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Xitron Announces Navigator Workflow 5

Michigan-based Xitron announced the latest release of its Navigator Workflow 5 software, which is based on the Harlequin RIP version 9. 

“Xitron is committed to ongoing development to meet the demands of our prepress workflow customers,” stated Mark Eisenschenk, Xitron’s President and Chief Executive Officer. “The Navigator Workflow for Harlequin RIP users has become one of the most popular workflows, with thousands of installations worldwide.”

Navigator Workflow 5 incorporates new productivity-enhancing features, including:

– Ripped content proofs to any Windows print driver

– Integrated media savings

– ROOM Proof PDF Export

– Automated database backup

The Navigator v9 Harlequin RIP provides:

– Support for Windows 7 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems

– Increased optimization for PDFs with transparencies

– Extended PDF/X support

– Support for the Pantone Plus library

– Enhanced resolution support for the HXM hybrid screening option

– 64-bit Windows drivers for Xitron USB interfaces

– Simple out-of-the-box colour accuracy for GRACoL, SWOP, and Fogra printing conditions with Epson and Canon proofers and graphic arts printers

– Interfaces for more than 250 output devices, including proofers, CtP systems, inkjet, direct imaging presses, and production printers

Navigator Elite Workflow includes extensive user-requested capabilities, including:

– User-controllable job management and ticketing capabilities

– Integrated soft proofing

– Output device control and feedback at operator workstations

– PDF creation and preflighting

– Ink remapping

– Imposition integration with Dynagram inpO2

– Scriptable hot folders

– TIFF job grouping

– Press ink key Calculation with KeySetter option

Shipments of the latest Navigator workflow will begin later in the fourth quarter this year.