Elara23, the full package

All the functions required to produce plates in a clear browser-based interface 

Planner
PDF Page Portal
Plate Production
Load Balancing
Softproof
Plate Sorting
Plan

Product and press planning

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PDF Page Portal

Receive, check and approve pages

The Elara portal and Elara customer portal (hosted in your DMZ) provide complete page handling including naming-check and correct, position- and size correction, PDF-preflighting, and approval or rejection. Invite your customers and editorial to enjoy preflighting and ripped previews to ensure a smooth production!  

Version control

Check and fix versions, position, pdf-error, preview and approve.

Webbased

No plugins or apps to install, just the browser!

User action tracking

Elara keeps track of everything. That guaranties easy following of system- and user actions and MIS reporting. 

Plate production

High automation plate production

All inclusive Plate production 

Elara production, the plate making part of Elara, uses information from you press planning system to make plates with the right priority and with the correct, template based, furniture.
Automatically handling your page paired plates (up to 8-up) or panoramas plates makes the automation even more impressive. Version control includes bitmap. compare so that unchanged plates will not go out to the CtP again.  

Load balancing

Closely communicating with your CtP devices, punch-benders and sorting, Elara will find the most efficient way to produce the newspapers in the fastest possible way whilst still keeping track of Plate-ordering. Each output position is flexible making various sorting schemes for day- and nighttime possible. 

sorting

Your sorting device in full control of Elara, integrating.it into the Elara flow seamlessly. The Elara user-interface offers a real-time view to be displayed at your sorting units displaying the plates in the sorting bins and even detecting plates that are removed during production. This will help to reduce the time in between products printed.

Softproofing, on the press console or anywhere you like

Elara’s softproofing enables ICC-based softproofing (including monitor calibration and substrate colour emulation) to integrate with your press. Depending of the capabilities of your press-consoles Elara switches the softproof along with the page the operator is working on