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Ultimate Forms Software Alliance with Canon

Montreal’s Ultimate TechnoGraphics Inc., a developer of imposition and finishing software tools, has formed a new alliance with Canon Solutions America Inc. aimed at improving the prepress workflow of commercial printers.

More specifically, the two companies explain Ultimate TechnoGraphics’ Impostrip, imposition intelligence, combined with Ultimate Bindery JDF automated finishing hub, offer the imposition and finishing automation requirements needed to empower a complete workflow for all types of commercial print and book productions. Ultimate’s software technology will be offered to Canon’s digital press customers.

“Through the seamless integration of Impostrip and Ultimate Bindery with Océ PRISMAproduction we can offer our customers better efficiency and flexibility on their Canon digital devices,” said Ed Jansen, Vice President Professional Services, Canon Solutions America, Production Print Solutions.

Ultimate TechnoGraphics explains its Impostrip tools are aimed at creating a lights out, hands free automation for digital printers, Web-to-print businesses, and on demand book production, among other environments.

The company’s Ultimate Bindery JDF finishing automation hub is geared toward dealing with the industry’s significant increases in the number of set-ups and changeovers in finishing. Ultimate explains this changeover need now multiplies the risks for errors and waste of costly material. Ultimate Bindery is a finishing automation hub that validates jobs and delivers finishing job tickets to automate make-ready on finishing equipment. It operates as an agent between the prepress and post-press equipment in order to eliminate manual setups.

“Ultimate TechnoGraphics offers a set of high performance imposition and finishing tools with the most interesting advancements in commercial printing,” said Julie Watson, Executive VP of Ultimate TechnoGraphics. “From extended barcode configuration to intelligent and conditional marking for finishing and tracking as well as job management for load balancing, our tools are geared up to meet market requirements for managing a flexible print production including managing peak times, tight SLAs and feeding the press in short laps of time.”