ONEticket brings new features to Sharp Digital Print customers

Orlando, FL—May 6, 2008—Apago Inc. announces that it is working with Sharp Imaging and Information Company of America (SIICA) to offer ONETicket, its popular universal print driver, to Sharp customers. As part of this alliance, Apago will promote this integration to both the Sharp dealer channel and the public at large. Apago will also debut ONEticket at Sharp’s 2008 National Dealer Meeting, May 6–9, 2008, in Orlando.

ONEticket provides Sharp customers with an easy-to-use interface that brings out the power in Sharp’s MX printer series. With the ONEticket universal driver, Sharp customers now have advanced job-building capabilities, including chapterization (subset finishing) and the ability for imposition, stapling, tray mapping, and paper and plex exceptions. Sharp users can also create and edit custom tabs and have new capabilities, such as stamping (including Bates), page numbers, dates, and custom text.

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Apago Simplifies Digital Printing with Updated, Device-Independent ONEticket 3.0

Boston, MA (ON DEMAND)—March 4, 2008—Apago Inc., a software developer for the graphic arts and document management industries, today announces ONEticket 3.0, a powerful set of device-independent plug-ins for Adobe Acrobat that helps maximize the productivity of on-demand digital printers. Formerly named AcrosuitePRO v. 2.6, ONEticket v. 3.0 gives print shops a single interface that controls the greatest number of digital printers to date, including devices from Konica Minolta, IKON, Océ, Kodak, Ricoh, Toshiba and Canon. With a streamlined interface, this update increases productivity and efficiency, and adds several customer-requested features such as Tray Mapping. This capability allows a print shop to define paper exceptions—regardless of the device used to print—enabling users to work more easily with various printers. Apago will demonstrate ONEticket at the On DEMAND Conference and Expo in Boston, March 4–6, 2008, at booth #153.

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Apago Releases PDF Shrink 4.2 at Macworld Expo; Free Update Supports Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Adobe Acrobat 8

San Francisco, CA—January 15, 2008—Apago Inc. today announces the release of PDF Shrink 4.2, a Mac OS X utility for reducing the size of PDF files. PDF Shrink optimizes the content and structure of PDF documents, making them easier to use in email attachments, on the Web, for on-screen reading, for document archiving, and more. Free to registered users of PDF Shrink 4, this update adds the ability to process entire folders of PDF files and improves compatibility with Apple’s Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and Adobe Acrobat 8. Apago will demonstrate PDF Shrink and its professional companion product, PDF Enhancer, at the Macworld Conference and Expo in San Francisco, January 15–18, 2008, at booth #W-4336.

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Apago Expands Offerings with New 'Virtual Job-Ticket' Software for Digital Printing Markets, Adds Eric Roundtree to Development Team

Apago Inc., today announces an agreement with Prinux to take over the development and marketing of the company’s AcrosuitePRO software product—a powerful set of device-independent plug-ins for Adobe Acrobat that help maximize the productivity of on-demand digital printers. Apago will integrate its toolbox of PDF technologies into AcrosuitePRO, and plans to convert the plug-in into a stand-alone product in 2008. As part of the agreement, Eric Roundtree, founder of Prinux, has joined Apago’s software development team.

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10 Tips to Improve Color Management

The primary goal of color management is to reproduce consistent, predictable, and repeatable color across a range of devices, such as scanners, digital cameras, monitors, printers, offset presses, and corresponding media. The idea is simple in theory but much more complex in practice. In your quest for perfect color management, consider these 10 tips.

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PDF/A and Archiving: I've heard about PDF. What's PDF/A?

Digital, PDF documents are rapidly replacing paper ones, as many government and private industries will attest. But digital documents have become saddled with technical challenges that make it difficult for the files to remain readable, renderable, and accessible over the long term. The new PDF/A standard was created to solve this problem. Learn more about PDF/A.

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