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SKINNY Workflow

SKINNY Workflow. Technology Preview. Mark Scott Director of Product Marketing Ultimate Technographics www.ultimate-tech.com mark@ultimate-tech.com. Ultimate. Over 12 years in the business Invented digital imposition Digital Workflow tools for Mac and Win imposition trapping ganging

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SKINNY Workflow

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  1. SKINNY Workflow Technology Preview

  2. Mark Scott Director of Product Marketing Ultimate Technographics www.ultimate-tech.com mark@ultimate-tech.com

  3. Ultimate • Over 12 years in the business • Invented digital imposition • Digital Workflow tools for Mac and Win • imposition • trapping • ganging • print managers

  4. 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

  5. What is a Skinny Workflow? • 2. Skinny Server • Distiller • Trapping • Imposition 1. Photoshop Plug-in Encoded Lossless EPS files

  6. How it works - CREATIVE SKINNY SERVER PROOFER Email Creative Printer

  7. How it works - PREPRESS SKINNY SERVER Printer Imagesetter Email Creative

  8. Workflow diet - Lose Megabytes 8 Page Quark Doc. 35MB 215MB SKINNY Photoshop Plug-in SKINNY EPS used in Quark 18MB 1MB

  9. Workflow diet - Comparison Normal workflow Skinny workflow 215MB 12.8MB 128.5MB 24.7MB (183 Seconds) (43 Seconds) 16.9MB 5.4MB (404 Seconds) (53 Seconds)

  10. 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!

  11. 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

  12. 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."

  13. 85MB Skinny workflow 650K

  14. 102MB Skinny workflow 1.1MB

  15. 94MB Skinny workflow 720K

  16. 5.7 MB - 8 Page Signature

  17. 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

  18. Thank you SKINNY Workflow Official announcement IPEX 02

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