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Enfocus showcases efficiency-boosting solutions for the newspaper industry at IFRA Expo 2010
Wednesday 22. September 2010 - Enfocus and Enfocus Crossroads present the latest workflow automation and PDF preflighting tools at Stand 1.244
Enfocus and Enfocus Crossroads, the online community for Enfocus Switch users and partners, will demonstrate the latest workflow automation tools for the newspaper industry at IFRA Expo. The Enfocus Switch 09 product family and the recently launched PitStop Connect enhance the newspaper production process, enabling users to raise productivity and profitability. IFRA Expo 2010 is a leading event in the newspaper and media industry, and takes place 4 – 6 October 2010 in Hamburg, Germany.
Enfocus Crossroads creates a seamless interface for products in publishing workflows. It brings together Enfocus Switch users, Crossroads partners and Crossroads integrator partners. The result is less manual intervention, which saves time and reduces errors – crucial for print and production environments in the newspaper business. With Enfocus Switch as the backbone, the Enfocus Crossroads community enables users to analyze the efficiency of their workflow, which is vital in high-turnover environments with complex pagination and other specific requirements.
“In the highly competitive newspaper industry, production professionals are always looking for ways to sharpen their competitive edge. We encourage visitors to visit Enfocus and our Enfocus Crossroads partners at stand 1.244 to learn more about how easily common business processes can be automated to save time and money,” says Angelo Manno, Account Manager Crossroads. “IFRA Expo gives us the perfect opportunity to demonstrate to the newspaper and publishing industry how Enfocus and the Enfocus Crossroads partners can enhance the workflow automation. We will show this industry for the first time how PitStop Connect makes it easy for creative professionals to deliver perfect PDFs to their printer/publisher partners.”
Sharing a common goal: Enfocus Crossroads partners at IFRA Expo 2010
Since years, Enfocus Crossroads partners have collaborated on developing multi-vendor automation workflows to solve customer-specific business issues. At IFRA Expo, Enfocus will present multi-vendor automation solutions together with the following Enfocus Crossroads partners:
· Impressed – long-standing Crossroads integration partner and Enfocus distributor that handles the integration of Switch in combination with third-party applications in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
· ColorLogic – specializes in developing integrated color management solutions. The company has partnered with several vendors in the graphic arts and printing industry including Enfocus to develop high-end color management solutions. In addition, end-user products complete the offering. CoLiPri, CoPrA and DocBees Reprofiler to create high quality DeviceLink profiles, the PDF and image processing color server ZePrA and the color management preflighting tool DocBees ProfileTagger will be showcased in combined workflows using Enfocus Switch.
· Elpical Software – develops solutions for automated, intelligent image processing. Using Claro’s Individual Image Analysis technology it is possible to automatically optimize high volumes of images while routing problematic images to operators for manual checking or correction. Elpical Claro Premedia enables hot folder based optimization of high volumes of images while Elpical Claro Single was built specifically as an automation module for workflow systems such as Enfocus Switch for hands-off automation of image optimization.
Switch 09: smart workflow automation
The Enfocus Switch product family enables automation of third-party applications. The latest release, Switch 09, makes it easier to create and edit workflows, includes more powerful tools for larger environments and features a completely renewed SwitchClient.
Professionals in the newspaper industry undertake a multitude of repetitive tasks every day, which can lead to mistakes. Switch automates many of these tasks, improving accuracy and minimizing errors. The solution also helps raise employees satisfaction, as it frees them to work on more challenging activities. The Switch product family includes three versions, with an easy upgrade path among the three: the entry-level LightSwitch, FullSwitch that includes configurators to easily integrate with third-party applications and PowerSwitch, which extends the automation even further through custom scripts and meta data support (incl. JDF, XMP and XML).
PitStop Connect: bridging the creative world and the print scene
PitStop Connect gives the newspaper industry a new desktop tool that for the first time guarantees PDFs to meet your specifications by connecting creative professionals and printers/publishers.
The tool enables printers and publishers to create Connectors. These Connectors can be branded for designer/creative professionals and contain PDF specifications for preflight. Once a PDF file is dropped on a Connector, preflighting will start based on the specification. When passed, the PDF file is uploaded to the printer or publisher. The printer or publisher can also decide to receive Certified Not ok PDF files or non PDF files. Once PitStop Connect is being obtained, the printer/publisher can create as many Connectors as needed and distribute this freely to as many creative professionals.
PitStop Connect is also an additional link in the overall graphic arts supply chain to other Enfocus automation products, connecting seamlessly to Switch and PitStop Server. Once received, files can be quickly and easily sorted, managed and processed within Switch at a level of end-to-end automation.