RIP software specialist Caldera has announced the launch of a new product – Caldera PrimeCenter, a prepress automation solution designed to help wide-format digital printers to save time as they prepare jobs for printing. The company is enabling the move from a ‘ready to print’ to a ‘ready to produce’ mind-set. Developed in cooperation with Zünd, this Caldera-owned and branded product will be available for delivery from mid-June. This new software solution sits upstream from the RIP and has been created to fit easily into a Print & Cut workflow, enabling production to be scaled. PrimeCenter not only consolidates preflight, bleeding and nesting into one tool, it also reduces the level of manual errors, while saving time on file preparation.
Different input image files coming in from clients – pdf, tif, jpeg, png – can be automatically prepared and optimized using Caldera PrimeCenre. These files are preflighted, marked and nested together, into ‘ready for production’ layouts that save valuable prepress and production time. PrimeCenter doesn’t replace the RIP as it does not directly drive any printer or cutter, but acts as a firewall, preventing earlier issues at the production stage. The Caldera PrimeCenter bestows multiple benefits for users. There are valuable time savings to be made during the preparation of jobs for Print&Cut production, resulting in increased automation and operator productivity.
