Fujifilm installs milestone 5,000th XMF Workflow at Christmas City Printing

Fujifilm North America Corporation, Graphic Systems Division, has announced the 5,000th installation of its popular XMF Workflow at Christmas City Printing, a Bethlehem-Pennsylvania-based printer. Starting off as a letterpress, stationary and business card print shop in 1981, Christmas City Printing has quickly transformed to a full-service commercial printing powerhouse with XMF Workflow as the central hub for all its printing equipment. Fujifilm’s XMF Workflow is based on JDF specifications and Adobe PDF Print Engine (APPE) technology. This gives it tremendous flexibility and increased integration capabilities with MIS and other third-party solutions that support the JDF specification. XMF Workflow also has the ability to scale the system based on productivity requirements. It’s a leading end-to-end solution – from PDF creation and pre-flight through imposition to trapping and output – while maintaining the PDF file format right up to the final rendering stage using the APPE interpreter.
“The streamline process that XMF Workflow gives us is 10 times faster than our previous workflow,” said Chris Sicinski, Vice President at Christmas City Printing. “With integrated imposition, unlimited clients (users), and also having the 3D proofing tool, our jobs are in and out of our shop faster than ever.” XMF’s latest version, V6.1, is “a powerful and flexible production hub” harnessing the high-speed rendering technology Mercury RIP Architecture developed by Adobe to enable parallel processing of multiple jobs. This, said Fujifilm, results in processing capability that’s two to ten times greater compared to previous systems – and in turn contributes to scaling up the productivity of pre-press operations.
For instance, when required to output jobs simultaneously to the CTP, proofer or the digital press, XMF can minimize the processing ‘standby time’ and offer streamlined, more effective use of output devices. A single XMF unit is capable of performing RIP processing equivalent to multiple CTP setters. This cuts down on the number of RIP units for each output device, reduces operator involvement and costs, and also ensures that calculations always stay consistent among different output devices.
“In this industry, I’ve seen graphic arts vendors come and go, and Fujifilm has always stood behind its products. We’re a better company for installing XMF Workflow. I have a friendship with Fujifilm, not just a business relationship,” Sicinski added.
“With intelligent automation and diverse remote features, XMF is a workflow system that brings substantial change to the production front lines and the communicative environment,” said Shigenori Tsuji, Senior Manager, Workflow Division, Fujifilm Global Graphic Systems. “I’m very pleased that the system’s ‘ability to make a change’ is being widely accepted in the global market.”