FullPress

PrePress Server for Macintosh networks

Overview

FullPress(tm) is an integrated prepress management system for file sharing, OPI, and print spooling. This overview gives you details about how our products can save you time and money. If you would like more information, please contact one of our sales representatives by telephone at (510) 845-0555, Facsimile (510) 644-2680, or via e-mail at hotmix@xinet.com.

FullPress is the time and money saving solution for the prepress industry. Xinet's integrated prepress server increases productivity in operations where Macintoshes work together to produce complex publications. FullPress is an Open Prepress Interface (OPI) server completely integrated with a set of network applications that provide everything you need for managing digital publishing network operations.

FullPress enables Macintosh users to tap the strength of Xinet's transparent Macintosh/UNIX file sharing, powerful printer queuing, and OPI image substitution to compose and produce complex documents. FullPress runs on some of today's most powerful RISC-based UNIX workstations, providing exceptional speed and efficiency. Best of all, Mac users take advantage of the UNIX server's power, acquiring images and print spooling faster than ever before, without leaving their familiar Mac environment.

How Does FullPress Work?

FullPress reduces network traffic by automatically providing low-resolution "for placement only" (FPO) versions of high-resolution images for use in working documents. These FPO images can be manipulated much more quickly than their high-resolution corollaries. High-resolution originals can come from any source -- scanner, UNIX workstation, or Macintosh. Unlike other OPI products, FullPress does NOT require the high- and low-resolution files to have special extensions or locations for proper identification.

As soon as originals are moved to a shared volume, the FPO files become available to users on the network. FullPress can also provide PICT previews and custom icons for most images placed in a FullPress volume. These previews make selecting the right image for placement much easier.

Users then have the option to use low-resolution images to speed-up tasks such as page composition. At the same time that a user is placing a low-resolution image, another user can edit the high-resolution image. FullPress keeps track of any changes made to the high-resolution originals and automatically updates the low-resolution equivalents. Any time a user looks at a document, the FPOs are up-to-date.

FullPress Cuts "Down-Time" Drastically

At print time FullPress automatically replaces the FPO files with the high-resolution originals stored on the UNIX server (unless the user chooses to print in proofing mode, which uses the low-resolution images). Any cropping, scaling, rotation, or tinting set for the FPO images will automatically be applied to the high-resolution image at printing time. Users may choose any PostScript device on the network for printing, then send their jobs to the UNIX server for queueing, immediately freeing their Macintoshes for more tasks. (For performance test results, please call us at (510) 845-0555.)

More Efficient Publishing Workflow

FullPress can turn your "work and wait" shop into a smoother running, highly efficient network of Macintoshes. We understand the importance of getting projects in and out the door as fast as possible without sacrificing the quality of work you're known for. By using FullPress's seamless image substitution capabilities, your shop can cut down network traffic significantly and improve the performance of each and every workstation on your network.

FullPress Workflow Diagram


1)  Scanner/Input Device 

2) Images placed on UNIX server.

3) UNIX server

4) FullPress automatically creates low-resolution versions of original images. Low-resolution images are dynamically bound to high-resolution originals.

5) Macintosh

6a) Changes to high-resolution images can take place at the same time as page layout.

6b) Page layout uses more efficient low-resolution images. FullPress keeps them up-to-date automatically on a low-overhead, as needed basis.

7) At print time, FullPress replaces the low-resolution files with the high-resolution originals stored on the UNIX server, clearing the project off the Mac quickly.

8) PostScript Output device.

Straight-Forward, Intuitive Administration

The FullPress GUI provides a powerful tool for system administrators. Its point-and-click interface provides an efficient way for administrators to set up and configure all subsystems quickly, including network configuration for AppleTalk, file sharing, print spooling, FPO image generation, and OPI resolution options. The FullPress GUI reduces the complex operations traditionally carried out by UNIX system administrators to a single, well-organized system with intelligently-set default selections.

FullPress Highlights and Advantages

Technical Details

Supported protocols & standards:

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Supported FPO formats:

Layout Programs:

FullPress Server Requirements:

Network Requirements:

Compatible with all PostScript RIPs, including:


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