Workflow
Fujifilm announces XMF Remote iPad app
Tuesday 22. February 2011 - Mobile online proofing for market leading workflow solution
Fujifilm today announces an iPad app for its online proofing software, XMF Remote. Making its UK debut at Publishing Expo (stand B20, 1st – 2nd March, Earls Court, London), a prototype app will be demonstrated at the show.
The XMF Remote app will allow printers clients to view, annotate, and approve jobs on their iPads. By simply logging in to the printers XMF system, customers can have instant secure access to all of their print work currently in production, from wherever they may be.
John Davies, workflow solutions manager, FUJIFILM Europe, comments:”Fujifilm is proud to have been the first to introduce the Adobe PDF Print Engine to the graphic arts market, as well as the first to support 3D proofing as part of a print production workflow. Now, Fujifilm is the first to demonstrate to its customers how the use of an iPad app can change the way printers work with their clients.
“Print buyers are, in the main, creative people, and its creatives who have been early adopters of iPad technology, using it as a professional business tool. If we want enhance the experience of these creatives who are responsible for commissioning and approving print work, we have to provide them with tools that they want to work with – one of the major reasons why we are developing this new app.”
The development of the app means that print buyers will have the choice to interact with a printer who has XMF Remote either via the existing Java app, which runs on any Mac or PC web browser, or via a mobile device such as the iPad.
John Davies concludes: “The iPad provides the perfect platform for a product that is as interactive and visual as XMF Remote. Using the iPads pinch and zoom, swipe to scroll interface makes it quick and easy to check over a job and make various annotations before approving it ready for print. And, perhaps most importantly, the app makes this all possible on the move, providing more flexibility than ever before.”
The official release date for the app is still to be announced.