Automating the Human Equation
The open architecture of :Apogee X also provides connectivity with input from packaging specific front-end systems such as EskoArtwork’s DeskPack, Plato, PackEdge, ArtPro, Powerstepper, and Adobe Illustrator, as well as output to a range of output solutions.
EskoArtwork
The newly combined EskoArtwork rolled out its Software Suite 7 in July and introduced it to the U.S. market in Chicago. Featuring integrated packaging pre-production tools for structural design, graphic design, one-up editing, sheet layout, workflow management and collaboration, color management, and output control, EskoArtwork’s Software Suite 7 is said to bring value to each step in the production process. Its modular BackStage workflow automation server executes mundane background tasks, maximizing productivity, repeatability, and consistency using the latest standard technologies, including Adobe PDF, XML, XMP, JDF, and JMF. Flexible Backstage reportedly can be used not only as a prepress production server, but as a plug-in server for one Adobe Illustrator user, or a blackbox graphical engine.
