Xitron has been developing prepress solutions since 1977. Our mission is to engineer intuitive, productive, and affordable alternatives capable of driving output devices manufactured by the most popular vendors on the market today.
Xitron develops prepress workflow and RIP products designed to drive the industry’s most popular output devices. If you’re looking to bring new life to an older computer-to-plate system or need a full featured workflow for a high-speed digital press, Xitron has you covered.
Xitron key products include:
Navigator Harlequin RIP and Workflow - A best-in-class implementation of Global Graphic’s Harlequin RIP technology. Providing prepress environments with fast, predictable, and reliable interpretation of PostScript, PDF, and EPS format files, Navigator is the most trusted name in RIP architecture with over 30,000 installations worldwide.
Sierra Adobe Workflow - Built on Adobe’s PDF Print Engine (APPE) with cross media functionality in mind. It’s equally productive in commercial, digital, and hybrid applications with a strong feature set that includes Adobe in-RIP trapping, PDF preflighting, dynamic imposition, and advanced soft proofing in both 2D, and 3D formats.
Raster Blaster - Designed to “catch” TIFF files from any RIP or workflow, Raster Blaster converts them into the raster formats used by computer-to-plate imagers, digital presses, and other output devices. Having an after-market option like Raster Blaster means users can choose RIP, workflow, and output vendors independently from each other, which can result in significant cost savings.
Variegator - A simple, stand-alone application that makes variable data printing quick and profitable. Variegator unlocks the power of a digital press to produce high profit variable data print jobs including labels, hang tags, and flyers. Variegator gives you the tools to produce sophisticated data jobs with elements like variable barcodes, images and colors by dragging and dropping rather than writing complex code.
USB Interface - Xitron’s unique USB interface bridges the connectivity gap between output device manufacturers and prepress workflows. Used in conjunction with Harlequin-based RIPs such as Navigator, or with Xitron’s Raster Blaster TIFF Catcher, the “Blue Box” communicates raster data directly to CtP and film imagers manufactured by Agfa, ECRM, Heidelberg, Screen, and others.
KeySetter - KeySetter improves your pressroom efficiency by communicating ink coverage data directly to your press, reducing make-ready time and materials waste. You spend less time getting up to color, which means you spend more time printing. Available as a direct connection to your press, a console-compatible data file or a printed graphic chart, KeySetter can reduce your make-ready an average of 20-50% which increases your operating profit.
Navigator Northstar RIP and Workflow for Memjet Printers -Navigator Northstar fixes the inconsistent color issues encountered by users of Astrojet M1 printers as well as those re-branded as the Colordyne 1600 (C & S), RTI-Digital Vortex 850S, Neopost Mach 5and Mach X, and Formax Colormax 7, all of which use the Memjet Northstar inkjet head. (For a complete list of compatible Memjet-based engines, click here.) Northstar delivers the same functionality to users of the OKI Data 931 and 941 toner-based printers.
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4880 Venture Drive, Suite 500, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48108
