Prepress
Compose System announces partnership with Alwan Color Expertise
Wednesday 02. April 2008 - New OEM agreement provides Compose customers with innovative technological features and practical production solutions
Compose System, an established developer of pre-press workflow and colour proofing solutions, announces its partnership with Alwan Color Expertise, a world leader in standardization and colour management implementation The partnership confirms the growing need for powerful colour management and effective ink optimization features.
The OEM agreement between the two companies allows Compose to include Alwans innovative CMYK Optimizer technology into its full range of workflow solutions; from its prepress Express WorkFlow and Express FlexoFlow packaging solution, to its newspaper and magazine publishing solution, Express NewsFlow. In future, Compose intends to integrate other Alwan solutions into its products.
Tom Sit, CEO of Compose comments: “As an innovative prepress workflow company, Compose is delighted to offer Alwans unique colour management solutions to our existing workflow customers around the world. The agreement ties in perfectly with Composes corporate strategy to provide innovative technological features and practical production solutions that benefit the end-user.”
Alwans CMYK Optimizer Prepress software solution will be branded as the PressMax module, whilst the CMYK Optimizer Press will be named PressMax Pro module. The Compose PressMax is a fully integrated ink optimization workflow module operating seamlessly as part of an automated production workflow. As a result, the PressMax solution reduces human intervention, eliminates potential errors and significantly reduces ink consumption. It also guarantees proof to press matching, supports PDF/X1a and PDF/X3 files and preserves the black channels or any primary colours. Other features include the standardization of RGB and CMYK files from all sources to make them compliant for standardized printing according to ISO 12647 or GraCol7, improved colour rendering and quality, better colour matching with colour managed proofs as well as the building of high quality ICC DeviceLink profiles.
Elie Khoury, President of Alwan Color Expertise is equally thrilled about the cooperation: “The partnership will enable end-users to benefit from Alwans fantastic standardization and colour management software tools. Alwan CMYK Optimizer will provide Composes customers with technology innovations that are unique to Alwan software like preflight features, dynamic analysis and calculation of optimal total area coverage (TAC) of ink, dynamic DeviceLink profiles building and XML reporting. The agreement illustrates the growing momentum for Alwan and the strong interest in the companys solutions.”
Composes new product offerings PressMax and PressMax Pro will be on display at Drupa 2008 on stand D26-1, Hall 9.