printformer - Web2Publish,
that makes your wishes come true.
Are you wondering how we can support a wide variety of customers with their Web2Publish projects, regardless of the size of their company? The solution is printformer. With our cloud software, we have created a standard that is ready to use in just a few minutes and can be integrated into any existing system. You benefit from automatic updates that continuously expand your Web2Publish offering and catapult your business into another galaxy. You can already find some of our many features here.
Premium Editor
High-end editor technology for any product. Regardless of whether it's a location, format, catalog, advertising material or simple business stationery, our editor allows your customers to design their products intuitively and error-free.
Mass customization that's fun - guaranteed!
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Element-based assignment of rights
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Extensive text & image editing
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CI loyalty guaranteed
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Real time 3D view
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No page limit
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Support for any barcodes and QR codes
Media Asset
Management
Fully integrated media management to provide your users with predefined assets.
Do you operate your own MAM system? No problem - our MAM Connector enables seamless integration into our editor.
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Vector & Image Assets
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Full text search
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individual tagging
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Text modules
Adobe Indesign Templates
The heart of a Web2Publish system is its templates. We rely on the full power of Adobe Indesign to make template creation as easy as possible for all graphic designers.
The convenient template management in the backend and the ability to combine different templates with each other offers maximum flexibility.
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Master, pages & article templates
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Individual settings per template
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Zip upload incl. fonts & assets
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Any number of pages
Color management
We support all common color spaces such as CMYK, Pantone or HKS and also allow you to define any spot colors. You determine which colors the user may use in his document.
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Definition of individual color profiles
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Rule-based assignment to templates
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Users can save their own color favorites
Work more efficiently with
variants!
Define any number of color variants for a template without having to create additional templates.
By simply defining rules, you can swap assets, colors or fonts.
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Multiply your designs based on rules
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Design change by click
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High savings potential
The right data for every printing process.
Enable your customers to vectorize any assets in real time, reduce colors or recolor paths.
Preflight
As a rule, many print stores not only offer customers the option of customizing products via web-to-print editors such as the printformer editor, but also provide a file upload for print files. The disadvantage of this option is that a very large correction process then takes place, for example because the customer supplies incorrect formats or images have incorrect color spaces. Correcting these faulty print files takes a lot of time and causes the printing process to be extremely delayed.
To solve this problem and save you and your customers work, printformer integrates the powerful PDF preflight engine Callas PDF Toolbox. This preflights the uploaded PDF file immediately after uploading. A subsequent preview displays the checked and corrected PDF file directly in the browser. Correcting this faulty print file takes a lot of time and causes printing to be extremely delayed.
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Checking and correction of PDF files according to industry standards such as PDF/X-1, PDF/X-3, PDF/X-4, PDF/A and PDF/VT
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Conversion of documents from native file formats to print-ready PDF files (Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Publisher, Visio and Project, OpenOffice, PostScript, EPS, PNG, JPG and TIFF images)
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Conversion of multicolor 4c black to pure black to ensure consistent printing
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Conversion of fonts to outlines
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Reduction of transparencies
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Additional insertion of final format or bleed frames to match the printer's marks
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Outputting the color coverage
Powerful features
Workflow
In addition to the user who individualizes the print product, there are usually other players involved in a web-to-print process - be it the franchiser who wants to check the print products of his franchisees for correctness, or the service provider who imports translations. There are many different scenarios that need to be covered by a professional web-to-print system. The powerful workflow module from printformer supports you with precisely these challenges.
Define an unlimited number of stages and workflows for your personal web-to-print process with complete flexibility in both types.
API
By adhering to the REST standard, no additional programming library is required. The necessary method calls can be implemented in any programming language, meaning that PRINTFORMER SUITE can be easily integrated into a Java, C or PHP environment.
Mass personalization
Create personalized products of any kind at the touch of a button. The user uploads their personal data and can link it independently to any print template. printformer then automatically creates an individualized print template for each user from the data. Naturally in PDF/VT standard on request. Thanks to the direct preview, you then even have the option of checking all or only certain print documents for correctness. You can do all this in the browser and without installing any additional plug-ins.
Effects
Visualize embossing, laser engraving or embroidery effects in the editor. Convert images automatically to the desired color space or assign output profiles. In short, you make it as easy as possible for your customers to customize your product.
Producers
You can use our producer module to distribute created print data fully automatically to production sites, printing presses or external service providers. Maintain an overview and production status at all times.
Updates
printformer is a state-of-the-art cloud solution. This means that you benefit from continuous further development at all times and never have to worry about updates - you always receive them fully automatically!
E-commerce on different platforms - simply successful everywhere.
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Let us show you, free of charge and without obligation, how you can use printformer to sustainably improve your customers' experience and optimize your processes.