Enfocus Invites Expo Print Attendees to Meet its Executive Staff and See Enfocus' Latest Solutions

Enfocus senior executives from its Belgium-based headquarters will join the company's Latin American staff to welcome designers and printers to Enfocus booth #B/62-B at Expo Print. Visitors can talk to the staff and see Enfocus' world-leading document and workflow quality control applications, including the industry's de facto standard for document preflight, PitStop Pro. Over 130,000 copies of PitStop Pro are in use around the world.

Latin American Input is Vital, Enfocus Vice President Says

Vice President Fabian Prudhomme says Enfocus looks forward to establishing close relationships with Latin American resellers and customers as the company expands distribution in the region. “Customer input is critical,” he says, citing a product update released earlier this month. “The newest version of Switch 12, our workflow automation solution, is entirely comprised of customer requests.

“We're depending on the designers, printers, and other graphic arts professionals in Latin America to tell us how we can develop the next versions of these, and perhaps new, products for their local markets; to make their jobs easier and more profitable,” Prudhomme says. “These partnerships have proven to be successful for Enfocus users all over the world, and we are committed to bringing that same level of success to the Latin American market.”

Joining Prudhomme at Expo Print will be Global Sales Director Frédéric Thibaut, and Latin America Business Development Manager, Hey (Pico) Heysler.

Enfocus: Advanced Solutions at Reasonable Pricing

Heysler confirms that Latin America has been hungry for the Enfocus product line for some time, explaining that Enfocus' reputation for building applications that offer advanced functionality at unexpectedly low price points has made Enfocus a “hero — even here, where only a fraction of the country has had access to the product line, until now.”

A powerful example of Enfocus' engineering expertise, Heysler says, is Connect ALL's ability to automatically modify documents on the fly, so that they print or display correctly on a variety of devices… with different viewing and printing specifications for each environment considered and implemented, without human intervention.”

Distribution Candidates Encouraged to Visit

Thibaut is looking forward to meeting both customers and distribution candidates. A new agreement with Intermarket brings Enfocus into some of the region's most populous areas; but he says more coverage will be necessary.

“We have an exciting distribution strategy for Latin America. I hope to meet the most enthusiastic and knowledgeable distributors and resellers, who will be up to the job of bringing Enfocus to their corners of this beautiful continent.”

The Enfocus Product Line

PitStop Pro: Enfocus PitStop Pro 12 is the essential Adobe Acrobat plug-in to check and fix PDF files in professional publishing. Extensive editing tools enable easy last-minute corrections, both for individual objects and globally throughout the complete PDF document. An industry-standard preflight engine and embedded Certified PDF technology complete this ideal tool.

PitStop Server: PitStop Server 12 is the indispensable, smart preflight and auto-correction tool for high-volume and unattended PDF workflows. Preflight and correction can optionally be driven by job specific information contained in JDF or XML job tickets. Specific problems can be easily and automatically fixed using the powerful Action List.

Switch: Enfocus Switch is a modular and open software solution that can easily be integrated to connect third-party applications used to create, produce, and share files. No matter who creates the document, what format it is in, or how it will be output, Switch ensures you can process it in less time, with less effort, and at less cost.

Connect: Enfocus Connect combines PDF creation with PitStop preflighting and optimization, as well as job ticketing and file transfer, all in a drag-and-drop function to make sure the designer provides the cross-media publisher with a Certified PDF every time. Enfocus Connect is available in three editions: Connect YOU for individual users, and two versions for companies that need to collaborate with many internal and external users: Connect ALL and Connect SEND. In all editions, the Connect application is used to define and create Connectors. Connectors are easy-to-use applets that sit on customers' computer desktops, and include all the technology required to automatically deliver production-ready jobs to remote locations.

About Enfocus (www.enfocus.com)

Enfocus provides modular and affordable tools safeguarding job quality and enabling automation throughout the complete production chain. Innovative solutions improve communication between design and production while enhancing productivity and predictability through automation of routine tasks.

Step-by-step deployment dramatically increases added value without forcing users to completely rethink their way of doing business. Well-known brands include PitStop, Switch and Connect.

Enfocus is a business unit of Esko and has its headquarters in Ghent, Belgium.

About Esko (www.esko.com)

Esko is a global supplier of integrated solutions for the packaging and labels, sign and display, commercial printing and professional publishing industries. Esko products and services drive profitability in the packaging and printing supply chain by reducing time-to-market and raising productivity.

Esko employs around 1200 people worldwide. Its direct sales and service organization covers Europe, Middle East and Africa, the Americas and the Asia Pacific, Japan and China regions and is complemented by a network of distribution partners in more than 50 countries.

Esko is headquartered in Ghent, Belgium, and has R&D and manufacturing facilities in five European countries, the United States, China and India. Esko is a Danaher company (www.danaher.com).