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Kodak Creo Servers

Robert Dietz

Market Development Mngr., Kodak Creo Servers

Autumn, 2014

•  Why Kodak Creo Servers?

•  Our Xerox Partnership has Ended, Resulting in Opportunities…

•  Creo Server Advantages in Price and Features Sets

•  Unique and Robust Architecture

•  New Features Highlights

•  The Creo Server for Canon brings more customer-requested,

“high demand” features

•  Creo Servers Upgrade/Conversion Kits for A7500/A7000

•  New Features Sets

•  Windows7 Operating Sys

•  Optional Packs

Content

Digital Press Controllers for

Kodak Digital Presses

Digital Press Controllers for

OEM Partner Presses

Kodak Creo Servers - Solutions

•  Kodak Prosper Press

•  Kodak Versamark Printing Systems

•  Prosper OEMs

•  Canon imagePRESS

•  Konica Minolta bizhub Pro

•  Konica Minolta bizhub PRESS

•  Ricoh Pro C-91

A Small Amount of ‘technical’

As a sales-focused presentation, I’ve avoided technical

concepts as much as possible.

Though I am compelled to approach two: • Creo’s unique RIP technology and the

• advantages of newer/bigger hardware components.

This is necessary for you and your customers to appreciate the Creo Color Server value proposition.

If you or your prospects need further explanation, or answers to questions like “so how does that help my productivity?”, please contact me. Of

course you have excellent analytical support from Canon USA as well.

Creo/Xerox Relationship Has Ended

The Creo relationship with Xerox has ended, leaving a substantial

number of Creo end-users with Xerox printers without a path forward. They would choose to remain with Creo Technology and migrate to Win7

Operating System if it were possible for them. The Creo A7300 running Win7, driving the ImagePRESS, is a solution for them.

The most likely candidates for a conversion to a Canon imagePRESS and Creo A7300 Server would be companies with:

- iGens (w/lower print volumes)

- ColorPress, 7002/8002

- 8080 series

- 700/700i

THE MESSAGE:THE MESSAGE: The great majority of Xerox The great majority of Xerox Creo Server users prefer to stay with Creo Creo Server users prefer to stay with Creo Technology. Their present vendor offers no Technology. Their present vendor offers no “Creo-path” for them going forward.“Creo-path” for them going forward.

The New Creo A7300: Cost Competitive

Canon’s A1300 MSRP is certainly less than the Creo A7300’s, but at what sacrifice to your customer as far as features and capabilities?

First, let’s look at hardware between the two servers…

Now for software features and capabilities; are full imposition (and composition, tabbed sheets), custom Spot/Pantone® editing, and Graphic Arts Toolsets included in the base A1300?

Over time, as Adobe® Creative Suite generates more complex files, will it continue performing to

customer’s satisfaction?

Be Aware of How Competitive the Creo A7300 is, in Both

Pricing and Features

Component Canon A1300 Canon A7300

Processor Intel Core i5 660 Intel Core i7 860

Harddrive 500Gb 1Tb (2Tb total)

Random Memory (RAM) 3Gb 6Gb (2Gb on Fusion Board)

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Cost Competitive (continued)

The A7300 ships, in it’s base configuration, with an impressive list of tools and capabilities; full imposition, full Pantone®/Spot Color editing, GA Toolsets and much more. Furthermore, the A7300’s base configuration includes K,M,M, i1 Spectrophotometer,

Stand and two RIP Nodes.

Be Aware of How Competitive the Creo A7300 is, in Both

Pricing and Features

THE MESSAGE:THE MESSAGE: Competitors offer lower Competitors offer lower MSRPs, but at what cost to your customer? MSRPs, but at what cost to your customer? Which options must be added to bring the Which options must be added to bring the A1300 closer to Creo’s capabilities?1300 closer to Creo’s capabilities?

The New Creo A7300: Cost Competitive

Regarding Canon’s MSRP for the A2300; it is higher than the Creo’s. The standout difference is that the A2300 includes the Profiling capability. Of course the optional Profile Pack can be added to the Creo as well, to bring it’s

profiling capabilities to the level of the A2300 — but even with the added cost of this option, the Creo A7300’s MSRP is still less, again with superior hardware…



Harddrive 500Gb 1Tb (2Tb total)

Random Memory (RAM) 3Gb 6Gb (2Gb on Fusion Board)

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Cost Competitive (continued)

The A7300 ships, in it’s base configuration, with an impressive list of features; full imposition, full Pantone®/Spot Color editing, GA Toolsets and much more. Furthermore, the A7300’s base configuration includes K,M,M, i1 Spectrophotometer,

Stand and two RIP Nodes.

THE MESSAGE:THE MESSAGE: Compare features, price and Compare features, price and hardware between the hardware between the A2300 and 2300 and A7300. 7300. You will find Creo’s cost to be less, even You will find Creo’s cost to be less, even when including the Color Profiling option.when including the Color Profiling option.

The New Creo A7300: Features Competitive Know Your Canon

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Add RIP Nodes

Batch Processing

Full Gallop

Export for Proof

Edit Spot Colors per Substrate

*Spot Color Variations

Photo TouchUp

Predefined Color Sets

Color Picker

Advanced Calibration Info. (Edit & View)

Import Device Link Profiles

Mark Sets

Folded Signature

Estimated Printing Time

Global Resusable Elements Mngt.

*Dynamic Page Exceptions (SPD)

*Imposition Template Builder

*Enfocus PitStop

Progressive Printing

*Color Management Sftwr (ICC Profiles)

What exactly are these “High demand” features? More details in later slides…

When you compete against a solution in- volving a Creo server,

you should know that the “Canon Creo” (available in your portfolio) brings more “high demand”,

customer-requested features at no added costs.

THE MESSAGE:THE MESSAGE: Whether competing against Whether competing against a bid including a Creo or a competitive a bid including a Creo or a competitive server, know your ‘Canon Creo’ features adserver, know your ‘Canon Creo’ features ad-vantages — in the base configuration alone.vantages — in the base configuration alone.

Spot Color Variations

• Included in base Creo Configuration

• Helps arrive at The Best Pantone®/Spot Match — Faster

High Demand, Customer Requested Feature

A graphical user interface that helps the user select the closest

CMYK values for desired Spot Color

View and print spot colors to fine-tune

color accuracy and have the ability, if required, to modify them easily


• Honor page exceptions present in the file

Dynamic Page Exceptions and Exception Mapping Rules

Allows operator to easily override embedded SPD commands and substitute customized rule sets on top of original job ticket instructions (SPDs).

Selective Page range for process and print Pages selected are the only

pages to be RIPed

Subset finishing Allows jobs to be split into sets

(booklets) and allow different

finishing per set.

High Demand, Customer Requested Feature SPD (Dynamic Page Exceptions) Support

•  Included in base Creo Configuration

•  Simplifies repeatable imposition processes

•  Enables the operator to create customized templates and save them for future use:

•  Customized templates are displayed

in the Job Parameters window

•  Simulates how the pages of the job

will be placed on a sheet when a

particular imposition template is applied

•  Imposition now brings a true “print

preview”, showing all text, images,

graphics, and crop marks as they will print

High Demand, Customer Requested Feature Complete Imposition, Including Imposition Template Builder


• Popular Manual File Investigative/PreFlight Tool

Brings tools to check file font usage, images, their color space, resolution, and Spot Pantone Colors, and more

High Demand, Customer Requested Feature EnFocus PitStop

Kodak Creo Servers

A Unique And Robust

Hardware Architecture

RIPing to Huge Hard Drives

Creo Servers Always RIP Data to Harddrives. Not to RAM. This enables practically unlimited job run lengths and much needed

stability.

The Creo A7300 has a Terabyte of hard drive space and 6Gb RAM (2Gb on Fusion Board). Therefore, your customer’s chances of hitting memory limits on long/

complex jobs are dramatically reduced.

For example, send a 50,000 record imposed postcard job to an A7300 and A2300. The job consists of 200 unique high res full color images, personalized text, address and barcode.

“For easier file prep and faster production, the Creo wins. The Creo will RIP/Print faster with less preparation. I can send a single file to the Creo, all 50,000 records at once, but I’d be forced to break the VI file out into many batches before sending to the A1300/A2300, etc.)”. (continued…)

RIPing to Huge Hard Drives (continued)

Back End (Page Assembly)

Front End

Files RIPed

JT Applied

• “Swapping” of VI components

• Last Minute Corrections

• “Dynamic” crop mark placement

Harddrives

THE MESSAGE:THE MESSAGE: RIPing to hard drives versus RIPing to hard drives versus to RAM has huge advantages where large, to RAM has huge advantages where large, complex jobs are handled — these jobs will complex jobs are handled — these jobs will RIP in their entirety to hard drives, but canRIP in their entirety to hard drives, but can-not fit on 3Gb of RAM. not fit on 3Gb of RAM.

Creo’s RIPing Process Advantages

Back End

Final page assembly

before data sent from

hard drives to print;

including last minute

edits and “Swapping”

of variable components

This Back End process is invisible to the operator, the only evidence of it is

higher productivity — faster transfer of complex file data to the press. Creo technology always maintains engine PPM,

per Canon specifications.

Features Highlights

(Legacy and New)

•  Parallel Processing makes use of multiple RIP engines operating

collaboratively under a variety of scenarios:

•  One job can be processed by one or more RIP sessions; depending on

file size and complexity, the system can split the processing across several RIP engines and gain significant processing speed; or

•  Several jobs can be RIPped in parallel, improving overall throughput time

•  Static and VDP jobs can run simultaneously

•  RIP session utilization is optimized to maximize overall system

productivity – no operator interaction is required

New Features - Optimized Parallel Processing

Taking Full Advantage of Multi-RIP Architecture

The optional “FAST PACK” brings an additional RIP Node/Engine

• Concurrent spooling, processing and printing,

on the same job

•  Enables the job to start processing and printing even before the entire job was imported to the system

•  The system automatically optimizes the number of pages before

job’s processing and printing begins

New Features — Full Gallop

Pantone Color Libraries and Spot Color Editing Tools

•  Inclusion of new Pantone library and Spot Color Editor provide accurate color values and file integrity

Custom Spot Color Dictionaries

•  Editing of spot colors per paper stock ensures accurate output results

New Features — Color Quality

Color Management Module (CMM)

• Supports all default spot

libraries including HKS, PANTONE, DIC

New Features — Profiling Tool

•  The Profiling Tool wizard is based on the KKodak ColorFlow

software engine

•  Allows profile generation from direct input or from external measurements,

i. e.: a color measurement file, like CGATS

  Used to create Destination profiles to assure perfect colors with every paper type

  Used to create profiles to match other presses (Source Profiles)

  The tool can be used with X-Rite i1Pro2, iSis and

IO spectral devices

Creo — Extremely Feature-Rich Server Productivity & Workflow

•  Virtual Printers •  Hot Folders •  Post-RIP Editing •  Parallel RI •  Imposition Template Builder •  Multiple saddle-stitched booklets

printed on 1sheet •  Paper Size Switch

Ease of Use •  Simple to learn and operate •  Print Driver for Windows & Mac •  Paper Stock Selection •  Remote Site Manager •  Auto Update Tool •  On-Line help •  Email and SMS Notifications

Color & Image Quality •  Image Quality & Enhancements •  Color Management •  Object Oriented Rendering •  Applying Destination Profiles •  Spot Color Editor and Variations •  Spot Color Libraries •  Color Picker •  Automatic Calibration Tables Mapping

Color & Image Quality (Con’t) •  Image Quality &

Enhancements •  Color Management •  Object Oriented Rendering •  Applying Destination Profiles •  Spot Color Editor and

Variations •  Spot Color Libraries •  Color Picker •  Automatic Calibration Tables

Mapping •  Color Sets •  Protect RGB, CMYK & Grayscale •  Preserve Pure Colors •  Print Mode •  Shading Correction Workflow •  ICC V4.0 Support •  Photo Touch-Up Sftwr •  Fogra Certification

Connectivity •  Connectivity to Kodak Prinergy and

Agfa Apogee •  Built-in JDF/JMF Support •  JDF Connectivity Enhancements •  Hybrid Workflow •  Job Ticket Sftwr

Variable Data Printing •  Unique VDP Architecture •  BVDP Imposition Tools •  Split to Booklets

•  Gallo0 Mode •  Cached VDP Elements for Reuse •  VDP Mngt. Tools

Document Printing

  Tabs Plug-in for Adobe Acrobat

  Dynamic Page Exception

  Support all Printer Finishers

  Support for Near-line Finishers

  Mixed Paper Feed and Sizes

  Inline Perfect Binder Finisher Support

  Job Slug Information

  Image Position

  Dynamic Page Exception

  Support all Printer Finishers

  Support for Near-line Finishers

  Mixed Paper Feed and Sizes

  Inline Perfect Binder

  Job Slug Information

…and much more

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Automated Image Improvements

Save time and improve quality of poor quality photo images with this

automated software application, ideal for photo books!

Image Enhancements

Images are enhanced, independent of the originating applications

Image Enhancement tools include:

-  Image quality: “Smoothing of the image”. For example, improves print quality

of low res logos and photos, eliminating “raster, saw-toothed” edges

-  Graphics Quality: “Smoothing of text, vector data”.

- Trapping (if/when required)

- Black and PS Overprint options

Image Quality to “High”

Trapping Enabled

Color Management and Tools

–  Support RGB, CMYK and spot color input –  ICC profiles support –  Gradation control with on-screen preview

Virtual Printers

Predefined workflows automatically applied to your jobs:

–  Maximum productivity in minimum job ticket configuration

–  Automatic mechanism for overriding an incorrect PDL configuration

–  Predefined settings of virtual printers for novice users saves time and errors

–  Centralize management

Virtual printer 1: booklet

Client workstation

Virtual printer 3: presentation

Virtual printer 2: business cards

Hot Folders

–  Automatically created for every virtual printer — no operator action

required to create

–  Print a single file, or batch of files

–  Basic workflow for Commercial Print/Graphic Arts

–  Can be placed on both Macintosh and Windows-based computers

–  Easy remote submission interface to Creo Server

Batch of files

Job settings and imposition

Upgrades and Conversions

The Creo upgrade/conversion kits offer …

… current A7000 and A7500 end-users a

substantial boost in performance and

functionality in addition to the many advantages

of moving to Windows 7 operating system . . . .

Upgrades & Conversions

•  Two kits now available::

–  A7500 conversion to A7300 v1.0

•  CSA P/N 4105B005AA

–  A7000 upgrade to A7000 v3.0

•  CSA P/N 4105B006AA

•  Both kits include::

–  2 GB additional RAM

–  Windows 7 Operating System

–  Version software that provides

all standard features and functionality of new core software

–  Both new versions provide full support for the Fast Pack and

Profile Pack option kits.

Upgrade vs. Conversion – What’s the difference?

Conversion: Whereas the A7500 utilizes the same server platform as the new A7300, adding memory, software, and a new front cover door to an A7500 results in

an identical configuration to the A7300 in every respect. This procedure is

considered a conversion and new product identification labels are included

in the kit.

•  A7500 + kit = A7300 v1.0

Upgrade:

The A7000 server hardware is not comparable to the A7300 and will not

support the same performance levels. Installing the A7000 kit is considered

an upgrade and no new product identification is included.

• A7000 + kit = A7000 v3.0

ADOBEPDF PRINT ENGINE 2.6

®

Latest Industry Standards

New A7300, Upgrades and Conversions Bring…

• Adobe PDF Print Engine (APPE) 2.6 compatibility is essential for working with PDF files and effective VDP transparency

•  Adobe CPSI 3019 improves the processing results of PostScript files

•  Adobe PDFLIB 10 supports customer’s latest Adobe Creative Suite files

•  New PDF/VT Standards for PDF-based variable data printing

•  JDF/JMF Functionality enhances workflow connectivity

Windows7 Maximizes Security and Vendor Support:

•  Latest OS compatibility with Windows 7 protects client data and enhances enterprise security

THE MESSAGE:THE MESSAGE: Upgrade/Conversion Kits Upgrade/Conversion Kits bring older Creos up to latest softwarebring older Creos up to latest softwarecapabilities, running on newest Windows7 capabilities, running on newest Windows7 Operating System. Operating System.

Kodak Creo Servers - Option Packs

•  Kodak Creo Servers are packed with power and features that help

you increase productivity and serve today’s quality-conscious, time-

sensitive digital print markets. Kodak Creo Servers Option Packs

extend productivity, capabilities and profit potential even further

with these feature-rich kits

•  Customers can add a Kodak Creo Server Option Pack at any time,

investing in new packs as the business evolves

Kodak Creo Servers - Option Packs

Fast Pack • One additional RIP for increased file processing power • RIP sessions can be used separately on multiple jobs or combined on a large single file • Full gallop

Profile Pack • Based on Kodak ColorFlow Software engine 2.0 • Automatic custom destination profiles per media type and screening method

Summary

•  All Creos Servers Do/Can

Run on Win7

•  Unique/Robust RIP Technology

•  Know Your Advantages — Pricing

and Feature Sets

•  Features you Expect and

Much More



Harddrive 500Gb 1Tb

Random Memory (RAM)

3Gb 4Gb (+Fusion Board RAM)

Imposition Pack (Kodak PREPs)

Add RIP Nodes

Batch Processing

Full Gallop

Export for Proof

Edit Spot Colors per Substrate

*Spot Color Variations

Photo TouchUp

Predefined Color Sets

Color Picker

Advanced Calibration Info. (Edit & View)

Import Device Link Profiles

Mark Sets

Folded Signature

Estimated Printing Time

Global Resusable Elements Mngt.

*Dynamic Page Exceptions (SPD)

*Imposition Template Builder

*Enfocus PitStop

Progressive Printing

*Color Management Sftwr (ICC Profiles)

Your Creo Representative

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Robert Dietz | [email protected] | C: 917 453-6921

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