STEPZ by HYBRID Software
STEPZ® is an award-winning labels and packaging composition tool featuring:
PDF editing
- Designed for Labels & Packaging
- No file conversions needed
- Multi-Platform solution for OS X and Windows
- 64-bit multi processing and multi-threading
- PDF is the industry standard. It's universal, secure and self-contained
Structured assets
- Images, graphics and external links
- Barcode creation and recognition
- Page box definition and positioning
- Nesting and Step and Repeat
Single application
- One-up editing and Step and Repeat
- Live Objects and variables for dynamic marks and ink eaters
- Templates
- Export die cut for toolmarking
Live Objects
- Intelligent marks and info panels
- Connect LIVE Objects to document content or external data
- VDP for text, barcodes, external links
- Define templates for dynamic document design
CLOUDFLOW by HYBRID Software
CLOUDFLOW® is an enterprise label and packaging workflow system that's installed alongside the Smart Print Controller in SmartDFE to create advanced workflows. It is a compact, modern, and modular system for running automated graphics production workflows on a private or public computing cloud. More than ever, your success is based on processing a larger quantity of smaller orders, with the same number of employees and equipment. This requires a new breed of automation tools.
Prepress automation based on native PDF files
- Unmatched speed: 64-bit multi-processing and multi-threading
- Fully customizable workflows
- Complete set of prepress functions, such as document preflight and correction, separation handling, barcodes, transformations, trapping, flattening and many more
- Advanced Step and Repeat for labels, flexible packaging, folding cartons, spiral wraps, etc
- Variable data processing
- Creation of job info panels, slug-lines, bearer bars, etc
Job management
- Presents job information in a graphical user interface
- Automatic creation of job-related folder structure
- Easy search and access to files in existing jobs
- Execution of prepress and approval tasks based on job info
- Call existing item or job for re-run with same or modified properties
Connectivity and data collection
- Connection to MIS/ERP and other data sources
- Generation and reading of XML or JDF
- Compatible with all SQL databases
- Data connector services
- Data manipulation, such as XSLT translation (XML processing)
Order Lifecycle Management
- Process management application for print production of labels and folding cartons
- Job and item properties driven by existing ERP/MIS via standard XML or custom integration
- Includes process and workflow templates for file management, approval, correction cycles, prepress, and step-and-repeat
- Extensible and fully customizable using CLOUDFLOW's Pagebuilder HTML editor
Multi-location service for files and license
- Sharing files over regular internet instead of dedicated lines
- Optimized synchronization of new and changed files on block level
- File replication across multiple locations
- Automatic distribution of file modifications
- Synchronization driven by workflows or business process
- Group-wide search capability on all assets
Workflow automation for 3D generation and viewing
- Full HTML5 solution, no plug-ins required
- High-res 3D viewing in the web browser
- Seamless integration in workflow and approval processes
- Automatic generation of 3D previews based on 3D models and PDF graphics
- Built with powerful IC3D technology.