Customer endorsements

EFI - With more than 2 million EFI Fiery DFEs shipped to date, we know what it takes to get the best performance and image quality. That is why we are committed to working with Adobe and leveraging continuous improvement in performance and output quality, such as smoother shades, in Adobe PDF Print Engine 6.0.

Through this next phase of EFI’s long-term partnership with Adobe, we can deliver even more capability to customers who need to manage layers in digital packaging applications and support additional workflows using spectral color data to achieve the spot colors that brand owners specify.

Canon Production Printing - Canon Production Printing and Adobe are true strategic partners in providing industry leading best-of-breed rendering technology via the Adobe PDF Print Engine. Combining our print server technology with Adobe technology enables us to deliver unmatched consistency and predictability in the print production workflow and helps our customers realize best-in-class reliability and performance.

Konica Minolta, Inc. - The long-standing partnership with Konica Minolta and Adobe has provided comprehensive values of digital printing in commercial printing and label markets worldwide.

In particular, the superior image quality and color reproduction for brochures, photo books, leaflets, and labels as well as the high performance required for variable printing are achieved by combination with Konica Minolta’s DFE and Adobe’s APPE technology, including the Mercury RIP architecture and PDF/VT processing.

Konica Minolta will continue its partnership with Adobe to provide digital printing solutions with higher precision, productivity, and value.

SCREEN Graphic Solutions - SCREEN has been providing Computer to Plate and various ink jet printing system over the years to meet the market demands of the printing industry which continue to change rapidly. Under the partnership for more than 25 years with Adobe, we have adopted its RIP Core as the development platform for our original controller and collaborated to modernize the production environment.

The enhancements for packaging in Adobe PDF Print Engine 6 definitely match our direction.  We are sure that collaborating with Adobe more than before, becomes the latest and the best solution for various customers.

Agfa The Adobe PDF Print Engine is more than a technology to Agfa. It is a versatile solution that meets the requirements of Agfa’s diverse customer base. Whether it is cloud capability for commercial printer subscribing to Apogee, or extreme high-resolution and precise rendering for bank note printing, it’s all embedded. As a result, it was a natural decision to select APPE for Amfortis, our packaging workflow. And to exceed the expectations of that print segment, Agfa looks forward to the innovations that are part of APPE version 6 as they will increase efficiency at our packaging printers and converters in various ways.

HP - HP has partnered with Adobe to deliver superior imaging quality to HP DesignJet users” says Xavier Garcia, general manager, Large Format division, HP. “ HP SmartStream with Crystal Preview, built with the Adobe PDF Print Engine (APPE), is a proven success, helping customers boost productivity and improve efficiencies by detecting errors in advance and reducing reprints. The HP PageWide XL portfolio also delivers the benefits of the Adobe PDF Print Engine to HP customers. I look forward to continued collaboration with Adobe to deliver our customers the best solutions for imaging quality.

Heidelberg’s industrial digital inkjet-printing machine Heidelberg Primefire 106 combines the best of both worlds: the flexibility and scope for differentiation from the world of digital printing and the reliability and precision offered by Heidelberg’s Peak Performance technology. As all Heidelberg’s digital printing systems, the Heidelberg Primefire 106 is powered by Heidelberg’s Prinect Digital Frontend (DFE) using Adobe latest APPE 4.0 technology. Heidelberg was one of the first manufactures using Adobe APPE technology in the Prinect print shop workflow. Heidelberg continues to use Adobe technology for both printing methods: digital and offset printing. Heidelberg Prinect print shop workflow is the backbone for Heidelberg’s Smart Print Shop concept enabling integrated and industrialised production. It continues to guarantee outstanding print quality for all Heidelberg printing devices.

Esko and Adobe have a strong OEM partnership for PDF technology. Standard, reliable processing of PDFs, delivered by Adobe technology, is immensely valuable to our joint customers. Esko is looking forward to continue its successful relationship with Adobe based on customer-centric solutions built on top of the Adobe PDF Print Engine.

 Onyx Graphics - Ensuring customers of Onyx Graphics have confidence in printed output is part of our mission statement. Partnering with Adobe as well as using the Adobe PDF Print engine during all stages of the workflow, including image previewing and final processing, makes predictable, high quality output a cornerstone of the ONYX Print workflow solution.

Fujifilm built their XMF Workflow from the ground up based on APPE and JDF and were the first to bring a product to market using APPE technology in a workflow for offset production. Our XMF Workflow has evolved into a powerhouse for driving digital production and our Jet Press range of high speed and high quality digital presses are driven with our XMF Workflow which today is running with the latest Adobe Mercury Architecture for APPE. We chose APPE for its pure approach to PDF ripping, the consistent quality it would offer and the longevity we saw it would bring to print production workflows and we have not been disappointed. Our long standing relationship with Adobe has allowed us to utilise the APPE technology to meet the challenges and demands that have come about due to the advances in digital printing. APPE remains one of the core technologies on which our XMF Workflow is built.

Caldera adopted the Adobe PDF Print Engine as part of its core architecture in 2009, having already worked with Adobe for some years. Standardising mission-critical job elements has given numerous benefits to users in digital ink-jet, which is why Caldera users are amongst the industry’s leading lights, staying at the front of the pack when it comes to innovation and development.

GIS has partnered with Adobe due to the growing importance of PDF workflow to the industrial inkjet industry, GIS believes that unlocking access to the Adobe suite of leading PDF and upstream technologies via the Atlas® User Interface offers GIS’ customers and their end users a flexible and powerful platform for growth.

ColorGATE - PDF interpretation integrity is key to all our customers whether they serve commercial or industrial applications. This is why we give an extreme high priority to always implement the latest Adobe PDF Print Engine version in order to obtain the best possible results. Paired with our unique Color Management features to ensure color accuracy and consistency, Adobe enables us to release very reliable software products that serve the constantly growing performance demands of high speed inkjet devices for packaging, commercial printing and industrial decoration.

Landa Digital Printing - The unique characteristics of the Nanographic Printing® process include a very broad gamut, and super-sharp half-tone dots, regardless of substrate. To realize its full potential, the rendering process is critical. Early on, we decided that the RIP driving the Landa presses should be powered by the Adobe PDF Print Engine. Like Adobe, Landa is an industry pioneer, and we welcome the opportunity to work together.

GMG - It used to be a struggle to manage the ripping of files correctly, with all those different in- and output file types like EPS, CT/LW, PS, and so on. Since Adobe became the de-facto industry standard with their Adobe Creative Suite products, those issues are gone when utilizing their APPE to rip files for printing.