The Symphony workflow will drive Durst’s Tau presses including the new Tau 330 RSC
Durst has selected the Harlequin RIP and ScreenPro screening engine from Global Graphics to optimise data throughput in its new Symphony workflow.
Symphony will drive the Durst Tau 330 digital and packaging presses, including the new Tau 330 RSC, which will be launched at Labelexpo next week.
The new eight-colour press runs at 78m/min with 1200 x 1200dpi print resolution and Harlequin’s ability to render large amounts of variable data with ease ensures the most demanding print schedules can be met, said the company.
Its BreakThrough engineering service was also a factor in the decision, according to Global Graphics’ CEO Gary Fry, ‘to support integration and product development.’
Global Graphics worked on the project with Durst’s system integrators, Prepress Digital, based in Lienz, Austria.
‘Harlequin gives Durst complete autonomy over their choice of features and the degree of customisation,’ said Hans Peter Schneeberger, Prepress Digital’s managing director. ‘It has provided us with the development flexibility we need – you can easily integrate third party tools for instance – and the fact that it’s scalable was an important factor for us because our brief was to create a workflow that can drive any kind of device.’
Christoph Gamper, CEO of Durst Group, said, ‘Our users will be delighted with the increased speed and performance they will experience with Symphony. Harlequin combined with ScreenPro optimises the data throughput and provides them with a platform for handling variable data in the future, even if every label is different. We’ve created a state of the art user interface that puts application specific functions at the operator’s fingertips.’
