Browse Ipex News RoomSuite of XMF solutions set to process 9,500 PDF magazine pages every week at Buxton
Magazine printer, Buxton Press, winner of PrintWeek’s prestigious Printing Company of the Year award, has today signed for what will be Europe’s largest installation of Fujifilm’s XMF cross-media workflow. Confirmed today on the Fujifilm stand at Ipex 2010, Buxton will install the entire suite of XMF solutions, including the online job submission and proofing module, XMF Remote, to handle in excess of 500,000 PDF magazine pages it processes each year.
Kirk Galloway, Managing Director at Buxton, comments: “We pride ourselves on investing in the right technology at the right time and this is exactly the case with XMF. We print 55 million magazines each year and we’ve learned that the combination of cutting-edge technology along with our first-class printing expertise not only ensures that we stay at the top of our sector but, more importantly, are able to meet and, indeed, exceed our clients’ ongoing high expectations.
“The necessity to examine workflow options had become paramount in our bid to keep pace with our ever-increasing workload and we were very keen to explore the potential benefits of the XMF suite. Having extensively trialled the system, we are convinced that it will speed up our pre-press processes considerably and be of great benefit to our customers and are now very happy to commit. First and foremost, it’s easy-to-use: along with the ability to easily handle complex PDFs and set up imposition templates, it will allow us to offer more proofing options than ever before, strengthening our quality assurance procedures while adding to our customers overall printing experience and peace of mind.”
Kirk concludes: “We have already experienced the benefits of Fujifilm technology and requisite support through our use of PRO-V lo-chem plates and two Luxel V-8 platesetters so are confident that the addition of XMF Remote will strengthen and expand our client support services enabling us to get on with the job in hand – printing their publications.”
Fujifilm’s XMF suite of workflow solutions manages the whole range of print production requirements including online job submission and approval via XMF Remote, print management via XMF Production Workflow, and web-to-print job procurement through its partnership with EFI. XMF is unique in being built from the ground up around JDF and the Adobe PDF Print Engine. With Fujifilm’s image processing, imposition and intelligent automation technologies built-in, the XMF workflow suite improves the control of quality across multiple print processes, increasing efficiency and productivity, ensuring colour consistency and optimising print production.
