Customers of Solimar Systems, Inc., provider of leading workflow solutions for print production and digital communications, are confirming dramatic time and cost efficiencies using the latest company’s PDF cleansing and workflow optimization software platform, ReadyPDF® Prepress Server™.

The successes experienced by these companies has been further acknowledged by Keypoint Intelligence, the world’s largest business intelligence and testing provider of the digital imaging and business communications industries, who earlier this month awarded Solimar Systems’ ReadyPDF platform with a Buyers Lab Outstanding Innovation award in Production Print. Winners were chosen by Keypoint Intelligence’s independent panel of print production analysts based on their ability to “improve output quality, enhance productivity, deliver workflow efficiencies, impact sustainability, and advance their product segments in meaningful ways.”

ReadyPDF is designed to overcome the challenges customers encounter with many RIP systems, to fully optimize PDF files for print and digital delivery or archive and to simplify integration into existing workflows providing dramatic advantages for the end-user.

Brian Cox, Sr. Director of Software Development & BCS Architecture at RR Donnelley, Solimar Advisory Council member states, "RR Donnelley has been a long-time enterprise customer of the Solimar Chemistry platform for print file conversions and post-composition enhancements. ReadyPDF is now benefiting us in our pre-press processes as we clean up and improve PDF files prior to production.”

Canadian printer, Gilmore Doculink, recently reported an impressive reduction in processing times thanks to ReadyPDF. Chris Beech, Manager, Composition Services for Gilmore Doculink and Solimar Advisory Council member, said, “For one particular job, we host and archive 100% of the output and print the content on a color roll press. Pre-ReadyPDF, this application would have a 24-hour turnaround. Using ReadyPDF it takes just 1 hour – the savings are quite incredible!”

Beech continued, “Typically, we saw a 650MB file reduced to just 50MB. Although the ReadyPDF files were smaller, they also contained more content, ensuring there was zero impact on the downstream systems. ReadyPDF also enabled a more streamlined approach, eliminating the need for multiple resources as all files, whether archived or printed, are optimized for print production.”

Echoing the benefits experienced by Solimar Systems’ customers, the reasons ReadyPDF was presented the Outstanding ‘Achievement in Innovation: Production Printing’ Award by KPI included:

• PDF file size reduction up to 14 times as illustrated in lab testing at KPI earlier this year. ReadyPDF provides a cost-effective measure ensuring that the digital front ends or DFEs of high-speed digital presses can process data to keep them running at optimal press speeds.
• Increased automation including automated PDF inspection and correction enables printers to automate onboarding of production work, without the requirement for manual intervention.
• Streamlined PDF file complexity, ReadyPDF optimizes resources and fixes structural issues within PDF files so they process more efficiently.

Mary Ann Rowan, Chief Experience Officer, Solimar Systems, commented, “We’re very grateful for the recognition by Keypoint Intelligence. Solimar Systems has been delivering PDF infrastructure for printing and digital use for more than two decades. ReadyPDF fills an important technology gap for high volume personalized content processing and complements our other PDF-centric workflow solutions in our Chemistry platform.”