Adobe has launched Adobe® PDF Print Engine 3, the next-generation rendering platform, optimized for end-to-end print workflows based on Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). Adobe PDF Print Engine 3 combines performance enhancements with a new scalable architecture to power the industry’s fastest digital presses, large format printers, and platesetters.
Adobe PDF Print Engine 3 can be configured with the new Mercury RIP Architecture – a scalable, parallel-processing framework for extending RIP horsepower and dynamically balancing processing loads across available hardware. The Mercury RIP Architecture excels in Variable Data Printing (VDP).
Several long-standing OEM partners are working to harness the Mercury RIP Architecture in upcoming solutions. For example, Fujifilm today announced XMF 5.5 for the JetPress 540W, built on the Mercury RIP Architecture.
Adobe PDF Print Engine 3 is aligned with the Adobe Creative Cloud, including applications such as InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop and Acrobat. As a result, the most complex, high-impact graphics, designed with the latest authoring tools, will be accurately reproduced on-press.
What’s new in Adobe PDF Print Engine 3? Here are the top three, and their user benefits.
- The Mercury RIP Architecture for the Adobe PDF Print Engine 3, manages multiple concurrent instances of the Print Engine for maximum throughput within a single system, or several systems on a network. It is able to dynamically load balance available work across multiple presses concurrently, ensuring full resource utilization.
- Adobe PDF Print Engine 3 can support continuously streamed PDF and PDF/VT in High Volume workflows, (such as HVTO and Transpromo), fast-growing segments of the print industry.
- Adobe PDF Print Engine 3 renders content which matches the display in Reader and Acrobat XI. Using the same core Adobe PDF technology at every stage of the print workflow ensures predictability and eliminates unwelcome surprises.
PDF Print Engine 3 replaces Adobe PDF Print Engine versions 2.5 and 2.6. PSPs and global print OEMs can learn more about PDF Print Engine 3 here.