Hybrid Software Brings ‘The Heartbeat of Industrial Printing and Packaging’ to Labelexpo Americas 2024
(Ghent, Belgium) Hybrid Software program, developer of progressive productiveness instruments for label & packaging printing, will likely be displaying its full product portfolio at Labelexpo Americas 2024, Sales space 3015. The brand new PACKZ 10, an all-in-one PDF editor and prepress software for each digital and standard printing; CLOUDFLOW, the fashionable workflow engine; ColorLogic’s shade administration software program; SmartDFE™, the one AI-accelerated digital entrance finish for inline printing of absolutely variable information; and iC3D photorealistic rendering and prototyping will all be demonstrated. Hybrid Software program know-how can be included within the choices of quite a few producers of digital label printing presses throughout the present ground.
Hybrid Software program serves a very hybrid world
Digital presses are right here to remain, however standard printing is just not disappearing. Environment friendly print manufacturing requires good manufacturing practices, and the craftsmanship and information of conventional print developed over generations. Converters and printers anticipate connectivity throughout all their {hardware} and software program methods, however the IT surroundings the place they function is difficult and unforgiving. Hybrid Software program operates on the nexus of prepress manufacturing and cutting-edge IT: The IT consultants who know prepress, and the prepress consultants who know IT.
Dedication to Innovation
Hybrid Software program will likely be highlighting a number of new merchandise and applied sciences at Labelexpo. They embrace:
Hybrid PACKZ 10: The most recent model of Hybrid’s well-liked all-in-one PDF editor provides new capabilities for each digital and standard printing, together with enhanced 3D visualization and ray tracing for shrink sleeves and die-formed steel cans, using a good integration of two Hybrid Software program merchandise, iC3D and Seize 3D.
Hybrid Software program’s auto format and step-and-repeat know-how for roll-fed digital labels and stack offset printers, Packzimizer, contains new options to handle quick print runs and smaller portions. Packzimizer intelligently analyzes order information to optimize the format and repetitions of labels on a roll primarily based on amount, providing most substrate utilization and press uptime.
Hybrid CLOUDFLOW: Hybrid Software program’s extremely configurable enterprise manufacturing workflow system offers quick and efficient automation of prepress duties for a lot of converters and printers worldwide. MyCLOUDFLOW is a 100% cloud-based SaaS resolution operating in a devoted Amazon Internet Providers (AWS) cluster and supported by Hybrid’s devoted crew of IT professionals, with robust information safety and immutable backups.
CLOUDFLOW’s ProofScope device for art work viewing and approval now features a 3D approval system primarily based on iC3D know-how. Customers can visualize product labels in addition to gildings like glitter and varnishes, utilized on to three-dimensional shapes together with cartons and bottles, precisely distorting art work to guarantee the best high quality shrink sleeves.
ColorSpace: Constructed on know-how from Hybrid Software program’s ColorLogic enterprise, ColorSpace presents optimized shade matching for digital and standard printing to all customers of PACKZ and CLOUDFLOW. ColorSpace helps completely different shade areas, from course of shade and prolonged gamut printing (ECG) to particular model shade inks. It presents non-experts—gross sales reps, CSRs and others—an computerized choice of the most effective ink configuration for every job, on a given printing press, primarily based on the smallest deviation from the specified spectral shade (?E), with reporting to MIS/ERP for correct quoting.
SmartDFE, clever digital entrance finish (DFE) for digital presses: SmartDFE is focused for high-speed, single-pass presses printing absolutely variable information. It’s constructed upon Harlequin Direct™, the world’s quickest PDF RIP, offering rasterization and inkjet drop era for the absolute best picture high quality and quickest printing speeds. It presents independence from third-party core RIP options, counting on Hybrid’s personal Harlequin Core™—the world’s quickest RIP core—in addition to workflow know-how primarily based on CLOUDFLOW, and shade administration from ColorLogic – all developed in-house. SmartDFE is used to energy quite a few digital label presses which might be displayed at Labelexpo, though it’s typically marketed and bought below Hybrid Software program OEM prospects’ personal model names.
Hybrid Software program has maintained its give attention to constructing the most efficient instruments for label and packaging printers and converters. “All Hybrid Software program corporations have one widespread mission: We’re the heartbeat of commercial printing and packaging, whether or not flexo, offset or digital printing. For instance, we’re the one firm that may drive any digital press with know-how developed 100% in-house. This contains all of the duties required to fabricate print, from file preflighting and ink estimation, to prepress workflow and format, to all aspects of shade administration, RIPping information to a digital printer, overseeing inkjet printhead efficiency, to analyzing and reporting to networked MIS/ERP options,” explains Mike Agness, Hybrid Software program Govt Vice President, Americas. “But, simply as necessary as our know-how is that we care, on a really native stage, about our prospects’ successes.”
For extra details about PACKZ and different Hybrid Software program options go to: www.hybridsoftware.com.