PuzzleFlow WebPairer
Automated Page Pairing system for newspaper production
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Process automation for newspapers
PuzzleFlow WebPairer was designed from the ground up to address all aspects of newspaper production. WebPairer’s strength is that it changes complex tasks into simple steps or automates them outright. If you know how to “surf” the internet, 60% of your training is already done!
Beyond workflow, PuzzleFlow WebPairer is a prepress and production management and automation system built around PuzzleFlow’s own native PDF processing engine. WebPairer can produce print-ready plate files for in-house or remote print site production. It will also automatically deliver other needed formats of your pages (archive PDF, online PDF, JPG, GIF, TIFF, etc.) to anywhere you need them, any time you need them.
Main Features and Benefits:
- 100% Easy to use, browser interface
- 100% Database driven
- Automatically creates and corrects PDF files
- Unlimited users
- Unlimited Products, Sections, Zones and Editions
- Unlimited load balancing or output groups (DTP, imagesetters, proofers, etc.)
- Unlimited number of proofers and output devices
- Deadline notification and management
- Unlimited furniture and marks
- Handles and includes all template formats: 1-up, 2-up Broadsheet, 4-up Tabloid, 3 and 6-up Tri-liner, 8-up Quarterfold / Mini, 16-up Large Format
- Handles and includes all newspaper special needs: doubletrucks, dinkies, quarter / half / three-quarter webs, web-growth / fan-out, creep and wraps
Workflow Features and Benefits:
- Automatic preflight with pinpoint notification of problem areas
- Over 150 certified preflight checks (Ghent PDF Workgroup, GWG v3 compliant)
- Automatic page size verification and resizing (changing web width will never be a big deal again)
- Automatic color management (makes sure the color fits what your printing press can do)
- Automatic color remapping and color conversion
- Accepts PDF, EPS, PS, XPS, TIFF and JPG as input formats
- Accepts files by Printer, Hot Folder and FTP
- Automatically generates and distributes any needed output file formats: Hi-Res PDF, Online PDF, FPG, GIF, etc…
- Automatic and configurable notifications and alerts
- Easy to use, powerful and sophisticated scheduling engine
- Full logging and reporting of all activities
- Automatic renaming, copying, archiving, purging, FTP’ing, e-mail’ing of any page, based on any schedule or condition
- Multiple approval levels
- Ability to auto-approve and auto-proof
- Adapts to any naming convention, and supports an unlimited number of naming conventions
Prepress Features and Benefits:
- Automatic and selective file fixing by product and page type of all common prepress issues:
- Overprints
- Fragmented images
- Knockouts
- Fragmented gradients
- 4 Color Blacks
- Wrong color space (DeviceN, LAB, Indexed color, etc..)
- Hairlines
- White overprint
- Transparency
- Missing Fonts
- Turn color pages to black and white
- Remap any color to any color
- Output color validation (never send down blank or incorrect separations again)
- Removal of unwanted crop marks
- Automatic image enhancement
- Final ripping done by industrial strength Harlequin® rip
IT Features and Benefits:
- User / Group level security
- Use our stand-alone browser based client (Puzzleflow Express) for remote sites which includes our own:
printer driver, PDF normalizer, PDF preflighter and FTP client – all completely automated - Powerful built-in web server and database (MySQL® and Apache®)
- Easy remote administration – all configuration screens are browser based
- Automatic database clean-up, file archiving and purging.
- Well documented and fully available log tables for custom reporting access
- Major and minor upgrades are INCLUDED with annual support agreement
- Works with all existing in-house proofers
- 24 / 7 support available
Testimonials
“PuzzleFlow is proving to be the most powerful, AND flexible of all the workflow software packages we found,” said Tom Shafer, CNHI’s Corporate Vice President/production. “To find a company that really gets it, in this economy, and provide the full range of support prior-to, during, and after the installation and through implementation is as rewarding as any part of our conversion to CTP.”
“I’ve gotten praises so far with how easy it is to use and understand. I also like that we can schedule nightly uploads of PDFs and JPG’s to our website, Newseum, etc.. Training was very easy, the software only required a couple hours of training for end users. We’re a full PDF workflow now and we can send good, optimized PDF’s to our remote press shop and printers. I was really impressed with how they had no problem making the system work with our 12 year old classified system.”, says Brian Burbank, Systems Manager, The Pocono Record.