Blaze Newspaper and Magazine Production Workflow

Blaze is built on the proven NewsWayX architecture and is a single box complete browser based workflow solution. Blaze accepts

both PDF & Postscript pages and includes Edition Planning and tracking, page pairing, and real time production monitoring.

User Access

• HTML5 Browser client
• Multiple user access
• Five client license

Edition Planning

• Direct printer and fanout
• Edit multiple products and have multiple editions of the same product
• Spot color support
• Fly sheet support

Naming

Different naming conventions and profiles are supported.

Imposition

Blaze supports the following planning impositions:

• Broadsheet
• Tabloid - two tabloid pages on a single plate
• 2UP two - broadsheet pages on a panorama plate
• 4UP four - tabloid pages on a panorama plate

Output

Output to two folders simultaneously.

File Format

Blaze supports 1 bit TIFF and PDF File Format.

Plate Furniture

• Different furniture can be defined for different configurations
• Different pages in the configuration can be assigned different furniture:
  • For tabloids: even and odd pages
  • For all impositions: double trucks can have different furniture
  • For all impositions: first and last plates can have different furniture
  • Color and mono pages can have different furniture

Text Burning

Available variable or static text burning options:

• Page number
• Section
• Edition
• Product
• Date
• Any fixed text

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Edition Tracking

• Easy-to-follow graphical edition views
• Multicolor status indication for each page and plate
• BirdEye/thumbnail/page/separation/file views
• Optional plate state view
• Optional remote installation and training available