The Economist reports success with Enfocus Switch and hails the use of the Enfocus Crossroads community

The Economist reports that Enfocus Switch allows the company to automate repetitive tasks and consequently reduce errors with improved efficiency. Switch also connects a variety of standard applications within the many different system configurations in use at the organization.

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Case Study: Ashford Colour Press

“The time savings and professionalism demonstrated by the instant return of preflight reports, have been valuable to our customer facing relationships and productivity.”

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"Workflow Automation Solutions - The key to profitability and client integration" by David Zwang

Good production workflows are one of the main factors in meeting deadlines and profitability, especially in today’s competitive environment. They can also be the key to profitability and a great way for you to integrate your customer’s workflow processes with yours. Historically, the answer to creating an effective workflow has been to throw people at it. The increasing complexity of the tools and processes required makes this method very expensive and dependent on people, because the work demands highly skilled operators. Finding and or training these operators can be a big challenge in itself.

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Article: "Where do we go from here."

"Where do we go from here." by Fabian Prudhomme, Vice President of Enfocus for Printing Industries of America

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Video - Enfocus Switch and WoodWing Enterprise integration webinar

Crossroads recently organized a joint WoodWing Software & Enfocus webinar session themed "Streamline your media production workflow". The recording of this webinar is now available for you to watch online.

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The Truth About Automation

One of the stark realities about our world’s heralded return to economic solvency is that the make–up of the workplace will have changed substantially. Yes, the shift to skilled, service–based economies will be on the backs of many who will not be able to return to the workforce without acquiring new skills.

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Print Automation Works

Graphic arts industry management and owners need to investigate how to employ automation strategies and technologies in every department. Doing so will help reduce overhead and improve profits, but it can also help them make the most of the capabilities and abilities of their staff. Overall, automation is key to building an efficient and profitable 21st century company.

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Karsten Schwarze enjoys the benefits of automated solutions

With a specialty in consulting specifically geared towards workflows, Karsten Schwarze is always on the lookout for tools that make life easier.

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Imposition: What to automate?

As many of our customers look to move to more automated workflows in prepress, they naturally start looking at what to automate for their imposition work. For many customers, this seems simple on the surface, but can quickly get overwhelming. So, we’ve come up with some tips on where to begin with automating your impositions and some of these suggestions can be applied to other automation processes as well.

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Fourpees - Why are you printing that order?

So a new order came in, you dealt with it and then you printed it out and filed it in a spanking new red folder. And why exactly did you do that?

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Dynagram - Movies on Cost effective automation

Enfocus and Dynagram presented an automation webinar for quick printers, commercial and digital printers that want to automate prepress production without having to invest large sums of capital.

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Dynagram - Imposition workflow options with Dynagram's inpO2

Imposition workflow options with Dynagrams inpO2

At Dynagram, we’ve been working with many customers to construct their automation workflows for a variety of jobs. But selecting the types of jobs to automate and how to do them is only one part of the automation equation, the other part is “where”.

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Elpical - Automation's Bottom Line

The bottom line

Automating your processes saves time – in a big way.

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Elpical - Automation Separating Fact From Fiction

Automation  – Separating fact from fiction

Many companies are unaware that they “qualify” for Automation, or simply think it’s not something they can take advantage of; because the term “automation” can give the impression that technical complexity – or expense-- is involved.

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Tutorial Convert colors in Switch with callas pdfToolbox Server

This tutorial explains how to set up a simple color conversion flow with callas pdfToolbox 4 and PowerSwitch or FullSwitch.  

 

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Merry 2011

The Crossroads Team wishes you a wonderful & successful 2011!

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Kyle Kolbe details automated workflow at Playboy Magazine

Kyle Kolbe, Playboy Magazine's Senior Manager of Corporate Graphics technologies, talks about the implementation of Enfocus PowerSwitch and how this has helped the company's production workflow.

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Why software is more important than ever for printers

Bryan Yeager, consultant for InfoTrends, describes the importance of software to improve your processes and grow your business.

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We practice what we preach

Read how Enfocus use their own solutions in their day-to-day business in order to work smarter, not harder.

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Work smarter, not harder

For professional publishers, who have experienced diminishing margins for years, this slowdown in the economy is even worse. So should we all dig in and work harder to survive? Can working harder help turn around a publishing firm into a successful business?

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The Crossroads blog

Enfocus and its partners keep you up-to-date with what’s happening in the world of automation and Switch. With useful tips & tricks, inside information on new developments, and in-depth discussion of sector trends.

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