Compose Partner with vjoon into China

vjoon Pushes for Growth in Asia, Enters China

Business prospects in the APAC region look bright with a new partner in Hong Kong and a prestigious new customer.

Hamburg (Germany)/Hong Kong, May 8, 2013

vjoon GmbH, a global leader in digital and print publishing software, is pushing for revenues growth in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. The company’s worldwide network was recently extended with an experienced reseller and integration partner, Hong Kong-based Compose System Ltd. At about the same time, the Chinese subsidiary of a global media corporation opted for the cross-media publishing platform vjoon K4^® and Compose will provide technical support for this new customer. What’s more, vjoon succeeded in fast-tracking vjoon K4’s localization so that it is now optimized to meet the demands of the Chinese market.

“The Asia-Pacific region in general and China in particular harbor enormous potential for growth. Like everywhere in the world, customers here expect efficient, forward-looking software solutions,” says vjoon’s CEO Andreas Schrader. “vjoon meets these expectations and is a top player in multichannel publishing platforms, as we have been demonstrating for over a decade in America and Europe. Now we have joined forces with a strong local partner, Compose, to prove our merits in China.”

“The demand for professional publishing solutions is great among Chinese corporations and media companies working toward the digitized society,“ says Tom Sit, Managing Director of Compose. “And our customers believe vjoon K4 is way ahead when it comes to efficiently unifying the traditional world of print with the modern digital world.”

vjoon is already doing business in various Asia-Pacific countries, for example, with Cadgraf Digitals in India, EvioTech in Thailand, and Nexus IT & Communications Solutions in Australia. The company also serves and supports customers such as Vasan Publishing, New Straits Times Press and Trade & Logistics Siam in the APAC region.

To learn more, please visit www.vjoon.com or follow us at www.twitter.com/vjoon

About vjoon

A fixture on the publishing market since 1990, vjoon is a leading developer of workflow solutions based on Adobe^® Creative Suite^® and a global Adobe Digital Publishing Suite reseller. vjoon rapidly integrates all Adobe innovations into its solutions and consistently develops its products to meet market needs. vjoon’s flagship product vjoon K4^® is one of the most innovative cross-media publishing platforms available in the market and lets you deliver your valuable content to any output channel – print, online, mobile, tablet. Based on the time- and cost-saving Unified Publishing Process™ vjoon K4 provides the tools that allow your team to publish anywhere, smoothly and efficiently – wether you produce magazines, newspapers, sales materials, annual reports or books. Renowned customers worldwide and in configurations from 10 to more than 1,200 concurrent users benefit from this sophisticated solution.

About Compose System

Founded in 1987, Compose System is an established developer of prepress workflow, digital color proofing and print publishing solutions. Moreover the company is the first contact for vjoon K4 sales, integration and support in Hong Kong and China. 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

Media Contact

vjoon GmbH, Carsten Althaber, Director of Marketing

phone +49 (0) 40 55 69 50 - 25, email press@vjoon.com, web www.vjoon.com

Compose Distribute Twixl Media solution in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan

Compose System Ltd. has been appointed as distributor of the Twixl media products in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan

Hong Kong, Compose System Ltd., innovative developer and distributor of prepress workflow systems and digital printing solutions for the printing and publishing industry announces their new partnership with Twixl media, developer of the Twixl Publisher product line, a software solution that enables designers to create and publish tablet applications starting from InDesign.

Compose is pleased to announce that they have been appointed as a distributor for the Twixl Publisher product line in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

As tablets are overtaking the number of PCs in the market, they are also changing the game of publishing, e-commerce and advertising. Publishers but also design agencies stand for big challenges but also a lot of opportunities in this fast evolving business. They are not only looking for a solution but also for professional advice on how to make the correct technology choice.

Compose, being at the same time a developer/integrator and a distributor has all the know how the market is asking for. It is the perfect match with the Twixl Publisher product line.

With Twixl Publisher, the company targets design agencies, publishers but also the enterprise market. The demand and market potential for interactive reader applications on tablets is tremendous - people are looking for cleverly devised interactive content. Twixl Publisher offers an independent and very fluid publishing solution to an emerging market that finds it difficult to identify qualitative solutions in a jungle of products and solutions which offers no added value except to bringing content to tablets.

The publishers start to understand this new business and the importance of independence when it comes to control the publishing (download) cost.

Agencies embrace a solution that enables them to publish both single- and multi-issue applications to the app stores as well as the enterprise networks, without any limitation.

Companies are also looking for a solution that enables them to manage both creation and in-house distribution.

Twixl Publisher – the ultimate user experience

Twixl Publisher is a publishing solution that takes projects from InDesign to iPads and Android tablets. Specifically, it is a combination of a stand-alone (Mac OS X) application and a plug-in for Adobe InDesign CS6 (and 5/5.5) that converts and exports traditionally created documents into interactive reader applications for tablets. Twixl Publisher makes it possible to translate print designs into digital designs by integrating interactive content such as slide shows, audio, video, HTML5 animations and more into a seamless tablet blend.

With Twixl Publisher designers can create a great variety of applications. Magazines are an obvious application, but Twixl Publisher can also be used for sales presentations, annual reports, newsletters, brand magazines, manuals, brochures, data sheets and more.

Frank Steyaert, CEO at Twixl media concludes: "Applications for Twixl Publisher are endless as it offers tremendous opportunities to share any interactive content that is available at any time and at any location and we're delighted to work with Compose to market and distribute our solution. They have an extensive network of resellers focusing on adding value for their customers and closing the gap between technology and market.

Being developers themselves, they know and can implement our products within the workflow solutions they deploy. They are an essential link to make our solutions successful.

About Twixl media

Twixl media develops reliable, easy and affordable tablet publishing solutions for interactive applications; solutions that are simple to use, simple to deploy and simple to maintain.

Twixl Publisher is a solution targeting publishers, agencies, printers and corporations. Twixl Enterprise Kiosk is an iPad only, in-house publishing tool for the agency and enterprise market.

Twixl Publisher differentiates itself by being the only independent tablet-publishing tool on the market. Our customers have full control over the creation and publishing process, and are not pushed towards a server-based subscription model. They are free to publish content to wherever they want, even to their own private company network.

This has an enormous impact on the total cost of ownership: with Twixl media solutions users pay a one-time license fee and can then publish as many applications as they want at no extra cost. Distribution of multi-issue apps may involve download fees, but even these fees are very competitively priced compared to other solutions and they even offer a solution for DIY storage.

About Compose

Compose System is a private company with headquarters based in Hong Kong, and offices in China, North America and the Europe. Compose products are sold and supported through our strong network of dealers spanning five continents. Founded in 1987 by Tom Sit, a computer and digital printing industry veteran, Compose has established the reputation as a leading Harlequin OEM.

Compose's team of highly focused and talented experts are passionate about developing RIPs, workflows, and interface solutions. By listening and working closely with our customers Compose has developed a clear understanding of the needs of today's modern prepress production environments.

The Core of our product range is our renowned ripping engine, the Express RIP. Composes Express RIP is noted for its high performance, versatility and reliability. Supporting over 200 different output devices, ExpressRIP drives the prepress industries major imagesetters, platesetters, digital presses, high-speed color copiers, digital printers and large-format inkjet printers.

Close collaboration with our customers has led us to develop a comprehensive range of innovative professional prepress tools and workflow solutions, most notably Express WorkFlow, our professional prepress workflow system. This approach to development has enabled Compose to build productive, flexible and scalable workflow systems and interfaces designed to streamline pre-press production and drive industry's most popular new output devices.

Compose is committed to developing prepress solutions enabling our customers to expand their systems as required, thereby reducing the cost of ownership and maximizing customers' benefits.

Alwan Color and Compose Launch LinkProfile Plugin for Harlequin RIP

Alwan Color Expertise and Compose Systems

Launch LinkProfiler Plugin enabling State-of-the-Art 

Color Management, TAC Reduction and Ink Savings 

to Global Graphics Harlequin RIPs

Lyon - HongKong May 20, 2013– Alwan Color Expertise, a worldwide leader in color management and standardization software have made its leading DeviceLink technology available to Harlqequin RIP users thanks to Compose Systems' LinkProfiler® plugin.  Alwan's awarded DeviceLink technology enables Harlequin RIP users to seamlessly apply color management, TAC reduction, and ink savings on their RIP, without any add-on to their production workflow.

Tom Sit, CEO of Compose System is thrilled: "Compose is an Alwan distributor and an OEM partner for Global Graphics Harlequin RIP for last 20 years. We have thousands of satisfied users printing with Alwan and Harlequin technologies worldwide. However these two complementary solutions were separate and available on different platforms. Now, thanks to Alwan, Compose and Global Graphics joint efforts, we have succeeded to integrate Alwan award winning DeviceLink Profile technology in the Harlequin RIP, enabling thousands of additional users to benefit from Alwan's industry reference color management and standardization technology using a Harlequin based RIP. 

Elie Khoury, founder and president of Alwan Color expertise explains the benefits of this new solution: "Matching colors, problem-free printing, and minimum cost are the three requirements that most print providers have. Small print margins and short delays do not allow printers anymore to re-print a job due to imperfectly prepared files. Alwan LinkProfiler plugin allows Harlequin RIP users to use the color management framework provided by their RIP to create and apply Alwan DeviceLink profiles as part of the ripping process. Alwan DeviceLinks will color manage ripped files and/or limit their ink coverage (TAC) and/or optimize their black generation automatically and without any manual intervention. When this is done, printer can be confident that the job being printed on his analog press or digital printer will be free of problem and generating maximum profits.

Tom Sit concludes: "Alwan LinkProfiler plugin is in line with Alwan and Compose's strategy to offer integrated solutions that will allow users to automate as much as possible their printing processes. With the global adoption of printing standards on one hand, and the increasing need for cost effective printing on the other hand, we decided to give Harlequin RIP users the ability not just to manage their colors, but to produce standardized colors that will print without any problem and with minimum ink consumption on any printing machine. Alwan, Compose and Global Graphics did a great job in providing to the printing industry an elegant and proven solution that is widely recognized for its performance and adoption. Alwan LinkProfiler will be an excellent addition to our Harlequin RIP plugins. This is great news for our market."

Alwan LinkProfiler plugin is available in 3 versions - Prepress, Press and ECO - with a price starting from 1,800€/$2,340.

About Alwan Color Expertise

Alwan Color Expertise (www.alwancolor.com) was founded in Lyon, France, in 1997 by the current President Elie Khoury. His vision - to demonstrate how important standardizing and controlling color is throughout every stage of production - has resulted in the company becoming a world leader in standardization and color management implementation. 

Today, Alwan provides software and consultancy to key players throughout the graphic arts industry, from printers to publishers and from software developers to hardware manufacturers.

For more information about Alwan company or Alwan solutions, please contact:

adeline.leduc@alwancolor.com

www.alwancolor.com

About Compose Systems

Compose System Limited is a private company with headquarters based in Hong Kong with offices in China, America and Europe. Compose products are sold and supported through our strong network of dealers spanning five continents.

Founded in 1987 by Tom Sit, Compose has established the reputation as a leading Harlequin OEM. Compose's team of highly focused and talented experts are passionate about developing RIPs, workflows, and printing solutions.

Compose is committed to developing prepress solutions to enable our customers to grow their systems as required, thereby reducing the total cost of ownership and maximizing customer’s  benefits.

For more information about Compose Systems or our products, please contact:

Tom.Sit@compose.com.hk

www.compose.com.hk

Tel: +852 2811 4228

Trademarks
Alwan and LinkProfiler are trademarks of Alwan Color Expertise,

Global Graphics and the Harlequin RIP are trademarks of Global Graphics Software Ltd,

Compose is a trademark of Compose System Ltd,

which may be registered in certain jurisdictions. All other brand and product names are the registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective owners.

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QuickFit4Print - a new kind of Imposition

QuickFit for Print – a new kind of job Imposition.

We are glad to share with all our Compose loyalists, two of our recent sales with Indigo RIPs are tie with QuickFit4Print. Compose RIP not only help to improve ripping performance when printing to the Indigo Press, QuickFit now provides a new ganging solution that will pack automatically to optimize on media, and save time on job imposition.  

Taking away all the time consuming, easy to make mistake tasks to a 7-24 computer. QuickFit works in a PDF environment, it will fit nicely with any workflow system in the market.  With skill operators getting difficult to find, I am sure QuickFit will be a good assistant with any modern printer today.

Please contact sales@compose.com.hk for detail.

You can also see other news announcement from Compose from:

http://composesblog.blogspot.hk/

http://composedigital.blogspot.hk/

http://composehk.blogspot.hk/

Alwan DynamicPrinterCalibration bridged the gap between G7 and ISO 12647

Thursday, August 30, 2012

Press release from the issuing company

Alwan Color Expertise, a worldwide leader in color management and standardization software has achieved G7 System Certification by IDEAlliance. The new technology embedded in Alwan PRINT Standardizer will allow printers for the first time to print to ISO 12647 while calibrating their press to the G7 grayscale standard. 

Since the launch of G7 grayscale calibration in 2005, printers have been divided into two categories: those mainly in Europe printing to ISO 12647 standard, and those mainly in North America printing to G7 grayscale. For the first time today, printers do not have to choose anymore between ISO 12647 and G7 conformance. Thanks to industry first Alwan DynamicPrinterCalibration, printers can conform to ISO 12647 standards requirements while benefiting from adopting the G7 calibration methodology, recognizing neutral grays and shared appearance across multiple processes.

Elie Khoury, founder and president of Alwan Color Expertise is very excited about this new development: "Since 1997, Alwan is helping the graphic industry and printers specifically to work to standards. Unfortunately, in many situations, printing to ISO standards did not guarantee proof to press, press to press, or substrate to substrate match. We knew that G7 calibration could help improve near neutral color reproduction and the appearance of prints across processes, but G7 method was not recognized enough in some parts of the world, and required that printers abandon the efforts they had made to conform to ISO 12647. Today, these two obstacles are overcome, thanks to the international recognition that G7 calibration has gained since and to Alwan PRINT Standardizer, Printers can now  enjoy G7 calibration benefits while conforming to ISO 12647."

Joe Fazzi, Vice President of Media Production Technologies with IDEAlliance concludes: "The G7 System Certification Program is designed to evaluate the ability of a candidate system to calibrate a printing device to meet the G7 grayscale definition. We are gratified to see a market leader in ISO 12647 standardization like Alwan Color Expertise has recognized the benefits of G7 grayscale calibration in standardized analog and digital print environments. Through its availability to users worldwide, we look forward to a wider adoption of printing standards by printers who do not have to choose anymore between two standards, but who can benefit from both."

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Compose System is proud to be the distributor of Alwan products in Asia and Latin America, we provide print standardisation solutions to a lot of commercial and packaging printers.  We are delighted to learn Alwan has bridged this important gap, we look forward to a wider adoption of printing standards by printers, meeting the goal between printers and print buyers.  

Bodoni Webinar on Wed 29 August 2012

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Compose System Announce The Sale Of A New Automated Ganging Imposition System For The Greeting Card Printer, Imperial Litho

LONDON, UK, 9th May, 2011 – Compose System announced the sale and the successful installation of the UK’s first BigIceBox system (BIB) to the renowned card printer Imperial Litho Ltd.

Harry Carter, the Managing Director of Imperial Litho says, “I have been looking for a system like the BigIceBox for many years to streamline our plate planning which usually is a very manual, skilled and time consuming ganging process. We are very pleased with the solution that Compose has provided, we are now able to impose virtually all our jobs automatically, with our account managers now able to handle the imposition with ease”.

Kevin Caughtry, Sales Manager of Compose System, says “When we were first introduced to Harry by Gary Law of Collective Colour, a long standing supplier to Imperial Litho, we knew our BIB solution would meet the needs of Imperial Litho.”

“Although our core system is developed with jobbing and W2P printers in mind, our BIB solution has many features that Harry was looking for. We were delighted to have been able to work closely with Imperial Litho to develop a version of our BIB that meets the challenging needs of the greeting card industry,” he explains.

Compose BigIceBox system accepts greeting card designs in PDF format in any card sizes and automatically gangs them onto a press sheet of specified sizes, on-the-fly, it takes into account the job’s delivery time, paper type, paper weight and run length, etc. Where it is optimal the system will even step-and-repeat cards to achieve the most costs effective run length for the selected jobs.

The true power of BIB is that it can intelligently assist in the optimization of the ganging layout based on specific processing or finishing parameters such as foiling, cuts, folding, embossing, special colours, etc. The layout and each processing layer can be previewed, the cards can also be manually moved, rotated, swapped or replaced. The final result is an optimum ganged-up layout with trim marks, plate marks and press control strip as required. The PDF file can then be processed through a workflow or be sent direct to a computer-to- plate system.

The job information is retained on a database, individual job ticket with thumb nail can be generated or such information can be passed onto the customer’s MIS system or to other finishing systems in JDF format.

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.co.uk.

About Imperial Litho Ltd
Imperial Litho have been in the business of printing greeting cards and gift wrap along with cartons and general print since 1985. The company has the latest printing presses to B1 size with die-cutting machines along with foiling and flitter to produce work to the highest quality, on time, at competitive prices.
Web Site: www.imperial-litho.co.uk


Press Contacts:
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


Imperial Litho Limited:

Harry Carter
Tel: +44-1628 530-545
quality@imperiallitho.co.UK