Workspace
The heart of every CLOUDFLOW
- Browser-based
- Centralized asset management
- Workflow automation
- User access with permissions and scoping
- Editor interactivity with CLOUDFLOW Plug-in Suite
- REST API for integration with external systems
Proofscope
Turnkey solution for soft proofing and collaboration
- Central proofing and collaboration engine in a controlled environment
- Display, check, comment and compare
- View layers, separations, metadata and more
- Inspection tools (compare, barcode, font, screening)
- True HTML5 browser experience, no plug-ins required
- Support for major graphical formats including screened files
- Easy to embed in existing web portals with full API
- Out-of-the-box viewer, also configurable via workflow
- Optional Immersive 3D visualization of 3D formats (iC3D, GLB, COLLADA)
Packzflow
Prepress automation based on native PDF files
- Use cutting-edge tools from the award-winning PACKZ PDF editor
- Streamline and link repetitive prepress tasks through workflow automation
- Unmatched speed: 64-bit multi-processing and multi-threading
- Complete set of prepress functions, such as document preflight and correction, separation handling, barcodes, transformations, trapping, flattening and many more
- Cutting-edge Step & Repeat for labels, flexible packaging, folding cartons, spiral wraps, etc
- Creation of job info panels, slug-lines, bearer bars, etc
Jobs
Job management
- Manage a job's lifecycle, data, and associated files
- Interact with jobs via an out-of-the-box dashboard or customized UI
- Automate job events intelligently (folder creation, file delivery etc)
- Search and access files easily in existing jobs
- Execute prepress and approval tasks based on job info
- Call existing item or job for re-run with same or modified properties
Datalink
Connectivity and data collection
- Integrate with external systems and data formats
- Communicate via HTTP calls or data file exchange
- Mitigate risk by avoiding double and incorrect entries
- Connect to MIS, ERP, W2P, CRM and other data sources
- Process XML, JDF, JSON, CSV, XLS, TXT
- Connect with SQL databases via JDBC
- Manipulate data, such as XSLT translation (XML processing)
Cockpit
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 & Repeat
- Extensible and fully customizable using CLOUDFLOW's Pagebuilder HTML editor
Share
Multi-location service for files and licenses
- Distribute 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 folder monitoring or business process
- Group-wide search capability on all assets
VDP Execute
Scalable VDP server solution
- Move VDP to the right place: from the pressroom to prepress
- Complete solution for variable data printing – based on PDF
- Uniform process and format for all presses
- Seamless use of prepared VDP templates from PACKZ
- Fully integrated workflow solution for dynamic linking with VDP data sources
- Industrial output of optimized PDF files for direct printing at full speed
- Power your prepress with the job queue processing portal
- Available as a standalone product
Colorspace
Data-driven color solution for cost optimization and brand color matching
- Cost-effective color management solution for brand color matching
- Facts-based estimation empowering print buyers, estimators, and prepress professionals
- Visual and ∆E reporting for informed decision-making
- Flexible output routing for automated color conversions to conventional, digital and hybrid print conditions
- Convenient experience for non-expert users
- Includes ColorLogic state-of-the-art spectral color technology
- Optimizes production costs through Extended Color Gamut printing and ink-saving technology
RIP
Fastest RIP for packaging output based on proven Harlequin Core™ technology
- High-speed native PDF 1.7 and PS RIP technology
- Reliable output at user-selectable resolution for any CTP device or digital press
- 1-bit AM, FM or seamless screening and multilevel contone output
- Built as native CLOUDFLOW application
- Complete feature set for all packaging printing techniques with full control of screen sets and calibration and object-based screening. Optional Velvet Screening for Flexo applications
- Fast, multi-threaded host renderer includes TIFF™ viewing for 1-bit and 8-bit files produced by the CLOUDFLOW RIP
- Available as a standalone product
Velvet Screening
Brand-new screening technology for precise control over highlight screening
- Unique Hybrid Software screening technology
- Precise control over minimum dot size definition and transition point
- Provides micro-level control over highlight screening to produce the best result in flexo printing
- Ripped at any resolution
- Works with every UV exposure system
- Supports standard offset and flexo angles
Intelligent Flexo
Agnostic surface screening solution for high-quality flexo print
- Boosts the quality of flexo output by applying specialized effects to problem areas in your 1-bit TIFF™ files. Each problem area is identified intelligently and targeted with highly customizable effects (patterning, edge patterning, skip small dots)
- Operates independently of RIP vendor, plate type, CTP manufacturer or resolution
- Suitable for labels, flexibles, folding carton, and corrugated packaging
- Eliminate trailing-edge void and pin holing, reduce dot gain, avoid ink spread and improve ink laydown
- Increases print quality of flat tints, vignettes, barcodes and fine text
- Highly adaptable and integrated workflow solution
Tectonics
High-performance flexo plate layout to reduce plate waste
- Automatic and interactive filling of flexo plates
- Intelligent grouping of items based on job and plate properties
- Continuous layout adjustment to keep plate waste to a minimum
- Support for TIFF and LEN files
- Facilitates cutting and mounting of plates
- Vendor agnostic, with support for any CTP device
- Produces output to drive CTP devices, cutting tables, and mounting machines
- Optimized for flexible packaging, labels and corrugated platemaking
3D Viewing
Interactive photo-realistic ray traced viewing
- True HTML5 browser experience, no plug-ins required
- Immersive 3D visualization of 3D formats (iC3D, GLB, COLLADA)
- Seamless integration in workflow and approval processes
- Built with powerful iC3D technology
3D Workflow
Workflow automation for 3D generation
- Automate and chain repetitive 3D modeling and rendering tasks
- Combine 3D models with 2D designs
- Replace, update, transform graphic content and 3D scenes
- Multi-SKU packshot image generation
- Built with powerful iC3D technology
Dataroom
System monitoring and analytics
- Health tracking and performance optimizer
- Monitor key metrics related to stability, performance including CPU, memory, and network
- Track health and load of CLOUDFLOW systems
- Gain insights on CLOUDFLOW usage and performance
- Analyze and visualize data in a reporting dashboard
- Available in SaaS offering, MyCLOUDFLOW
