I have been looking at several workflows for months. It's really been a hard decision on what workflow will be best for my company. Can anyone tell me any advantages of having one over the other? I'm leaning towards Nexus because their training is in a classroom at their training center. Kodak's training is a web-x which I don't think will work very good.
It's going to be a matter of how much you plan to spend, type of work and workflow. Pinergy will fit you if you have a large volume. If you are a very small shop, small presses, Nexus would probably be better suited for you.
Have you considered Prinect Printready? We have several versions starting with Printready P, which is scalable all the way to the very robust Printready X. Our training consist of both classroom to allow for fundamentals without interruption along with onsite to help integrate the system. Our headquarters is located in Kennesaw so we are also in a close proximity. At least you may consider seeing it and we can arrange a demo for you. If you want more information, please pm me and I will have a representative contact you.
Are 50" presses small? and we got a pretty big building with lots of printing type stuff in it.
We use Nexus here for packaging and it works great, support has always been so so to crappy IMHO but with the esko artwork merger that may change (at least I'm hoping it will).
And they won't try and sell you anything on a printing community forum ;-)
It all really boils down to your type of work to what suits you best get demos and the like and keep posting, when I first saw AWS step and repeat module years ago I was soooooo excited (yea I got no life) after having used preps, but again it fit OUR type of work (folding cartons).
we just switched to prinergy within the last year, and we had plenty of classroom training for several prepress operators, at their training facility in Vancouver. we didn't have any Web-x training, and i agree that i wouldn't care for that too much.
We've been using Nexus/PageFlow for ten years now. I like that I can print from the native application and use PPDs to set the parameters (neg/pos, eup,edown, linescreen and lots of others). I think Prinergy is a NORM workflow making everything a PDF first, but I'm not sure. You can do that with Nexus as well, but I've learned that keeping things native when printing yeilds the most consistent and predictable output.
The one thing I would ask you to ask yourself:
Am I going to be asked to do type changes on incoming PDFs, and if so, how will I do them?
If you do need to do type changes on incoming PDFs (and want to do them using the embedded fonts in the PDF and not have to use some other font that may not match what the customer sent in), then I would look at Neo and not Artpro/NexusEdit.
I have used Nexus for years, and this is the one weakness to their Vector workflows that I wish were changed but probably never will be.
If it wasn't for this one thing (imagine me needing editable type, how could I want such things?!), then I would consider Nexus about a perfect workflow.
I too have wanted to upgrade to an all-PDF workflow that I could trust, but I don't know of one (haven't tested anything other than Neo, which I thought would do what I needed as far as PDF editing, and really don't have time or inclination to get much into testing because it's cumbersome when I got a working workflow).
i have heard much about neo for pdf editing. we currently use pitstop pro, and for the most part have no problems with it. we do have to make text changes now and again, but most of the pdfs we get have fonts fully embedded, so we rarely have a problem with that.
id like to check out neo, though, to see how it works. ive heard it is VERY expensive. it also doesnt have action lists i think ive heard, and i love me my action lists.
The web-x is just to get you familiar with Prinergy. They come out and do one day on-site set up and two days training. Or at least that's what we got. Prinergy is very cool, lot's of different ways to set up work-flows. I'm still new to it, but seems to be awesome and limited only by numb-skulls.
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