Prepress automation bakeoff

[SoggyWinter]

Has anyone done a deep dive comparing Enfocus Switch, Ultimate Impostrip, Fiery Jobflow, and maybe others for digital pre-press automation? I'm interested in having some automation for making fixes to customer files like correcting rotation, adding a trim box, bleeds, and assigning to a slitter cutter creaser template (duplo 646) and Fiery settings. What I'm looking for is what product you went with, pricing, ease of implementation, and anything that you've been upset about. thanks!

 

[jwheeler]

I got all excited when I saw something about baking!

 

[Shawnd]

I have yet to find automation software that can fix Canva files.

 

[SoggyWinter]

I have yet to find automation software that can fix Canva files.

Pitstop works for for most part for canva files, but I'd love to see a product like Adobe Generative Fill that could make bleeds with vectors and bitmaps without rasterizing vectors.

 

[WiseGuy]

Given what you want to do, Enfocus Pitstop Server is your answer right now. In our product (Good2Go file on-boarding and proofing solution) we license Pitstop for preflight, but I know there are many action lists and other functions that do the majority of what you want. Some of the crease marks and such might be better served by Ultimate or JobFlow, but the adding of bleed, and other PDF manipulations is served best by Pitstop. BTW... you can do it manually with Pitstop Pro, or spend more money and automate these functions with Server.

I hope this is helpful.
Michael

 

[Magnus]

Has anyone done a deep dive comparing Enfocus Switch, Ultimate Impostrip, Fiery Jobflow, and maybe others for digital pre-press automation? I'm interested in having some automation for making fixes to customer files like correcting rotation, adding a trim box, bleeds, and assigning to a slitter cutter creaser template (duplo 646) and Fiery settings. What I'm looking for is what product you went with, pricing, ease of implementation, and anything that you've been upset about. thanks!

Yes, I have done a deep dive.

Today we are using Enfocus Switch as our main workflow tool. Enfocus Switch are using other tools (applications) for doing various tasks. Some of the tools we are using with Switch are: Pitstop Server (PDF handeling and color management), Tilia Griffin (LFP imposing), Enfocus Review (soft proofing), Apogee Prepress (imposing digital and offset), Ghostscript (CLI PDF handeling), ImageMagick (CLI image handeling), GMG Colorproof and several DFE's and RIP's.

Analogy: Enfocus Switch is your workshop, but in thes workshop you need tools that suites your needs. And you need to know how to use the tools to get the result you were aiming for.