ApogeeX More power to meet today's workflow challenges
Agfa has taken the opportunity of PrintEx 03 in Sydney to kick off the regional release of the much-awaited ApogeeX digital workflow. ApogeeX is the most automated, easy-to-use workflow solution on the market.
Garry Muratore, Agfa's Regional Marketing Manager (pictured) told Print21Online; "We expect a lot of traffic across our stand to see this product. When we showed a beta demo at Printech in Auckland New Zealand last year we were swamped. This time it's a full release."
And as you would expect with a new Agfa product, nothing has been spared in the launch preparations.
"We will have a fully configured rack mounted system at the show with multiple clients, so as many customers as possible can have hands on access to the system," confirmed Muratore.
Agfa is also bringing to the show two senior product developers to meet and talk with the large Apogee User Group already established in the Australian and New Zealand market.
"We will see Jan Cox and Angelo Manno both senior marketing and technical staff from our Mortsel headquarters who are looking forward to not only PrintEx but the planned open houses in Melbourne (2/6) and Auckland (4/6) that will allow those not attending PrintEx to see the product up close," said Muratore.
"From the very early days of PDF workflow Apogee has been a killer application in the world of workflow" Muratore went on to say. "I think it's widely accepted that competitive PDF workflows have always lagged one or two generations behind Apogee. With the pending release of ApogeeX that technology leadership puts the product even further ahead of any other market offering"
Based on PDF, JDF and Digital Film ApogeeX puts more control and advanced capabilities at your fingertips. It brings together a wide range of sophisticated features in one application –including job management, advanced job tickets, PDF trapping, enhanced connectivity, Web approval of pages and flats, and much more.
With ApogeeX, prepress groups, commercial printers, and packaging printers can complete more jobs in less time, raising profitability. ApogeeX brings you the wide range of capabilities you need for an efficient, fully automated workflow from normalizing incoming files into PDF Digital masters to creating Digital Film and managing its output to a wide range of devices, including proofers, imagesetters, platesetters, and more.
An Advanced Architecture at the Core
The client-server architecture provides centralized processing and control and ensures high performance and reliability – important considerations since your workflow is central to your business success. Redundant, distributed task processors and built-in intelligence (i.e. automatic switching to available processors in case of a failure) ensure high availability and quick recovery, while sophisticated database back up capabilities protect your valuable data.
The ApogeeX client application graphically displays all job information, regardless of where the job specific processing occurs. This networked approach keeps resources (e.g. ICC profiles, fonts) centralized and makes it easy to bring updates and new capabilities to your entire operation. As a result, any changes made to settings or its capabilities are automatically communicated to all operators – a significant improvement over standalone applications.
More of everything . . .
- More Intuitive :ApogeeX is a highly visual, intuitive application designed to be used by a wide range of operators. It empowers your team with advanced tools that are easy to learn and use.
- More Dynamic :ApogeeX lets you create flexible workflows that respond tot the ever-changing needs of your business. In a business where constant change is inevitable, ApogeeX keeps you ready for anything.
- More Control :ApogeeX gives you the advanced tools you need to manage and track every job – offering a new level of control over your entire prepress workflow. You get a complete overview via one window, giving you full control over all processes, and jobs enabling you to respond to changing priorities.
- More Scalable :ApogeeX is an extremely scalable, flexible solution that grows with your organization. You can tailor your ApogeeX system to respond to your evolving business needs, growing and adding new capabilities and processing power as needed.
- More Connected :ApogeeX connects people, processes, and devices like never before. JDF compliance lets you import job tickets and key information. And it connects seamlessly with the Web for approvals, and remote printing sites for distribute and print operations.
New workflow challenges demand new workflow tools. :ApogeeX has them all. Take a closer look at some of its key capabilities on Agfa's stand at PrintEx 03 (stand Number 73)
For anyone wanting a personalised demonstration of ApogeeX they can contact
Agfa's Apogee team on apogee_user@australia.agfa.com
Garry Muratore, Agfa's Regional Marketing Manager (pictured) told Print21Online; "We expect a lot of traffic across our stand to see this product. When we showed a beta demo at Printech in Auckland New Zealand last year we were swamped. This time it's a full release."
"We will see Jan Cox and Angelo Manno both senior marketing and technical staff from our Mortsel headquarters who are looking forward to not only PrintEx but the planned open houses in Melbourne (2/6) and Auckland (4/6) that will allow those not attending PrintEx to see the product up close," said Muratore.