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IC-304 Plus Print Controller, Powered by Creo for ineo+ 650x and 550x Series of Printers

IC-304 Plus Print Controller, Powered by Creo for ineo+ 650x and 550x Series of Printers. Sales Presentation Version 2.0 with new hardware. Agenda. About Print On-Demand Solutions Group IC-304 Plus Print Controller – Value Proposition 2007 IC-304 Print Controller - Sales Overview

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IC-304 Plus Print Controller, Powered by Creo for ineo+ 650x and 550x Series of Printers

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  1. IC-304 Plus Print Controller, Powered by Creo for ineo+ 650x and 550x Series of Printers Sales Presentation Version 2.0 with new hardware

  2. Agenda • About Print On-Demand Solutions Group • IC-304 Plus Print Controller – Value Proposition • 2007 IC-304 Print Controller - Sales Overview • Customer Cases • IC-304 Plus and version 2.0 – what’s new? • 3 Common Workflow Scenarios • Selling Scenarios • Q&A

  3. About Print On-Demand Solutions (PODS) Group

  4. Developers of the award-winning Creo Color Servers • Built on the legacy and IP of Scitex and Creo • With 30+ years of experience in the printing industry and 10+ years experience in the digital print market • Leveraging image enhancement technologies Print On-Demand Solutions • An independent unit within Kodak’s Graphic Communications Group

  5. What does PODS Offer? • Innovative, industry leading technologies • Open connectivity with industry leading workflow solutions • Top-level productivity • Unsurpassed print quality • Advanced VDP tools and solutions

  6. The PODS targeted offer… • Ability to target various markets: • Professional Graphic Arts • Mid-Production • Commercial Printers • CRDs • Creative Agencies • Ability to target various applications: • Marketing Collateral • Proofing • Short-run/late-run hybrid workflows • Complex and easy VDP jobs • Color critical jobs • Catalogs • Direct Mail

  7. IC-304 Plus Print Controller: Value Proposition

  8. Value Proposition

  9. IC-304 Plus Print Controller: Value Proposition • High productivity and automation • Increase throughput and manages more jobs with features such as; virtual printers & hot folders, last minute corrections, Post-RIP editing, Print sample sets, etc. • One server supports all ineo+650x and 550x finishing configurations • Grows with your business and adapts to any configuration upgrade • Powerful Imposition tools • Saves time and money with built-in tools

  10. IC-304 Plus Print Controller: Value Proposition (2) • Out-of-the-box color and image quality • Produces exceptional quality with precise control over color, Spot color editor, Protect RGB and CMYK colors, etc. • Ease of use • Faster training and fewer operator errors • Easy to learn and operate

  11. Integration with leading VDP tools Compatibility with industry formats Complete VDP Solution = VPS PPML PDF PS IC-304 Plus Print Controller: Value Proposition (3) • Leading VDP solution • Enter the profitable and growing VDP market Robust IC-304 Plus Print Controller Powered by Creo + +

  12. IC-304 Plus Print Controller: Value Proposition (4) • Graphic Arts and Workflow Connectivity • Seamless integration with leading offset printing workflow systems + 3rd party solutions (web portals, MIS, finishing, etc.) to Creo Color Servers • Tested and certified integration of each partner with Creo Color Servers. Advantages include: data integrity, automation, and error-free submission • JDF-based connectivity • Improved competitiveness of printers which creates selling opportunities

  13. Target Various Market Segments and Verticals

  14. Suiting Market & Customer Business Needs

  15. Commercial Printers Agfa :Apogee DigitalPrintLink Kodak Brisque Workflow System Kodak Prinergy Workflow System Kodak Prinergy Evo Workflow System Digital PSPs AlphaPicture i-clue AlphaPicture DirectSmile SE DirectSmile Generator diron print4media Elixir Technologies Opus GMC Software Technology PrintNet Kodak inSite Storefront NowDocs NowPrint Pageflex Storefront Press-sense iWay Printable Technologies FusionPro Web ROI Software Xralle RSA WebCRD Photo books Exploring cooperation with: ip.labs Digital Pro My Photo Fun (Ted Gigaprint) Suiting Market & Customer Business Needs

  16. MIS and Fulfillment Avanti Graphic Arts Management System EPMS Enterprise Hiflex MIS NovaVision PrintVis Optimus Group Ltd. Optimus MIS Press-sense Omnium Tharstern TharsternSQL Suiting Market & Customer Business Needs Digital Workflow Management and Data Conversion Apago Piktor dots jtman 3 CRD/Business Emtex VIP Objective Advantage OASymbio

  17. IC-304 Print Controller – Sales Overview 2007

  18. WideGeographic Distribution

  19. Accounts Overview and Many More

  20. Customer Case Studies Transcontinental O’Keefe, Canada – Large commercial Printer - Prinergy WF Integration Syess Medienhaus, Austria – Darwin Integration Kingswood Press, Australia – Offset / Digital Commercial Printer Kwik Kopy, Canada – Quick Printer

  21. Transcontinental O’Keefe, Montreal, Canada Prinergy Workflow Integration

  22. Transcontinental O’Keefe, Montreal • Company Information: • Established in 1976 • # of employees: 14,400 across Canada and NA. 82 in the Transcontinental O’Keefe Montreal plant. • A well known name among newspaper and magazine publishers and commercial printing clients across North America. • Prints some of America’s best-known newspaper, magazine and book titles, an enormous number of community publications • Offers a broad spectrum of commercial printing and marketing services

  23. Transcontinental O’Keefe, Montreal Why did Transcontinental choose the IC-304 Print Controller? 1. Connectivity: Seamless integration with IC-304 Print Controller and company’s Prinergy. “When a job’s finished, the plates are usually scrapped, but sometimes the customer comes back for a few more copies. When that happens, we just run it on the IC-304 Print Controller.” 2. Color Management: Powerful color manipulation tools and associated functionalities offer greater resemblance to the offset printout. "Its color management matches our Prinergy System, and it’s allowed us to create a color profile that matches our press very closely. " 3. Service and support: Good relationship withthe Creo Color Server’s team made the difference. “The service and support is excellent. The relationship with the Creo Color Server’s team is very good.” 4.Brand Recognition: Interest in IC-304 Print Controller because of their long & positive experience with Scitex and Creo

  24. Customer Quote • “I would absolutely recommend the IC-304/650x combination. The color accuracy is excellent, and it interfaces well with the Prinergy Workflow System. • Rob Lisi, Prepress Manager, Transcontinental-O’Keefe Montreal

  25. Syess Medienhaus, Austria Darwin Integration

  26. Seyss Medienhaus – Austria • Company information • Print-on-demand for small print runs • Focus on advertising and business materials • Full service provider, with professional expertise in prepress, digital, offset and postpress • 25 employees • Customer equipment • Offset printers • IC-304/ineo+ 6500

  27. Seyss Medienhaus, Austria • Why did Seyss Medienhaus choose the IC-304 Print Controller? • Brand recognition: Successful experience with Creo equipment. “We decided that if we were going for a Develop print system, we would only do it with a Creo Color Server – simply because of our positive experience with previous systems.“ • Productivity: “Whatever the volume or variability of the data being printed digitally, the IC-304 always keeps the print system on the go.” • VDP: Powerful imposition and processing for VDP.“From the time we first started sheetfed printing, we have been using Darwin Software to prepare all jobs for variable printing.” • Color and quality: “The IC-304 Print Controller guarantees high-quality color management of the print data.”

  28. Customer Quote • “We decided that if we were going for a Develop print system, we would • only do it with a Creo Color Server – simply because of our positive experience • with previous systems and because of our specific personalisation applications. • Anything else would have been a problem.“ • Michael Seyss & Heinrich Bugl, Managing partners

  29. Kingswood Press, Brisbane Australia Offset Commercial Printer

  30. Kingswood Press, Brisbane Australia • Company information: • Established in 1974 • Specialize in full-color offset and digital commercial printing, including variable-data printing • Clients Served: publishers, agencies, commercial clients

  31. Kingswood Press, Brisbane Australia • Why did Kingswood Press choose the IC-304 Print Controller? • Productivity and increase of the bottom line: “Quality-wise, it’s fantastic, and the turnaround time is great. The big pluses are that you can get a good margin on this kind of work. • Brand recognition:“There was never really a thought for anything other than Creo Color Server, thanks to the company’s offset print background and well-earned trust in the Creo technology” • Ease of use:The server’s automated workflow features are its principal advantage. “It’s so simple to use. You have the ability to step up to multiple copies, to do imposition, to adjust the job’s cropping and trim. All those features are built in. They were the main reason we chose the IC-304 Print Controller.” • 4. Image quality: Kingswood Press is known for quality, and did not want to endanger its reputation with an inferior print product.

  32. Customer Quote • “I was cautious at first, because the quality I’d seen from digital print was not comparable to offset. But with the Develop Printer and the IC-304 Print Controller I honestly couldn’t believe the quality. The results are fantastic.” • Stuart Strong, sales manager • ”Operation is extremely efficient. It’s very automatic. You just send it one copy, and select the binding, the paper style, the finishing, and you’re done. You just tell it to print as many as you need.” • Doug Reddan, PrePress expert

  33. Kwik Kopy Design & Print Centre,Concord, Ontario, Canada One-stop Quick Printer Franchise

  34. Kwik Kopy Design & Print Centre • Company information: • Established in 1979 • # of employees - 9 • Quick printer franchise in Canada • Specialize in quick printing: direct mail, brochures, newsletters, flyers, business cards & stationery, signage • Clients Served: corporate clients, retail and wholesale marketing companies

  35. Kwik Kopy Design & Print Centre • Why did Kwik Kopy choose the IC-304 Print Controller? • Productivity and flexibility: The Productivity has tripled. “We were averaging 20 to 25,000 pages a month before, now we’re at 60,000.” • Ease of use:The IC-304 Print Controller is very intuitive and easy to use. “With the Creo Server, nothing is too difficult. It’s so simple to operate. Put it this way, I’m probably the least technically minded person in this shop and I’m the guy that’s running it.” • Image quality: The Kwik Kopy shop is printing more high quality jobs digitally now, work that would previously have been sent to an offset press.

  36. Customer Quote • “The Creo Color Server was an absolute must. When we demoed the machine, it was the CREO Server hands down.... We would not take the machine without the Creo Server.” • “We always use Gallop with multiple-page documents, otherwise you’re wasting time, waiting for the whole file to process before the engine starts to print.” • Howard Simson, President

  37. IC-304 Plus Print Controller, Powered by Creo What’s new - highlights

  38. New Hardware - Highlights • Creo Color Server FusionIN board - Included • Processor Intel Core2 Duo processor (3.0GHz, 1333MHz, 6M cache) • System memory - 1GB • Image memory - 1GB • System and user disk - 250GB SATA • Image disk space - 2 × 250GB SATA • DVD R/W - Included • Keyboard , mouse and 17’’ monitor - Included • Product stand - Included • GretagMacbeth Eye-One Spectrophotometer - Included

  39. New Functionalities in ver. 2.0 • Productivity • Print Sample set • Multiple saddle-stitched booklets printed on one sheet • Job forwarding • Switch paper sizes • Colorand Image quality • Protect CMYK and RGB • Smooth Gradient • Remote tools • EZ connect • Remote Workspace • Working from Client workstations with the Print Driver Software – including Mac

  40. New Functionalities in ver. 2.0 • Document Printing • Mixed paper feed and sizes • Support for all ineo Printers finishing configurations • Scan to email • Finishing • Support Perfect Binder inline finisher • Printing on a perfect bound spine • Printing Z-fold booklets • Connectivity • JDF/JMF 1.3 include press resources and job status with Job Ticket Software for Prinergy • Authentication • Controlled printing • Copy protect

  41. Demonstrating Enhanced Functionality With Three Common Workflows Hybrid Workflow Printing from remote Printing a perfect bound book

  42. Printing from Remote

  43. Printing From a Client Workstation

  44. Networking with EZ Connect andRemote Workspace

  45. Networking with EZ Connect andRemote Workspace • Allowing Multiple Simultaneous Users to Operate the IC-304 Plus Print Controller • Remotely view the status of printers and print controllers for operators flexibility • Allow multiple users to access the same controller at the same time for higher productivity • Manage jobs across multiple servers from one client workstation for better control • Job forwarding – manual load balancing of job queues

  46. Printing a perfect-bound book

  47. Printing a Perfect Bound Book

  48. Color Quality: RGB , CMYK and Gray as Protected Colors • Enable users to define specific CMYK values for graphic elements with a specific color input PDF/ PS Printed page IC-304 Plus Print Controller Spot Color Editor C=80 M=80 Y= 5 K=5 RED=10 GREEN=10 BLUE=80

  49. More Advanced Features • Easily print complex Z-folds with the multi-fold finisher • Print a publication’s title on the spine

  50. Hybrid Workflow Hybrid Workflow

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