| Selected Highlights |
| End-to-end native PDF processing | Uses standard PDF files as the internal production file format throughout the workflow |
| Job and production management | Organizes prepress and CTP production with features such as job context, proofing, job processing history, archiving, and process and queue management |
| JDF support | JDF certified to many third-party vendors for seamless integration and open connectivity with third party MIS and imposition systems |
| PDF/X-1a and PDF/X-3 support | Supports PDF/X-1a standard as internal digital master; generates PDF/X-1a conforming files during the refine process |
| Oracle database | Tracks processing history and status throughout a job; enables automatic load balancing |
| Automated preflight | Checks and corrects input files automatically; report indicates what was checked and corrected, with hyperlinks to PDF file |
| Automated imposition | Automate job and imposition creation using JDF information, an MIS, or a JDF-capable production planning system |
| Page aliases | When using PREPS Software for ganging pages, page aliases—links to the original page—are created in the ganged job and automatically updated when the original page changes |
| Integrated PREPS Imposition Software | Embedded imposition engine allows access to templates from within PRINERGY Workflows |
| Digital Print Integration | Bidirectional JMF enabled communication options for NEXPRESS Digital Color Presses, Xerox DocuColor digital presses, HP Indigo digital presses and Konica Minolta devices
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| Trapping | Automated PDF-to-PDF trapping |
| Automated color matching and management | Converts RGB to CMYK and handles spot colors; can map spot colors to process colors based on standard or customized ICC profiles |
| PDF editing tools | Edit jobs by exporting to Adobe Illustrator software; object structure and position is maintained and custom plug-ins allow file resubmission back into the PRINERGY Workflow |
| PDF Compare and PDF Merge | Acrobat plug-ins that compare files and merge revised elements into updated production files |
| PDF PlateBuilder | Acrobat plug-in for creating custom plates, including white, varnish and bump plates |
| Screening | Support for AM screening, STACCATO Screening, and MAXTONE Screening |
| Archiving | Database archiving in job context |
| Layered PDF Versioning (LPV) | Manages and automates the proofing, approval, and plating of complex versioned print jobs; manages incoming file formats and automates the process, creating single layered PDF files |
| Advanced Production Automation | Automatically assign pages to impositions, including page position and page geometry settings |
| Rules-Based Automation | Allows operators to set up rules or conditions to automate workflow tasks |
| Production reporting and MIS connectivity | Enables exchange of production data and job status information between a prepress workflow system and MIS, with reporting feature for real-time view of data summary |
