High speed variable data printing

PDF/VT

May. 10th, 2011

Sjaak Veeken

In this presentation

► Intro Screen

► Adobe PDF Print Engine

► From PostScript to PDF and PDF/VT

► Workflow implementation

► The Printer

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製版カメラ

ガラススクリーン

Wooden Process Camera

Negative film

Glass screen

Copper plate with

Screening dots

Glass Screen

Screen roots

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1868 Ishida Kyokuzan Printing Works was established

1918 It Obtained patent for transparent film letterpress for stone lithographic transfer

1934 It succeeded in domestic manufacture of glass screens

1943 Dainippon Screen Mfg. Co., Ltd. was established

1946 Start production of wooden process camera and more

Process of photographic reproduction

1937. First Dainippon Screen Building

1918 . Stone lithographic printing

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Global Network

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26 overseas group companies (except Japanese group)

Market and Products

Semiconductor Equipment

Graphic Arts Equipment

Flat Panel Display Equipment

Printed Circuit Board Equipment

Wafer cleaning system

Worldwide Share No.1

FPD Coater/Developer

Worldwide Share No.1

Computer to Plate

Worldwide Share No.1

✔ Laser Plotter

✔ Direct Imaging System

✔ Optical Inspector (AOI)

✔ Measurement System

As of Mar 2009

Environmental Management

CO2 emission reduction

♦ Through product operation:

More energy-efficient products

Chemical management

♦ Complying the European RoHS

directive and REACH regulation

Waste reduction

♦ sorting waste to extract valuable

materials, developing relationships

with new recyclers, and reducing the

amount of resources used in the

manufacturing process.

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Graphic Arts Products

Workflow: Printing workflow solution

CtP: Printing plate image solution

POD: Print on demand system / Digital printing

Variable printing system, Sign & Display printing system, Industrial printing system, and more

ScreeningImpositionPDF/JDF Workflow

Flexo CtPNewspaper CtPLarge-format CtP8-page CtP (Eco friendly)

Transactional/TransPromo

Roll to……..

4 color water based pigment inks and dye inks

Gray scale single pass inkjet head

32 - 220m/min printing speed

PDF/VT

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Truepress Jet520 Full-color variable printing system

VDP through PDF/VT

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Adobe PDF Print Engine

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- PDF to define content

- JDF to capture process

information

- Includes a caching API

Technology comparison

PDF Printing on CPSI Adobe PDF Print Engine

Native direct PDF printing

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Bitmap

PDF to PS

PostScript 3

PDF BitmapPDF

Adobe PDF Print Engine internally

The front end

Accepts, interprets, and processes the JDF file.

The Adobe Common Renderer

♦ Processes the PDF file, rendering all content at once

The back end

♦ manages bitmaps and transports them to the output

device

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PDF in “Variable” and “Transactional”

PDF/VT is designed for use with

JDF, to define a print product

and corresponding process.

PDF/VT supports the entire PDF imaging model

as supported in PDF/X-4 and PDF/X-5 variants

including all transparency blending modes,

layers, etc.

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PDF/VT & Adobe PDF Print Engine

Acrobat Preview

Structure in PDF/VT

To combine Re-use Data

to output printer

PDF/VT

Adobe PDF Print Engine

Variable Data

Utilising PDF for VDP

The Adobe PDF Print Engine 2 brings the

benefits of a PDF workflow to VDP production.

PDF+Metadata+JDF

PDF/VT supports a metadata structure that enables

PDF-based VDP workflows

♦ recipient postal codes, cover pages vs. inside pages, etc.

CIP4 defined standardized metadata fields for

PDF/VT

The PDF Print Engine will be able to match those

settings with the document part metadata in the

PDF/VT file through JDF

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PDF/VT : Architecture

JDF base communication

Record information is embedded into PDF/VT

No need to go back to Database to reprint

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PDF/VT strengths

PDF/VT is an open standard (ISO 16612-2)

PDF/VT is vendor and device-independent

PDF/VT could be used for electronic archiving of

customer records

♦ e.g. for monitor display of an exact representation of

a printed statement to a customer

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Data Preview

Common PDF Viewer

Acrobat

Standard support by PDF/VT

Live Transparency

Bezier Curves

Vendor’s own screening

technology

Text along arbitrary paths

Importance of color

Why PDF/VT

PDF/VT is a modern PDF format that builds on

new ISO standards for print job exchange

♦ PDF/VT files can be transferred to another device or

workflow without the need to regenerate the file

Device-independent VDP format

♦ High output consistency, “blind” file exchanges, and

PDF-based proofing

PDF/VT allows you to create VDP content

without any graphic compromises

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Exchange data prognose

PDF

Mass Production

Personalized Production

Data-Driven Design-Driven

AFP/IPDS

Transaction Market Transpromo Market

Market Trend will be design-driven.

News Paper

Book

Direct Mail/Marketing

PDF/VT

Front-end vendors support PDF/VT

From Info trends white paper at IPEX2010

Adobe PDF Print Engine support

From Info trends white paper at IPEX2010

Screen workflow overview

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Strategy

Products

Technology

Partners

- CrossMedia

- Universal desktop

- Drive output full speed

- Add value

- Integrate

- Extend

- Online shop, upload and approval

- Production output workflow

- Variable data design

- Output controller

- Jet Inspect

- ICC

- PDF/APPE

- JDF

- Screening

- Preflight

- CMM + Device link

- Screening

- Imposition

- Trapping

Application support

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Open interface for end-to-end automation

Smart Imposition

Optimal impositions, whatever the binding

method

♦ Whether you are working on an on-demand book, a

single-page brochure, or anything in between,

Smart Imposition helps you get high quality

results quickly.

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On the fly color profiles

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PANTONE & DIC color guide

PANTONE PLUS & Goe are supported by

EQUIOS

♦ Contents of color guide

• PANTONE® solid coated

• PANTONE® solid uncoated

• PANTONE® GoeGuide™ coated

• PANTONE® GoeGuide™ uncoated

DIC color guide is supported by EQUIOS

♦ Standard for all EQUIOS

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EQUIOS and total management

EQUIOS: JDF/JMF I/F for production management system

EQUIOS

Total Mng System / MIS

JDF I/F

VFE

Software

・Management of jobs

・JDF/JMF interface・Register Jobs to EQUIOS by JDF

・Receive status information

from EQUIOS.

VFE

Software

Preprint command from Postpress

Variable PDF

TP-J 520ZZ

Smart Variable Data Processing

Smart Variable Data Processing saves time and

ensures the fastest possible output.

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Scalable Load Balancing

EQUIOS features a scalable load balancing

function. This function ensures optimal

performance by dividing high-volume data into

smaller segments for handling by multiple RIPs.

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Connecting

Truepress Jet 520 models

TPJ520 EX

Monochrome

♦ 128m/m

Field upgradable to colour

♦ 64m/m

Dye ink

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Truepress Jet 520 models

TPJ520 E/S/Z

Colour

Speed from 32m/m to 128m/m

Resolutions up to 720 x 720

Dye or pigment inks

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Truepress Jet 520 models

TPJ520 ZZ

Speed 150m/m and 220m/m

Resolution 720 x 360

Color

Dye or pigment inks

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Configurations

Simplex

♦ One engine printing on a single side of paper

Single Engine Duplex

♦ One engine printing one side in full width or both

sides in half width

DUPLEX Straight

Duplex

♦ Two engines, printing both sides

Simplex or duplex system

Typical System Configuration

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Cultivated Core Technology

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Paper Transportation

Media control and transfer technology

Printing Head

Shading technology

Quality Control Scanner

Inspection technology

PS/PDF Compliant Controller

RIP processing technology

Automated page layoutManufacturing

ISO certified experience

Partnership collaboration

Personalized content

Database/Front-end

Screen key technologies

Speed, size and placement of inkjet drop

♦ Dot formation by laser beam

Movement of inkjet head

♦ Laser carriage of CtP and PCB inspection

Fast, accurate flat-bed movement

♦ PCB inspection, imagesetter

Vacuum and pin registration

♦ Platesetters

Roll material handling

♦ Tension control from Imagesetters

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Head technology

Epson’s inkjet heads and ink,

♦ High-Reliability Printheads in volume production

Piezo DOD inkjet head

♦ Screen’s head implementation is unique

Multi Size Dot Technology

♦ Visual effect is double the physical resolution

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Easy to use and run

Minimum daily maintenance

♦ Automated head clean each day

Touch panel for easy operation

♦ Intuitive graphical user interface

Scanner for quality control

♦ Ensures stable printing

♦ Does not rely on operator skill

Quality

Built-in quality control scanners detect and

compensate for any unevenness in advance

resulting from the use of multiple printheads.

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Productivity

The Truepress Jet520ZZ provides high-speed

output of up to 220 meters (3000 pages p/m) per

minute.

The system’s EQUIOS drive module helps

minimize lead-time, allowing you to start printing

faster and giving you better operating ratios.

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JetInspection

Superior defect detection level

♦ Everything from missing dots to foreign substances,

color variations, and improperly output .

Defects are displayed, making it easy for

operators to spot.

Performs OCR for text

♦ CSV file output for defect information and decoding

results

♦ Utilisation in PostPress

Internal high-speed camera

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Truepress Jet520 since launch

More than 230 engines are running in production

Proven to be most reliable and stable production

printer on the market

Already being used for:– Transactional printing

– Book printing

– Direct mail

– Forms

– Labels

– Newspapers

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TP-J520 (64mpm)

TP-J520Z (128mpm)

TP-J520E (32mpm)

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Truepress Jet520

TP-J520ZZ (220mpm)

TP-J520ZZ (150mpm)

Truepress Jet520ZZ

TP-J520EX Color

(64mpm)

Truepress Jet520EX

Color model

Truepress Jet520 series

Strengths total Screen solution

Users can choose pigment or dye inks

Support for selected coated stocks

Monochrome to four-color modularity

Small footprint

Web widths up to 22.4 inches

EQUIOS workflow with Adobe PDF Print Engine

Very high level of throughput

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