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Issued by: Exell Technologies

Exell Technologies is one company that does not supply its own solutions, Exell works with proven solutions and experts from around the world, offering consulting and support solutions that is tailor made for your business.

Do you think it is possible for a client to do business with you without you ever seeing the client from quote request, file upload, pre-flighting, corrections, proofing and output to print device?

Four years ago, after Drupa, it was all about JDF. Now, after Drupa 2008, it is about workflow automation and web-to-print solutions.

So what exactly is web-to-print: It is everything but using FTP or e-mail to submit data. At the end of the 90's we saw the first attempts of web-to-print in the form of on-line templates for business cards, letter heads, simple printed matters that could easily be standardised via web templates. Customers simply changed the text and submitted.

Since then, the web-to-print concept, with development of highly sophisticated systems that incorporate complex sets of rules, saw a brand new era being born.

Today there is a whole multitude of web-to-print solution providers and the market is booming. However, it is unlikely that to remain such a rosy market. Experts predict a process of consolidation in the near future, already started - Enfocus and Gradual, Adstream and Quickcut to mention a few. Most of these solutions have been developed by small to medium companies, often with viewer than 10 employees.

As a user, it pays to keep asking the background and history of a solution being offered. Have a consultant offer you a few options and ensure it is a solution where your business does not become a testing and development platform. Many customers have fallen into the trap of seeing a brilliant demonstration of the capabilities of the solution in question but is it a solution that your business require, is it a solution that has good reference and history behind it?

Our solutions include web-to-print solutions such as Hiflex web-to-print, Enfocus PitStop and the Switch product range.

Enfocus PitStop Server is the stand-alone PDF workflow preflighting and auto-correction solution. It instantly analyses, corrects, reports on, and routes files based on the most stringent industry standards.

Switch is a robust and flexible automation tool, using comprehensive scripting to help you to organise repetitive tasks in your day-to-day creative environment. Organizing workgroups, executing standard tasks in various applications or managing file up - and downloads or transfers can now all easily be automated.

Contact us for your solution, we will sit with you and establish your workflow and which solution will best suit your organisation. www.exelltechnologies.com

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Specialising in software licensing and workflow consulting, mainly focusing on production process automation and supplying all required software and hardware platforms such as Adobe, Quark, MAC and more...- more....

[14 Jul 2008 14:55]

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