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Agfa Apogee Integration

Get the best of both worlds with hybrid workflows

The hybrid workflow allows you to take advantage of the strengths of traditional offset and Fiery Driven™ digital presses.

Overview

Many print service providers now use digital presses to cost-effectively meet the increasing demand for short runs, fast turnaround and value-added services. But many digital presses still don’t integrate into offset workflows efficiently or profitably.

Now Fiery and Agfa deliver a hybrid print workflow that integrates Fiery digital print servers into one of the most popular prepress workflow systems available in the market, Agfa Apogee Prepress. It allows you to take advantage of the strengths of traditional offset and Fiery Driven digital presses.

Agfa Apogee integration with Fiery digital print servers requires a Apogee DigitalPrint Link module and one of Fiery JDF-enabled digital presses found here.

Features

The integration of Agfa Apogee Prepress workflow and Fiery servers makes it easy and quick to direct jobs to the most appropriate print devices for the best production and highest cost efficiency. Using the familiar and intuitive user interface, Apogee users control a unified prepress workflow that shares the same job ticket and print-ready files for multiple devices providing:

Offset and digital hybrid workflow

  • Provides prepress workflow integration combining offset and digital printing with built-in industry-standard JDF capability.
  • Controls multiple devices, offset and digital, from one single Agfa Apogee Prepress user interface.
  • Delivers the benefits of digital presses: quick initial short run, short-run reprints, quick digital proofs, variable data printing.

The right choice for every job

  • Minimizes costs and increases efficiency on every job by routing jobs to the most appropriate and cost-effective devices based on job parameters and profiles.
  • Eliminates touchpoints by mapping job settings from the Apogee Prepress system to Fiery Driven devices through JDF/JMF communications.
  • Gives flexible choices to control color and layout imposition either through the Apogee Prepress system or the Fiery server.

Highly integrated user interface to eliminate touchpoints

  • Automatically synchronizes media libraries with Fiery Paper Catalog, allowing Apogee Prepress users to directly access the full list of available media in the Fiery Driven digital presses.
  • Retrieves and maps device-specific capabilities such as inline finishing, allowing users to set finishing parameters right from the Apogee Prepress user interface.
  • Updates real-time job status and messaging information to monitor multiple devices from one place.

Resources

Brochures

Agfa:Apogee Integration 彩頁

Agfa:Apogee 工作流程與 Fiery 數位列印控制器整合在一起.

Whitepapers

EFI Hybrid Workflow White Paper

Driving hybrid print workflow: the key to future profitability.