Preflight de pdf online

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No estoy seguro si esto va aquí, ya que lo que he encontrado hablan sobre comprobaciones en carpetas definidas para este fin que estos sw están monitoreando. Aquí un ejemplo de uno de esos sw y un artículo sobre el tema.

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Online preflighting solutions

While not all quick printers require comprehensive online preflighting solutions, most are keeping a close eye on new product developments.

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      EXTENSIS (Portland, OR) offers Preflight Online, which operates on any Web browser, omitting the need for printers to install desktop software. The solution is embedded in a printer's website and is transparent to print customers. It uploads information about the file rather than the file itself, collects all of the examined files, creates a report and compresses them into a single archive for transmission. Other features include batch processing, custom profiles, online help for pinpointed problems and FTP file transfer.

      Preflight Online currently supports PDF and QuarkXPress file formats, and Extensis anticipates support of EPS files before Q4. Upgrades, new features and file support become available to all users instantly when added to the Preflight Online Web server. Preflight Online has different pricing models, but the most popular one comes with a one-time set-up fee of $6,000, plus per-file transaction fees that range from 50 cents to 95 cents, depending on volume.

      “The ASP model makes it very easy and inexpensive to get a sophisticated preflighting system embedded into a website, without having to invest in hundreds of thousands of dollars of server hardware, backup systems and monitoring, and without having to do any programming and scripting,” says Joe Schorr, senior product manager at Extensis.
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      MarkzNet from MARKZWARE (Santa Ana, CA) checks, collects, compresses and captures job ticket information, and then transmits PDF and native digital files via the Internet. Printers define preflight parameters with the Ground Controls tool. Preflighting takes place before the file leaves the customer's desktop, and the document creator is informed of corrections that need to be made prior to transfer.

      Once incoming files pass through MarkzNet, printers can use another Markzware tool, MarkzScout, to direct the incoming files through a semi-automated workflow, based on job tickets filled out by the originator. MarkzNet costs $15,000, plus $1,500 a year for maintenance. MarkzScout costs $999.

      Markzware is scheduled to release FlightCheck Vision in Q4, a product suitable for printers that preflight files rigorously on a daily basis. Vision is not an online solution; it will be built on the MarkzOne engine, and will input jobs into a relational database that enables users to query any detail about a job. Vision will allow for hundreds of custom inspections and will feature a customizeable interface so users can determine checklist appearance. “You can see intricate details or you can check for everything under the sun,” says public relations associate Mary Gay Marchese. “FlightCheck Vision takes custom preflighting to a higher level with automation and customizable control of your electronic quality assurance.” It will retail for $599.
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      WEBPRINT INC. (San Bruno, CA) offers a Web-based PDF conversion product that is targeted at franchises and chains with digital reproduction capabilities, as well as facilities management firms and demand aggregators. When a customer submits a job, the Webprint system converts the document into a PDF file and provides the customer with an online proof. After the customer reviews the proof, the system automatically prices the job, and sends the print-ready file and a comprehensive job ticket via the Internet to the print provider.

      “The benefit for printers is that they don't have to deal with four versions of every document-authoring application known to man,” says Mark Bonacorso, director of marketing and communications at Webprint. “They don't have to waste the time of an employee who is proficient with PowerPoint or PageMaker to fix files — that person can be used for more lucrative design projects.”

      Bonacorso says Webprint's current technology is best suited for multisite operations. Sir Speedy (Mission Viejo, CA) is one such firm that recently signed up for the Webprint solution.

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