Product Guide - ClikCreative

Automate
You are a high throughput printer with tight deadlines. You have identified that further savings could be achieved if
you could improve the efficiency of pre-press by adding more automation throughout your system. You need a highly
configurable workflow that can make its own decisions based on rules that you provide. Pages should be placed in
jobs automatically and jobs should be able to automatically process or continue once certain criteria have been met.
In the long term you would like to aim for total JDF integration but you know that you need to streamline and
automate many of your existing processes in order to achieve this goal.
Proof
You need a proofing system capable of producing ‘Contract quality’ proofs to a predefined standard profile (ISO,
Fogra, etc) or to your own colour profile. You already have a ‘DIY’ workflow producing output ready PDF or
PostScript files (single pages or imposed flats). Proof gives you the ability to output colour managed proofs to Agfa
and non-Agfa proofing engines.
PDF & Proof
You not only need to create ‘Contract quality’ proofs, but also to supply ‘Production ready’ PDFs to your printer or
customer. PDFs can be automatically preflight checked and certified to meet any of the current PDF standards. Proof
allows you to output to a proofing engine and export a PDF from a single workflow.
Agfa Apogee Portal - Apogee goes online
The interactive portal for uploading and approving pages.
Who needs it?
Apogee WebApproval is the ideal online soft proofing tool for:
• Printers: Commercial, Publication and Large Format.
• Publishers: Magazine, Periodicals.
• Large Corporations: Brochures, Newsletters.
• Marketing Communication departments.
• Creative Agencies: Promotional Literature, Flyers.
• Print Production Specialists.
Steps:
• The prepress operator creates the job in the Apogee Prepress client.
• The job is submitted via Apogee WebApproval.
• Your customers are invited to upload their files in an organized way via WebApproval. Or they can upload files to
a standard FTP from which they can be processed by Apogee.
• Incoming files are automatically processed by Apogee.
The results are fed back into Apogee WebApproval.
• The customer is invited to review the results.
• Files are marked ready for production on the Apogee Prepress server if approved.
• The prepress operator is informed if your customer rejects and/or adds remarks.
Problems it Solves
• Lets you retrieve files and proofs from your customers in an organized fashion.
• Saves time and money by eliminating the delivery of cumbersome emails or hardcopy proofs.
• Customer is approving ripped data, so no errors on plate post approval.
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