Harlequin Digital Hub - exceptional color & screening for digital labels

Global Graphics company confidential. Copyright © Global Graphics Software Limited, 2013.

Martin Bailey, CTOGlobal Graphics Software

Harlequin Digital HubExceptional color and screening for digital labels

Global Graphics company confidential. Copyright © Global Graphics Software Limited, 2013

Agenda• About Global Graphics Software• Digital production expertise• Harlequin Digital Hub

• Color management• Screening• Trapping• Versioning, uniqueness and personalization

• Q & A


About Global Graphics Software

• Developer of screening, printing, PDF and document software• Harlequin Digital Hub, Jaws RIP & gDoc technologies

• Technology innovator: PostScript, PDF, XPS reference RIP, screening, color– Harlequin first used in a production system in 1988 - first class reputation

– Pedigree in PDF goes back to 1993, native transparency since 2002

– Used for high-volume digital production presses since 2004

– Patented screening technologies widely used

• Partnership approach and flexible commercial models

• Development team in Cambridge UK, offices near Boston, US and in Tokyo, Japan

• Listed on NYSE Euronext: GLOG


25 years production experience

IHPS


The digital paradigm shift• Digital presses affect more than the mechanics of printing

• New requirements for color management￮ Use gamut extension to address brand colors instead of spot inks￮ Emulate conventional print

• New requirements for screening￮ Lower resolution, different gain characteristics￮ Multi-level screening for grayscale heads

• New requirements for workflow (and sales!)￮ Shorter runs, uniqueness, personalization￮ Less time for every job, more jobs required

• New requirements for trapping￮ Shorter runs mean interactive trapping is less cost effective

• Expertise in flexo/offset/etc isn’t enough• Digital labels have as much in common with digital commercial print as

with conventional label printing• Global Graphics has ten years’ experience in digital


Harlequin Digital Hub

• A range of technologies for developing digital front ends for digital production

• Mix and match what you need

• Consistent and reliable output• Mature, production-proven technology minimizes compliance risk

• Customizable to deliver optimum solutions for all colorants and media• Sophisticated and flexible color management• Screening technologies include multi-level (grayscale heads, variable size dots)

• Handles versioning, uniqueness and personalization at speed with ease• Compatible with Esko workflows• Accurate PDF rendering pleases brand owners, matches other uses of

common imagery• Benefits printers and converters as well as press vendors


Color management

Harlequin ColorPro™ • Accurate, repeatable and predictable color reproduction • Converters can maximize value of a press’ gamut

• Can emulate conventionally printed process colors and use full press gamut for brand colors

• Supports ICC profiles and spots, including white and varnish• Device independent look-up tables for Pantone included; additional

tables can be created for brand colors• Isolate or ignore ‘technical’ separations such as die-linesHarlequin SetGold™• Optimize the press for a given colorant, substrate, screening and

resolution combination, reducing color variation due to minor media changes


Screening

• Multiple screening technologies available• Harlequin Dispersed Screening (HDS)

• Patented second generation stochastic screening• Sharp images free from cross screen and object moiré and smooth flat tints

without noise• Harlequin Precision Screening (HPS)

• High-quality ‘Conventional’ AM screens for when a digital press must match the appearance of pieces printed offset, flexo or screen

• Multi-level Screening • For inkjet heads that can apply different amounts of ink in each location (grayscale

heads or variable sized dots)• Gives appearance of much higher line screen, increasing detail in screened result• Can be used with both HDS and HPS, or custom developed with you

• Custom screening• APIs enable installation of tile-based and programmatic screens


Trapping

• As run-lengths get shorter with digital print it’s not viable to interactively trap every job

• Harlequin TrapPro™ provides flexible, high-quality automated trapping

• Define trapping params in design program or in Harlequin


Versioning, uniqueness and personalization

• Respond to:• Increased version/SKU counts, each with shorter run lengths• Demands for every-product-unique• More personalization

• Harlequin VariData™ • Unique method of intelligently recognizing repeated content• Greatly accelerates jobs• Supports PDF/VT - delivered 2009

￮ Demonstrated by OEMs at IPEX 2010

• Also accelerates all PDF files used for variable data


Independent speed tests carried out by the Rochester Institute of Technology show that Harlequin has plenty of processing power head room over the industry’s highest performing digital presses, delivering output far in excess of the print devices’ rated speeds.

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Speed and quality for digital labelsMeasured speeds of a single Harlequin RIP by category

Source InfoTrends 2012

From simple address labels to complex labels with text, image (raster) and graphics (vector) variables on each unique label in multiple-up impositions


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