VALUE

Improved PDF Handling – allows BluMunkee® to integrate anywhere within your PDF workflow, providing additional preflight capabilities, multipage PDF support and unprecedented control over what and how graphic elements are corrected – this means an advertiser’s pictures can now look good on your press.

Intel™Macintosh – BluMunkee® supports Apple’s latest hardware featuring Intel™ processors.

Faster normalizing – the addition of normalizing functions, such as resolution, file type, to BluMunkee®’s server components mean faster turn-around.

Photoshop CS2 - BluMunkee® v.2 fully supports CS2 files.

Enhanced Web-based tools – allows greater remote management of BluMunkee® than ever before.

AUTOMATION BluMunkee® automatically corrects pictures; creating color and monochrome versions in multiple sizes, formats, resolutions and gamuts, while applying the appropriate sharpening for each. Images are simultaneously multi-purposed for newsprint, additional print publications, archives, promotional materials, web sites and other electronic distribution, all while meeting their specific requirements. BluMunkee® automation extends deep into your workflow, managing the flow of pictures to and from PDF files, servers, databases, properties, departments and customers. Let BluMunkee® automation manage your pictures, while you manage your business.

INTEGRATION BlueMunkee's ® broad support of file formats, file exchange standards and database connectivity allow it to tightly integrate into your workflow. One of BlueMunkee's ® key strengths is its ability to monitor and update servers, FTP sites and databases. Work is seamlessly integrated. Images on PDF files, Web sites and pages are corrected and automatically updated.

R.O.I BluMunkee® allows you to do more with less. More pictures get the attention they deserve with less software, less hardware, less training, and less time. Fewer make-goods and fewer credits, mean more dollars and happier customers. Fewer mistakes mean more successes.

QUALITY BluMunkee® treats each image individually, maximizing the quality of every picture. However, it doesn't stand alone but rather integrates into your process, becoming a vital tool in your total quality initiative. Every BluMunkee® implementation begins with the end in mind, testing and calibrating output with every component in between. BluMunkee® leverages industry standards such as SNAP, ICC profiling, ColorSync™ and others; allowing you to get the most out of all your investments in publishing technology, equipment and consumables.

SPEED The strong graphic capabilities of Apple's OS X™, combined with Unix's muscle and system-friendly architecture, provides the foundation for BlueMunkee's ® potent and robust features. Getting BluMunkee® up and running only takes a matter of days. Wide support of standards ensures smooth integration into your technology infrastructure, regardless of platform. Leveraging the power of BluMunkee®, you'll be correcting and managing photos faster than you ever dreamed possible.

SCALABILITY Current installations range from small to large, running G4 and G5 processors on everything from Mac Minis™ to Xserves™ with RAID. Some BluMunkee® systems are configured to handle individual properties while others are easily servicing multiple publications across multiple properties. Let performance, storage and network requirements dictate the right hardware for your needs.