Enfocus Switch is a great tool for the automation of your prepress workflows. DMP FLO Suite is a great tool for the automation of your online marketing processes. And the DMP FLO Suite Configurator for Enfocus Switch is the ideal solution to bring the two together.
Prepress workflow collaboration
One of the most powerful features of the DMP FLO Suite configurator for Switch is the Online Checkpoint option. This allows end users to make decisions about the direction a file will follow. And this decision can be made from any browser. This way, external parties (such as your customer) can collaborate in the production workflow.
Primarily, these decisions are meant to increase the efficiency of the prepress workflows. Not all decisions can be automated, and presenting the user with a list of files he needs to process in a web browser speeds things up considerable. Even when the user is someone from your own company. And when the choice is made by an external party, another step of communication is made redundant, resulting in even greater efficiency.
But the functionalities can also be used as a marketing tool. Giving your customer a say in your prepress operations may very well be a new service that separates you from your competition. Online proofing of PDF files is an obvious example for this. But the same might apply for something like image enhancement with Elpical Claro. Images which would normally end up in the PhotoShop inspector, could very well be presented to an external marketing department for validation.
Input control
While DMP FLO Suite contains quite a few tools for input control (for example callas pdfToolbox for PDF preflighting), it does not have quite the same flexibility as Enfocus Switch for putting this together in a series of checks and fixes. Enfocus Switch was built for this purpose, and that shows.
Putting Enfocus Switch before a database publishing workflow can drastically reduce the number of incorrect files later on in the process. Externally created ads, editorial articles, stoppers and many more can be preflighted in the Enfocus Switch workflow in the ways that you are used to. Images can be checked for type and resolution, or converted if needed. And any custom workflow you need can be put together in the intuitive drag and drop interface.
Production output
And the same applies on the other side of the online processes. The output of a web2print website, for example, can be routed through a Switch workflow, so it always reaches the right destination. Direct mailing or database publishing results can be inserted into the flow just as if they were manually produced by your studio. The end result is the same: production output with a minimum of manual intervention.