Peter Hannon, Author at VIVA

December 11, 2013

VivaImpose: Millions of publications. One program.

What is VivaImpose?

VIVAIMPOSE is the leading tool for automatic digital imposition. Already on the market since 1995, the program has since then been setting new standards in speed, safety, flexibility and functionality.

Developed in co-operation with leading printers in both sheet-fed and web offset, VIVAIMPOSE is able to process documents with a speed and precision which has never before been achieved. It’s no wonder then that millions of publications are produced with VIVAIMPOSE every year. Our customers produce books, brochures, newspapers and magazines, catalogues and much more for countless industrial customers such as Microsoft, Audi, etc. and naturally for publishers such as Rowohlt, Fischer, Piper, Ullstein, Springer, Klett, Carlsen and many others. Therefore you will surely at least once have held a printed product in your hand which our software helped to produce!

How does VivaImpose work?

From the very beginning VIVA has followed a completely new and revolutionary path in electronic imposition.

The starting point for the development was that our customers wanted to be able to manage the complex technology as simply as possible. Just three simple steps are necessary in the Workstation Version of VIVAIMPOSE to process a job completely in just a few minutes: data import, imposition and output. Only one step is necessary in the Server Version of VIVAIMPOSE to complete a job in seconds: to transfer data to the server, which delivers the imposition fully automatically.

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Partners

Sales Partners for the whole VIVA product range

A&F Computersysteme AG (Switzerland/Germany)

For 30 years, the Swiss systems integrator A&F Computersysteme AG has been a proven expert for publishing solutions. Therefore A&F has now also officially included VIVA’s solutions in its portfolio. With VIVA solutions, A&F offers its customers completely new possibilities and With the VIVA solutions, AF offers its customers completely new possibilities and completes its portfolio in the areas of corporate/cloud publishing, web-to-print and database publishing.

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SoftwareONE

SoftwareONE helps customers manage their software portfolio efficiently. With its headquarters in Switzerland (Stans) and branches in 145 countries, 3000 technology consultants help customers optimize their software portfolio on a daily basis. The consultants have extensive technical and commercial know-how and have a broad knowledge of (and relationships with) all major software houses.

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Sales Partners for Research & Education (EDU)

Cobra GmbH (Germany)

cobra GmbH has positioned itself in the education sector. Software, equipment and more to the education stage especially for school and education. Cobra is the portal for teachers, lecturers, pupils, students, course participants as well as schools and educational institutions for software and selected hardware to the “education tariff”. Educational institutions as well as their teachers and pupils, students as well as seminar participants can save up to 90% on product prices at www.cobra-shop.de (in relation to the purchase of the software or the device at the regular price (recommended retail price of the respective manufacturer).

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Co.Tec GmbH (Germany)

For 26 years, the company has been making education digital. As a leading German trading company in the field of education, co.Tec offers over 157,000 customers a broad, educational high-quality range of PC and Mac software as well as hardware for school, education and further education. The Rosenheim company is thus the contact point for schools and teachers when it comes to digitalisation or hardware and software equipment for the schools.

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c&H GmbH (Germany)

As a distributor for research and educational products, c&H Ausbildungsmedien Distribution GmbH is a competent and reliable logistics centre for software manufacturers. c&H’s tasks include constant contact and close cooperation with manufacturers, the definition of school products (school prices and license forms) as well as the appropriate “refining” of standard software products. The broad distribution of the research and teaching products takes place via their own distribution channel to authorized school product businesses.

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Software Integration

Printplus AG (MIS, Management Information Software)’]

Printplus AG is the leading supplier of branch software for printers and publishers (MIS, Management Information Software). The Swiss market leader for MIS-Software (Management Information Software) has 40 employees in sales, organisation consulting and software development. Printplus is in use daily with more than 400 customers and over 5000 workstations in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein.

VIVA Integration

With standard interfaces, the PrintPlus printer portal DRUCK and VIVA are completely integrated for the users. They have the possibility of creating all their layouts with VivaDesigner, from business cards to a multi-page employee magazine.

The templates created in VivaDesigner are directly integrated in the printer portal. Here the user selects the product, completes the layout in VivaDesigner and puts it in the shopping basket of Printplus DRUCK.

Depending on the task and the working method, the documents may be created graphically in the browser with the “VivaDesigner Web Edition” or in form mode with the “VivaNWP Designer”. Both interfaces are included in the standard interface of Printplus DRUCK.

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O/R/T (MMS, Marketing Management Software)

O/R/T/ Medienverbund is a classical service provider with its own software development, covering the complete spectrum of Pre-Press, Print and Post-Print as well as developing database workflow tools for their customers. For many years, O/R/T/ Krefeld has been providing the catalog print data for the tour operator Alltours in Düsseldorf. With Viva’s support, Alltours catalogs are produced by O/R/T/ using the Viva Network Publishing technology.

VIVA Integration

O/R/T has integrated the VIVA Publishing Server technology in its MMS (Marketing Management System), with which users can create documents fully automatically with a single keystroke.

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Noxum GmbH (Content Management and Publishing System)

Noxum develops and markets standard and individual software for Web systems/Web portals, E-Business, Product Information Management, Cross Media Publishing and technical communication as well as Cloud Computing solutions in Microsoft Azure. The Noxum Publishing Studio combines an XML-based system solution with a content management and publishing system in one product. As one of the leading suppliers of XML solutions, Noxum provides not only consulting but also the development, implementation and support.

VIVA Integration

The Noxum Publishing Studio can read, interpret and manage a VIVA XML document. Furthermore, the software is able to create completely new documents based on the VIVA XML format.

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Spirit GmbH (Business Processing Software)

Spirit Packaging Premedia GmbH offers manufacturers of consumer goods and packaging materials pre-press services, analyses and optimizes work flows, works out technical standards and adapts business processing software applications, thus creating a complete integrated solution for its partner corporations.

VIVA Integration

Spirit has integrated the VIVA Publishing Server technology in its business processing software to create print-ready documents straight from the application.

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Comfortable Output

VivaPosterize offers all the functions that are necessary for a perfect output of the documents. You have the free choice of outputting to a laser printer, Proofing unit (plotter), film phototypesetter, CTP system or CTS (screen) system.

Scaling and Tiling
Within the capabilities of your printer driver, you can scale the spread as you wish and with the help of VivaPosterize divide it, if your output unit is smaller than the spread.

Composite or Color Separated
VivaPosterize allows the output of data as a composite print or color-separated.
Spot colors are recognized by VivaPosterize and output with their required rastering. Spot colors can also if required be converted into process colors. Spot colors can also be separated into other colors. If there has been an error in the creation of the data, so that the same color with another name appears twice in the document, this can be output together with the required color.

Black Overprint
VivaPosterize can if required offer the function of black overprint. This also goes for data that normally do not support this function (e.g. MS Word, etc.)

InRIP Technology
VivaPosterize is the first program to thoroughly support InRIP Technology. With the help of this technology the speed of output of colored spreads has been increased dramatically. At the same time with the help of the InRIP Technology RGB colors, which often appear in a variety of data (e.g. MS Word, etc.) can be color-separated for a high quality output.

OPI Support
VivaPosterize naturally supports all OPI systems for picture output.

Marks and Spread Inscription
Insofar as the user does not change the standard settings, specific color marks and the spread inscription are printed with every job. The output of the spread inscription relates also to the punch holes, so that there is no possibility of important information being cut out.

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High State of Automation

VivaPosterize was designed for productions of high capacity and quality. To reduce significantly the number of sources for entry error simple and logical workflow containing a high degree of automation was developed. This is made possible by dividing the program into user and administrator mode.

Extremely High Speed
Through co-operation with large printing companies, VivaPosterize was conceived from the very beginning for large amounts of data and a very high speed of operation.

Therefore the whole process takes place in just a few minutes. This is among other reasons possible, because with the simple user interface all the relevant information can be entered within this time scale.

Automation & Error Reduction
Both the program and the administrator define how the program should behave under certain conditions.

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Simple handling

An excellent user interface and the integration of the printing machine emphasize the advantages of VivaPosterize.

Integration of the printing machine
A good user interface is an important criterion, but with VivaPosterize we go one step further with the output: the integration of the printing machines in the company. In the end you always make an output for a printing machine; only based on the data of a printing machine, can it be decided whether a press sheet or tile can be printed on a specific machine or not. It is strange that this matter of course is provided by no other program for large format output.

Working with control files
The individual definitions of tiling templates, types and machines are achieved with a text file, which may be changed and extended by the user. A large number of standard templates and machines is supplied with the program. This dramatically simplifies the program’s handling, without limiting its flexibility in any way.

Unlimited definition and positioning of marks
With VivaPosterize the user can define any marks and use his own EPS marks in machine and tiling template files.

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Excellent Tiling and Montage

In the template the user can predefine a large number of parameters. As well as the tiling template, the height and width of every single section of the poster, overlapping on several sides, job-specific section numbering and many other options may be defined. Even a job-specific spread group, in which it may be possible that poster sections are not mounted in their normal order, is definable.

Within the framework of the spread group definition the same mark may be positioned differently on different sections or press sheets. To save paper, the remaining section or sections of a poster may be mounted fully automatically in multiple copies on a press sheet.

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Flexible Data Import

VIVAPOSTERIZE can import all the relevant image formats, such as EPS, LAY, TIFF, CT, LW or also all PDF files (PDF Format 1.6).

Data already imported can be updated automatically when the original data is altered. In this way last minute changes of content are possible at any time.

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VivaPosterize: Millions of posters. One program.

What is VivaPosterize?

VIVAPOSTERIZE is the leading tool for extremely fast automatic digital tiling and output of posters and billboards. Already on the market since 1999, the program has since then been setting new standards in speed, safety, flexibility and functionality.

Developed in co-operation with leading printers in offset and screen printing, VIVAPOSTERIZE is able to process documents with a speed and precision which has never before been achieved. It’s no wonder then that millions of posters and billboards are produced with VIVAPOSTERIZE every year. Our customers produce posters for local and international advertising campaigns of well known manufacturers as well in the food and drink, automobile, fashion, cosmetics, furniture, electronics and media industries as well as many other fields. Therefore you will surely at least once have seen a poster or billboard which has been produced by our software!

How does VivaPosterize work?

VIVA has from the very beginning followed a completely new and revolutionary path in electronic imposition. The starting point for the development was that our customers wanted to be able to manage the complex technology as simply as possible. Just three simple steps are necessary in the Workstation version of VIVAPOSTERIZE to process a job completely in just a few minutes: data import, poster tiling and output. Only one step is necessary in the Server version to complete a job in seconds: to transfer data to the server, which will complete the tiling and output fully automatically.

December 9, 2013

Odessa Print

Odessa Print in South London, one of the UK’s leading poster printers and Printweek’s Poster Printer of the Year 2004-2005, has optimized its workflow with VivaPosterize and Kodak’s Prinergy Evo system for a full PDF workflow.

The creation and output of large format posters is very demanding and time-consuming. Odessa Offset, whose customers include Anheuser Busch, Procter & Gamble, Saatch & Saatchi, Panasonic, BMW, Air France, British Airways and Coca-Cola, had for some years been searching for a professional solution to enable them to increase their production speed while at the same time maintaining the high quality for which they are already well known.

Dean Orchin, the Production Director, said: “Odessa needed a solution that enabled the output of the UK standard large formats such as 48 sheet posters (6 x 3 metres, 12 sections) and 96 sheet (12 x 3 metres, 24 sections), that fulfilled the specific printer’s requirements for the output, and, above all, was very fast.”

In 2003, Creo EMEA in Waterloo, Belgium (now Kodak) supplied Odessa with a Brisque RIP and Trendsetter VLF CTP unit together with VivaPosterize for MacOS 9.

“The Viva-Creo workflow solved our colour problem for us”, said Mr. Orchin. “We used the colour mapping function to map spot colours to process colour plates, or map identical spot colours together, which we couldn’t do before. From importing the job into VIVA to the output of the first plate takes about 5 to 6 minutes.”

At the end of 2005, Odessa took delivery of the world’s largest offset press, the KBA Rapida 205. The huge plates enabled an output of two sections per plate for the main poster formats of 12 x 3 metres and 6 x 3 metres, thus cutting down considerably on production run time. By the end of 2006 the production was already running smoothly and the company took delivery of an upgrade of the VivaPosterize software to MacOS X. At the same time the extended functiomnality of the software enabled templates for bus sides to be created, whereby multiple sections with differing measurements could be output on one plate.

“It was among other things the speed and the simplicity of the whole process which impressed us,” said Mr. Orchin. “With the new press we are putting two poster sections on one plate (2060 x 1510mm) and our production is increasing considerably with our Kodak/Viva poster workflow.”

The success of Kodak’s Prinergy Evo system with VivaPosterize in both France and Spain convinced Odessa that it was time to upgrade their RIP hardware. The migration from the old Brisque system to Prinergy Evo in November 2008 was completed comfortably in just a few days.

With Prinergy Evo and some adjustments to VivaPosterize to allow a full PDF-in, PDF-out workflow, production speed was brought to a maximum, with the added improvement in speed of transfer of the CIP3 colour files to the press.

“This new system has improved our production enormously,” said Mr. Orchin. Where before it took several hours for the colour information to come to the press, we now need just 40 minutes for processing all 24 plates of a 48 Sheet poster as well as transferring the colour information to the press, so we are producing many times faster than ever before.”

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