Hybrid Software program will showcase a brand new workflow system at Drupa that guarantees to “take away IT complications” for finish customers.
CEO Mike Rottenborn described right now’s IT setting as “tougher for purchasers”.
“Any customer-facing system is liable to hacking or malware or phishing assaults, and that’s what they speak to Hybrid for – we function on the nexus of print manufacturing and cutting-edge IT.”
Its current Cloudflow workflow product is utilized by hundreds of shoppers, and at Drupa Hybrid will add to the household with the launch of MyCloudflow.
“Hybrid operates MyCloudflow for the shoppers and takes full accountability for the operation and for the supply,” defined CMO Christopher Graf.
“It takes away native IT complications that clients might have, and likewise the heavy {hardware} investments that could be wanted as a way to run an setting like this.”
Hybrid Software program will run all its Drupa demonstrations on the MyCloudflow know-how stack. It’s a 100% cloud-based, SaaS product.
“It runs in AWS utilizing Mambo. It’s a no IT resolution, so it presents fast entry and it’s a non-public and safe setting for every buyer,” Graf added.
He additionally cited sturdy information safety and “immutable backups”.
There’s additionally a brand new color administration module for Cloudflow, ColorSpace, which analyses information and whether or not the design can be printable on any explicit output machine.
Different new merchandise embody MyPackz, described as a logical subsequent step for its Packz PDF enhancing resolution for labels and packaging.
Hybrid Software program additionally goals to make 3D modelling “mainstream” with the launch of Seize 3D.
It is going to present the software program for shrink sleeves and metallic forming akin to tin cans at Drupa.
Rottenborn stated the group was distinctive as a result of it serves each OEMs and finish customers.
Though a few of its OEM relationships are confidential, it has partnerships with HP, Fujifilm, ABG, Canon, Koenig & Bauer and Weigang.
Its International Graphics enterprise has launched a Good DFE utilizing software program know-how from throughout the group, and powered by the Harlequin Direct RIP.
“Digital presses are getting greater, they’re getting sooner, they’re getting greater decision and better high quality, and all that interprets to imply it wants much more information to drive a digital press,” Rottenborn acknowledged.
“The outdated structure a DFE would RIP a job to a tough disk after which stream it from the onerous disk to the digital press. It created a type of poisonous mixture of {hardware} price the place the DFE and servers it ran on had been costing as a lot because the digital press!”
“We’ve damaged that mannequin with Good DFE, which implies we RIP direct to the printhead electronics with out ever buffering that job on disk.”
He stated the all-in-one digital frontend can be utilized by “a number of main producers” at Drupa.
Hybrid’s subsidiary Meteor Inkjet has developed a head driver card for the brand new Epson D3000 printhead, and the group can even present a 4m-long ink tester on its sales space utilizing the brand new Epson heads.
Rottenborn additionally famous that regardless of all of the hype round advances in digital printing “standard printing will not be going away” and the agency was nonetheless investing in flexo screening know-how and automation for offset printing.
