Adobe PDF Print Engine 5 Now Available

Adobe (San Jose, CA) announced version 5 of Adobe PDF Print Engine (APPE 5). The new version extends PDF Print Engine’s reliable color reproduction with new capabilities. As innovations in ink and inkjet heads are creating opportunities to print on new surfaces, PDF Print Engine 5 will maximize color impact in the coming generation of textile presses, industrial print stations, and digital presses for label and packaging production, according to the company.

PDF Print Engine 5 precisely renders graphically rich jobs for printing on flat and contoured surfaces including paper, plastic, fabric, metal, ceramic, glass, and more. New color features strengthen support for Expanded Color Gamut (ECG) digital presses with ink-sets that go beyond the 4-color base (CMYK) to magnify the visual and tactile effect of brand messaging.

New features of in Adobe PDF Print Engine 5 include the following:
•    High-speed edge enhancement – Anti-aliasing for visually smoother edges on graphic objects, even at lower resolutions, reduces processing times to a fraction compared to alternative and post-rendering methods. 
•    Enhanced Unicode support – Control parameters, file paths and passwords now include multi-byte characters from non-Roman character sets, which increases ease-of-use in languages such as Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
•    PDF 2.0 print feature support – Black Point Compensation (BPC) preserves details in image shadow areas during color conversions; CxF-defined spot colors (Color eXchange Format) enables spectral-based color management; HTO (Half-Tone Origin) aligns pre-imposed objects to the device pixel-grid, ensuring identical line-screens.
•    Page-level output intent – Color conversions for multi-page PDF 2.0 jobs can be managed page-by-page, enabling greater flexibility and automation in prepress workflows.

“Agfa Graphics is excited to announce that Apogee 11, our leading prepress solution, will be the first product to incorporate Adobe PDF Print Engine 5,” Erik Peeters, marketing manager, Agfa Graphics said. “The new releases of Apogee and Adobe PDF Print Engine reaffirm the value and power of PDF for predictable reproduction of complex graphics.”

For more information, visit adobe.com.