Hello all
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We have recently merged another smaller company. we have about 30 employees the other company was 7 (inclucding 2 owners). Long story short it has been 5 months and there has been no clear direction on which workflow to use. As it stand right now I have put band aides on everything to at least keep things moving. We have had XMF for about 4 years. the smaller company has SWITCH. there as been a push to just use switch.
with the merger there are now 3 owners 2 from the other shop and the 1 here.
I do not know how switch is configured other then that it deals with the filing system (weird drop folder organizes job folder which becomes a bucket for everything) My understanding is that he uses pitstop and a simple impo app. He has some 3rd part proofing which we have not seen here and last a RIP that send to his little poly plate machine all in a switch workflow
we have XMF and have it intergrated with EFI METRIX that is in EFI PACE. we output 2 size plates to DART.
I can go on about the mechanics of the filing system: but I do not think its that important as it can be solved once the workflow is thought through.
SO my questions are: Has anyone used SWITCH that is configured similar to XMF? Has anyone integrated the 2?
And general thoughts of the use between the 2.
what I am seeing is that some sort of integration of the 2 would be best. Having XMF as the workflow and SWITCH dealing with file handling and proofing.
Please any thought or constructive comments will help.
P.S. the prepress department is of corse in chaos due to the lack of attention and direction.
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We have recently merged another smaller company. we have about 30 employees the other company was 7 (inclucding 2 owners). Long story short it has been 5 months and there has been no clear direction on which workflow to use. As it stand right now I have put band aides on everything to at least keep things moving. We have had XMF for about 4 years. the smaller company has SWITCH. there as been a push to just use switch.
with the merger there are now 3 owners 2 from the other shop and the 1 here.
I do not know how switch is configured other then that it deals with the filing system (weird drop folder organizes job folder which becomes a bucket for everything) My understanding is that he uses pitstop and a simple impo app. He has some 3rd part proofing which we have not seen here and last a RIP that send to his little poly plate machine all in a switch workflow
we have XMF and have it intergrated with EFI METRIX that is in EFI PACE. we output 2 size plates to DART.
I can go on about the mechanics of the filing system: but I do not think its that important as it can be solved once the workflow is thought through.
SO my questions are: Has anyone used SWITCH that is configured similar to XMF? Has anyone integrated the 2?
And general thoughts of the use between the 2.
what I am seeing is that some sort of integration of the 2 would be best. Having XMF as the workflow and SWITCH dealing with file handling and proofing.
Please any thought or constructive comments will help.
P.S. the prepress department is of corse in chaos due to the lack of attention and direction.