MadeToPrint Auto
Teams struggling with insufficient or unfriendly output procedures inside leading publishing tools can use axaio MadeToPrint to speed up and to optimize their printing and exporting workflows through standardization.
axaio MadeToPrint Auto is a plug-in for Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator or QuarkXPress allowing fully automated print and export from your design document to one or more output targets. The automation process is based on an integrated hot folder support. MadeToPrint Auto includes connectors for WoodWing Studio, vjoon K4 and Quark Publishing Platform. Furthermore it can be integrated with automation systems such as Enfocus Switch. On top we are offering a jobticket connection (XML) for individual custom requirements.
Creative and production teams often struggle with insufficient or unfriendly document output procedures inside industry leading publishing tools. In comes the axaio MadeToPrint, the intelligent printing and exporting add-on to Adobe® InDesign®/InDesign Server®/Illustrator®/InCopy®/QuarkXPress®. It relieves designers for all technicalities of preparing files for print. It solves output flaws, misprints, issues with layers, etc… by extending, enhancing, checking and streamlining all output processes. Production managers can create MadeToPrint output jobs once, making them available to all users, to get consistent output from every workstation.
Typically, several teams simultaneously work on a large number of documents, against the deadlines! Today they still run into output flaws, misprints, issues with layers, etc… even with leading layout and publishing tools. axaio MadeToPrint Auto and MadeToPrint Server solve current issues by automating, extending, enhancing, and streamlining printing and output processes.
Predefined job sets provide identical output from every file for increased efficiency, as well as considerable time and cost savings.
MadeToPrint seamlessly integrates in any editorial system. Specific integrations have been made with vjoon K4, WoodWing Enterprise, Van Gennep PlanSystem4, Quark Publishing Platform and Enfocus Switch. Any publisher looking to standardize output in order to decrease cost and errors should have a look at MadeToPrint.
The production processes leading to the final printed document need to be as efficient and reliable as possible, especially when handling specialized documents in multiple languages and versions.
axaio MadeToPrint is the ideal gate keeper and offers streamlined and faultless production with standardized file naming, adding info bars, handling language layers and finally providing a fully imposed ready to print file. Needless to say that this adds a tremendous efficiency increase, and considerable time and cost savings.
MadeToPrint can easily be integrated in any production automation solution. A configurator for Enfocus Switch enables an easy configuration of the entire workflow.
Adobe Illustrator remains the tool of choice for the creation of packaging designs. At the same time, PDF is the file format of choice, for file exchange and review. With MadeToPrint for Illustrator, axaio provides a solution to automate PDF output from Illustrator with all the advantages such as cost savings and reduced errors.
MadeToPrint for Adobe Illustrator is the perfect tool to automate the creation of different packaging versions, standardize file naming and increase output consistency. Once an output specification is set up in a MadeToPrint JobSet all files processed with that JobSet will consistently fit the same specification. It also allows you to extract all kinds of versions from the same master file, different language versions, low resolution for customer approval, a technical specification version for making the die cuts and more.
Packaging designers and pre-press professionals are now able to create PDF files from Illustrator, without having to worry whether complex layer structures are correctly handled, or whether naming conventions and other production specifications are set correctly.
With Screenshots and step-by-step explanation our tutorials help to configure and use the MadeToPrint product.
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Considerable time and cost saving through automation and standardization
No need to configure and double check settings again and again
Greater functionality and control over any type of output
Secure output workflows through standardization
Reduced error levels hence increased productivity and reliability of PDF creation
Streamlined print and export operations
Improved collaboration
Integrable with vjoon K4, WoodWing Studio, Quark Publishing Platform for a status-based output
Customizable through jobticket connection
Configurator for Enfocus Switch
Combining multiple output steps and executing them simultaneously:
create job sets that contain several output steps and combine different types of printout or export to be launched as one output step
Target different output channels:
drive different destination printers in in your network or export to several file formats from a single job set
Export to different file formats automatically:
export InDesign files to JPEG, PDF, interactive PDF, EPS, PostScript, INX, SWF, IDML, Flash or InDesign Packages
Processing layers individually or in combinations:
combine layers flexibly and output them as variants, e.g. for multilingual files or regional versions
Multifunctional layer views in InDesign with included MadeForLayers functionality’:
group different layers in one design document into logical combinations; create one single layer view for each language or regional version or provide a technical, marketing-oriented and legal view of a design – with a single mouse click (See tutorial!)
Flexible export customization with ’Parameter Overrides’:
apply various output parameters for different documents “on-the-fly” – flexible and easy
Extended PDF check with ’PDF Post-Process’:
run a preflight check during PDF export based on e.g. callas pdfToolbox profiles
Dynamic definition of file and folder names:
configure destination file and folder names based on rules and use tokens (variables) to insert information at runtime; conveniently choose from token list to set up your own configuration
Flexible handling of files/folders/books:
process current document, all open documents, all documents in a book or all documents in a folder
Preflighting before printing/exporting:
check document for missing/changed links or missing fonts before output
Font loading and image update:
load required fonts and update modified images before output
Single page output:
print all pages or spreads of an InDesign document individually, or export each as a separate single file
Generating an info bar:
create a slug at the top of a page in printed output and exported EPS or PostScript files
Batch processing with script support:
output all documents in a folder and optionally run scripts before or after each pass
Packaging feature:
activate the InDesign packaging function separately or as part of a job set and collect all images, fonts, profiles and settings for an InDesign document into a single folder
Imposition option:
generate fully imposed PDF files; a wide selection of immediately usable imposition templates is included, and custom imposition templates can be added easily
Distiller option:
for better compatibility with legacy workflows, create PDF files by sending PostScript through Adobe Acrobat Distiller
Putting a frame around each page:
add a frame to the output to highlight the page border; line type, position, color and opacity for the frame can be configured as needed
PostScript expert option:
when printing to a PostScript printer or exporting EPS or PostScript, PostScript code snippets can be inserted for highly customizable output
Auto job priority:
define the order of your jobs to let process more important jobs earlier
Supporting publishing systems: vjoon K4, WoodWing Studio, Quark Publishing Platform
Status based MadeToPrint job activation
Keeps publication components up-to-date
Individual layer/layer combination output
Status controlled output
Links output to condition/status of layouts, articles, images inside the editorial system
Checks out layouts unattended
Updates contents right before output
Checks layout back-up into editorial system database
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If you need help in defining what automation version you need, please go to the detailed overview.