Global Graphics Software has developed a new version of its Fundamentals toolkit for building digital front ends (DFEs).
Fundamentals is a cooperation between Global Graphics Software and Hybrid Software, who have worked together to ensure that the software components needed to create a DFE are accessible from a modern web-based user interface designed to remove complexity from the print process. Providing a native PDF workflow, Fundamentals is branded and customised to the requirements of a specific press or application.
Fundamentals v2.0 includes features designed to make it easy to print label and flexible packaging jobs in only a few steps, reducing waste by making the best use of media and with accurate, consistent colour throughout.
Tom Mooney, Fundamentals product manager at Global Graphics Software, said, ‘Fundamentals combines best in breed technology to create a simple but powerful DFE for press manufacturers. This new version introduces major changes, such as Hybrid’s Stepz imposition and award-winning VDP composition engine, as well as significant technology evolutions with multiple parallel Harlequin RIPs for high-speed PDF processing, and a new generation of ScreenPro that streams image data at the high press speeds demanded by the new models of digital presses.’
Visitors to Labelexpo Europe 2019 can see a demonstration of the Mark Andy version of a DFE created using Fundamentals in ProWORX on Mark Andy’s stand.
Peter Rathje, head of digital solutions at Mark Andy commented, ‘The best thing about Fundamentals is its simplicity. In digital printing everyone seems to be making things too complex. Fundamentals makes it easier to get jobs to the customer. The integration process was very easy. It took us roughly two weeks to develop a system where we put a PDF through Fundamentals and produced a label of sellable quality.’
