IPG Prepress Guide: Workflow Software

Xanté

OpenRIP Symphony is an Adobe PostScript 3 RIP that features the new Adobe PDF Print Engine (APPE) and a multi-device workflow that automates prepress production. Drives platesetters, imagesetters, digital color presses, copiers, printers and plotters.

Xerox

Xerox VIPP Pro Publisher, its new Adobe InDesign Plug-In for the Xerox FreeFlow Variable Information Suite, allows graphic designers to use the familiar, graphics-rich Adobe InDesign software to produce customized statements, postcards and direct-mail pieces. It lets users design applications on a PC or Mac with VIPP PRO output. VIPP PRO is an optimized data stream that eliminates pre-composition and enables faster output speeds in order to complete jobs more quickly.