Transcript SKINNY Workflow Technology Preview

SKINNY Workflow
Technology Preview
Mark Scott
Director of Product Marketing
Ultimate Technographics
www.ultimate-tech.com
[email protected]
Ultimate
Over 12 years in the business
Invented digital imposition
Digital Workflow tools for Mac and Win
•imposition
•trapping
•ganging
•print managers
Introduction
What is a Skinny Workflow?
• Smaller EPS and PDF files
• FASTER distilling
• Easy “press ready” distilling settings
• Faster creative/production proofing
• Faster file transfers via email
• More efficient archiving
• More cost effective Workflow
What is a Skinny Workflow?
1. Photoshop
Plug-in
Encoded Lossless
EPS files
2. Skinny Server
•Distiller
•Trapping
•Imposition
How it works - CREATIVE
SKINNY SERVER
PROOFER
Creative
Email
Printer
How it works - PREPRESS
SKINNY SERVER
Printer
Email
Imagesetter
Creative
Workflow diet - Lose Megabytes
8 Page Quark Doc.
35MB
215MB
SKINNY
Photoshop
Plug-in
SKINNY
EPS used
in Quark
18MB
1MB
Workflow diet - Comparison
Normal workflow
Skinny workflow
215MB
12.8MB
128.5MB
24.7MB
(183 Seconds)
(43 Seconds)
16.9MB
(404 Seconds)
5.4MB
(53 Seconds)
Benefits
BLAZING FAST DISTILLING
• Up to 8x faster than Acrobat 5 Distilling
• Less expensive than Adobe Acrobat Server
• Plug-in trapping and Imposition
SIMPLIFIED DISTILLING MENU
• Press ready automated distilling settings
• Skinny server for creative shops
• Reliable press ready PDF from your
customers!
Alpha Customer Success Story
San Jose magazine - Printed by Quebecor
$34.00/Page to $12.00/Page Prepress
Reduced courier fees
• Quark files emailed from designer to printer
• Imposed PDF emailed to designer for proofs
Reduced bandwidth fees
•Smaller files emailed easily
•Discontinued use of dedicated file transfer
systems
Reduced workflow time
•Faster page layout/proofing
•Faster distilling
•Faster Imposition, Trapping & Imaging
Total Saving $20,000 / issue
Alpha Customer Success Story
Gilbert Sangari,
Publisher - San Jose Magazine
“Imagine someone coming to you with what
sounds like a publisher’s dream and wants you to
be the guinea pig. Well, this wasn’t a dream but a
dream come true. It took us literally half the normal
time to do our October issue. Not to mention
handling the files back and forth between the
magazine and pre-press via e-mail, not jazz disks.
You can now have your cake and eat it too."
85MB
Skinny
workflow
650K
102MB
Skinny
workflow
1.1MB
94MB
Skinny
workflow
720K
5.7 MB - 8 Page Signature
The New Workflow
EXPECT CHANGE:
• Faster creative/production workflows
• More efficient file transfer between
creative and printer via email
• Opportunity to service new customers
• Faster creative/production proofing
• Eliminate the need for OPI
• Reduce file storage/archiving costs
• More competitive advantages
Thank you
SKINNY Workflow
Official announcement
IPEX 02