Xitron, the prepress industry's leading independent developer and integrator of Raster Image Processors, RIP management software and workflow solutions, announced the next generation Navigator workflow products with the preview of the Navigator Mobile Proofing Approval app for the Navigator workflow for use with iOS and Android devices. Xitron’s next generation workflow products will be on display at drupa May 3-16 in Hall 15, Stand A23-5.

Navigator Mobile Proof Approval includes:

• Compatibility with iOS and Android devices
• Integration with Navigator workflow products
• Automated client notification via email
• Job approval/rejection on a page by page basis
• Ability to comment on jobs/pages and send directly to prepress department
• Patent pending technology

“Xitron’s is committed to providing innovative products to enhance our users’ prepress operation,” stated Mark Eisenschenk, Xitron's President and CEO. “The Navigator Proofing App is the beginning of our next generation of Navigator workflow products to allow the prepress department to automate client proof approvals remotely.”

The Navigator workflow incorporates the latest Navigator v9 Harlequin RIP including:

• Support for both Windows 7 32-bit and Windows 7 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 color accuracy for Gracol, SWOP and Fogra printing conditions with Epson and Canon proofers and graphic arts printers
• Interfaces for hundreds of output devices including inkjet CtP, inkjet film imagers, inkjet proofers, CtP systems, direct imaging presses, and production printers

The Navigator Workflow incorporates sophisticated on-screen soft-proofing tools that allow the user to see the final processed job. The integrated soft-proofing viewer is adjustable from 5%-800% magnification, allowing the user to inspect the file in a processed format. Jobs can be viewed as a composite or any combination of single or multiple separations.

The Navigator Workflow and Navigator Proofing App will be available exclusively through Xitron dealers. Xitron offers the workflow as both a software package and an all inclusive workflow bundle, including software, computer platform, onsite installation, training and a one-year Xitron Software Support Agreement in North America. Outside North America, Xitron dealers and distributors offer similarly configured solutions.

For more information on the Navigator RIP and Workflow, visit Xitron’s website at www.xitron.com/app.

Xitron offers Navigator Harlequin RIP and Workflow solutions, including the Navigator Inkjet Direct RIP & Workflow, Navigator Elite Workflow through its network of OEMs, distributors, dealers, and system integrators worldwide.