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Elpical at Ifra Expo 2009
Tuesday 13. October 2009 - Elpical presents an overview of image enhancement and image management solutions at Ifra Expo 2009
Elpical will present its range of image enhancement and image management solutions on stand A1035, Hall A at Ifra Expo 2009, which is due to take place from October 12 till 15 in Vienna.
At Ifra Expo, Elpical will show an overview of its dedicated tools for high quality image enhancement and image management solutions based on Claros individual image analysis and enhancement.
“These are extremely challenging times for the publishing industry,” says John de Jong, Managing Director at Elpical. “There is pressure to reduce costs, but the need for high quality remains.” “Our products have been developed to help publishing companies produce high quality images consistently, automatically and fast. With workflow options that allow for visual inspection of problem-images, identified as such by our unique individual image analysis. Ifra Expo is the ideal place for us to show publishers what we can do for them.”
Product highlights
Claro Layout – Automatic image enhancement without leaving InDesign
Special attention goes to Elpical Claro Layout, the newest addition to the product range that is now entering the final phase of tuning and testing.
Claro Layout is an Adobe InDesign plug-in that optimizes images inside InDesign documents. Claro Layout automatically solves issues with sharpness, contrast, brightness, color balance, etc. Quality and production speed of any type of design now vastly increase by allowing automatic image enhancement without leaving InDesign. Claro Layout will (if required) crop, resize and optimize the desired picture and keep only this image as part of the document, hence a much smaller file size.
Claro Premedia – Workflow solution for automatic individual image analysis and enhancement
Elpical Claro Premedia is a professional image processing server. It performs automatic, individual image analysis and enhancement, guaranteeing consistent high-quality results. As for image manipulation and workflow capabilities, Claro Premedia allows creating an unlimited number of hot folder based channels to realize the widest possible range of automatic image processing and workflow tasks.
Claro Single – Integrate automatic individual image analysis and enhancement into your workflow
Based on Claro Individual Image Analysis, Claro Single automatically and individually analyzes images of varying type and quality. It then automatically solves possible issues with their sharpness, contrast, brightness, color balance, etc. For publishing, printing, and online communication companies, Claro Single integrates automated image enhancement into automation platforms like Enfocus Switch and Puzzleflow.
Elpical EmailManager – Automatically converting e-mails + attachments into searchable media assets
For conventional and online publishing companies receiving plenty of images via e-mail, Elpical EmailManager is an automatic e-mail processing and converting workflow. It converts e-mail messages plus attachments into valuable, metadata-based assets for any standards based asset management system. It offers ease of use, high performance, flexible integration and true reliability.
Elpical 4LeafClover – sophisticated media asset management system
Publishers with conventional and/or online publishing activities, need to receive, process, store, retrieve, and archive huge amounts of different media files. Elpical 4LeafClover distinguishes itself with its production oriented system management, supported by a highly productive and easy user interface. Key advantages are the advanced workflow capabilities including fully ICC-based color conversion, automatic purging, and cropping & sizing with resolution-limit warning.