Sport Newspapers upgrades PrintExpress to achieve PDF Workflow

Sport Newspapers, publishers of The Sport and Sunday Sport are upgrading their PrintExpress system to achieve a PDF Workflow.

IPA’s PrintExpress is currently used to RIP and pair bitmap files that are then distributed to the UK print sites at Westferry and Broughton. PDF files of the finished pages are created for overseas printing and archiving.

The upgraded system will dramatically reduce transmission times and costs as well as providing an integrated PDF creation solution.

PostScript will be spooled into PrintExpress, single page PDF’s will be created and held in the Page Pairer waiting for approval. The RIPs that currently work in Manchester will be relocated to the Print Sites. When the paired PDF’s have been checked they will be transmitted to both Print Sites automatically and be RIPped for output.

Currently the PDF’s for overseas transmission and archiving are produced outside of PrintExpress, they will now be generated automatically as part of the original PDF creation process.

Sport Newspapers will continue to run on Sun hardware. The latest version of PrintExpress is a cross-platform application than runs on Sun and/or PC.


For more information please contact: sales@ipasystems.co.uk

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