2/13/2005

Will PDF-X-Robot work in our Agfa Apogee CTP Workflow?

I work in a pre-press studio which runs a pdf workflow. We use an Agfa CTP system (Apogee Series 3) where we postscript straight from Quark into a Apogee Normaliser which flightchecks the postscript files, adds any actions (we have programmed some master actions ie.-knockout white etc,) and creates the pdf's for us to impose etc. This system works ok but it struggles with DCS2.0 files, we are not able to send composite files down which in turn would create a composite pdf, so we have to create separated pdf's which visually only show the last plate (no good for proofing to the customer) and also it creates images on any blank colour spaces.

I have also updated to OSX Panther and running Quark 6.5 and any spot colour vignette in quark converts to CMYK through our current system. Could we create hi-res pdf's to use in our current Agfa workflow using PDF-X-Robot, and would PDF-X-Robot solve the problems I have mentioned above? Do you know of anyone who runs a similar system to us who is using PDF-X-Robot to create their pdf's?
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