Sawgrass unveil ‘next generation’ platform
This year’s FESPA 2017 was the venue of choice for Sawgrass, which demonstrated its Virtuoso Print Manager (VPM) solution at the show in Hamburg.
Tuesday, 23 May 2017 12:44 GMT
VPM helps businesses embrace the host of possibilities presented by the personalisation and mass customisation space
Part of its expanding suite of print management, colour management, and online design software, the firm claims VPM is the first universal print management solution of its kind, designed for all of Sawgrass’ Virtuoso HD sublimation printing solutions.
According to Sawgrass, VPM allows users to quickly and easily produce customised products with art generated from virtually any source. The software facilitates integration of third party desktop graphics programmes like Corel Draw or Adobe Creative Suite, and Ecommerce or Web2Print Solutions like Creative Studio.
It is also, according to the developers, the first highly-connective print manager to deliver RIP-like applications using both Windows and Mac operating systems.
We are excited to show the full capabilities of our new Virtuoso Print Manager”
“We are excited to show the full capabilities of our new Virtuoso Print Manager,” says Darcy Mauro, president of Sawgrass, continuing: “VPM enables all three of the printers in our Virtuoso HD Product Decorating Systems to access one powerful, yet easy-to-use programme for the best-quality prints for their printers and software.
“We are excited to show how this can help creative entrepreneurs develop a highly efficient and profitable production environment. This Sawgrass-developed platform helps proactive operations successfully embrace the host of possibilities presented by the personalisation and mass customisation space.”
Sawgrass carried out daily live demos at FESPA, demonstrating Sawgrass workflows using Virtuoso Print Manager from Creative Studio and Adobe Creative Suite, as well as Ecommerce and Web2Print workflows from T-Shirt Makers, Kiosk workflow from Frézal Numérique, and high-volume mug printing from Technotape.
The firm says the demos were designed to show how “Virtuoso Print Manager improves production efficiency with sublimation printing and makes it easier than ever to achieve great colour output”.
Additional features of the software include built-in ICC profiles for a wide variety of substrates and image types, direct import of JPG, PNG, and Creative Studio’s SG or SGZ files, and a multilingual user interface in English, French, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese.
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