New generation of digital quality control tools for workflow with PDF

The growing use of PDF format in the workflow of the graphic arts indu-stry, especially in the fields of pre-press, pre-media, data exchange and digital output sy-stems, cause an increased need for controlling mechanisms. These will monitor the quality of the digital data itself and the quality status of their reproduction from a digital output system like digital printers, digital image setters, computer-to-plate systems and compu-ter-to-press engines. On the market there are some products known today, which control the PDF documents. Nevertheless, the controllability of the PDF digital output is still missing. The Ugra has therefore developed a new generation of quality control tools in PDF format. This paper presents the function of these quality control tools and describes their use in the future PDF workflow.