Chellappan significantly points out that this software has been successfully tested and used in house resulting in a largely bug-free launch of the software product. “Proof of the pudding is in the eating,” they say.
“The key to success in today’s competitive world is doing all necessary operations in the most efficient and error free way,” says Chellappan.Ī2Z PDF provides the perfect solution to the myriad problems faced by today’s printers and helps them in making their printing business a profitable one. Unfortunately the customer does not pay for all these post-press operations. Similarly the type of imposition for a saddle stitched book is different from that for a Perfect Bound book which is again different from that for a Section Sewed book. The type of imposition for printing multiple copies is completely different from that for printing a single copy. At the time of imposition, post-press operations (cutting, folding, gathering and type of binding) and print runs have to be taken into consideration. Once the PDF file has been made ready for printing, the next step is Page imposition. During this process inadvertent errors and change of color profiles may occur and result in a disaster. Usually this is a time consuming process and involves the use of several software applications like Illustrator, Photoshop, Corel Draw or Adobe Acrobat. Text like page numbers may sometime need to be added.
At times pages have to be deleted, added and/or re-ordered. Very often the PDF file received from the customer is not a ‘Print Ready’ PDF and needs to be resized, scaled, rotated, flipped, split, joined, tiled etc before the final page imposition stage.
The knowledge gained from this rich experience coupled with his knowledge of software development has helped him to single-handedly develop a software that will benefit not only the sheet-fed/web offset printers but also the digital printers. Hence Chellappan is fully aware of what exactly a printer is in need of and what the pain points are.
Hence an imposition software that caters to both offset and digital printers should be able to take full advantage of all that the printing technology has to offer.Ĭhellappan’s family has been in the offset printing industry for over 60 years and in the digital printing industry for over 12 years. Digital printing technology also allows collation during the printing process itself unlike offset printing where gathering is necessary before the final binding process. But with the advent of digital printing, the print runs became small and most of the times the print run is just one. Most of the imposition softwares are capable of imposing pages for offset printing where the print runs were big. Imposition means arranging pages in a certain way so that after printing and folding, the pages are in a proper sequence. It is not only capable of automated imposition but also helping in readying a PDF file for print. The company has recently launched a software called A2Z PDF. For more on tilia Phoenix, visit here.PChellappan, Managing Partner, PM Digital Products, Chennai has started a new venture called A2Z Binary that is devoted to developing softwares for the offset/digital printing industry. Additional info on tFLOW can be found here. A united imposition and planning means your prepress and planning departments no longer waste valuable time repeating the same work.įor more information regarding Pressero, visit here. Tilia Phoenix offers sophisticated planning and imposition for packaging, labels, commercial, and wide format operations. Whatever your needs, Aleyant has a solution for you. For storefronts receiving customer created files, tFLOW’s preflighting, automated proofing and file finishing options before sending to Phoenix may be the best fit. For storefronts creating artwork with Aleyant eDocBuilder™, sending business cards directly to Phoenix from Pressero via AWI could be sufficient. The choice you make on which workflow is best for you will depend on where files are generated, the level of automation desired, and customer service requirements. The imposed production file is then available for other processes.
Phoenix performs a series of best fit operations based on an instruction file created and delivered by tFLOW and AWI. Tilia Phoenix, which automates imposition, integrates with both tFLOW as well as the AWI, enabling Pressero users a choice of workflow automation: Pressero->tFLOW->Phoenix or Pressero->AWI->Phoenix. Pressero’s flexibility allows you to adapt to any workflow requirements your shop might have. More than a storefront system, Aleyant Pressero™ connects to print production via the Aleyant tFLOW prepress workflow, its open API, or the Automated Workflow Integrator (AWI).
If you were not able to catch the recent Aleyant webinar, ‘Adding Automated Imposition to Your Workflow: Do More, Save Time & Stop Errors’, you can download a video recording here.