The Studio manual

Studio Cloud lays out sticker and roll jobs in your browser, checks them with a preflight and hands each one to the RIP you own.

Studio Cloud is for shops that print their own work off the roll, and for the people in them: supervisors, prepress, press operators and the front desk.

A day in a print shop with Studio Cloud: who opens what in the morning, how a job moves from layout to the press, and what is left at close.

What Studio Cloud leaves to your RIP and your people, and what is still in development. Plain boundaries, so nothing surprises you at the press.

Where to find what in the Studio Cloud manual: overview, features, how-to guides, administration, security and privacy, and why Studio Cloud.

Every Studio Cloud feature built today in one table: what it does, where to find it on screen, and which article explains it.

Studio asks what you are printing on before anything else, so nothing it offers can be refused later. By material, by product, or from files.

Studio packs stickers by their outline, not the box round each, and says how many sheets that saved. On by default, and honest when it saves none.

Artwork runs past the blade, a banner is one print at its size, and a banner wider than the roll is split into equal panels with bleed and overlap.

Studio lays a sheet out to the roll's real width, says how much of the roll a job uses, and draws waiting jobs along the whole roll, colour-coded.

Jobs on the same stock share one roll. Studio says when it is full enough, a person presses Print, and the connector writes one file for the roll.

Every job is checked before it can go. A stop holds it, a look is your call, every finding says what to do, and Fix these issues clears them in one go.

Each stock is a roll on a shelf with its limits and the Quick Set your RIP rips it with, typed once so a job is never found out at the RIP.

Swatches, palettes, recipes, templates and saved shapes live in the shop's account, the same in every browser. Anybody in the shop may change them.

Keep your own colour profiles with the day they were measured and who measured them, beside the ones PostPress publishes. Not yet applied to a job.

Send a customer one link to one picture of their sheet. They approve it or comment, with no account, and every answer is kept as a line of its own.

A job is kept in your shop's account, every save is kept and none is written over, and Go back to this opens an earlier one as a new save.

Studio suggests which press takes which job, grouped so there are the fewest roll changes, and a supervisor puts the day on the presses in one go.

The hand-over shows what goes to the press, runs the checks before a put, and ends in Put it on the press's name. A connector writes the file.

When the press connector cannot reach the press, Download the print file gives you the same PDF to drop into the press's hot folder by hand.

A small program beside the press reports your presses, fetches the jobs you put on them and writes each into the folder your RIP watches. Outward only.

Studio hands each sheet to the RIP you already run by writing it into a watched folder. ONYX is the RIP Studio is built most for and works with today.

Save a job's set-up for repeat work, and see PostPress's preset for each press model beside the presets you add yourself. Yours win where set.

A supervisor invites people by e-mail, gives each a role and takes them out again. Seats count people against the licence, never computers.

A licence covers your shop and an agreed number of people. If it ends, Studio stays open to read, and a supervisor can take everything out as one file.

How to open Studio Cloud in your browser, sign in with the account from your invitation, and what you see first.

Home, the column down the left and the Today page: where New job, Jobs, Presses, Materials and the press board are.

Show me around, the Learn lessons, the Feature library and What is this?: the ways Studio explains itself while you work.

One sticker sheet from sign-in to a press in about 25 minutes: start by stock, add designs, read the preflight, save, hand out, check and put it on.

A supervisor's checklist for a new Studio Cloud shop: second supervisor, presses, stock and Quick Sets, press connector, hot folders, people.

Start a sticker sheet in Studio by choosing the stock first: the material type, the material and what you are making.

Put designs on a sticker sheet, move them, set the gap between pieces, fill the sheet and see what nesting by shape saves.

Add many files at once with Import: Studio reads the quantity, size and stock from the file names and groups them into runs.

Save a job to your shop's account, open it from any computer, go back to an earlier save, and what happens when two people open one job.

Read the percent of the roll a job uses, what the preflight says about it, and how to use more of the roll you pay for.

Jobs on the same stock wait together on one roll. See how full the roll is and when a person at the press can print it.

A banner on a stock with no liner is one print at its size. Wider than the roll, it is split into equal panels with bleed and overlap.

What a cut line is, where Studio gets it, how kiss-cut and cut-through differ, why a stock with no liner cannot kiss-cut, and bleed.

Move, add and remove points on a cut line, fit it to a stock shape, save a shape for the shop, and what Trace again does.

Save a customer's colour as a swatch, measure any colour in the artwork against it, and replace it while keeping the shading.

Palettes make forty files match one customer's colours. Recipes do the same steps to every file in a run. Both are kept for the shop.

Change a photograph's exposure, grey point and contrast, and fill in a speck, hair or wire, without touching type or the cut line.

What the preflight stops, what it only asks you to look at, how to read a finding, and how Fix these issues sorts them in one go.

Send a customer a link to one picture of their sheet. They approve it or comment, with no account, and every answer is kept.

Type the Quick Set each stock rips with, once, in Materials, so a job on that stock is never found out at the RIP.

Put a saved job on one of your presses by name, see what goes to the press, and follow it until the press connector has fetched it.

What the press connector does, what the press board shows, and how Studio hands each sheet to the hot folder your RIP watches.

A supervisor invites people by e-mail, gives each a role and takes them out again. Seats, invitation links and what a shop person sees.

A supervisor hands a job to a named person, who finds it first on their Home, opens it and marks it checked. Who and when are kept.

Find any job by name, customer, order number or person. Group jobs into orders with due dates and see bulk orders from a folder of files.

Add your presses, see our presets beside your own, add a preset of your own and set when a waiting roll is ready to print.

What a Studio Cloud licence covers: your shop, an agreed number of people, any computer in the shop, and where to see your dates.

What Studio does when a licence ends, what stays open to read, and how a supervisor takes the shop's jobs and settings out as one file.

Everything a Studio Cloud supervisor looks after in one place: people, presses, materials, integrations, the press connector, colours and the licence.

What a Supervisor and a Person can each do in Studio Cloud, in one table, from laying out a job to changing integrations and taking the shop's work out.

Step by step on Windows: which computer, Start PostPress Connector, the Windows warning, the six-character code, and ticking your presses.

Give each press the hot folder your RIP watches, in Integrations: choose from the folders the connector sees or make a new one.

What to check when the board says Not heard from since, a put job stays waiting, or the connector writes nothing: the computer, the hot folder, Windows.

PostPress never reads or touches your jobs, artwork, customers or people. What that covers, what we do keep, and what comes to us only if you send it.

Invitations only, links that work once, wrong passwords that wait, each shop's work kept apart, and records that cannot be rewritten.

For your IT person: the connector only reaches out, to Studio's own address, looks only at your shop's network, reads no job, and cannot start a job.

What changes when layout, preflight, hand-over and the day's work live in one browser tool, against the usual separate tools and spreadsheets.

Layout, cut line, nesting, preflight, colour and hand-over in one tool that knows your stock first, not a layout file checked by eye.

Type each stock's Quick Set once. A job on a stock with none is stopped on your screen, and the hand-over shows every separation before anything goes.

Put a job on a press by name and a connector writes the print file into the folder your RIP watches, instead of a file carried by hand. Outward only.

Jobs held by named people, checks with who and when, due dates, the day's plan and a press board replace the spreadsheet and the whiteboard.

Studio works with the RIP you already run and changes nothing on it. ONYX is the RIP Studio is built most for. Its own RIP is in development.