Polish-Chinese workflow co-operation

ACC HSH Group from Poland and Founder Electronics from China have agreed to expand their areas of technology co-operation.

EagleRIP software created by Founder has been implemented into the PuzzleFlow workflow system developed by ACC HSH Group, and this year has brought the next step of the companies’ co-operation. PdfPreflighter and PdfTrapper, two modules created by ACC HSH Group have been implemented into the new release of ElecRoc workflow solution developed by Founder Electronics and it will be shown for the first time at Ipex.

Founder Electronics provides digital cross-media solutions for prepress, printing, publishing, internet and digital media. Apart from its RIP technology, one of its most recognized products for graphic arts industry is ElecRoc, the JDF PDF workflow solution. Under the OEM agreement, ElecRoc workflow will offer ACC HSH Group’s PDF preflighting (PdfPreflighter) and automatic trapping (PdfTrapper) modules.

PdfPreflighter is a part of the PuzzleFlow workflow system as well as the PdfTools set, created by ACC HSH Group in the late nineties and consequently developed with new functions and solutions. PdfPreflighter is a preflighting tool, offering over 100 options for PDF files verification.

‘The options cover typical preflighting features (e.g. RGB color space usage, image resolution and font presence) as well as those required for advanced workflow systems such as trapping notifications, job tickets and digital signatures,’ said Andrzej Czyz, partner in ACC HSH Group company. ‘Each inspected PDF feature, depending on specific needs, can be checked for presence or absence, and the result of the verification process can be reported as an error, warning or simply notification characteristics. The output report contains complete information about processed files including error statistics. The report can be saved as XML so its files can be easily converted into HTML, PDF or another file formats.’

Trapper is one of the high-end modules of the PuzzleFlow workflow system which was launched by ACC HSH Group in 2001. Last year the company introduced a new, more sophisticated version of PuzzleFlow.

PdfTrapper module utilizes native PDF vector trapping technology, meaning that all traps are applied without prior rasterization of processed documents. The module performs object to object, object to image and image to image trapping and can use distinct settings for selected regions of source pages (zonal trapping).

‘Trapper can handle up to 12 spot colorants, recognizing them as normal, opaque, transparent or ignored inks,’ added Marcin Streszewski, partner in ACC HSH Group Company. ‘Advanced features include rich black support, sliding traps, various trap line mitering and trap joins. Trapper handles all complex objects such as smooth shading objects, Type1, Type1 Compact and True Type composite fonts and overprinted colors. The module recognizes trapping information from a job ticket accompanying the processed job.’

‘We are excited to work with ACC HSH Group to integrate leading-edge technologies into our workflow products for the prepress industry,’ said Weisman Jia WenHua, general manager of Founder Electronics international business division.