- January 13, 2016
- Posted by: Workflowz
- Category: News
Yesterday Enfocus announced its exciting partnership with Tilia Labs. The partnership, whose products both contribute to Workflowz’s leading portfolio of software, provides an opportunity for print service providers with uniquely challenging time and materials costs, can now minimise those expenses substantially and achieve faster turn-arounds with the new Phoenix Plan Configurator for Enfocus Switch.
Enfocus’ Director Product Management Bjorn Willems says that large format providers are already excited about Switch 13 automation benefits, and that many have been asking for help in scripting imposition algorithms to work with Switch. When Enfocus met executives from Tilia Labs and saw Phoenix, he says, Enfocus found imposition and planning in a single solution of the highest order. The result is the Phoenix Configurator for Switch.
“The advent of Switch 13 and the Phoenix Configurator for Switch allowed us to put what we believe is an incredibly fast and precise imposition and planning technology,” Willems says.
“Switch has set the standard for truly open automation, making it possible for all kinds of solutions/applications to connect, and exchange data, in all types of custom configurations,” Sagen de Jonge, CEO and Co-Founder, Tilia Labs Inc. says. “This makes Switch an ideal fit for integrating Phoenix’s ganging tools into an automated environment.”
How it Works
The Phoenix Plan Configurator works by collecting individual orders coming in to Enfocus Switch, along with their associated meta data information such as quantities, stock, grain, spacing, etc. The files are then sent to Phoenix, which goes to work searching millions of combinations, across available presses and stocks, to find the most cost effective ganged layouts. Once planning has finished, the cheapest cost results are returned to switch in several different output formats such as imposed PDF, JDF, PDF, XML-based reports, or Phoenix jobs.
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