PrimeCenter Key Benefits

Achieve significant time-savings

Create your own “recipes” to automate repetitive manual tasks such as nesting, preflighting, resizing, adding print bleed, annotations, cut marks, barcodes, QR codes and more. Recipes can be saved in your configurations to be reused as many times as necessary! 

Avoid media waste

PrimeCenter helps you to create perfectly optimized layouts and fix errors early in the prepress stage to streamline your entire production and avoid unwanted media waste.

Compatible with all your cutters

PrimeCenter is compatible with any cutter controller supporting the PDF format, making it the perfect tool for any production environment. To streamline the cutting process and help you save even more time, PrimeCenter generates ready-to-cut filed in layered PDF, the most used file format on the market. 

PrimeCenter can be synchronized with Zünd Cut Center media and tools, and metadata can be transferred between PrimeCenter and your Zünd peripherals for cutting automation.

Enable job tracking and submission

PrimeCenter can be integrated with all types of ERP, MIS and web shops to simplify the job submission to the interface. Job tracking can also be improved using XML. 

Create perfect layouts

Save time and media with PrimeNesting

Based on cutting-edge artificial intelligence technologies, the PrimeNesting algorithm beats every manual nesting and achieves the best possible layouts at an unrivaled speed.

PrimeNesting guarantees up to 16% less media waste compared to CalderaRIP’s TrueShape Nesting.

Minimizing media waste allows to work toward a more sustainable production model while making your production more profitable. Automate the nesting process and let your team focus on added-value tasks!

Double-sided printing

New feature

Manage file-preparation for double-sided printing and cutting

File preparation for double-sided printing and cutting has never been easier, both for rectangular and non-rectangular shapes. When preparing double-sided banners or stickers, PrimeCenter helps you save valuable time, as it automatically generates the Side B, and correctly places the margins and the cutting marks to reduce manual errors.

Furthermore, you can also manage more complicated configurations, such as nests containing double-sided files with non-identical visuals on both sides. Using PrimeCenter’s advanced prepress tools, generate perfectly optimized layouts in just a few clicks to streamline your double-sided printing production and save even more time on prepress.

Preflight your files

Fix problems earlier to save money

The term preflight was coined after the aeronautical industry, as pilots usually do a pre-flight check to make sure everything works as it should. The same principle applies in the printing industry: fixing problems as early as possible during the prepress stage helps to avoid errors and waste. 

All it takes is one small design problem to impact your entire production process— and end up with jobs that will be rejected by your customers. The main problems encountered during preflighting usually are missing images, missing fonts, resolution, transparency and color issues.

To handle this crucial step of checking your files, PrimeCenter embeds the powerful Callas Preflight Engine and ensures you are only working with compliant PDF files. 

Automate output file-naming using Metadata

Link prepress to production with coherent filenames 

PrimeCenter supports the XML format and metadata management in order to automate your prepress operations. Metadata refers to all the information that comes with the job file: the order number, the customer’s name, the order date, the delivery date, the printer, etc. They help you organize and filter your files.

When exporting both cut and print files from PrimeCenter, the layouts you created can be renamed by choosing from a variety of information: media name, number of copies, date, ganging metadata, etc.

Ease the identification process in both manual and automatic workflows, and link prepress to production with coherent file naming to save time throughout your entire production workflow.