Conversions and formatting

We employ state-of-the-art technology as well as maintaining a number of legacy systems in-house, often enabling us to convert between very old printer formats to the most recent systems.

Format	Converted to
AFP	Xerox, HP-PCL, Adobe Type 1, TrueType, Siemens Native, PDF
Xerox	AFP, HP-PCL, Adobe Type 1, TrueType, Siemens Native, PDF
HP-PCL	AFP, Xerox, Adobe Type 1, TrueType, Siemens Native, PDF
Siemens Native	AFP, Xerox, Adobe Type 1, TrueType, HP-PCL, PDF
Type 1	AFP, Xerox, HP-PCL, TrueType, Siemens Native
TrueType	AFP, Xerox, HP-PCL, Adobe Type 1, Siemens Native

We maintain a number of legacy systems at Terrapin and we can still convert from IBM 3800 (unbounded-box) format, as well as Siemens online and offline formats.

In addition to converting between printer formats, we can of course convert from one resource format to another such as converting graphics to fonts or converting forms to graphics.

Data Formatting
Our experience in the industry has enabled us to provide support in the area of job set-up and data formatting. With expertise in Xerox printing language – PDL, and IBM’s AFP we have performed numerous data formatting projects, and provided consultancy in using these languages.

We have a number of systems in-house for running complete jobs by emulating the high-speed environment, returning to you all of the resources required to start production printing as soon as possible.

Amongst other packages, we use Elixir DesignPro Tools and can also offer Elixir Professional Services