Prepress

Colour Scanning
To achieve the highest quality colour input, our colour department utilizes high resolution drum scanners. A desktop scanner is used for small, rigid originals that cannot be mounted on scanner drums.

• 1 Dainippon Screen SG 8060P Mark II digital colour scanner
• 1 Dainippon Screen SG 7060P digital colour scanner
• 1 Agfa Arcus 1200 desktop scanner with transparency option

Workstations

• 15 Apple Macintosh Workstations (combination of G4 and G5 workstations)
• 5 PC Workstations

Colour Management and Calibration

• Spectrophotometers
• Colour Management Software
• Proofing Process Control Software
• On-press Process Control Systems

Proofing
We supply Matchprint Inkjet Proofs for intermediate colour approvals and for final page contract proofs. In addition to the contract proofs, we supply a 300 dpi (low resolution) Digiline proof for imposition, content and pagination approval.

• 1 HP 5 si MX Duplexing Laser
• 1 Konica Minolta bizhub C203
• 1 HP Designjet 1055M
• 1 Epson 4000
• 1 HP Designjet 1050c plus with SpinJet 1000 plus (two-sided, digital bluelines – Digiline)
• 1 HP Designjet 4000c plus with SpinJet 4000 plus (two-sided, digital bluelines – Digiline)
• 4 Kodak Matchprint Inkjet proofing systems

Output
Our primary focus is computer to plate.

• 2 Kodak Spectrum 8-up Platesetters
• 1 Heidelberg CPC32 Print Link(used for the generation of ink preset information)
• 1 Heidelberg Image Control with prepress interface
• 1 MaDermid ColorSpan DisplayMaker Esprit (for fine art Giclee printing)

Servers and Workflow
To cover the requirements of our clients, we incorporate the 3 primary platforms common in the graphics industry. The majority of our high end file preparation is performed on 2 Kodak Prinergy Servers utilizing a PDF workflow. These servers contain multiple 3 GHz processors.

• 1 Sun Enterprise UNIX Server / Xinet FullPress
• 1 Intel based server hosing Omnipilot Lasso Professional
• Server 8 with our custom built Jobtracker web application.
• 1 Kodak Prinergy Windows Servers hosting a Kodak Prinergy
• Prepress Workflow System
• 1 Kodak InSite Server facilitating remote soft-proofing workflow

Digital Photography Studio

• 1 Better Light 8K large format digital camera system
• 1 North Light Studio lighting system