While most of our Digital Front Ends are specific to a particular digital printer; starting and stopping media paths, raising and lower printheads, sending pages in response to sensors; there is also a need for a general DFE that simply drops TIFF files off to be further processed by a TIFF catching print controller.
Here are the release notes for that:
NavigatorDFE TIFF Release 9.0 Release Notes
December 5, 2024
========================================================
Workflow 9.4.3.16
HHR 13.2r6 v13.2.6.16
XiSpooler 1.1.9.5
DFE 2.6.4
JobArchive v1.0
NCE 11.0
DCE 3.6
XiEvents 1.2.2.6
XiService 1.3.0.15
Sentinel Protection Installer 7.7.1
Postflight 52.0
XiSettings v1.0.1.1
LogJam 10.0
DFEBackRest 12.0
DeleteLogs 1.0b2
TIFF template v15
DFE New Functionality
* Standalone TIFF system device.
* Allow selection of destination location for TIFFs.
* Optionally generate a BMP thumbnail at 150dpi. Destination can be specified.
* Bring over some HMR output plugin options: Compression scheme, byte ordering, and anti-aliasing.
* Support for contone (8-bit) TIFF in a composite (single) file.