:Apogee ProjectManager
The project management portal for your entire production workflow.
The project management portal for your entire production workflow
:Apogee ProjectManager's open architecture, standards-compliant platform for integrating content, production and business processes, is giving the printer a roadmap for comprehensive integration, automation, and flexible deployment of the right capabilities
Basic operation of how it works:Customers initiate a new job request.
Customers initiate the request using the :Apogee ProjectManager interface or the customer service representative does it for them.
Collaboration takes place without the need to re-enter project data. - JDF link with administrative system enables automatic project updating.
Upon project initiation, the customer is invited to upload files in an organised way via :Apogee ProjectManager. Alternatively, :Apogee ProjectManager can set up and monitor standard FTP volumes and automatically drop files into multiple prepress workflow systems.
Using task chains, :Apogee ProjectManager automatically starts processing pages from incoming files, which are setup either manually or based on best practice models.
When page processing tasks are finished or require intervention, :Apogee ProjectManager organises the correct communication either internally or externally:
- Proactive warnings on Preflight and Trapping issues.
- Invitations to approve or annotate SoftProofs.
- Follow-up of local or remote hardcopy proofing cycles.
- Distribution to the appropriate production environments.Approved pages contained in the run lists are imposed into signatures.
Pages can be imposed manually by selecting imposition schemes from the :Apogee ProjectManager interface or automatically by means of JDF.
When all pages are approved, :Apogee ProjectManager initiates and tracks the plate production process.
:Apogee Prepress or a non-Agfa prepress system handles the imposition and plate processing on site or across multiple production sites.
When the plates are available, :Apogee ProjectManager informs the pressroom manager, who can take appropriate action and use :Apogee ProjectManager to ask for plate remakes if necessary.
:Apogee ProjectManager lets you manually indicate how the job is to be handled all along the workflow even to its delivery to the end customer.
Once the job is finished it can be archived, and feedback on the production cycle can be provided to administrative systems for costing purposes.
At any time during the entire production process employees, either in administration or on the shopfloor, or even customers can be granted access to status information.
User Profile
It is the ideal online project management tool for:
Printers: Commercial, Publication and Large Format:
- PrePress Production Responsibles.Publishers: Magazine, Periodicals, ...
- PrePress Creation Responsibles.Large Corporations: Brochures, Newsletters, ...
- Branding responsibles.
- Print buyers & Purchase departments.
- Marketing Communication departments.Creative Agencies: Promotional Literature, Flyers, ...
Designers.
Print Production Specialists.
Key benefits
Expedites file reception and approvals to better meet your customers’ deadlines.
Saves time and frustration by eliminating the need to chase your clients for feedback and approval.
Allows you and your clients to track projects anytime anywhere.
Easy-to-use user interface lets you provide customers with a value-added dashboard for file upload and approval.
Better visualization and less re-keying allows you to avoid misunderstandings.
Soft proofing significantly cuts transport and printing costs.
Detection of errors early in the process substantially reduces rework that often cannot be invoiced.
Improved efficiencies, greater automation and tracking of all page processing reduce operating costs, resulting in a better profit margin.
