and color digital press solutions for commercial print and graphics communication professionals.
The IC-312m CREO Server joins the IC-309m CREO Servers as the only CREO Server front end solutions to drive monochrome devices. With the common controller, workflow and interface for both colour and monochrome bizhub digital presses, customers can easily move files between devices, no longer managing their processes in separate production islands.
Easy to learn and simple to operate, the CREO Servers offer full variable data print and complex imposition capabilities and job assembly support. Furthermore, this advanced solution for Transactional and TransPromo printing features fully bi-directional native IPDS and AFP support through the KODAK CREO Server optional TransPack.
Kodak also demonstrated its recent update to the KODAK PRINERGY Workflow System at the Konica Minolta booth. PRINERGY Workflow 6.1 is the latest evolution in prepress workflow, driving further prepress simplification into customer’s production and manufacturing processes with an improved interface and easy job management tools including a scenario builder, job intent window, part and section views, plus a separation list. PRINERGY Workflow provides advanced job management through three views—Manage, Plan and Track—allowing for quick job creation, simple intent-driven workflow processes and output device monitoring in real time. Together, these improvements offer customers ease of use and increased control for enhanced consistency and efficiency in their prepress operations.
