TrapWise is digital trapping

Spreading and choking

Trapping is a term most commonly used in the prepress industry to describe the compensation for misregistration between printing units on a multicolor press. This misregistration causes unsightly gaps or white-space on the final printed work...

 software. It was originally developed by startup Graphic Edge as RipPrep, subsequently acquired by Aldus

Aldus

Aldus Corporation, named after the 15th-century Venetian printer Aldus Manutius, was the inventor of the groundbreaking PageMaker software, a program that is generally credited with creating the desktop publishing field. The company was founded by Jeremy Jaech, Mark Sundstrom, Mike Templeman,...

 which re-released it as TrapWise 1.0 in 1993. It was subsequently owned by Adobe Systems

Adobe Systems

Adobe Systems Incorporated is an American computer software company founded in 1982 and headquartered in San Jose, California, United States...

, Luminous

Luminous

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, Imation

Imation

Imation is a US based multi-national technology corporation that designs, manufactures and sells recordable data storage media, consumer electronics products and accessories.The company is a 1996 spin off of 3M and is headquartered in Oakdale, Minnesota...

, ScenicSoft, Creo

Creo

Creo, now part of Eastman Kodak Company, was a Burnaby, British Columbia Canada-based company involved in imaging and software technology for computer to plate and digital printing. The name derives from the Latin creo, "I create."...

, and Kodak.

TrapWise acquisition was done by the Aldus Prepress Group

Aldus Prepress Group

Aldus Prepress Group was started by Ranjit Mulgaonkar and Michael Reiher in 1990. Under the leadership of Ranjit Mulgaonkar in three years time the group built the industries first desktop prepress software to perform operations such as color separation, imposition, trapping and automated work-flow...

 (also known as the Aldus Wise Guys) as the second acquisition in a series of acquisitions in order to build a product line that could perform all of the high-end prepress functions on desktop computers.