A Colorful Point-and-Click Graphical Interface for the Forms Designer

The elegant arrangement of the status readouts, menu buttons, and drawing window allows the operator to control the MECCA 2000 software with confidence. For each drawing tool, option windows "pop-up" by clicking the right mouse button. For every step, "next action prompts" appear at the top of the screen to guide the user. An on-line help feature is also available whenever a question arises.

Powerful Features for Composing Business Forms, Labels, and Security Documents

MECCA 2000 is the enhanced replacement for Amgraf's MECCA III - the world's premier business forms composition system. The software offers designers a comprehensive suite of tools to create multi-color, multi-part forms with graduated screens, borders and pantographs, scanned logos, barcodes, and fine typography. For label manufacturing, the software includes trapping, flexographic distortion, and a unique step-and-repeat feature. To add security to any document, MECCA 2000 provides functions for superimposed hidden "Void" messages, a relief line generator, microprint composer, prismatic color mixer, and PixeLace^TM for lacey backgrounds. With batch pagination, forms production from order-entry to plate can be entirely automated. Finished designs are output via PostScript as flawless color-separated negatives or printing plates, or they may be transmitted to digital color printing presses for high-speed variable-imaging applications.

Designed for Automated Prepress Production

The MECCA 2000 System is a powerful, programmable, page make-up and composing workstation. In addition to the interactive WYSIWYG capabilities, MECCA 2000 includes job scripting and programming features to easily automate many time-consuming standard composition tasks. By using these capabilities, customers can configure repetitive prepress jobs to operate on "automatic pilot'' thereby saving time while reducing labor costs and production errors.

Because MECCA 2000 runs on a Pentium PC with the FreeBSD Unix Operating System many open-source royalty-free software suites are included and available at no charge to build custom production workflows. For example, a complete Apache HTTP Server is included for web site hosting, as well as the MySQL Database Management System.