Amfortis

Workflow software for packaging & label printing

Amfortis is a dedicated all-in-one PDF workflow solution for packaging converters and label printers, covering all prepress production tasks from preflighting, stepping and repeating and proofing to rendering.

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Benefits

100% reliable

Amfortis uses ECO3’s Digital QuickStrip mechanism to render a single artwork, which then gets stepped to fill a complete print sheet. This has two great advantages: it keeps file sizes and hardware requirements low, which speeds up your production process. It also ensures a perfectly consistent print quality. As the box is rendered, before it is placed, it will always retain its characteristics, no matter its position or orientation.

High print quality, low ink usage

Amfortis incorporates our revolutionary SPIR@L screening, which replaces the traditional ink dot with more efficient shapes. The result? Excellent print quality and significant ink savings, as well as increased printing speed and stability on press!

Built into Amfortis is our comprehensive print standardization software PressTune, which gives you a firm grip on print quality and color consistency and lets you share objective evaluations with brand owners. You’ll benefit from faster make-ready, lower ink and paper consumption, and smoother approvals.

Integrated command center

Amfortis manages jobs, outputs plates, and creates proofs. However, it can also drive digital presses or wide-format printers for sample or short-run production, as well as cutter devices.

Brand design & protection

Amfortis integrates with ECO3’s Arziro, an Illustrator plug-in that makes it easy to add specific design elements to artwork for brand protection. Arziro not only protects printed packages against counterfeiting, it also enhances their shelf appeal, thus enabling you to create added value for brand owners.

The benefits of Amfortis extend across several areas but are particularly noticeable in the prepress stage. The drastic reduction of the job preparation time, consolidation into a single software solution, and maximum process reliability are the most decisive factors for us.
Sebastian Röhr, Prepress Team Leader– Bösmann Medien und Druck

The huge potential of Amfortis immediately became apparent. It has made our production process both faster and more secure, as it allowed us to eliminate intermediate steps. Our operators, who were already used to working with Apogee, feel that the interface is very intuitive.
Gian Luca Pellegrinelli, Production Manager - Fratelli Roda SA

Cloud-based

Available as a cloud solution that is monitored 24/7 from ECO3’s ISO-certified data centers, Amfortis Cloud lets you focus on your core business while rising to future challenges: growing amounts of data, secure storage, multi-site operations…

Subscription-based

As it is subscription-based, Amfortis will fit your needs exactly, while being aligned at all times to the latest technological developments.

Integrated AMFORTIS Editor

The integrated Amfortis PDF editor contains a complete set of prepress, editing and quality assurance functions, such as trapping, separation handling, barcode creation, object-based screening and many more.

Built on Apogee

ECO3 has a 25+ year track record when it comes to developing JDF-based workflow software solutions. Amfortis builds on our well-known Apogee Prepress workflow software for commercial printers to meet the specific requirements of packaging and label printers.

Backed up by great service & support

Amfortis is backed up by our experienced service and support organization, so you can remain up and running at all times.

Part of a whole

Amfortis works its magic best in cooperation with ECO3’s dedicated plates, platesetters, imagers and pressroom products for offset and flexo printing. We are happy to discuss bundling deals with you.

Amfortis Server
OS requirements (depending on throughput and reliability requirements)	- Windows 10 and 11 (Pro for Workstations and Enterprise) - Windows 2016 (Standard Edition) - Windows 2019 (Standard Edition) - Windows 2022 (Standard and Datacenter Edition)
Hardware requirements	- Dual CPU - Min. 16 GB Ram - 250 GB hard disk
System architecture	- Client-server system – allowing remote operator access and system management - Modular set-up - based on task processors that handle specific workflow tasks - Dynamic load-balancing – run multiple instances of task processors or move them to separate PCs for high volume workloads - Intelligent color management – built-in color optimization to guarantee highest output quality
Task processors (some optional)	- Automate – rules-based automation and file processing - Export – output files for integration with third party systems - Hot folder – automatically process incoming files - Impose – dynamic imposition and step & repeat module - JDF Input – import job data from MIS or planning systems - Normalize – validate and process PDF files - Open Connect – import bitmap data from third party RIPs - PDF Render – Adobe APPE-based RIP with built-in trapping - Preflight – check incoming PDF files - Press – generate ink key settings, optimize processing for specific sheet sizes,… - Versioning – process multi-lingual or other versioning jobs … and more, including drivers for platesetters, proofers, large format printers,…

Amfortis Client
Hardware requirements	- Windows 8, 10 or 11 - Windows 2012, 2016 or 2019 - MacOS X 10.7 and later
Languages	Chinese (simplified and traditional), Czech, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Spanish and Swedish