WebPairer

Automated Page Pairing system for newspaper production

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Process automation for newspapers

PuzzleFlow WebPairer was designed from the ground up to address all aspects of newspaper production. WebPairer’s strength is that it changes complex tasks into simple steps or automates them outright. If you know how to “surf” the internet, 60% of your training is already done!

Beyond workflow, PuzzleFlow WebPairer is a prepress and production management and automation system built around PuzzleFlow’s own native PDF processing engine. WebPairer can produce print-ready plate files for in-house or remote print site production. It will also automatically deliver other needed formats of your pages (archive PDF, online PDF, JPG, GIF, TIF, etc.) to anywhere you need them, any time you need them.

A quick video introduction to WebPairer

Main Features and Benefits:

• 100% Easy to use, browser interface
• 100% Database driven
• Automatically creates and corrects PDF files
• Unlimited users
• Unlimited Products, Sections, Zones and Editions
• Unlimited load balancing or output groups (DTP, imagesetters, proofers, etc.)
• Unlimited number of proofers and output devices
• Deadline notification and management
• Unlimited furniture and marks
• Handles and includes all template formats: 1-up, 2-up Broadsheet, 4-up Tabloid, 3 and 6-up Tri-liner, 8-up Quarterfold / Mini, 16-up Large Format
• Handles and includes all newspaper special needs: doubletrucks, dinkies, quarter / half / three-quarter webs, web-growth / fan-out, creep and wraps

Workflow Features and Benefits:

• Automatic preflight with pinpoint notification of problem areas
• Over 150 certified preflight checks (Ghent PDF Workgroup, GWG v3 compliant)
• Automatic page size verification and resizing (changing web width will never be a big deal again)
• Automatic color management (makes sure the color fits what your printing press can do)
• Automatic color remapping and color conversion
• Accepts PDF, EPS, PS, XPS, TIFF and JPG as input formats
• Accepts files by Printer, Hot Folder and FTP
• Automatically generates and distributes any needed output file formats: Hi-Res PDF, Online PDF, FPG, GIF, etc…
• Automatic and configurable notifications and alerts
• Easy to use, powerful and sophisticated scheduling engine
• Full logging and reporting of all activities
• Automatic renaming, copying, archiving, purging, FTP’ing, e-mail’ing of any page, based on any schedule or condition
• Multiple approval levels
• Ability to auto-approve and auto-proof
• Adapts to any naming convention, and supports an unlimited number of naming conventions

Prepress Features and Benefits:

• Automatic and selective file fixing by product and page type of all common prepress issues:
• Overprints
• Fragmented images
• Knockouts
• Fragmented gradients
• 4 Color Blacks
• Wrong color space (DeviceN, LAB, Indexed color, etc..)
• Hairlines
• White overprint
• Transparency
• Missing Fonts
• Turn color pages to black and white
• Remap any color to any color
• Output color validation (never send down blank or incorrect separations again)
• Removal of unwanted crop marks
• Automatic image enhancement
• Final ripping done by industrial strength Harlequin® rip

IT Features and Benefits:

• User / Group level security
• Use our stand-alone browser based client (Puzzleflow Express) for remote sites which includes our own:
  printer driver, PDF normalizer, PDF preflighter and FTP client – all completely automated
• Powerful built-in web server and database (MySQL® and Apache®)
• Easy remote administration – all configuration screens are browser based
• Automatic database clean-up, file archiving and purging.
• Well documented and fully available log tables for custom reporting access
• Major and minor upgrades are INCLUDED with annual support agreement
• Works with all existing in-house proofers
• 24 / 7 support available

Testimonials

Bruce Banks, Technologies Coordinator at the Adrian Daily Telegram, emailed to say: “Just realized that I have not taken time to mention that we appreciate all that our software has been doing for us the last 60 days. Thanks to all who have worked so hard to put this product together and thanks for the support. I am really enjoying it today. Clearly there is much to learn and implement yet, but we are well on the way.”

“PuzzleFlow is proving to be the most powerful, AND flexible of all the workflow software packages we found,” said Tom Shafer, CNHI’s Corporate Vice President/production. “To find a company that really gets it, in this economy, and provide the full range of support prior-to, during, and after the installation and through implementation is as rewarding as any part of our conversion to CTP.”

“We were given the orders to shut down our in-house printing and it would be sent out to the Baltimore Sun. Puzzleflow Automator made the transition smooth and painless. After 4 days of onsite installation and training, we were ready for the move. We have seen our prepress department go from 10 to 4 people with the automation we have gotten from the product. We continue to find new features with every maintenance upgrade performed. It’s especially rewarding to see our own suggestions for improvements get implemented into the product.” , says Dan Hiniker, Prepress Manager, The Washington Times.

“I’ve gotten praises so far with how easy it is to use and understand. I also like that we can schedule nightly uploads of PDFs and JPG’s to our website, Newseum, etc.. Training was very easy, the software only required a couple hours of training for end users. We’re a full PDF workflow now and we can send good, optimized PDF’s to our remote press shop and printers. I was really impressed with how they had no problem making the system work with our 12 year old classified system.”, says Brian Burbank, Systems Manager, The Pocono Record.

“The Puzzleflow Automator system greatly reduces the time we spend on mundane repetitious tasks which enable us to spend more time designing ads. I never realized how much time we spent on the average day processing pick-up ads, waiting for jobs to be processed by the printer and emailing ad proofs until we started using the system. The Puzzleflow system makes our day go much smoother, I wouldn’t give it up for the world!”, says Holly Pelliccione, Design Department, Daily American.