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NEWS DIGITAL

Hahnemühle’s
Caldera releases latest version new distributor

of its CalderaRIP programme appointed Art Systems as the
Hahnemühle has

master distributor for its
French software devel- of all Caldera products. Digital FineArt range in the
oper Caldera has released When registering a new UK. The move follows a
the latest version of its license, the validation pro- review of the paper maker’s
CalderaRIP program for cess is now fully automated sales structure and strategy
large-format digital printing to save time and ease the by UK managing director
and cutting. The company installation experience. Nancy Janes.
said its users have been able Janes commented:
to upgrade their RIP to Powered by the latest ver- “Hahnemühle products have
Version 16 since Wednesday sion of Adobe PDF Print been used by Picasso and
(2 November) to benefit Engine (v6), CalderaRIP is NASA, we are craftsman in
from the full range of new said to always print the ren- the digital age and have gen-
features and improvements. dering expected by the erations of knowledge to pass
Highlights include seven Version 16 contains a raft of new features designer. onto our customers and part-
new features that will be “CalderaRIP keeps improv- to deliver what’s best for Adobe’s PDF engine makes ners. We need quality time to
available for all Version 16 ing with state-of-the-art tech- them – and to address the it easier to manage extended grow the Hahnemühle brand
users, and a new licensing nologies ensuring reliability new challenges of our indus- colour gamuts, brand col- in the UK and having a best-
experience. Additionally, and top performance for all try.” ours, varnish, and foils with in-class distribution partner
Version 16 is compatible our users. The first major improve- increased performance, pre- in Art Systems will enable us
with the newly released to do that.”
macOS Ventura, while more “We are also proud to con- ment regards the licensing dictability, and consistency Hahnemühle has been
than 50 new Print and Cut tinue having Pantone experience of all Caldera compared to previous ver- making paper in Germany
drivers have been added to Libraries in our solutions to users. CalderaDock has been sions, making it possible for since 1584 and has three
the software’s ISO. help our customers deliver updated to v2.0 and becomes users to print “impeccable business units: Digital
Arnaud Fabre, head of outstanding results. Caldera the central application to reg- results” regardless of the FineArt, Traditional FineArt
product at Caldera, said: users can trust our solutions ister and manage the licenses application. and Life Sciences.
Bowe Group invests in Pantone

robotics tech alternatives mooted

Alternatives to Pantone
Bowe Group has invested are popping up as the fallout
in a specialist software busi- from the Adobe-Pantone
ness that promises to revolu- split also gains wider traction
tionise the time and costs in the design community.
involved in deploying auton- Innovation advisor Eddy
omous robots. Germany- Hagen has pooled the exper-
headquartered Bowe has led tise from a variety of experts
an $8.2m (£6.97m) invest- including the UK’s Paul Part of Freetone colour picker
Sherfield on Project BBCG, a
ment round in Israeli start- Better Brand Color Guide.
up Mov.AI. brand owners to define more
Mov.AI’s technology The project went live last print-safe CMYK conver-
allows Autonomous Mobile Autonomous Mobile Robots: market is poised for “hypergrowth” month. sions, with .ASE files or with
Robots (AMRs) such as of-the-box tools and infra- gration partner and has Hagen commented: the creation of CxF files.
those used in warehouses structure “to develop used Mov.AI’s technology “Current guides are flawed, Separately, multidiscipli-
and industrial automation ambiguous, incomplete. We nary artist Stuart Semple of
to be deployed more quickly unique, easy to deploy AMR it self at it s Bowe need better: rock-solid col- Culture Hussle has created a
and easily, compared with software at a fraction of the Intralogistics conveyor sys- our definitions, independent
existing systems which were time and cost”, including a tems business. of Pantone libraries, more ‘Freetone’ palette of 1,280
described as “monolithic 3D simulator that allows Existing investors State of print-safe CMYK, easy “Pantone-ish” colours that
and inflexible” because the users to test robot software Mind Ventures, NFX, and exchange via .ASE.” He also also includes his own colour
software is tightly linked to said that Project BBCG recipes for Pinkest Pink,
the robot hardware. By con- without the need for a physi- Viola Ventures were also would offer business oppor- Black 3.0, Incredibly
trast, Mov.AI’s Robotics cal robot. involved in the fresh invest- tunities for pre-press houses Kelinish Blue and another
Engine Platform offers out- Bowe is an existing inte- ment. and printers by helping blue called TIFF.
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