A Page Display System for Plate Scanner and Teleproofed Images

A page display system, called PAGEVISION, has been developed to give an overview of the production and to aid the platemaker and pressman in their operations. The page images of a publication under production are received from plate scanners or as teleproofs from the pagination stations and stored in a database. The display gives a global overview of the actual production situation; which plates of a certain page have passed through the plate scanners and which pages have been finished on the editorial pagination stations. In addition to this overview, the system provides detailed page images in colour to help the platemaker to evaluate the plates and the pressman to prepare for printing and evaluate the printed result. This proofing capability is especially important in remote printing, where the pressman does not normally have any hardcopy proofs to rely on. The system is based upon a standard local area network and it uses standard PC workstations, which makes customization easy. The system has been tested at a major newspaper printing plant in Finland.