Re: Trapping
Hi Allen Filson
I am sorry if you took my response as a slamming, I am just clarifying the details because some of the statements Allan Larson of Kodak made are incorrect. I copied his post below and colored it red with my response in blue
{color:#ff0000}Back in 98-99, I did Applications testing for Supertrap on behalf of Heidelberg with the joint venture of Heidelberg/Creo. I did the beta site tour with it. They had the trapper and the color management portion of Prinergy .The rest was pure Canadian code.
{color}{color:#003366}As I stated, Heidelberg also brought forth Irrational Screening and the GUI to Prinergy. Come to think of it, we also integrated our imposition software, SignaStation. so we did bring more to Prinergy than Allan stated and none of the above was Canadian code but German{color}
{color:#ff0000}When Creo decided to write our own color management and trapper, we had Supertrap as a yardstick for PDF trapping. I am proud of the efforts of the team that made a much easier to use interface that still does a really nice job.
{color}{color:#003366}Allan's opinion is the Kodak Trapping engine is "easier to use" but he worked with Supertrap, not the current version Prinect Trap Editor, which is quite a few versions newer than Supertrap.
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{color:#ff0000}When Creo picked up Scitex, there was quite the pile of patents that those folks had captured for decades. The decision to write a trapper that had the logic of old, with the PDF body of new was unique.
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{color:#003366}"Logic of old with the PDF body of new was unique", how so when Supertrap predates the Kodak trapper and Supertraps heritage is the Hell Chromacom and Linotype-Hell Davinci. Now how is that unique when we did it first with Suppertrap?{color}
{color:#ff0000}I just saw an AGFA file yesterday that had some traps that nobody saw until output that runs ticketyboo through Prinergy.
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I do thank you for your comments on our trapping engine, I am quite proud of it. And I do agree we all learned from Prinergy, it is a good workflow and help us decide when programming Prinect Printready, to make Printready the first workflow to be written with JDF as it's core. Now that's unique. We also listened to the users and unblundled the trapping and color management modules and offer them as standalone Acrobat Plugins.
Regards,
Mark Tonkovich
Heidelberg USA
Product Manager, CtP & Proofing