With the new "Vectorizer" extension for the printformer, we have recently further expanded the functional scope of our Web2Print software solution and can now offer our customers in the print and media services industry additional vectorization options.
The extension of the "printformer" software, which we appropriately refer to as "Vectorizer", is the answer to our customers' ever growing demands for trouble-free vectorization within existing or new Web2Print projects. With our new "Vectorizer" it is now possible to generate printable data for later screen or pad printing and many other printing processes from not yet vectorized data, such as normal JPEG files, directly in the editor and without additional effort. Thus, the "Vectorizer" vectorizes the supplied and unprocessed image data on demand in the "printformer" and automatically reduces the colors contained there to the desired number or the number required for the printing process. This saves additional work steps and increases the effectiveness of job processing.

"This process also provides our customers with the desired colour tone in the correct HKS or Pantone colour value with just a few clicks and saves time-consuming manual post-processing. This means that the asset used is always perfectly matched to the corresponding product, the selected supplier and the respective printing process. With the realization of this extension we close an important gap in the area of integrated publishing processes and come a step closer to our vision of an even more powerful Web2Publish software, which is able to meet future market requirements without any problems. In any case, the reactions of our customers are positive throughout". our CTO Sebastian Buck. The positive feedback from our customers confirms that this new extension is an exact response to their wishes and that we are already implementing the next tools to complement our printformer. Because we love print!

Today's "printformer insights" deal with the implementation of variants in existing or newly created templates. Have fun reading!

Our printformer Suite is regularly updated and partially improved to meet the ever changing requirements of our customers. In today's "printformer insights" we show how the use of additional variants significantly increases the flexibility of templates. The creation and maintenance of products and associated product variants is noticeably simplified and thus more effective with this innovation. See for yourself what advantages await you with this improvement!

In the recent past, it was only possible to create individual templates for each product. So if several versions of a product were required, for example with a changed font color, it was necessary to create a new template with correspondingly changed settings for each version. Especially with a large number of articles based on the same layout, which differ only in the colour change, an immense effort - both in terms of time and handling. Our current innovation "Variants" now starts at this point and ensures a simpler and more flexible provision of different variations of individual products.

The new implementation of variants in the template creation allows you as a user to easily attach additional variants to individual product templates. These variants take into account colour changes in both the surface and the font and, by linking to the template, offer maximum flexibility when creating larger product quantities. This allows you to create suitable colour combinations of a layout in a time-saving manner, from which the later customer can then easily choose and order the desired product. With this new function, all changes affecting the layout of the product can only be made at one central point and automatically affect all linked variants and their colour specifications. The result is obvious: Better handling, more time saving and more flexibility - with the variants for templates in the printformer from rissc solutions.

Our Printformer Suite is regularly updated and partially improved in order to meet the latest requirements of our customers. After having already given an overview of the improvements of the new admin area of the printformer in a previous blog post, we now turn to the Closed Shop area and its latest optimizations. Closed Shop" refers to systems that are only accessible to a certain group of people, e.g. those that are reserved for existing customers. Alternatively, products can also be assigned here to specific users or user groups. Depending on the user, the products can then also differ in price. See for yourself what improvements are waiting for you here!

In contrast to the previous stand, we have given the design in the Closed Shop a facelift, similar to the design in the admin area. Due to a clearer structure of the interface, a clean design without unnecessary elements, the focus is now clearly on the product. In addition to these visual improvements, we have also made some structural adjustments. It is now possible to allocate products to a specific user or user group and thus make the selection process more efficient. Furthermore, by using projects, designs and product configurations can now be saved with an individual project name for later access, in order to further minimize the time required for planning and preparation. The possibility of using user attributes is another of the new features. Business cards, for example, can be individualized with the correct data without any problems and without the need for the user to enter the user data. It is now also possible for the user to easily maintain and keep his addresses up to date in the account. If individualisations are cancelled, the user now has access to cancelled processes.

Through new filter functions, the user now has even faster access to his previous orders and gets a better overview in his user account. This way, completed orders can be selected and subsequently tracked. The current version of the shopping cart now also offers the user a choice of different shipping methods, which ensure more flexible shipping processing within the system.

The theme of the Closed Shop can be applied to a wide range of applications and offers a multitude of possibilities to provide access to selected products or product variations exclusively to precisely defined target groups.

We will now inform you regularly in our blog about the step-by-step further improvements of our printformer. You can be curious to see what other innovative innovations we have come up with. Let us surprise you!

Today we start with our new series, the "printformer insights" and take you on a journey through our "rissc universe". Have fun reading!

During our travels through the rissc universe, we experience the most diverse adventures. We use the technologies of the newly tapped galaxies and the experience we have gained in this way to continually modernise our printformer suite and keep it fit for the future. Regular further developments of the existing systems ensure that we are always ready to start, in order to master even the most unusual tasks. In our blog area we therefore invite you to join us on our latest voyages of discovery and learn more about the innovations of our printformer Suite. On one of our trips last year, we fundamentally optimized the admin area of printformer and made it fit for all upcoming projects - see for yourself!

It was time for a "little makeover" of our previous design. All in all, we have clearly purified the somewhat outdated look of the old printformer and, with the revised design, given it a modern and fresher look. In addition to the visual improvements, we have also simultaneously put the printformer backend on a completely new code basis to make the entire system more performant and user-friendly in the future. An additional example of this is the revised search function, with which all settings and functions can now be found faster and easier. Besides this rather invisible improvement, there are also someNew admin area of the printformer
more visible improvements.

Horizontal becomes vertical - that's what you could call the most striking optical change in the admin panel of the printformer. The previously horizontally placed individual areas of the backend have therefore moved to the left edge in our latest version. This creates a better overview and saves space, especially with the integration of an accordion function, i.e. the opening of the individual menu items one below the other. In addition to this, we have also restructured the contents of the menu and adapted them to the current requirements, as well as re-dividing individual sub-areas or supplementing existing ones.

For example, the separation between templates and closed shop products was implemented. Due to the increasingly widespread integration of our printformer in various external systems, we have separated the formerly nested administration of templates from the closed shop administration. The resulting mixing of the two areas has thus been eliminated, flexibility has been significantly increased and template creation for external systems has been accelerated. In addition, the new direct editor access to the template makes the creation of design templates a breeze for you and your customers.