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---Dugopa, S.A. to bring best-of-breed dot-for-dot proofing to Spain's packaging industry with Compose Star Proof--- Barcelona, Spain, February 1st 2005 At Graphintro 2005 Dugopa, S.A. will unveil their partnership with leading pre-press developer Compose System. At their booth (Palacio P1, Calle C-359) Dugopa will show Compose Star Proof delivering contract quality screened proofs on Epson Stylus Pro 4000 and 7600. Of particular interest are the new features in Star Proof 4 for handling the special calibrations and media distortions of flexo printing. First released in 2001, Star Proof is now installed at thousands of companies in the print and publishing industry world-wide. Developed by an experienced team of colour professionals, Star Proof is a Mac OS X application which uses unique techniques to recreate the actual dot patterns and rosettes of original separations at ink-jet printer resolutions. The hard dots of the proofs allow exceptionally faithful reproduction of the high resolution images including defects such as moire patterns and small text reproduction down to as little as 1pt. Tuned to take advantage of Epson VSDT capable printers such as the Stylus Pro 4000 and 7600, Star Proof produces remarkable results with contract quality proofs up to 200lpi being output on printers running at just 1440 lpi by 720 lpi. "Our customers understand the importance of faithful image reproduction and this makes Star Proof the ideal solution for all their proofing requirements", said Antonio Fernandez, Graphic Arts Manager at Dugopa, SA. "I am delighted that we're in partnership with a well respected company that has such long experience of the graphic arts market in Spain. I am confident Dugopa's customers will appreciate the value of Star Proof's unique capabilities, both in the packaging industry and in the more general print market", commented Steve Donegan, Compose System's Manager of New features for packaging applications and improved colour management At Graphintro, Dugopa will show the recently released version 4 of Star Proof.Star Proof 4 provides new features for packaging applications with special calibrations and distortions for flexo printing to ensure that proofs accurately reflect what will be produced on the press. The new dot management features handle dot distortions, lost dots and the extremely high dot gain of up to 15% to 20% of flexo printing. The new version also includes ICS2 ¨C a new colour management engine offering automated fingerprinting and colour matching using automated analysis of colour strips with the X-Rite DTP-41. Editors Notes About Dugopa Dugopa, SA has been involved in Graphic Arts business since 1940 providing customers with the best technical support for a wide range of products. Today the company's main activity is focused on printing plates manufactured by Toray (Torelief letterpress, Toreflex water washable flexo, and Waterless offset plates) which enjoy an excellent reputation among printers. More recently Dugopa created the Digital Division to service strong growth in the market for inkjet plotters and media for indoor/outdoor applications. About Compose Systems Founded in 1987, Compose is one of the most successful value-added resellers of the Harlequin RIP. With a strong range of interfaces to over 180 different output devices, Compose have over 12,000 Express RIP and ColorExpress RIP installations worldwide. As printers started migrating to CTP, Compose gave additional focus to developing innovative solutions for workflow, digital colour proofing and imposition, adding JDF compliance at Drupa 2004. Centered on the flagship products Express WorkFlow and Star Proof, the Compose product range now includes software applications for RIP Once colour proofing, PDF and raster-based workflow, colour management, post-RIP imposition and print management. The company is headquartered in Hong Kong with sales and support offices in the USA, UK and China and development teams based in Hong Kong, North America and China. For further information visit www.compose.co.uk, www.compose.com.hk or www.composeusa.com . Media Contacts: Compose System (Europe) Mike Fellows, QuayMedia Steve Donegan, ComposeEurope
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