Enfocus and Alwan unveil PDF standardizer

Enfocus and Alwan Color Expertise have joined forces in the development of Alwan PDF Standardizer to bring simple, reliable PDF standardization and quality control to the graphic arts market.

‘Enfocus is a leader in bringing simplicity, reliability and accuracy to PDF workflows,” said Peter Camps, senior vice president, Enfocus. ‘Alwan has played a similar role in the color space. This joint effort provides a missing link between our respective offerings. With PDF Standardizer, publishers, agencies and other content creators can produce predictable, problem-free PDFs, and print service providers can more easily preflight and normalize source PDFs before placing them into production.’

In addition to leveraging the automation and advanced preflighting capabilities of Enfocus PitStop and Enfocus Switch, PDF Standardizer also provides compliance with ISO 12647 and 15930 color requirements. This brings a quality assurance process to global and print-on-demand digital workflows, simplifying production for both content creators and print service providers. It offers color management, flattening of transparencies, and normalization of PDF files, resulting in workflow reliability. In addition, PDF Standardizer has the 2008 InterTech award-winning Alwan Dynamic Device Link technology embedded, and easily integrates with any existing workflow.

‘We are delighted to be partnering with Enfocus to bring PDF Standardizer to the graphic arts community,’ said Elie Khoury, president of Alwan Color Expertise. ‘PDF producers and print service providers can not afford file interpretation and reproduction problems as margins and cycle times continue to shrink. PDF Standardizer is the result of two years of sustained development effort and collaboration with Enfocus. We believe this inaugurates a new generation of fully automated and reliable quality assurance solutions for the graphic arts industry.’

Alwan PDF Standardizer will be available in January 2009, through both Enfocus and Alwan’s distribution channels.