Automate Your Business

Enfocus (Booth 11947) develops PDF validation and process automation software, enabling every print service and solution provider to deliver winning print services. Its products, PitStop and Switch, enable print service providers to automate their business toward profitability while ensuring quality. Key to its mission is collaboration with industry partners and customers to foster mutual success.

New publication

This year, Enfocus will be distributing the inaugural edition of the Workflow Automation Report. This publication is all about insights from industry innovators. Partners, collaborators, and integrators contributed to create a magazine that print service professionals are going to want to read.

PitStop 2019

The PitStop user base is over 100,000 and growing. With the release of PitStop Pro 2019, PitStop Server 2019, and PitStop 2019 SDK came features that made users very happy:

Preflight for digital printers: A specific preflight profile for digital printers has been included that optimizes and reports the amount of ‘clicks’ each page will generate. This profile automatically handles objects that look black, and ensures they only create one click.

Rasterize Selection: PitStop Pro 2019 offers prepress operators the ability to select specific elements within a PDF page, such as very complex vector art, and rasterize only that selection. This allows users to simplify complex pages, while maintaining the highest quality. Previously the only way to handle such pages was to use the archaic technique of converting the whole page to an image. The new approach means that only the problem element needs to be rasterized while the remaining content is untouched.

Object Browser: A PDF file is made up of many stacked objects. Very often, selecting an object is difficult because the needed object is obscured. The new Object Browser removes all that complexity, and makes object selection easy by displaying the PDF Object Stack in a list tree view, so the operator simply clicks on the required element to select it.

Switch 2019 Spring

Starting with the 2019 Spring release, Enfocus will be distributing two Switch releases each year. In this year’s first update, there are impressive, valuable new features:

Remote processing: Remote Process is a flow element that allows users to route Switch jobs out of the flow, process them remotely using a third-party service, then bring them back into the flow after processing. The Scripting Module is required to make use of this feature.

Submit Point improvements: The functionality of the Submit Point has been embellished to improve flexibility. Changes to the Submit Point in Switch include the ability to submit metadata only, which allows a Switch flow to accept data only, such as a filled form, instead of requiring a physical file to be submitted. Another Submit Point function has been added that sends a job trigger. Managing Submit Point URLs also received some additional options with this release, such as a direct link URL to a Submit Point, which can be created to direct the end user to specific Submit Point, making it simpler to locate. These direct URLs can have an expiration date applied, which is useful in managing submissions.

Redesigned Messages: The Switch 2019 Spring release came with a redesigned Messages view. Enfocus has completely overhauled the way messages are viewed. Messages is the Switch activity log, and the new Messages view contains quick filters, like a slider for viewing a “from-to” timeline. 

Happy Hour

When attending PRINTING United, all are welcome to join the Enfocus Team at the booth for Happy Hour at the end of each day. Come by for a FREE Belgian beer, chat with the team, and get to know the people of Enfocus — the people who will help you to build winning print services.