Transferring print-ready file smartly
New Delhi-based Radhika Systems & Solutions brings in Belgian technology to facilitate the process for Indian printers
With an increasing number of internet applications in the print industry, transferring of print-ready files is one of the most phenomenal activities across the world and India as well. But the limitation in speed and possibility of transferring problematic files may cause trouble for those who generally rely and depend on delivering online print-ready files to the printing facilities. Four Pees, a Belgian company introduced Atomyx Portal - a truly modular solution enabling the automation of all stages of the modern workflow covering everything from integration with asset management and web-to-print systems, over quality control and intelligent image optimization to proofing and production for the print and publishing market. New Delhi-based Radhika Systems & Solutions has recently tied a partnership with Four Pees to offer Atomyx and other solutions to the Indian market. This way Indian printers can easily receive defect-free files while saving around 30 percent time.
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Nowadays, everyone has a tight schedule for printing, and one cannot afford losing precious time in receiving emails, looking at attachments, trying to discover what the order is about, opening jobs in Acrobat, checking quality and sending back emails with remarks to clients. Printers need a better way to have their customers supply error-free PDF files and Atomyx Portal provides exactly that just by installing software at the printer’s server system. It is an easy to setup and easy to use job delivery portal with built-in quality control allowing clients to check if they are sending the right thing and it provides the printers with the ease-of-mind that they’ll receive files good for production.
A rock-solid, flexible and well-supported web content management system, Drupal is developed actively to support recent browsers and technologies with a plethora of extra modules that provide out-of-the-box extensions to its core functionality. Atomyx Portal has been built completely on this solid web CMS foundation to easily manage, extend and maintain it. While Atomyx Portal provides the full PDF delivery portal experience from the start, the possibilities to extend and integrate it are limitless.
Assured quality…
Inside Atomyx Portal, the renowned callas pdfToolbox engine is used to perform quality control on uploaded PDF files, generate production-accurate preview images to let clients see how their files will be printed and create low-resolution preview PDF files. With the same technology as used by Adobe for its Acrobat preflight functionality, callas pdfToolbox is fast and creates user-friendly preflight reports telling clients what they are doing wrong in case of problems and how to solve them. The preflight engine easily scales to provide the reliability and speed the printers need on their PDF delivery portal.
Atomyx Portal allows to create products with an associated preflight (quality control) profile and job ticket. When the clients visit the portal, they will select such a product and upload their PDF file. From that point on Atomyx Portal does the heavy lifting for printers. It performs fixing and quality control on the PDF file (as setup by the printers), allowing to explain clients what problems were found (or congratulates them if the files are perfect) and guide them to fill out the specified job ticket. With this solution, the clients remain in control until they approve the PDF file for production.
Seamless connection…
To ensure expected results, Atomyx Portal solution focuses fully on the PDF file delivery aspect of the workflow and does this with a keen eye on the needs. When a client approves a PDF file, the preflighted file and an XML file containing all information about the job is delivered to a folder on the printer’s server. Delivery can be split per product and of course any job ticket the client was asked to fill out is also included in the delivered XML file.
Feel good…
Atomyx Portal comes with a Drupal theme that looks nice and crisp, but of course it can be customized to provide exactly the look and feel one needs. It is fully compliant with the Drupal theme engine allowing unbridled creativity; anyone with Drupal theming experience is able to customize the portal to as per the needs. Additionally, a host of custom modules for Drupal provide more extensive modifications and additional functionality when needed.
For more details, contact: Radhika Systems & Solutions at: e-mail,
bharat.koshik@gmail.com or call at: +91 9560193445
