Category Characteristics

– Templates– Colour split– Job editing

Make-Ready

Printgroove POD Ready

Printgroove POD Ready is the perfect prepress management solution for Central Reproduction Departments (CRDs) and smaller commercial printers in the light production market.

CONVENIENT & FLEXIBLEPREPRESS MANAGEMENT

Offering fast and uncomplicated Make-Ready capabilities, Printgroove POD Ready is professional yet easy to use. The application enables quick and simple previewing and editing of PDF documents before they are sent to production. Once the required document editing has been performed, taking on jobs and sending them to Printgroove POD Queue for output management is simple and straight-forward with Printgroove POD Ready.

With efficient templates for impositioning and flexible job-editing capabilities, Printgroove POD Ready answers the diverse needs during the prepress phase and is an ideal solution for smooth and speedy Make-Ready functionality in the printroom.

KEY FEATURES Templates

– Impositioning: Imposition schemes can be automati-

cally applied or created and checked by the operator. The imposition schemes support all output options available on the output devices, such as perfect binding, booklet making, etc.

Job editing

– Comprehensive Make-Ready capabilities: These include simple commands for document viewing, imposition, adding sheets, adding or deleting chapters, inserting/editing tabs, and more.

– Pre-flight and print preview: These functions simulate the transmission of the print data to the output device, with preview page layout, variable data or selected finishing.

– Scanning of paper jobs: This feature makes it simple and straightforward to combine paper originals and electronic files into one job. Functions like deskew and despeckle are available to optimise the scans.

DATASHEET Printgroove POD Ready

WORKFLOW

Create PDF document

Send to printroom

– Checking fi le– Preparation of document for

production– Print fi le is sent from POD

Ready to POD Queue for output management

– Print data is processed– Documents are produced

USER PRINTROOM

DATASHEET Printgroove POD Ready

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SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS – Printgroove POD Ready

Operating systems Windows XP Professional SP2 (32/64) Windows Vista Business/Enterprise (32/64)Memory Min. 2 GB Hard disk space 4 GB or higherCPU Pentium 4 (2.8 GHz) or higherSupported languages English, German, French user/admin interface

IMPORTANT RECOMMENDATIONS

Software Adobe Acrobat 7.0/8 ProfessionalMonitor 1024 x 768 pixels or higher (Recommended: 1280 x 1024 pixels)

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS – Printgroove POD Driver

Operating systems Windows 2000 Professional SP4 (32/64) Windows XP Home Edition/Professional SP3 (32/64) Windows Vista Business Edition SP2 (32) Windows 7 SP1 (32/64) Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS – Printgroove POD Server

Operating systems Ubuntu 10Memory 8 GB Hard disk space 180 GB or higherNetwork TCP/IP protocol should be set up correctly

The support and availability of the listed specifications and functionalities varies depending on operating systems, applications and network protocols as well as network and system configurations.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS