Print Innovation Asia Issue 9 2022
56 economical, efficient, and sustainable way.” Ziki Kuly, Scodix APJ President, adds, “Müller Korea’s expert team, focus on efficiency, and diverse sector knowledge makes them the perfect partner to support Scodix in this key region. The Korean packaging market in particular is poised for impressive growth, and the potential this alliance has to boost print businesses looking to add high-value, embellished products to their portfolio is very exciting.” . Award-winning PDF optimization solution
Strengthen the healthy presence that Scodix already has in the Korean packaging market Scodix, the leading provider of digital embellishment solutions for the graphic arts industry, today announces the signing of a new partnership agreement with Müller Korea Co. Ltd., facilitating Müller’s distribution of Scodix solutions in South Korea. Founded in 2019, Müller Korea is a dynamic distributor of Muller Martini, Kolbus,Prati, MBO group, Bograma and mps. The new partnership will strengthen the healthy presence that Scodix already has in the Korean packaging market and will serve as a complementary addition to the existing partnership with Screen HD Korea Co., Ltd, which has been a successful collaboration since 2011. Nakyeon Cho, President and CEO of Müller Korea, says, “Our purpose is amplifying the success of our customers with state-of-the-art technology, so it is an honour to be partnering with Scodix to bring their market-leading embellishment solutions to businesses across Korea. “Demand among our diverse customer base for high-value, luxury print, and packaging continues to grow, and with Scodix technology, print providers have an unparalleled opportunity to deliver premium products in an
Solimar Systems, Inc., provider of leading workflow software solutions for print production and digital communications, has announced the release of version 9.2 of its awardwinning PDF optimization solution, ReadyPDF® Prepress Server™. ReadyPDF 9.2 offers many enhancements to its current features and new additions to boost functionality and improve user experience. These improvements include a streamlined configuration, additional discard object options, ReadyPDF job property variables, expanded optimization settings, pre-defined modes for various activities, greater optimization report functionality, and the addition of a new preflight mode. With a focus on user experience, ReadyPDF 9.2 includes updates to
its user interface that simplify the setup and configuration of jobs. The configuration now has multiple options for users to select preconfigured optimization settings that aid in onboarding new work and boosting productivity. The new Preflight Mode in ReadyPDF can detect certain characteristics, such as missing or subset fonts, and will apply appropriate optimizations. It also identifies and removes redundant and unnecessary resources, such as empty XObjects, which increases processing speeds and shrinks file sizes. Another new ReadyPDF 9.2 feature includes a Job Redirection function that detects certain characteristics within a PDF, such as font and color properties, and can reroute those to specific configuration profiles designed to optimize those characteristics. Also notable is the Discard Objects option in version 9.2. Discard Objects is designed to remove unnecessary information for the presentation or viewing of the document. Additional discardable options have been added to further decrease file sizes and create simpler documents. These objects include unused images, unused forms, invisible text, popup annotations, and more. One Solimar customer reaping the rewards of these new features is DataProse. By utilizing ReadyPDF among other solutions in the Chemistry™ platform, it has been able to optimize its e-presentment files