How Studio Cloud fits a shop's day

This is one ordinary day, in the order a shop lives it. Each step says where to find the screen and links the article that explains it.

Morning: see the day

A supervisor opens Studio and lands on Today. It shows Your work and Everyone's work, a tile for each press with what it is doing, what is loaded and how many jobs are waiting to be fetched, and three ways to start a job.

To spread the day's work, the supervisor opens Hand out. Studio suggests who takes each job and the supervisor gives them out in one go. Each person finds theirs first on their own Home. See Hand out a job and mark it checked.

On All sites, the day's plan suggests which press takes which job, grouped by stock, and a supervisor puts them on the presses in one go. See The day's plan.

Prepress: make the job

1. Start a job by the stock first: By material, By product, or From files when a day's artwork arrives together. See Start with the stock.
2. Add design puts each file on the sheet with its cut line drawn, nested by shape.
3. Read the Preflight. A stop holds the job. Fix these issues clears what can be cleared, with one Undo.
4. Save job keeps it in your shop's account. Every save is kept.

Check: a second pair of eyes

A supervisor gives the job to a named person. They open it, look at the sheet and press Mark as checked. Who checked it, and when, is on the job. If the customer must approve it, Send proof makes a link they answer with no account.

The press: put it on

Put on a press… opens the hand-over: the file, every separation and every page. Put it on the press's name saves the job with its print file in it. The press connector beside the press fetches it and writes the file into the hot folder your RIP watches. A person at the press starts it in the RIP.

Jobs on the same stock join a waiting roll, drawn whole on the press board. When the roll is full enough, a person presses Print. See The whole roll and the roll view.

If the connector cannot reach the press, Download the print file gives you the same file to drop in the hot folder by hand.

So far we have tried the connector against a stand-in press, not yet beside a shop's own. We set it up with you and watch the first job through.

Through the day: the board

All sites changes no press. It shows each press as the connector beside it last reported: Printing, Idle or Stopped, and the jobs put on it that have not been fetched yet. A press that has gone quiet says Not heard from since and the time, not old figures as if they were now.

Close: nothing to tidy

Everything is already in your shop's account, the same in every browser. A supervisor can take the shop's jobs and settings out as one file at any time. See Licences and taking your work out.