StudioApprove -
Workflow and Collaboration
StudioApprove eliminates the time and expense associated with paper proofs, and instead promotes ultimate team collaboration practices with version control, real-time tracking of approval status, and an efficient, multi-level approval workflow.
Why do you need ES?
Whether you’re producing a newspaper advertisement, catalog pages, or a series of labels for a bottle, project management is a complex undertaking. You have to produce, manage, transform, and share digital content using the appropriate tools and working with the right people — anytime, anywhere.
The most complete web-based tool set, DALIM ES brings together the technical aspects of production with the lifecycle business workflow of multi-channel content. Based on standard, open technology, ES allows seamless integration with third-party applications ranging from MIS or ERP systems to very specialized prepress applications for labels and packaging production.
ES lets you plan, execute, and control any aspect of media production for any type of output, including print, web, eBooks, and movies. ES also offers an intuitive and responsive user interface in a standard web browser and/or on mobile device apps such as the Apple iPad.
ES technology offers:
High-performance, scalable DIALOGUE Engine imaging technology along with an available Adobe® PDF Print Engine.
A color-certified remote soft proof component for high-resolution document viewing.
A job-based project management tool for step-by-step tracking.
ES benefits
View & Approve
Comments and requests for corrections are stored in a centralized database, helping you avoid data communication issues. Click once to measure densities or check available layers and single separations in positive or negative view. Rotate documents to easily review content, especially on imposed or nested forms. Simulate a specific printing process or ink characteristics by easily altering opacity and order of separations, the same way you would invert a file view.
Project tracking
Manage projects with greater ease. Set all necessary milestones—including project setup, artwork delivery, prepress tasks, approvals, output, and final print—and their associated deadlines in ES to help all participants to track progress, anticipate delays, and reallocate resources when necessary.
A dashboard view provides each operator with an intuitive “to do” list, and it lets operators manually change the status of a step upon completion. Tasks such as file delivery or approvals, which are entirely managed by ES itself, are updated automatically and allow a real-time view of job progress.
Job tickets
The ability to find the right file is a crucial part of daily production. ES offers a cross-project search capability that uses an extensive list of file properties to deliver fast results. File properties are automatically indexed from available file metadata (e.g., XMP, IPTC, and EXIF) that is assembled from job ticket information from JDF-compliant MIS systems. Properties can also be added at any time from user-defined or standard tickets — for example, from the Ghent PDF Workgroup.
In addition to their informational value, these properties can directly interact with file-processing workflows. By providing the fundamental data to process files based upon specific parameters (e.g., number of separations and document size), manual user intervention can be significantly reduced.
ES features
Online Approval Platform: Visually review, annotate, and approve documents (or just single and imposing pages) using a simple web browser from any location.
View high-resolution files, zoom, navigate, place virtual notes, take densitometer readings, check production parameters and color accuracy
Chat in real time without the need for a client.
Start projects by simply uploading files over the web or via intelligent hotfolders.
Search and retrieve with incredible speed thanks to customized file metadata.
Enjoy a collaborative communication platform for all participants in the production workflow.
Experience a JDF-enabled, job-oriented architecture.
Take advantage of powerful user management capabilities
Confidently approve jobs online. SWOP® certification means the system's color rendering will match a printed proof.