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Summer NEWSLETTER 2011 “Houston, We Have a Solution!” How to avoid the dreaded deadline call. The last few years have been marked by consolidation and outsourcing. Many publications have consolidated their printing facilities, and others have found efficiencies by outsourcing their printing requirements. Both strategies can provide savings benefits, however, they often introduce new problems for the design and production staff. Dealing with deadline driven publications: whether you print a daily, a weekly, even a shopper or community guide, your readers expect your publication on a specific day, and time sensitive content looses value if it is not presented when it is relevant. In short; outsourced, in-house, or consolidated, the paper has to be printed on time! “We can’t print it, the file is bad!” You don’t ever want to get this phone call, especially on deadline! For that matter, if you are the printer rather than the publisher, you don’t want to have to make this call. At PuzzleFlow we have a solution designed especially to keep this from happening - PuzzleFlow Automator. It is hard to make this article sound informative, rather than like a flagrant promotional piece, but we are consistently surprised by how many companies are struggling with these problems and simply don’t know that there is an affordable, automated solution available. PuzzleFlow Automator is designed to optimize files for problem-free printing. Tight budgets and tight deadlines! As applications keep updating, designers keep pushing the enve- lope and PDF keeps adding new abilities, the challenge of moving files efficiently through prepress, pairing/imposition, and output, quickly and without problems, becomes more difficult. PuzzleFlow Automator will PDF incoming files that are not already in PDF form, check files for errors and automatically correct most problems, create proofs, identify and visually show you the exact elements (if any) that cause warnings or errors, organize your publications and automatically deliver files to where ever and whom ever you need in the proper format for pairing, printing, web-publication, e-proofing, and archiving. PuzzleFlow Automator is preflighting, organizing, streamlining, auto- correcting and much more. If you are struggling with deadlines, fighting with older workflows or RIPs, stymied by customer files that arn’t created properly, or otherwise spending all your time fixing things instead of producing printed pages, let us show you how Automator can help. Contact us today for a live, online demonstration with one of our Automator Integration Experts. All the contact information is right there at the bottom of the page. On The Back: l The Help Tab l We’ve got your number l Something to Blog About l PuzzleFlow’s in-tent PuzzleFlow Solutions US l www.puzzleflow.com l sales@puzzleflow.us l 248-412-8810 If you are consolidating printing or outsourcing your printing and the printing plant is having problems with your files, tell them about us. Better yet, put Automator in at your location and prep all your files before you send them on for printing. Or, if you are the one responsible for the printing and you keep getting prob- lem files that have errors, or worse yet, can’t be used at all, take a look at what Automator can do for you. These are hard times, let PuzzleFlow make them a little easier, and a little more profitable for you. Trendlines Is This You?
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Summer NEWSLETTER 2011
“Houston, We Have a Solution!” How to avoid the dreaded deadline call.
The last few yearshavebeenmarkedbyconsolidationandoutsourcing.Manypublicationshaveconsolidatedtheirprintingfacilities,andothershavefoundefficienciesbyoutsourcingtheirprintingrequirements.Bothstrategiescanprovidesavingsbenefits,however,theyoftenintroducenewproblemsforthedesignandproductionstaff.
Dealingwithdeadlinedrivenpublications:whetheryouprintadaily,aweekly,evenashopperorcommunityguide,yourreadersexpectyourpublicationonaspecificday,andtimesensitivecontentloosesvalueifitisnotpresentedwhenitisrelevant.Inshort;outsourced,in-house,orconsolidated,thepaperhastobeprintedontime!
“We can’t print it, the file is bad!” Youdon’teverwanttogetthisphonecall,especiallyondeadline!Forthatmatter,ifyouaretheprinterratherthanthepublisher,youdon’twanttohavetomakethiscall.AtPuzzleFlowwehaveasolutiondesignedespeciallytokeepthisfromhappening-PuzzleFlowAutomator.
Itishardtomakethisarticlesoundinformative,ratherthanlikeaflagrantpromotionalpiece,butweareconsistentlysurprisedbyhowmanycompaniesarestrugglingwiththeseproblemsandsimplydon’tknowthatthereisanaffordable,automatedsolutionavailable.
PuzzleFlow Automator is designed to optimize files for problem-free printing.
Tightbudgetsandtightdeadlines!Asapplicationskeepupdating,designerskeeppushingtheenve-lopeandPDFkeepsaddingnewabilities,thechallengeofmovingfilesefficientlythroughprepress,pairing/imposition,andoutput,quicklyandwithoutproblems,becomesmoredifficult.
PuzzleFlowAutomatorwillPDFincomingfilesthatarenotalreadyinPDFform,checkfilesforerrorsandautomaticallycorrectmostproblems,createproofs,identifyandvisuallyshowyoutheexactelements(ifany)thatcausewarningsorerrors,organizeyourpublicationsandautomatically
deliverfilestowhereeverandwhomeveryouneedintheproperformatforpairing,printing,web-publication,e-proofing,andarchiving.
PuzzleFlowAutomatorispreflighting,organizing,streamlining,auto-correctingandmuchmore.Ifyouarestrugglingwithdeadlines,fighting
witholderworkflowsorRIPs,stymiedbycustomerfilesthatarn’tcreatedproperly,orotherwisespendingallyourtimefixing
thingsinsteadofproducingprintedpages,letusshowyouhowAutomatorcanhelp.Contactustodayforalive,onlinedemonstrationwithoneofourAutomatorIntegrationExperts.Allthe
contactinformationisrightthereatthebottomofthepage.
On The Back:
l The Help Tab l We’ve got
your numberl Something to
Blog Aboutl PuzzleFlow’s
in-tent
PuzzleFlow Solutions US l www.puzzleflow.com l [email protected] l 248-412-8810
If you are consolidating printing or outsourcing your printing and the printing plant is having problems with your files, tell them about us. Better yet, put Automator in at your location and prep all your files before you send them on for printing.
Or, if you are the one responsible for the printing and you keep getting prob-lem files that have errors, or worse yet, can’t be used at all, take a look at what Automator can do for you.
These are hard times, let PuzzleFlow make them a little easier, and a little more profitable for you.
Trendlines
Is This You?
PuzzleFlow Solutions US l www.puzzleflow.com l [email protected] l 248-412-8810
The Help TabOver the lastfewmonthswehavebeenaddingfunction-alitytothehelptabinAutoma-torandWebPairer.PerhapsthebignewthingistheabilitytoaddyourownnotesandpagestotheHelpTab.
Youwillalsofindalinkto:recentReleaseNotes,Us-ersGuides(includingAdminGuides,technotes,etc.),thePuzzleFlowwebsiteandthePuzzleFlowUSABlog–whichisoftenagoodsourceforthelatestinformationaboutdevel-opmentsandlinkstotech-tips.
We’ve got your number . . .
or better yet, you’ve got ours.
ThePuzzleFlowsupportlinephonenumberhaschanged!Thenewsupportnumberis:
888-301-2240
Afterhours(24/7)supportcustomersshouldalsousethenewnumber,butafteryouconnect,followthesameprocedureasbefore.
PuzzleFlow Solutions Newsletter Back Page
The PuzzleFlow
BLOGAll the latest stuff canbefoundonthePuzzleFlowBLOG.Ifthereisinformationaboutnewfeatures,someimportantfront-endapplicationtips,newsabouttrade-shows,PDFsofthePuzzleFlowNewsletter,storiesaboutinstallsorhowotherusersareimplementingPuzzleFlowfeatures...youwillfindittherefirst.BelowisalistofsomeofthearticlesontheBLOG:
Press Gain / Dot Gain / TVI Compensation
Problems with PDF & Transparency in Quark 8
Landscape Printing Problems with Mac OS 10.6.5
Ink Optimization - Just what is Reality?
Ghent PDF Workgroup v4
Web Growth
And More . . .
VisitthePuzzleFlowBlogat:http://blog.puzzleflow.us
OrusetheQRcodetotheright.
PuzzleFlow’s in-tent
The PuzzleFlow Show Tentisontheroadagain,oritwillbeinSeptember.Wehavedoubledourspaceforthisyear’sGraphExpo2011andwillalsobeofferingsomeshowspecials.Asanexample:
PuzzleFlow InkSaver Installation is FREE-forallordersplacedfromnowuntiltheendofGraphExpo2011.
OurmarketingpartnerFUJIFILMGraphicSystemswillhaveaKRAUSEplatesetterinthePuzzleFlowboothtopromotetheirdirecttoplatepackage,whichincludesPuzzleFlowWebPairer,KRAUSEplatesettersandFUJIplates.
Callustodaytoscheduleanappointmentforademonstrationattheshow,ororderInkSaverwithfreeinstallation.Thenumberisatthebottomofthispage.
PuzzleFlow - GraphExpo booth # 2663
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