London, England. -1st December 1999- Farrukh Systems have completed driver development for three major Pre-Press workflow solutions in the last month. Users of Helios’ Ethershare OPI and PDF Handshake, Xinet’s FullPress OPI and LDR Fusion workflow based systems and users of the RAMPAGE RIP solutions can all now utilise Imposition Publisher as a fully integrated imposition software solution. Also, as part of this development strategy, the recently released CelebraNT PDF workflow solution from FujiFilm is now fully supported by Imposition Publisher.

These new drivers are part of a growing trend by Farrukh Systems to make Imposition Publisher more appealing for users of integrated workflow solutions, particularly with the move to PDF based solutions. Traditionally Imposition Publisher has been a ‘front end’ imposition solution whereby the imposition process takes place on the originating PostScript files before being sent to the RIP. With these new drivers, users of Fusion, RAMPAGE and CelebraNT can now Rip the PDF and/or PostScript files first and then supply low resolution preview pages of the Ripped files to Imposition Publisher to perform the imposition processing. This has the advantage of allowing pages to be Ripped without having to wait for all the pages of an Imposition to be completed. It also allows for last minute changes to individual pages without having to re-Rip to entire job.

With the UNIX and Windows NT Client Server versions, Imposition Publisher can be seamlessly integrated with virtually any Server based Pre-Press workflow solution. These latest developments complement the recent announcement by Farrukh Systems to support the Mac OSX operating system for its Client Server based solutions. Both Xinet FullPress and Helios Ethershare OPI have also adopted this platform in recent months.

For further information call +44 (0)181 207 4249 and ask for Mark Evans (mark@farrukh.co.uk, mobile no. +44 (0)7801 790192) or John Tonks (john@farrukh.co.uk, mobile no. +44 (0)7901 851048).