Hybrid Software program will showcase a brand new workflow system at Drupa that guarantees to “take away IT complications” for finish customers.
CEO Mike Rottenborn described in the present day’s IT surroundings as “more difficult for patrons”.
“Any customer-facing system is susceptible to hacking or malware or phishing assaults, and that’s what they discuss to Hybrid for – we function on the nexus of print manufacturing and cutting-edge IT.”
Its current Cloudflow workflow product is utilized by hundreds of shoppers, and at Drupa Hybrid will add to the household with the launch of MyCloudflow.
“Hybrid operates MyCloudflow for the purchasers and takes full duty for the operation and for the supply,” defined CMO Christopher Graf.
“It takes away native IT complications that prospects could have, and likewise the heavy {hardware} investments that could be wanted to be able to run an surroundings like this.”
Hybrid Software program will run all its Drupa demonstrations on the MyCloudflow expertise stack. It’s a 100% cloud-based, SaaS product.
“It runs in AWS utilizing Mambo. It’s a no IT answer, so it provides fast entry and it’s a non-public and safe surroundings for every buyer,” Graf added.
He additionally cited sturdy information safety and “immutable backups”.
There’s additionally a brand new color administration module for Cloudflow, ColorSpace, which analyses recordsdata and whether or not the design can be printable on any specific output system.
Different new merchandise embody MyPackz, described as a logical subsequent step for its Packz PDF enhancing answer for labels and packaging.
Hybrid Software program additionally goals to make 3D modelling “mainstream” with the launch of Seize 3D.
It should present the software program for shrink sleeves and steel forming reminiscent of tin cans at Drupa.
Rottenborn mentioned the group was distinctive as a result of it serves each OEMs and finish customers.
Though a few of its OEM relationships are confidential, it has partnerships with HP, Fujifilm, ABG, Canon, Koenig & Bauer and Weigang.
Its World Graphics enterprise has launched a Sensible DFE utilizing software program know-how from throughout the group, and powered by the Harlequin Direct RIP.
“Digital presses are getting larger, they’re getting sooner, they’re getting larger decision and better high quality, and all that interprets to imply it wants much more information to drive a digital press,” Rottenborn acknowledged.
“The previous structure a DFE would RIP a job to a tough disk after which stream it from the onerous disk to the digital press. It created a type of poisonous mixture of {hardware} price the place the DFE and servers it ran on had been costing as a lot because the digital press!”
“We’ve damaged that mannequin with Sensible DFE, which implies we RIP direct to the printhead electronics with out ever buffering that job on disk.”
He mentioned the all-in-one digital frontend can be utilized by “a number of main producers” at Drupa.
Hybrid’s subsidiary Meteor Inkjet has developed a head driver card for the brand new Epson D3000 printhead, and the group will even present a 4m-long ink tester on its sales space utilizing the brand new Epson heads.
Rottenborn additionally famous that regardless of all of the hype round advances in digital printing “typical printing shouldn’t be going away” and the agency was nonetheless investing in flexo screening expertise and automation for offset printing.
