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Chromapress Chromapress Digital Color Printing System

Chromapress is a breakthrough digital color printing system that combines the benefits of traditional offset with those of xerographic technology. Chromapress eliminates traditional prepress steps involving film and plates and produces commercial-quality, four-color output directly from your computer. You can bring new efficiency to color print runs of less than 5000 impressions, enabling highly customized press runs and smooth workflows.

Designed to help you capitalize on the enormous potential offered by digital short-run color printing, Chromapress is more than just advanced technology. It allows you to print variable data on demand as well as allows you to distribute files to be printed locally.

Get all your Chromapress product and technical questions answered in our Chromapress Newsgroup or visit the Chromapress Users Group Web site.

Chromapress Illustration 1 Features:

  • A system of proven technologies, incorporating Agfa's expertise in color management, RIP development, screening technologies and prepress consumables.

  • ChromaPost software that lets you format any PostScript file for output.

  • Intuitive graphical user interface makes the Macintosh-based Chromapress server easy to use.

  • ChromaWatch and ChromaWrite software offering efficient job tracking and powerful workflow management capabilities.

  • Archiving feature that resides on the Chromapress server, simplifies the repeat printing of jobs that require minor changes.

  • High performance, field proven RIP that processes jobs quickly and dependably in a high-production environment.
Chromapress Illustration 2
  • Agfa FotoTune color management software that processes both RGB and CMYK images with full color fidelity.

  • Innovative buffer in the engine controller that supplies data to the printing units at extremely high speed, while freeing up the RIP so it can work in parallel.

  • Unique Chromapress printing engine that prints on both sizes of the page in one pass through two sets of four-color printing units.

  • Output of 600 dpi with variable dot density, resulting in image quality comparable to 2400 dpi at 150 lpi.

  • Agfa-developed color toners that bond permanently to paper by a special fixing unit.

  • Easily changed paper rolls of 32 centimeters maximum width, that accommodate full bleed A3 signatures.

  • A smooth, jam-free web-feed paper transport system that allows the page length to vary according to application.


Product Specifications: Chromapress

Printing Engine

Imaging Process:
Electrophotography

Exposure System:
Light Emitting Diode (LED) arrays

Resolution:
600 dpi with variable dot density

Printing:
Simultaneous duplex printing

Throughput:
35 A4 (8.5 x 11") duplex pages per minute (2100 per hour).
17.5 A3 (11 x 17") duplex pages per minute (1050 per hour).

Maximum Imaging Area:
307 x 438 mm (12.1 x 17.7" )

Conditioning:
Internal temperature and humidity control

Paper Input:
Roll-fed (web)
Maximum width - 320 mm (12.6")
Paper weight - 60 to 200 g/m2

Paper Output:
Variable length sheets
High-capacity, removable output stacker
Separate tray for proofs

Engine Controller

RIP Input:
APIS on SCSI

Dual Image Buffer:
288 MB frame buffer
3 GB disk buffer

PostScript RIP

Architecture:
Multiple 68040 Motorola-based

Operating System:
Multi-processor Operating System (MPOS)

Interpreter:
AgfaScript interpreter

Input:
SCSI to AgfaScript interpreter
Control channel
Diagnostics service channel

Output:
APIS on SCSI

Disk:
1 GB hard disk

Software

ChromaPost
(runs on design stations)

Job description entry
ColorTag entry
OPI identification
Job transfer to server via Ethernet

ChromaWatch
(runs on Chromapress Server)

Queue management
Press databases
Color management
Automatic imposition
Proofing mode

ChromaWrite
(runs on Chromapress Server)

Print commands
OPI replacement
Status reporting
Archiving
Remote diagnostics


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