Creo has announced the development of JDF integration between the workflow applications of six leading software vendors and the Creo Spire colour server. Creo and these six companies share a common goal of delivering integrated end-to-end digital printing solutions to customers. According to the company these strategic partnerships provide Creo digital printing customers with the ultimate flexibility in choosing the best workflow to fit their production requirements. The partners offer Spire users open connectivity to their upstream workflow and allow them to achieve full process automation. By leveraging the cooperative power of six third-party vendors, digital printing users will no longer have to consider replacing their upstream workflow tools with proprietary systems in order to provide robust digital printing capability.
The close cooperation with Creo will provide the customers of the six vendors with the ability to use Creo Spire color servers to drive Xerox® DocuColor® digital color printers. The partners are:
• Dots GmbH of Berlin, Germany, which specializes in software for production printing on digital copy systems. Dots’ Cockpit JTX connects office PCs with copy machines, leading print data from order to the printing and billing.
• Enterprise Print Management Solutions of Plymouth, MA, USA, which produces enterprise software for MIS and workflow management.
• NowDocs® of San Juan Capistrano, CA, USA, the creator of NowPRINT®, which enables organizations to implement a powerful yet easy-to-use, web-based print on-demand and print-production workflow solution.
• Pageflex of Cambridge, MA, USA, which produces Pageflex Storefront, a software product used to define, auto-generate, and manage attractive web-to-print document customization sites.
• Press-Sense Ltd. of Caesaria, Israel, which produces iWay Prime, a web-based, off-the-shelf, end-to-end information and workflow management software solution for the printing industry.
• ROI Distribution Ltd of March, United Kingdom, is a specialist software developer and distributor for XRalle, which is a leading online software engine for automated procurement.
