PDF/X application in the printing industry
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At present, the requirements of customers are becoming more and more polarized, that is, the price is lower, the quality is to be improved, and the delivery speed is faster. However, the printing industry is faced with the need to face the fierce competition in the market and continue to invest, so that the cost has been rising, there seems to be no winning strategy, and coupled with the customer's small variety of publishing and multi-form publishing products, such as In addition to physical printing, additional applications for other media, such as e-books or Internet-enabled formats, can be presented on the Internet. Forcing traditional printers to move toward a single manuscript to become a multi-set publishing model, in response to market demand on demand printing.
Taiwan's printing industry is mostly based on regional service customers, because the market size is not large, it does not reach an economic scale, and because the market is not small enough, the flexibility is insufficient. Wanting to continue to operate the strategy of anticipating the future and once and for all, Huang Jianming consultant believes that the printing industry needs to expand services, not invest in expansion, 2. professional division of labor, save investment and staffing, 3. use the network to integrate factories, And the distance from the customer, the cost and the profit is lower than the cost of the competitors and other four-point plan. Therefore, standardized operations, high-usage equipment, and investment after business needs will be necessary conditions for future printers.
PDF/X is a standard operating format that is compatible with this market situation. In PDF/X, X stands for the meaning of Exchange Exchange, and the purpose of file format is to exchange, process and convert. PDF is also one of the exchange formats. Kind. The three considerations of the electronic exchange format are based on 1. Stability 2. Flexibility 3. Application complexity. The operator should make a point in the selection of the job mode and the exchange format. Early-stage operators mostly solved the workflow requirements by purchasing software or systems, and then gradually began to purchase solutions to solve the overall problem of the workflow, so the evolution of printing standards from closed systems into semi-open systems and then into open systems, but Gradually, a customized process system is generated according to the needs of the operation. Deputy General Manager Huang Donghui pointed out that the general industry often misunderstood the definition of “standards”, so he mentioned that “conformity with standards is not equal to standards”. For example, vector drawing software can also enter bitmap files, but when After archiving, this file format should belong to the standard vector file format, or how to determine this mixed format, often a blind spot for the operator to recognize the standard format. Similarly, there is such a problem in processing PDFs, which are stored in PDF files but cannot be exchanged. Deputy General Manager Huang Donghui believes that it is not known whether such restrictions are negative protections for the industry because of fear of profit distribution.
The PDF/X format can be understood in another way, that is, PDF/X is treated as a subset of a specific format as a stable interchange format for GraphicsArt data. Because PDF/X has passed ISO certifications, such as (ISO15929:1999) PDF as the pre-press data exchange principle and principle, (ISO15930-1:2001) is a ready-to-print complete exchange CMYK file, (ISO15930 -2:2001) Partially exchanged files, (ISO15930-3:2002) are suitable for blind exchange of color management and CMYK. At present, the format of PDF is not the final format, but it is still in the process of development. There will be PDF/X-4... in the future, and PDF is not just a format for printing. It may be used in offices, the Internet, etc. Different needs.
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Comparing the rabbits to sleep with the turtles that are not resting, if some programs can be used to make the non-resting machines operate correctly to make up for the shortage of manpower, then in theory, the company can continue production without stopping the machine. At present, there are a lot of Plug-in on Adobe Acrobat to enhance Acrobat's ability to process PDF, such as color mode check, file version applicability, automatic version setting, trapping, color separation output, etc. The concept of management is involved in production, bringing the expertise required for production into the production process, reducing the use of manpower and reducing the error rate to improve efficiency.
A series of automated prepress impositions, such as the KM concept-style layout, the business card version with the database structure of the random size extension, the print version, and the magazine layout of XML combined with Metadata, PDF is a format for inter-process exchange, and output and proofing actions are performed according to the requirements of the latter stage.
PDF/X can solve the mixing requirements of different language systems, systems and platforms, including ICC color description, relative cost of proofing and proofreading, and lower error rate on automated equipment, integrating workflow design into experience. The PDF/X standard is the process format for processing, and the efficiency is high.