Adobe PDF Print Engine – Overview
Overview
Every market segment
Industrial printing and embellishing
Graphic arts and commercial printing
Digital production printing
Large format printing
Variable data printing
Proofing
Every job type
Connected packaging
Manufacturing - direct to object
Apparel - Direct to Garment (DTG) and Direct to Film (DTF)
Consumer packaged goods, grocery, electronics, pharmaceuticals, etc.
Signage and display
Security printing
Photobooks
Direct mail, customer correspondence
Brochures
Books and publications
Graphically rich content produced with any authoring application
CAD, GIS maps, architectural blueprints
Tech specs
Solutions
- Hardware DFE (Digital Front End)
- Software RIP
- Prepress workflow system
- Raster preview
- Proofing
- Industrial printing
Input file types
- Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator file formats (PSD, AI)
- PDF, PDF 2.0, PDF/X-6, PDF/VT-3
- PostScript (via Adobe PDF Converter SDK)
- TIFF and other image formats
- Job ticketing via JDF
Parallel processing
- Mercury RIP architecture branding and certification
- Dynamic distributed RIP models for the latest high-end multi-core, multi-blade, networked cluster, RIP farm, and multi-press systems
- Tile parallel processing for large format jobs
- Maximum use of concurrency across interpretation and rendering
System requirements
- Intel i5/i7/Xeon or higher/Mac M1 or higher/AMD Ryzen 3 PRO or higher
- RAM: 1 GB minimum, 2 GB+ recommended for each PDF Print Engine instance
- Hard disk required
Operating systems (64-bit only)
- Windows 11 Enterprise
- Windows Server 2022
- Ubuntu 22 LTS
- Mac OS 15