Dainippon Screen announces a new workflow concept

 As awareness of the need to protect the global environment has grown in recent years, the printing industry has undergone a major transformation, and it is now increasingly focused on creating value for increasingly personalized segments of the market.Dainippon Screen has applied the printing and prepress technologyit has refined through years of experience to inkjettechnology-which is the focus of high expectations in the printing industry-and is actively working on the development of POD systems that can create added value and meet the changing needs of printing businesses, including the need for more environmentally friendly production. Screen looks forward to expanding on its role as the world's top vendor of CtP equipment and becoming the number onevendor in the digital printing equipment business, which is so important for POD, as it continues to strengthen its image as aleading company in the world prepress and printing industries. The newly announced EQUIOSNET has Trueflow SE, which features AdobePDF Print EngineR, at its core, and it adds POD and TransPromo capabilities to Screen's CtP workflow solution. EQUIOSNET is a newconcept that uses POD to increase environmental friendliness, create added value, and make it possible to employ a mixture of media, to create a printing business solution for today's era of personalization. It combines the CtP workflow offered by TrueflowSE and the Trans Promo workflow offered by the SV-110 with the newlydeveloped EQUIOS RIP, which was developed specifically for use withthe Truepress Jet SX sheet-fed inkjet printer. Offset printed products, for which prepress was completed using Trueflow SE, canbe overprinted with customised information using EQUIOS and theTruepress Jet SX-just one example of the type of personalizationthat is possible with a hybrid printing solution that uses bothoffset printing and POD output. In a printing industry that isfacing a paradigm shift, EQUIOSNET is the perfect tool for businesses that want to be capable not only of mass production butalso of personalization, while creating printed products that offeradded value and a whole range of possibilities. Raman Nagpal, Adobe Systems Inc.'s Director in charge of product management for the Print Publishing Business Unit's Print Technology Department, has made the following statements about EQUIOSNET: "The new EQUIOSNET concept being developed by DainipponScreen includes Adobe's latest core technologies, Adobe PDF PrintEngine 2.0, Adobe Creative SuiteR 3, and Adobe AcrobatR 8Professional, for its PDF/VT base, and has added to that base a next-generation printing workflow that features personalizedprinting and supports Screen's business strategy concepts. EQUIOS,the workflow RIP for the Truepress Jet SX, uses Adobe's latestprint engine, Adobe PDF Print Engine 2.0. We have greatexpectations for success in the POD era through the collaborativevision of Dainippon Screen and Adobe Systems Inc." Through its promotion of EQUIOSNET, Dainippon Screen looks forward to expanding on its role as the top vendor of CtP equipmentworldwide while strengthening its existing brand and creating new brand recognition in a printing industry that is using more andmore POD. Screen also looks forward to helping businesses operatein a way that is more appropriate for this environmentally conscious century. Screen will be establishing a new core businessin media technology through its POD equipment solutions, while working towards a shared future with its customers under Screen's "Creating a Future in Print" theme.