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Automator

Pre-RIP prepress management system for newspaper production

Process automation in newspaper

There is no way to reduce a number of human errors in the production environment, except for reducing the human involvement in your workflow. Automated prepress software will allow your company to provide a reliable service to your customers, and to stay ahead of your competitors and keep your operators on money producing tasks.

If you are a newspaper or magazine publisher, Automator is a system built from the ground up for your needs and it is ready to validate your incoming files, correct them for common prepress issues, notify you about the problems, auto-resize incoming documents based on any numbers of dynamic parameters, and automate archiving and purging of your files. Whether you print your files in-house or outsource your printing, Automator is the digital front-end you need to stay ahead with an automated delivery of anything to anywhere.

Features

  • Automatic preflighting with pinpoint notification of problem areas (Over 150 preflight checks)
  • Automatic size verification of ads and pages (with size fixing option by ad type, Q type, product name, or advertiser)
  • Accepts Postscript, PDF, EPS, XPS, Tiff and Jpg as input formats
  • Automatic generation of all needed file formats for web, archiving and other purposes (pdf, eps, tif, jpg, gif, png, etc…)
  • Will make PDF ads work with your pagination system, with no need for any upgrades to your pagination system
  • Automatic color management, color remapping and color conversion
  • Full integration with ad booking and tracking systems
  • Automatic notification of problems and logging of all activities
  • Automatic proofing / exporting of ads and pages at proof and approval stages.
  • 100% web based interface where you can approve, reject, proof, export, view history, and view all processing details
  • All tools of PuzzleFlow workflow available

Benefits

  • Need your top operators to be able to spend their time on your top customers ?
  • Shaking your head everytime you see someone working on something you know can be done by a computer ?
  • Wish your production files just worked ?
  • Wish your production system automatically followed the specs of your ad booking data ?
  • Wish your production system could communicate and make decisions with your ad booking, tracking and layout systems ?
  • Wish your system just knew to automatically process / send files (ads or pages) to other systems and companies based upon your rules and needs ?
  • Wish your production system could be viewed from any web browser ?