Nestl implements Certified PDF

Nestl has successfully implemented a Certified PDF workflow for its
packaging operations, and will explain the benefits at a conference in
Brussels in early March. ’The completion of trials at Nestl France with a
major design agency and two pre-press houses have been so successful that
Nestl is considering expanding the use of Certified PDF to include all
its European subsidiaries,’ says Christian Blaise, Nestl ebusiness
project manager.

‘The benefits we have experienced convince me that what we have achieved
in France will be copied throughout the packaging industry. In the trials
that we have conducted, benefits have included a huge reduction in
errors and the number of transmission of files required between designer,
brand owner and pre-press house. There has also been an increase in
productivity, resulting in a faster route to market, and the ability to
monitor and track all job changes as and when they occur. We have all been
delighted at the decrease in the number of meetings required to progress a
packaging job and by the fewer production problems encountered. Certified
PDF has broken the barrier between design and production.’

The international conference, hosted by Artwork Systems, will be held in
Brussels on March 3rd and 4th to examine the impending impact of Certified
PDF on the packaging market and launch PA:CT – Packaging:Certified
Technology. Speakers at the conference, which is free to attend, will
include representatives from Nestl and German printer August Faller GmBH,
which has also implemented Certified PDF.

Artwork Systems’ Enfocus division pioneered Certified PDF technology.
Details of the event can be obtained from Stan Lemmens at Artwork Systems
on 00 32 9265 8411.