Prepress/Workflow
A&V offers a complete selection of digital prepress equipment and workflow solutions. We can provide a complete “turn-key” approach with equipment, materials, software and support, or update your existing facility with à la carte products.
A&V Products
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Color Management
Compose WorkFlow
WorkFlow takes an open system approach to solve production issues. It offers the possibility for customers to integrate their preferred application and enhance the value of the workflow to give better productivity. Compose WorkFlow gives you PDF creation, preflighting, trapping, proofing, imposition, and plate imaging fully automated under one roof. WorkFlow's modular design easily adapts to the way you work providing maximum reliability and scalability. Prepress workflows can be setup in seconds with One-click configuration.
EFI Proofing Solutions
EFI Proofing Solutions obtain color-accurate results on conventional ink jet and laser printers.
EFI™ is a world leader in print management solutions. EFI's award-winning technologies increase productivity and profits by automating print processes, streamlining workflow, adding profitable value-added services, and producing rich, accurate digital output across the gamut of digital printing.
Esko
Esko's Kaleidoscope is a superior tool for absolute color accuracy. It maximizes color consistency, predictability & repeatability in every stage of pre-production. Kaleidoscope is an integrated color system that excels in color management of special colors such as PANTONE and house/designer colors. Kaleidoscope dramatically reduces cost in adopting digital printing.
GMG
GMG software solutions keep you in control of color – from prepress to printing. GMG products form a single, modular family and support the common international standards, as well as your in-house standards, of course. GMG is on the cutting edge of technology with software that supports the most current printers, including Epson’s WT7900 which uses aqueous-based white printing technology. Popular products include GMG colorProof (easy and reliable high-quality proofing), GMG flexoProof (the proofing standard for flexo and packaging markets), along with GMG dotProof for color-accurate halftone proofs and GMG proofControl that can verify proofs within seconds.
All-in-one PDF workflow for professional Flexo prepress.
OpenRIP® Flexo 7.0 Professional is a comprehensive, turnkey PDF workflow featuring support for both the Adobe® PDF Print Engine (APPE) and Adobe® PostScript® 3™. OpenRIP Flexo drives a wide variety of output devices including platesetters, imagesetters, laser printers, digital color presses, copiers, ink jet printers and plotters, all from a single, state-of-the-art RIP. This means that your file output differences are a thing of the past! OpenRIP Flexo provides powerful scanning, trapping, screening, advanced imposition and ganging, PANTONE® Color Libraries support, and enhanced color proofing features for your output devices. You now have everything you need for prepress operation in one complete software package.
X-Rite
Monaco series award-winning software builds ICC monitor, scanner, and printer
profiles that bring accurate and consistent color across devices and paper types. Eye-One or ProfileMaker solutions give you
accurate, predictable color – from concept to final production.
ProfileMaker™ 5 Packaging solution is tailored to meet the color management needs of the imaging workflow in the packaging market for flexo, gravure, offset and ink jet printing environments. It introduces the open ICC standard to complex multicolor scenarios and leads to reliable color communication.