11.20.2009
GAA at Techno Summit 09
Compose just completed our 3 days at Graphic Art association Techno Summit event this year, it was a big success for GAA being their first attempt to organize in this format. The speaker quality was excellent, and surprisingly the high turnout on each of the forum topics as well. GAA was highly resourceful to invite Mr. Ulrich Schmitt of Fogra to talk about PrePress and Press standard in accordance to Fogra 39, Prof Benjamin Lee from University of LA, on new strategies for digital graphics communication, Mr. MissuharuMasuko from Japan on Hi Fi color printing. A number of renowned companies locally were also present to address issues from different field, including automated publishing solution from Adobe, a new generation of Flexographic & Gravure proofing solution, Future trend on Digital Asset management, an insight to future Print Production by our Simon Ha.
Compose is also taking this opportunity to introduce two new print solutions to the event, the new Apex 1290 continuous digital printer. It is a toner-based digital Printer based on OKI’s successful 9650 model, capable of printing CMYK color at 30 feet per minute. This new debut in the Hong Kong market has already attracted a lot of positive feedback; we are looking for dealerships in Asia and Europe, official launch will be in the New Year of 2010. Another new product which was launched a couple of months ago, and now being stepped up is the ProofHQ offering. ProofHQ was mentioned in detail previously, but I will repeat it again briefly here. It is an ideal product for customers in the GraphicArt industry to communicate with customers at a long distance, it will allow designers, or printers to upload an artwork to a central server and then notify their client to take a look over a web interface.
This will save cost on courier charges and improve on communication. Clients can add comments, approve, and check against different versions, all with a date stamp attached. The Central Server is housed in big data center in USA at the moment, guaranteed with good bandwidth between designers and clients. The beauty of this offering is the try before you sign option. I like to urge all those who read about this to sign up through www.compose.com.hk, you will also get a 20% if you apply with the promote code composehk. Finally, congratulation once again to GAA management team who organized such a great event, hope to see all the other participants next year.
8.31.2009
Compose launches BIB and Label Print at Print09
Following the steps of GapFinder, Compose is proud to offer two more productivity solutions to improve Printing efficiency. Each of them are unique in its own way, I hope to take this opportunity to let you have a glimpse of this before you visit the show to see it for yourselves.
Big Ice Box (BIB) is a name chosen for this new product, it allow users just dump articles inside the Ice box without too much thinking, a little hand inside the Ice box will help to pack it nicely together. With this in mind Compose come up with this product to let BIB users to send jobs with an industry standard JDF ticket, allowing BIB to extract from there all the print instructions, and put them into a database for classification. Operator can occasionally look into the database, select all the jobs that will meet a certain print requirement, like printing on a certain media, or look for jobs in equal print runs. Once an instruction is issued, the database will provide a complete list of jobs ready to go into a paper size defined by the user. From there you can imagine what BIB can accomplish automatically; it aims to take the trouble out of the operator’s hands, do it systematically and with full control if necessary.
Another interesting product from us is our new offering is Express Label Print solution, similar to our BIB solution, Label Print also has a Database engine running behind the scenes. Jobs submitted from the front end will go straight into the database; all we have to do is check which one has to print first according to the job ticket.
Label Print will impose multiple labels for continuous label printer, or step and repeat labels for any sheet fed devices, making sure optimization and productivity is the objective for grouping the labels together. Once a layout is determined, we can provide a job file for die cut preparation, a job sheet indicating which are the labels making up this job sheet and where should they go. Express Label Print will serve customers with digital and offset or Flexo printing in mind.
Both applications will run under EWF, a well proven workflow solution from Compose, which provides imposition, Proofing, trapping, job monitoring, Load balancing and many others, all under one roof. Now with BIB come into play, it will unquestionably improve productivity in any print shop. Take away all the hassles in ganging jobs onto a single plate in any production environment.
Compose likes to take away all your miseries in production, offering you solutions that can increase productivity like GapFinder and BIB, bring savings by reducing your wastage. Please come and visit us in Print09, Chicago between 11-16 September.
Big Ice Box (BIB) is a name chosen for this new product, it allow users just dump articles inside the Ice box without too much thinking, a little hand inside the Ice box will help to pack it nicely together. With this in mind Compose come up with this product to let BIB users to send jobs with an industry standard JDF ticket, allowing BIB to extract from there all the print instructions, and put them into a database for classification. Operator can occasionally look into the database, select all the jobs that will meet a certain print requirement, like printing on a certain media, or look for jobs in equal print runs. Once an instruction is issued, the database will provide a complete list of jobs ready to go into a paper size defined by the user. From there you can imagine what BIB can accomplish automatically; it aims to take the trouble out of the operator’s hands, do it systematically and with full control if necessary. 
Another interesting product from us is our new offering is Express Label Print solution, similar to our BIB solution, Label Print also has a Database engine running behind the scenes. Jobs submitted from the front end will go straight into the database; all we have to do is check which one has to print first according to the job ticket.Label Print will impose multiple labels for continuous label printer, or step and repeat labels for any sheet fed devices, making sure optimization and productivity is the objective for grouping the labels together. Once a layout is determined, we can provide a job file for die cut preparation, a job sheet indicating which are the labels making up this job sheet and where should they go. Express Label Print will serve customers with digital and offset or Flexo printing in mind.
Both applications will run under EWF, a well proven workflow solution from Compose, which provides imposition, Proofing, trapping, job monitoring, Load balancing and many others, all under one roof. Now with BIB come into play, it will unquestionably improve productivity in any print shop. Take away all the hassles in ganging jobs onto a single plate in any production environment.
Compose likes to take away all your miseries in production, offering you solutions that can increase productivity like GapFinder and BIB, bring savings by reducing your wastage. Please come and visit us in Print09, Chicago between 11-16 September.
If you are looking for a free entrance ticket please visit our Color blog at http://composesblog.blogspot.com/ for registration.
First come, first serve. Only 500 tickets are available.
8.11.2009
ProofHQ
Press Release
Compose System and ProofHQ announced
the signing of A Global Co-operative Agreement
LONDON, UK, August 7th, 2009 -- Compose System and ProofHQ announced the signing of a global co-operative agreement under which Compose System will market and support ProofHQ’s online proofing, collaboration and approval application.
Mr Tom Sit, founder and CEO of Compose System, which is headquartered in Hong Kong and with an extensive customer base in Asia and in other countries around the world, says, “We are excited with the opportunity to work closely alongside ProofHQ, as we think the ProofHQ platform will be well received in Asia; it will bring valuable speed and costs benefit to the creative, advertising and printing communities in the same manner that over 8,000 current ProofHQ users in the USA and UK already enjoy. We plan to develop further workflow enhancement around the ProofHQ solution that will include web-based job submission and end-to-end production automation.“
Mat Atkinson, the co-founder and CEO of ProofHQ says, “We are equally excited with this co-operative agreement with Compose System, as they will not only speed up our market rollout, they are also bringing their colour, proofing and print publishing expertise to the partnership. Compose’s systems already enabled many print and prepress companies to tie all production processes into one functional workflow system; working with ProofHQ, Compose workflow will further streamline the design process and improve collaboration between designers, clients and printers.
About Compose
Founded in 1987, Compose System is an established developer of prepress workflow, digital color proofing and print publishing solutions. Compose has offices in Hong Kong, China, North America and the United Kingdom. Its solutions are centered on the professional Express WorkFlow™ systems. Compose's comprehensive range of high performance and versatile products include Express NewsFlow™, InkScript Optimizer and Star Proof™. These products are sold and supported through a worldwide dealer network. For more information about Compose System please visit the company web site www.compose.com.hk or www.compose.co.uk.
About ProofHQ Founded in 2007 and headquartered in London, ProofHQ’s mission is to create an online proofing system that streamlines the process of managing document reviews, proofing and approvals. ProofHQ reduces the time and cost of managing proofing and approvals for everyone involved in the graphic arts supply chain - including graphic designers, web designers, ad agencies, marketing departments, industrial designers, printers, pre-press companies, public relations, photographers, and more. For more information about ProofHQ please visit the company web site: www.proofhq.com.
Sign up for a ProofHQ free trial today by registering at the linked page below:
http://www.compose.com.hk/digital_proofHQ.html using promo code: composehk
Press Contacts:
ProofHQ
Mat Atkinson
Tel: +44-20-8133-1106
mat.atkinson@proofhq.com
Compose System:
Europe
Greg Chan
Tel: +44-1474-700-500
greg.chan@compose.co.uk
Hong Kong
Tom Sit
Tel: + 852-2811-4228
TomSit@compose.com.hk
USA
Alvaro Rodriguez
Tel: +1-916-920-3838
alvaro@composeusa.com
7.14.2009
Print 09 is my PRINT, Chicago, USA
Print 09 is my PRINT Date: September 11 - 16 , 2009.Venue: McCormick PlaceCountry: Chicago, IL USA
Website: http://www.print09.com/
Exhibitor: Compose System Limited
Booth No.: 6555
We will be showing you the latest on Label Production for continuous and sheet fed printing, PressSIGN - a new approach for setting calibration on your Press standard. We will also introduce a new Espon 7900 Plotter, how we can use Star Proof to capitalise the new features from Epson to give you a true dot proof solution.
Our demonstrators will be on hand to show you the power of all our new solution in detail, please visit us and bring yourself up to date with Compose products.
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