The £4m-turnover Yorkshire business, which was established in 1973, has also switched to the Fujifilm's Brillia HD LH-PJE plates.
The 52 staff business is imaging the new plates on its Screen platesetter for its brace of four- and five-colour Komori B2 litho presses.
According to Marc Hudson, studio manager at Jade, the company also opted for the FLH-Z 125 ‘ZAC’ processor and Fujifilm’s Pressmax coatings, which tie in to the firm's environmental ethos.
"The new plates are a lot more stable and offer much longer run lengths, and the ZAC processor has also proved to us why it falls within Fujifilm’s lo-chem family," he added.
The decision to invest in the XMF workflow stemmed from the need to increase automation and improve the company's colour management offering.
Hudson said: "Fujifilm’s XMF Workflow is built around the Adobe PDF Print Engine which is a big plus point for us as it allows us to process PDF files quickly and efficiently, saving us a great deal of time in pre-press.
"It also enables us to output to a number of different devices, and provides the ability to offer remote proofing to our customers via XMF Remote. Also, it is excellent in terms of its built-in colour management functionality."
Jade has a customer base that includes government departments, blue-chip companies and print buying agencies.
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