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Vision Graphics upgrades Kodak InSite Prepress Portal
Mar 29, 2008—Vision Graphics has upgraded its Kodak InSite Prepress Portal to version 5.0, enhancing our customers’ productivity and ability to collaborate.
The InSite Prepress Portal System enables faster turnaround time by allowing users to submit content and have it proofed for final approval online. The user interface in Version 5.0 provides a new look, designed for performance, flexibility and ease of use, and includes a powerful new version of the Kodak Smart Review Proofing Client.
A new Smart Review feature allows pages in a job to be easily verified for confirmation and review of required changes. The Compare function enables two pages to be viewed side by side, along with a third image that shows all of the differences between the two. Differences can be displayed in a variety of ways, including the ability to zoom in on a page to see particular areas in greater detail.
InSite Prepress Portal System Version 5.0 gives users control over the information they see about job activity through event based e-mail notifications. For example, a user may only need to know about upload activity for a particular job. By subscribing to just that event, users don’t receive notifications for any other events, which helps reduce the quantity of e-mail in a user’s inbox.
Other features in InSite Prepress Portal System Version 5.0 include the ability to group pages and preview new pages. Enhanced Search features provide various options for finding all work in progress, reducing the time it takes to locate jobs.
Kodak InSite 5.0 is a major upgrade that helps Vision Graphics customers significantly enhance their productivity and accuracy when submitting, reviewing and approving jobs for print.
Vision Graphics upgrades Kodak Prinergy prepress workflow system
Mar 8, 2008—Vision Graphics is pleased to feature Prinergy Connect version 4.0, the latest in Kodak’s commercial prepress workflow solution. Prinergy 4.0 integrates Adobe’s new PDF Print Engine with enhanced transparency capabilities that reduce the occurrence of artifacts and increases the speed, consistency, and reliability of the processing of complex files that include transparency elements. Prinergy 4.0 also delivers enhanced Layered PDF Versioning, introducing support for layered PDF input files.
“Dashboard,” a new Prinergy system introduced in version 4, offers prepress management and customer service representatives a better visibility into the production process.
Other features include enhanced options for production reporting and automated data exchange between MIS systems; an optional Digital Print Manager software that enables automated digital print production; and enhanced Rules-Based Automation that expands the range of production events supported, resulting in greater JDF support, flexibility, and control in production.
Vision Graphics upgrades Internet connection, adds bandwidth
Feb 18, 2008—Vision Graphics has just completed a substantial overhaul of our Internet presence. We’ve upgraded to a 5-megabit/sec fiber-optic Internet connection that’s nearly four times as fast as our old T1.
If you purchase printing through our online stores, if you upload and download files via InSite or FTP, or if you review and approve your jobs through InSite, your online exchanges with us will now happen much faster.
We also used this opportunity to upgrade our network security equipment—both to keep up with the faster connection and to provide world-class security and protection for our customers’ valuable files.
Vision Graphics adds Order Fulfillment capability
Oct 23, 2007—Vision Graphics has added Order Fulfillment capability to our EFI Hagen™ OA manufacturing MIS system. Hagen OA Order Fulfillment gives us unprecedented flexibility in how we warehouse, inventory, ship and invoice Finished Goods items. The Hagen OA Order Fulfillment product decreases processing time, eliminates transaction errors and provides a higher degree of accuracy for job management and costing.
The end result is that Vision Graphics now offers an even greater selection of services to our customer!
Vision Graphics ramps up Variable Data campaign
Jun 15, 2007—We’re walking the walk with our Variable Data solutions! Vision Graphics is rolling out a phased self-promotional campaign to demonstrate the powerful capabilities of our XMPie uProduce software and Xerox iGen3 full-color digital press.
This phase of the campaign employs:
- a customized 5.5 x 11" lettercard mailing with Personalized URL
- a web-based store that demonstrates the ease of creating a dynamic, personalized mailer
- A response and tracking mechanism that helps evaluate campaign effectiveness, response rate and other valuable data
Vision Graphics can provide your company with personalized, customizable mailings that drive your customer to interact through a Personalized URL. PURLs allow you to present your customers with an individualized offer while building and updating your database with surveys, forms and other interactive web applications. This insight into the nature of your prospect translates directly to increased response rates through targeted marketing efforts.
If you’d like to receive more info and a demonstration of how PURLs and Variable Data technology can benefit your company, send us an email:
Include your name, company name, address, phone number and email address. An account representative will contact you!
Vision Graphics adds Xerox iGen3 Digital Press
Mar 15, 2007—Vision Graphics is proud to announce the addition of the Xerox iGen3 110 Digital Production Press to complement its array of MAN Roland sheetfed presses.
The Xerox iGen3 is a full-color, dry-ink digital press capable of producing 6,600 full process color A4 (letter) 4/0 impressions per hour. Its maximum sheet size of 14.33 x 22.5" and 600 x 600 dpi resolution make it ideal for your short-run, on demand printing needs.
Our Xerox iGen3 is the only one in northern Colorado, and it’s online now and immediately available for your production jobs!
Xerox iGen3 (click image for cutaway view)
Variable data printing available
Mar 1, 2007—Variable Data Printing (VDP) documents come in all shapes and sizes, from business letters and simple mail merge to multi-fold self-mailers and custom packaging. With our new iGen3 and with the addition of XMPie uProduce software, Vision Graphics is able to provide comprehensive full-color or black-and-white VDP services, including:
- Direct mail marketing campaigns
- Personalized 1 to 1 communications
- Customized promotional material
- Invoices, statements and financial reports with unique text, images and graphics
From a simple postcard to a complex, fully-customized piece containing dozens or hundreds of variable fields, Vision Graphics is equipped and ready to handle your needs!
For detailed information and pricing regarding the iGen3 and Variable Data Printing, please contact your sales representative or call Vision Graphics at (800) 833-4263.