Smart Document-Related Software Solutions

Overcome Document-Related Challenges with Ease

Familiar with popular computer file formats like .XLS, .PDF, .DOC, and .JPG? Imagine you have a critical meeting in a few minutes. Support for your proposal is found in several file types on your computer. How can you quickly assemble and organize this information into a high-quality report to make your case?

Canon offers two powerful, easy solutions for this and many other document-related challenges. Built on the same architecture, one serves general office needs, and the other serves more advanced prepress needs. Both solutions enable users to easily assemble documents from multiple sources and leverage all your Canon MFP devices finishing options to create compelling, professional-looking reports and presentations.

Professional & Prepress

Professional printers use imageWARE Prepress Manager – an easy-to-operate, cost-effective application designed to simplify document assembly, make-ready, and other production tasks to facilitate easier creation of high-quality booklets, manuals, catalogs, brochures, and more.

Speed Document Assembly

Easily combine files from multiple format types into finished, professional output including chapter headings, pagination, and custom imposition settings. Preview output and make late-stage textual changes to finished documents. You can even create documents using variable data.

Save Time and Money with Streamlined Workflows

Professional print shops face constant pressure to provide better, faster services for less. Now you can meet those ambitious demands by automating your workflows with Hot Folders that consistently apply specific settings to commonly run jobs. You can also streamline job ticketing with JDF.

Finish to the Highest Standards

PrePress Manager offers professional finishing settings. Accurately execute book spine printing, and output to a variety of formats including tabbed, stapled, saddle- stitched, hole-punched, z-folded sheets or booklets. You can also mix and match all kinds of different pages including single-sided, double-sided, color, and black-and- white within one fully collated document file.

Prepress Manager Features:

State-of-the-Art Scanning

Achieve significant new efficiencies with automated scan straightening and cleaning. Divide scan batches into chapters, add insert sheets or tab dividers, and set prepress finishing options with ease.

Document Assembly

Merge files from various sources including word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, images, web pages, and PDF documents. Rearrange or remove pages and chapters.

Hot Folders

Create preset print settings and apply them automatically through imageWARE Print Job Manager.

Job Definition Format (JDF)

Streamline job submission and eliminate manual input errors associated with job ticketing. Deliver output to devices compliant with the JDF standard.

Flexible Pagination

Quickly apply page numbers using both characters and numbers.

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Watermarks

Apply watermarks to pages using samples provided with the application or ones of your own design.

Late-Stage Editing

Make simple changes to documents in their native file formats without opening the original application.

Customize your marketing campaigns — large or small — with ease.

Powerful Printing Capabilities

Print on tabs and insert those tabs into the document in one step. Additional capabilities include stapling, hole punching, z-folding, booklet printing, and single, double-sided, color, and black-and-white printing in the same document.

Print Preview

Preview – on-screen – exactly how your document will print with all settings included.

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Advanced Printing Features

Integration with imageRUNNER MFPs allows for automatic spine printing for perfect bound books and other exclusive features.

Print on tabs and adjust spine settings to create professional-looking reports with ease.

VDP (Variable Data Publishing)

Using data from databases or spreadsheets, use the Variable Printing Editor to create more effective documents targeted at individuals or groups. Apply varied names, addresses, and images from in-house database sources to create and customize items such as cards, invitations, and even photo books.

Create powerful customized marketing efforts.

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For more information regarding imageWARE Prepress Manager and the imagePRESS line of products, please email us at ProductionSystems@cusa.canon.com.

imageWARE Prepress Manager

Canon imageWARE Prepress Manager simplifies document assembly, make-ready, and production tasks for print-for-pay establishments, commercial printers, and internal corporate print centers. Featuring powerful document creation capabilities and an easy-to-use interface, Prepress Manager enables you and your staff to produce an array of more complex publications including books, manuals, catalogs, brochures, proposals, presentations, and more. Standout features like variable data output and spine width calculation take the labor and guesswork out of common publishing tasks.

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imageWARE Prepress Manager Select

Canon imageWARE Prepress Manager Select is another make-ready solution that is based on the same functionality of Prepress Manager. Canon understands one size does not fit all, which is why there are two version of Prepress Manager available. imageWARE Prepress Manager Select works exclusively with the Canon controller, thereby creating a cost effective make-ready solution.

Users of Prepress Manager Select have powerful document creation capabilities at their fingertips. This version has an easy-to-use interface which allows print providers to create an array of complex publications including books, manuals, catalogs, brochures, proposals, presentations and more.

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Please note that some products listed on this website might not be available in Canada and Latin American Countries. Please confirm the product availability with your Canon Sales Associate.

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For more information regarding imageWARE Prepress Manager and the imagePRESS line of products, please email us at ProductionSystems@cusa.canon.com.

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Professional Print Shops

Printers can significantly reduce time and cost with Canon prepress solutions. Work- flow automation, advanced job ticketing workflows, and comprehensive make-ready capabilities help make all jobs easier, while standout features like spine printing enable faster, more profitable processes..

Case Studies

Cable TV Provider Removes Kinks From Processes

The internal education department of a large cable operator needed to streamline its print production workflows. On a typical day, it experienced a large volume of docu- ments arriving at production centers in multiple formats that required considerable finishing. With imageWARE Prepress Manager, the department was able to handle a variety of complex tasks more easily. Predesigned templates enabled employees to apply settings to files and immediately choose from among a wide array of finishing options including hole punches, printed tabs, subset stapling, and slip sheets. At the same time, Prepress Manager was tightly integrated with Canon color and black-and- white print engines, making it easy and efficient to print combinations of both. As a result, the company was able to automate its entire document make-ready and printing processes for its publications.

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For more information regarding imageWARE Prepress Manager and the imagePRESS line of products, please email us at ProductionSystems@cusa.canon.com.