Produce - Release Note 2.1
October 2026
Version 2.1 brings further enhancements to the GMG color management, including a new Gray Axis Correction, as well as a new global search, stacks and slip sheets in the VDP Editor, and numerous improvements in the Impose Editor, Approval Projects, Grid Charts, and the user interface. The complete Release Notes, including all fixed bugs, are available in the User Manual.
Update information:
To install version 2.1, you must first install version 2.0.19.
New Features:
Expanded GMG Color Management
The GMG-based color management introduced in version 2.0 has been further extended. A new Gray Axis Correction allows gray tones to be fine-tuned along the green/red and yellow/blue axes – applied automatically during rendering. A configurable safety zone around measurement charts leaves room for printer-generated spitting bars without affecting the chart itself. In addition, Variations – and with them their Color Policies – can now be renamed to match production requirements.
Spotlight – Global Search
A new global search lets you quickly find menus, files, and colors and navigate to them directly – without having to open the respective menu first.
VDP Editor: Stacks and Slip Sheets
The Variable Data tab has been completely redesigned, and many steps can now be completed in a single place – the VDP Job Settings dialog. For the first time, variable data can be grouped into stacks, for example to continue consecutive numbering or CSV records within a stack. Optional slip sheets can be inserted between stacks or reams and filled with variable content such as order name, stack number, or first/last record number, including text and barcodes. Stack and slip sheet settings are included when importing and exporting VDP Job Settings.
Impose Editor Enhancements
In Step & Repeat, each Print Item can now be limited to a single column. The color of lines around impose groups in Nesting can be derived dynamically from a user-defined field – just like caption colors since version 2.0. In Die Cut N-Up numbering, the numbers "6" and "9" are now marked with a period so they remain distinguishable when rotated, and color settings for marks have been standardized.
Improved Approval Projects
Approval projects are easier to create and track: you can choose more clearly whether and how e-mail notifications are sent, the approval dashboard shows all rejection reasons at a glance, and you can jump directly from a notification to the corresponding Approval Project.
Extended Grid Charts
Grid Charts are now available in the larger sizes A2, A1, and A0. A new "Color Values" grid chart can be created for a selected spot color in Lab, RGB, CMYK, and DeviceN, and the hue value can be printed on "Chromatic" grid charts.
More Transparency and Control
The protocol of a Print Item now shows which Fixup Chain and Fixups were applied, including their values – making it easy to repeat a job. User-defined fields can be used in Quick Print and Batch Processing, and a new "Expert Mode" permission allows administrators to control who can access expert functions.
Refined User Interface and API
Selected records remain selected after an action is applied, technical colors for cutting are now shown as a separate vector overlay on the Print Item, and the header bar has been made more compact. Via API v2, Collections and Articles within them can now be created.