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Challenges We Solve
- Save time in your prepress processes
  Through automated layout technology
- Bring your press to market faster
  Break through the barriers
- Spot-on color management
  Integrate color in your prepress workflow
- Blend digital & conventional printing
  Open new revenue streams for your business
- Streamline the design process with 3D
  Visualize new packaging designs in advance
- Achieve print workflow automation
  Begin the journey today
- Automate 2D code serialization
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Services We Offer
- Consultancy
  Custom solutions for your needs
- Technical service for OEMs
  Bring your press to market faster
- Support
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Products
- PDF Editors
  - PACKZ
    All in one PDF Editor for labels and packaging
- Workflow Automation
  - CLOUDFLOW
    Workflow automation suite for labels and packaging
  - PACKZFLOW
    Prepress automation workflow
  - K2
    Full-featured prepress workflow for commercial offset and digital
  - Navigator GPS
    Economical solutions for commercial and screen printers
  - Navigator Flexo Suite
    Cost effective solution for in-house flexo CTP users
- Color Management
  - Colorspace
    Integrated color management for labels and packaging
  - ColorAnt
    Measure, correct, and optimize color
  - CoPrA
    Control center for any profiling task
  - ZePrA
    Full-featured color server
- AI-powered solutions
  - jAImes
    AI-powered back office
- Variable Data Printing
  - VDP Execute
    Scaleable VDP Server Solution
  - PACKZ VDP
    Prepare and executive VDP in the PDF Editor
- RIPs / DFEs
  - RIP
    RIP at full speed in CLOUDFLOW
  - Navigator RIP
    Drive virtually any ctp, ctf, or dts with TIFF or direct interface
  - SmartDFE
    For high-speed, single pass devices
  - Navigator Digital Front End
    Drive high-speed, single-pass inkjets using HP, Memjet, and other printheads
- Print Quality
  - Intelligent Flexo
    Surface screening solution for flexo
  - Velvet Screening
    Next-generation flexo screening
  - Tectonics
    Flexo plate layout software
  - SmartFlexo Screening
    Surface screening and selectable AM to FM transition
- Softproofing Tools
  - Proofscope
    Soft proofing and collaboration
- 3D
  - iC3D
    3D packaging suite
  - Capture 3D
    Accurate scanning and artwork deformation
  - 3D
    Bring your packaging to life
- Artwork management
  - Artflow
    Streamline artwork and packaging approval, design, and management
- SDKs
  - Mako Core
    The SDK at the core of smart print applications
  - Harlequin Core
    The fastest core RIP engine available
  - ScreenPro Core
    Ultrafast screening engine with PrintFlat™ technology
  - ColorLogic Core SDK
    Based on production-proven ColorLogic technology
- Printhead solutions
  - Meteor Inkjet
    Production-ready, scalable drive electronics for all leading industrial inkjet printheads
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News
Hybrid Software Helix introduces SmartDFE Version 6, bringing GPU-native technology to the digital front end
Major new release introduces GPU-native RIP technology delivering up to 30× faster rendering on real-world customer files
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Press/Media
Agfa and Hybrid Software join forces to bring full variable data capability to digital folding carton production
Agfa and Hybrid Software announce a collaboration to help folding carton converters unlock the full potential of variable data printing…
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DFE
SmartDFE wins Label Industry China Award for Innovation 2025
Hybrid Software Helix rounds off the year with a third award for innovation for SmartDFE™.
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English
Global Graphics Software receives prestigious King’s Award for Enterprise for Innovation
The award recognizes the company’s outstanding innovation for SmartDFE™, an intelligent digital front end platform that drives high-speed label &…
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