Workflow

Drive costs down throughout your business by automating repetitive tasks such as sorting incoming jobs, pre-flighting, colour correcting files and notification. A well thought through and successfully implemented workflow solution can save you time and resources, creating significant efficiencies within your business.

Workflow automation is specific to both the industry sector and the companies requirements.  Below we've listed some of the products that we use in our workflows but this list is by no means definitive.

If you would like to discuss your workflow requirements please get in touch.  We have experience within the creative, production and prepress sectors and would be pleased to hear from you.

	Enfocus LightSWITCH The most simple workflow tool on the market for Mac and PC. If you want to start automating your workflow then LightSWITCH is a great place to start.
	MadeToPrint Auto MadeToPrint XT auto for QuarkXPress. Hotfolder-based XTension for QuarkXPress 4 and 6 - now also for QXP 7 available.
	Enfocus FullSWITCH Using a simple to understand GUI flow editor within FullSWITCH you are able to build comprehensive workflows to meet the everyday need of your business.
	Enfocus PowerSWITCH PowerSWITCH, using its comprehensive scripting and metadata tools you can build a smarter and more advanced workflow that integrates seamlessly with third-party technology.
	DevZeroG PrintSure A real-time ‘check then send’ PDF pre-flight, workflow and file transfer system.
	Enfocus PitStop Server Process, monitor, preflight and edit a large volume of PDF documents using profiles & action lists.
	iDropper Enterprise iDropper provides simple, secure, reliable FTP file uploading with powerful tools for your business.
	Markzware FlightCheck Online FlightCheck Online is a cost effective, web-based quality control and file delivery solution. This honored web-to-print solution enables quick communication between senders and receivers of digital files to ensure they conform to print-ready specifications.
	Hermstedt StingRay MK II-4B Hermstedt's StingRay MK II-4B is the award winning file transfer appliance supporting ISDN, FTP, email and other IP based file transfer protocols. StingRay also provides workflow forwarding, hot-folder delivery and email notification.
	Hermstedt StingRay MK II-8B Hermstedt's StingRay MK II-8B is the award winning file transfer appliance supporting ISDN, FTP, email and other IP based file transfer protocols. StingRay also provides workflow forwarding, hot-folder delivery and email notification.
	Hermstedt StingRay MK V Hermstedt's StingRay MK V is the award winning file transfer appliance supporting ISDN, FTP, email and other IP based file transfer protocols. StingRay also provides workflow forwarding, hot-folder delivery and email notification.
	callas pdfaPilot Server Automated standards compliant PDF archiving in accordance with the PDF/A standard.
	callas DeviceLink Add-on The callas DeviceLink Add-on Server enables you to perform conversions via the supplied DeviceLink profiles.
	callas pdfToolbox CLI 3 Integrate Acrobat® preflighting and automated PDF correction into any environment.
	MadeToPrint Id Auto MadeToPrint InDesign auto – hotfolder based Plug-in for Adobe’s standard layout applications InDesign CS and CS2 – now also available for InDesign CS3.
	callas pdfToolbox 4 Callas pdfToolbox 4 gives all aspects of working with PDF's a massive boost with a greatly extended feature set no longer tailored just for prepress users. Callas pdfToolbox 4 saves time in document preparation and modification
	Enfocus PDF Workflow Suite The Enfocus PDF Workflow Suite enables total PDF quality management with tools to set-up and communicate PDF specifications and to check and correct incoming PDF files.
	Enfocus CertifiedPDF.net CertifiedPDF.net is the ultimate tool for printers and publishers to effectively communicate PDF output requirements to designers and content creators for error-free print production.
	Elpical Claro Automatic image enhancement is a real challenge, what is good for one image is not good for the other. Claro analyses every image thoroughly, looking for such parameters as sharpness, brightness, contrast, colour balance, natural greens, skin tones, Exif information and more.
	callas pdfAutoOptimizer callas pdfAutoOptimizer is a special software tool from callas software for automated transparency flattening and PDF optimisation using Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional.
	PerfectProof ProofMaster Certify ProofMaster Certify takes your colour confidence to the next level by guaranteeing the files you process fully match the latest colour standards.
	PerfectProof ProofMaster PerfectProof ProofMaster is the solution that can guarantee perfectly matching proofs and prints for every job, every time, whatever the type of output.
	PerfectProof PrintFactory PrintFactory provides all the professional-level file correction and job preparation tools you need to produce more colour-accurate output with minimum waste and guaranteed superb results.
	Alwan CMYK Optimizer Press Alwan CMYK Optimizer allows a pre-press company or printer to check and correct automatically and dynamically the colours and ink weight characteristics of incoming files.
	Alwan CMYK Optimizer Eco CMYK Optimizer ECO offers unequaled ink savings capabilities thanks to its Dynamic Black generation.
	Alwan ColorPursuit Alwan ColorPursuit™ is a software that allows you to assess the colour quality of your devices and of the ICC profiles that you produce or use, along with the colour reproduction capabilities and quality of your workflow.
	Markzware Markztools MarkzTools can be used to prevent corrupted QuarkXPress documents, overcoming the dreaded bad file format [70], [39], and [108].
	Markzware Q21D v3 Provides Adobe InDesign users a quick, easy and inexpensive solution for converting and migrating QuarkXPress content into InDesign documents.
	Markzware PUB2ID Provides Adobe InDesign users a quick, easy and inexpensive solution for converting and migrating Publisher content into InDesign documents.
	Markzware ID2Q Provides QuarkXPress users a quick, easy and inexpensive solution for converting Adobe InDesign content into QuarkXPress documents.
	Markzware PasteBoard 7 PasteBoard 7 allows you to adjust the width and height of the pasteboard by value as well as by percentage, giving a wider range of options than that within the QuarkXPress application.
	Markzware Pict Attributes Markzware Pict Attributes remembers the attributes of a picture box when you perform a (Get Picture) and restores the picture scale, offset, rotation, skew, runaround and flip.
	Axaio MadeToCompare InCopy Plug-in MadeToCompare for InCopy is the most reliable text verifier for InDesign and InCopy based publishing environments.
	Altsoft Xml2PDF Server Altsoft Xml2PDF Server is the engine (.NET API) for convening XSL-FO, SVG, XHTML and Microsoft Word (WordML 2003, DocX) documents into PDF, PS, XPS, and raster graphics (TIFF, GIF, JPEG, PNG, WMF).
	Altsoft Xml2PDF Workstation Xml2PDF Workstation is a client application for converting XSL-FO (or XSL+XSLT), SVG, XHTML and Word (WordML 2003, DocX, Word 2007 Xml) files to PDF, XPS, PS, TIFF.
	Altsoft Altviewer AltViewer is a user-freandly client application for XSL-FO (or XSL+XSLT), SVG, XHTML and Word (WordML 2003, DocX, Word 2007 Xml) documents preview.
	Axaio MadeToPrint InDesign Basic Axaio MadeToPrint InDesign is the approved international standard solution for enhancing, ensuring and streamlining all output processes from within Adobe’s professional layout application.
	Axaio MadeToPrint XT Basic MadeToPrint XT has been excelling as the standard output organiser for QuarkXPress, streamlining and enhancing two vital XPress aspects: printing and file exporting
	Axaio MadeToPrint XT Auto QPS MadeToPrint InDesign auto QPS has been developed and fine tuned for seamless integration with Quark’s editorial system QPS. This powerful Plug-In runs hotfolder based as an unattended queue processing machine
	Meadows Publishing Solutions Batch Print for QuarkXPress 7 MPS Batch Print for QuarkXPress prints hundreds of documents automatically, handling every aspect of the printing operation, including one-time page/print setup, automatic picture updates, separation of spot colours, EPS font and colour management, and more.
	Apago Piktor Piktor 3.0 provides advertising, prepress and print production professionals with all the tools to view and convert raster, PDF and PostScript files.
	Callas pdfToolbox Server 4 For any type of document processing, from preflighting to impositioning, callas pdfToolbox Server 4 will prove to be your loyal workhorse.