News

  • 2009-03-15 - A new release of the Elk Press is available for download. The Queue and Process implementations have bean refactored. The new release can be downloaded here:
  • 2008-08-20 - A new release of the Elk Press is available for download. The biggest improvement is a refactored offset press simulation that should be more or less compliant with the 1.3 versions of the MIS-to-ConventionalPrinting ICS and the Prepress-to-ConventionalPrinting ICS. To deploy the WAR file follow the instructions in the previous release's news entry below. The new release can be downloaded here: If you are not a software developer and just want to try out submitting press jobs to the Elk Press, then an alternative is to download the BrobyGrafiskaOffsetPress . The BrobyGrafiskaOffsetPress is a Java desktop application that includes the Elk Press and provides a graphical user interface for it. The BrobyGrafiskaOffsetPress can be downloaded from the project's web site: http://code.google.com/p/brobygrafiska-offsetpress/
  • 2008-03-24 - A new release of the Elk Press is available for download. The most important new feature is the support for plate updates using JMF Resource Commands. The new release is based on the latest release of the Elk Framework . The Elk Press download is in the form of a WAR file. Here are instructions for deploying the Elk Press in Tomcat :
    1. Download the WAR file: elk-press-2.0.a1.war
    2. Rename the WAR file to elk-press.war
    3. Copy the WAR file to Tomcat's webapps directory
    4. Start Tomcat
    5. Connect a JMF client to http://localhost:8080/elk-press/jmf , or open the address in a web browser to access the web user interface
  • 2007-09-13 - It is now possible to very quickly build and deploy the Elk Press webapp using Maven 2 's Jetty plugin . Run the command mvn jetty:run . This will build and deploy the Elk Press webapp sent to the Elk Press on http://localhost:8080/elk-press/jmf.
  • 2007-09-12 - The Elk Press now has its own Subversion source repository: elk-press . Instructions how to retrieve the Elk Framework source code from our source repository can be found under Project Information > Source Repository .
  • 2007-09-09 - The Elk Press web site premieres

The Elk Press

Welcome to the web site of the Elk Press project. The Elk Press is a reference implementation of the Elk Framework that simulates an sheet-fed offset printing press. The ambition of the Elk Press is to conform to the following Interoperability Conformance Specifications (ICS) , roles, and levels:
  • MIS to Conventional Printing - Sheet Fed ICS, Version 1.3 (draft) -- Worker Role, Level 2
  • MIS to Conventional Printing - Sheet Fed ICS, Version 1.0 Rev A -- Worker Role, Level 2
  • Prepress to Conventional Printing ICS, Version 1.0 -- Worker Role, Level 1

Disclaimer

The Elk Press is distributed under the CIP4 Software License . THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION FOR THE INTEGRATION OF PROCESSES IN PREPRESS, PRESS AND POSTPRESS OR ITS CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.