Caldera, part of Dover Digital Printing and Dover, announced the launch of PrimeCenter, a production automation solution designed to help wide format digital printers save time as they prepare jobs for printing.
This new software solution, which sits upstream from the RIP, has been created to fit easily into a Print&Cut workflow, enabling production to be scaled. PrimeCenter consolidates preflight, bleeding and nesting into one tool. It also reduces the number of manual errors, while saving time on file preparation. When clients send different input image files, such as pdfs, tifs, jpegs and pngs, the PrimeCenter can automatically prepare and optimize the files. These files are preflighted, marked and nested together, into “ready for production” layouts that save valuable prepress and production time. While PrimeCenter doesn’t directly drive any printer or cutter like the RIP does, it acts as a firewall, preventing earlier issues at the production stage.
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The Caldera PrimeCenter provides multiple benefits for users. The preparation of jobs for Print&Cut production saves time, resulting in increased automation and operator productivity. The optimized nesting feature will generate media savings, as well as save time spent on nesting and layouts. Manual nesting and cut marks are avoided. Production is streamlined due to the PrimeCenter’s ability to inject job meta data, and this contributes to complete workflow tracking using XML to connect to MIS and ERP solutions.
The PrimeCenter is designed to automate roll-up, POS, stickers, backlit, banners production and more. For small operations, this represents a significant time-saving opportunity by allowing an owner-operator to use a dedicated interface that submits seamlessly to the RIP. For larger operations, PrimeCenter reduces the multitude of repetitive daily tasks faced by production operators.
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The new product comes in three distinct editions. PrimeCenter Basic requires users to manually apply a combination of actions such as preflight, nesting and bleeding in what Caldera calls recipes. With PrimeCenter Pro, the application of recipes is semi-automated via the automatic import of incoming files. Layouts are automatically generated, though not instantly exported to the controller or the RIP. The most advanced edition, PrimeCenter Max, automatically exports the layouts from the incoming files to the controller or the RIP.
“We developed the new Caldera PrimeCenter to provide our customers with the right tool at the right place. Not only can they save time by employing this new production solution, but its optimization features can also result in substantial media savings,” said Arnaud Fabre, Caldera’s Product Manager.
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