GraphExpo - Booth 4748

Will you be at GraphExpo in Chicago ?

Stop by and see our new ganging product - QuickFit4Print in booth 4748 at McCormick Place South September 11-14. Compose QuickFit4Print is a unique solution to gang multiple jobs onto a designated plate size automatically, compensating for different print run and job sizes, bringing efficiency and productivity with hooks to set up jobs coming from the Web2Print our your custom front end into QuickFit.

- Jobs are packed for easy guillotine, front and back, customize color bars and marks.
- Easy to switch between sheet wise, work and turn, work and tumble imposition
- Provide print management reports for delivery and statistics.

Three Different versions

There are three versions of QuickFit available for customer’s to choose from:

• QuickFit4Print - a full version but limited to 2-up, 360x535mm sheet size only, quick submissions is standard

• QuickFit4Print Professional – a full version with no limit on plate size, quick submissions is standard

• QuickFit4Print online – a full version with online protocol for interfacing with web to Print front end or MIS front end, with submission is provided as standard.

Stop on by and say hello, or email us at sales@composeusa.com for more detail !

Star Proof and Star Plate are Roaring

last week Apple launched it's most successful OS ever. Over a million download in just one day. Compose was ready for the event and I'm very glad to tell you that Star Proof and Star Plate have been updated so they are compatible with Lion (MacOS X 10.7).



Star Plate uses the actual dots of the original RIPped 1-bit file and preserves its dot patterns, screening and dot gain calibration. With it's high quality dot formation engine, Star Plate can output film or plates at 150 lpi with a high quality hard dot with the density values similar to what's expected from traditional film or plate devices.

Star Proof is dot per dot proofing system capable of simulating line screens up to 220 lpi, Star Proof is well known for reproducing the sharpest dots possible on an Epson proofer. Star Proof will show the same dot produced by your RIP on your proofer, in just the way they will show once printed on your press.

This new update allows Star Plate to better and more precisely handle top and left margins. Up to four decimal places.

Previous versions of Star Proof and Star Plate where unable to save license the file on OS X Lion, this has now been fixed. Keep in mind that you will have to install Java Runtime as it's not installed by default with the standard Lion installation procedure.

For more information e-mail me at alvaro@composeusa.com

Star Plate & iCTF Calibration Results

Star Plate uses the actual dots of the original RIPped 1-bit file and preserves its dot patterns, screening and dot gain calibration. With it's high quality dot formation engine, Star Plate can output film or plates at 150 lpi with a high quality hard dot with the density values similar to what's expected from traditional film or plate devices.

On this video we check the film density and calibration. On an Epson Stylus Pro 7900 and using Compose's iCTF we can achieve densities that hover at 4.0.




For more information e-mail sales@composeusa.com