It drives up to 12 bizhub PRO printers, increasing throughput, maximizing productivity and enhancing control. Best of all, it fully integrates with your existing production environment.
You can prep and print with expert digital prepress production tools, edit RIPped files and print immediately after edits have been made, manage print jobs with tight engine control in busy production environments, even manage color with patented post-RIP calibration, spot color matching and editing, and the ability to calibrate multiple devices.
With MicroPress, you’ll also have a range of choices to match the demands of your workflow -- with a migration path that meets growing output demands and accommodates emerging technologies to achieve the flexible, scaleable right-size solution you’ve been searching for.
- New easy-to-use interface based on EFI’s powerful, intuitive Command
Workstation™ technology.
- A choice of three server options allows even the most basic production environment
to realize the full benefits of bizhub PRO digital workflow efficiency.
- Elevated print performance drives each bizhub PRO production printer at
full rated speed and allows simultaneous RIP processing so large files don’t
create production bottlenecks.
- Powerful new production tools include TrueEdit, TrueColor and TrueImage
for simple management of layout modes, color and tone curves.
- Advanced job control with comprehensive job ticketing and (optional) MicroImager™
functions to streamline scanning, distributing and auto archiving.
Features
TrueEdit™ for Expert Prepress Efficiency: TrueEdit make-ready
tools let you edit RIPped files, control unique page settings, reformat documents,
merge RIPped files with variable data and more -- all with simple, powerful
commands.
Edit RIPped Files: You can reformat documents with streamlined
efficiency and professional results -- controlling unique page settings, selecting
media at page level, managing impose functions, and utilizing Tab Editor, Tab
Builder and chapter support.
Save Time, Increase Productivity: Because your post-RIP files
won’t need to be re-processed, you can eliminate time-consuming re-processing
and print immediately after your edits have been made.
Manage Jobs with Tight Engine Control: You’ll have advanced
job management functions and complete engine control capabilities to optimize
your workflow -- color and B&W split, job ticketing and auto archiving,
media catalog, (optional) TrueScript and MicroImager functionality.
TrueColor™ for Superior Color Management: You can control
color more efficiently and enhance the quality of your color output with patented
post-RIP calibration, gammatic calibration, ICC profiles, advanced color matching
and color adjustment capabilities, post-RIP color correction, TrueBlue spot
color editing and more.
Effective Control of Color Output Devices: You can also calibrate
multiple devices with speed and precision, control press simulations and multiple
emulations per printer, create universal curves and output soft-proof RIP files
in TIFF format for quick review.
A Right-Size Solution to Fit Your Needs: MicroPress Prodigy,
MicroPress Professional and MicroPress Production systems -- a choice of three
servers to handle production needs for any-size workflow and provide simple
operation, cluster printing capability, maximized engine speed, sophisticated
error recovery and more.
MicroPress Prodigy: Drives a single engine, with one Intel
Pentium 4 processor, 160 GB HDD, 512 MB RAM and Windows XP Professional.
MicroPress Professional: Drive up to 4 engines with one Intel
Pentium 4 processor, 160 GB HDD, 1 GB of RAM and Windows XP Professional.
MicroPress Production: Drives up to 12 engines, with Dual
Intel Xeon processors, three hard drives with 146 GB capacity (one used for
RAID 5), 2 GB RAM, Hot Swap capability and Windows 2003 Server.
