GMC enhances PrintNet Designer software

A GMC Software Technology product story

Edited by the Marketingweek Marketplace editorial team Jan 28, 2009

GMC Software has released an enhanced version of its PrintNet Designer software, providing new tools for print stream transformation, creating web content and extended colour management.

PrintNet Designer v5.3 enables the creation and production of complex personalised documents for transpromo, direct marketing, on-demand publishing, customer correspondence and transactional applications.

PrintNet Designer v5.3 highlights includes the ability to repurpose spooled print files, when the application that created the file is no longer available.

While earlier versions of PrintNet Designer contained features for repurposing legacy content from spooled print files, PrintNet Designer 5.3 makes the definition of data extraction areas fully visual with an integrated display of what was extracted from the legacy file.

Users benefit from enhanced performance over earlier versions as well as the ability to modernise existing applications without having access to the original composition tools and content.

Data streams supported include AFP, PDF, PostScript and TNO.

Electronic delivery of personalised documents, via Personalise URLs (PURLs) or e-mail, is becoming an alternative to printed output.

Enhancements to the PrintNet Designer 5.3 production engine allow the electronic display of any document that has been designed in PrintNet Designer.

This includes advanced page formatting to support data-driven graphs, tables and images as well as fonts and background elements.

Ideally, these enhancements are best suited for applications that are viewed via a web browser, while PrintNet Designer 5.3 will continue to support HTML output designed for e-mail clients as well.

Colour spectrophotometers measure specific colours using precision optics and calibrated light sources.

RGB, CMYK and even named sources such as Pantone, use averages that are only valid for one paper stock and printed on a specific device.

With PrintNet 5.3, colour can be captured directly by using an XRite colour spectrophotometer allowing colour settings to be calculated directly from a live printed sample.