Its intelligent, rules-based automation puts manual prepress, makeready, and job routing tasks on autopilot, eliminating inefficiencies and waste so you can get jobs into your clients' hands faster and more profitably-and consistently meet tight service level agreements (SLAs).
Go from submit to print in seconds:
FreeFlow® Core's rules-based automation gives you the power to automate the repetitive tasks you don't want to do all the time. With it, you'll see costly errors and waste get replaced by productivity and profit-right from day one.
"You always hear that every challenge should be an opportunity. With FreeFlow Core, that couldn't be more true.
It's impossible to overstate the difference FreeFlow Core has made in our business."
Jerry Turner, Graphicolor
"I don't want to manage print jobs. I don't even want to see what each job is. I want to direct the flow of work to a printer...
FreeFlow Core allows that. We've dropped down from 130 queues to about 7."
Mutual of Omaha
"We've been able to automate 75% of our jobs within 3 weeks, and we'll have 98% automated in a few months."
94% of print service providers receive files with errors*1
Low res images
Incorrect color space
No bleed or crop marks
Fonts not embedded
Transparency issues
Running these jobs as provided is a huge waste. Fixing them by hand kills profit.
Automatically inspect PDFs to ensure files are error free.
Optimize PDFs to create super-efficient files that accelerate processing speeds:
Up to 9900%!
+8% change in digital page share vs offset*2
Each job must be:
Prepped and imposed
Matched to the right press
Scheduled and tracked
Manually routing jobs for production is too time consuming in our fast-turn world.
Intelligently prep each job on the fly.
Automatically interrogate each job for common attributes.
Batch and route like jobs, even in multi-printers.
43% of print service providers use all or mostly manual processes*3
Making image and text changes
Adding watermarks and barcodes
Incorporating embellishments
Client changes happen. How you accommodate them defines profitability.
Implement client changes and design edits quickly.
Insert, rotate, delete and normalize pages.
Add specialty embellishments in seconds without a designer.
- *1: Ghent Workgroup
- *2: IT Strategies
- *3: North American and European Software Investment Outlook: 2019, Keypoint intelligence-InfoTrends
Moving jobs through your shop at lightning speed puts real money back in your pocket. Here are just some of the savings that a 400 job-per-month shop* can expect:
$80,000
monthly savings just by
REMOVING WASTE
$11,320
monthly savings just by
AUTOMATING IMPOSITION
$10,425
monthly savings just by using
ELECTRONIC PROOFING
* Savings calculated using the mean number of jobs identified inNorth American and European Software Investment Outlook: 2019, Keypoint intelligence-InfoTrends
BASE SOFTWARE
Put common prepress and job routing tasks on autopilot.
ADVANCED PREPRESS
Optimize everything: PDFs, color management, document manipulation and annotation.
ADVANCED AUTOMATION
Transform manual steps in your workflow into programmed actions.
OUTPUT MANAGEMENT
Implement even smarter decision making regarding when and where your jobs will be printed.
VARIABLE DATA
Fine-tune personalized communication workflows by integrating VIPP® and PDF/VT jobs with Core.
