Process Management & Colour Control

FreeFlow™ Process Manager™

The core of the Digital Workflow Collection, FreeFlow Process Manager creates a truly touchless workflow that can automatically process thousands of incoming jobs every day. XL will delivery a range of training solutions to enable automated labor-intensive prepress activities using over 20 pre-configured prepress functions with functionality that also automates decision making. As a result of our trainers extensive knowledge, you can complete more jobs in less time, reduce costs, and assure consistent quality, print after print.

Benefits - FreeFlow Process Manager

• Reduce cost with automation
• Increase pre-press efficiency
• Maximize printing capacity by doing more in less time and with fewer mistakes
• Maintain consistency and high quality across similar jobs while reducing costs (both labor and training)
• Enable true web-to-print by integrating with your web portal (FreeFlow Web Services)
• Strengthen customer relationships
• Enable new applications
• Meet customer expectations and turn-around time
• Complete complex jobs without having to overhaul all of your existing processes – leverage existing investments
• Keep up with technology
• Design an automated workflow that fits your business today, while keeping the door open to a higher level of automation tomorrow

Features - FreeFlow Process Manager

• Automates each step from file preparation to production for a touchless workflow
• Automates decision making and subsequent processing based on job attributes
• Infrastructure for processing jobs according to predefined, automated workflows
• Allows you to build workflows once, then use them again and again
• Knowledgeable operator pre-builds customized workflows
• Submit files to the workflow for automatic preparation
• Powerful job-management tool lets you automate your prepress tasks
• Combine multiple PDF files into one PDF
• Auto-edit to include page numbers, text, and watermarks
• Color management
• Integrates with many of your existing workflow applications
• JDF (Job Definition Format)-enabled functions provide multiple tools to prepare files for final production, including converting documents into PDF

FreeFlow Process Manager MAX (Manifest Automation from Xerox) drives an electronic order into automated workflows

Supports the following file formats: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Illustrator®, InDesign, Photoshop, PDF, bitmap, GIFF, TIFF, JDF, and RDO

Tiers of automation each allow for a different level of automation - from automating simple repetitive tasks fo more complex or multifaceted integrations - yielding a proportionate level of return on investment

Key Applications - FreeFlow Process Manager

FreeFlow Process Manager lets print shop operators pre-build workflows for automatic document preparation, proofing, and printing for digital and offset environments. The ability to automate vital prepress processes such as preflighting, image enhancement, and proofing can add value to virtually any digitally submitted job.

• Books and manuals
• Collateral
• Offset/digital
• Direct mail

Colour Management

That's a key to building a successful business, but it's not easy because colour can be a moving target. The number of variables is daunting. It starts out on a designer's screen, gets proofed on a desktop printer, comes into your business probably as a PDF, gets pre-flighted, proofed, and then printed-sometimes on offset, sometimes on digital, sometimes on both.

Years of experience

Our Trainers have over 20 years of pre-press colour expertise, covering the areas of document creation, image correction, printer and RIP calibration and press control.

As a result of our trainers extensive colour management knowledge, we can educate your staff to fully understand colour reproduction

Although a complex subject XL prides its self on offering a range of course at all levels from beginner to expert. Ranging from single day introductory courses to bespoke consultancy and projects.

Subjects and Projects Covered:

• Colour theory
• How we see colour
• What is RGB, CMYK, and LAB
• How print works
• Image correction and colour balance
• What is ICC profiling
• Implementing ICC profiling
• Press Control by numbers
• Colour management form design to output
• Creating standards