Ideal to automate page-pairing and versioning tasks for newspaper and magazine production. Allows multiple outputs for Black and White and Color flats.
True Value:
Page Pairing is Hot Folder driven and reaches a high standard for automation. If you are a newspaper, or magazine publisher and/or printer, we suggest looking at our solutions for newspaper printing as a whole. This will allow you to organize a PDF flow that can be customized to your needs using XML development.
Ultimate’s Page Pairing is a software module designed for newspaper printing, magazine or book productions, as well as any project requiring a high level of automation and efficiency for imaging plates. Using this stool, you do not need to have all your pages ready to start imaging.
The Page Pairing module manages individual pages and assembles them automatically to generate a complete plate/signature for imaging, ensuring no waiting time at the RIP.
Page Pairing also allows publishers to create an alternate version of their publications by automatically changing some pages to suit regional markets.
The different publications are organized with the concept of printing queues. Each queue represents a job or a publication, or a different version of the master publication. It has its own input folder and specific settings like naming convention, signature geometry and number of pages. It also offers the ability to release pages automatically when a flat is paired.
Main Features:
:: Ultimate Impostrip’s original built-in template creator
:: Automated Hot Folders
:: Easy Versioning
:: User-defined job template creator using IMPOSTRIP Solo
:: Black and CMYK separate output (see bellow)
:: Simple and intuitive user interface
Multiple Outputs: Allows to output front or back or both automatically: a front side may have CMYK and the back flat may be in Black. In this case, the output of these flats cannot go to the same queue in the rip as one will be separated (Front) and the other one (Back) will be composite.
Up to 9 alternate versions: Allows you to output versions of the master - plus localized versions of some pages - also allows to output to 9 different workflows for CMYK or Black/Composite as mentioned in (1).
Fanning Option: Allows the creation of profiles based on press specifications. In other words, some units on the press may have alignment problems and may require shifting a color. The Fanning profile allows you to output to different presses without having to define and create specific templates for each press. To achieve fanning, Page Pairing needs to use separated files in order to control the placement of colors.
Web Growth Option: Allows you to create a profile based on your use of paper. In other words, it is sometime necessary on web press to compensate images to scale one or more colors and not others in order to achieve proper registration due to humidity or paper absorption of inks causing dot gain. Page Pairing offers this ability combined to Fanning to create profile that can contain both Fanning and Web Growth. Each color can have its own scaling factors without having to create specific templates for each job.