What Studio Cloud is

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 the part of your shop between a customer's file and your RIP. You open it in your browser, lay a job out by its cut line, check it with a preflight, and put it on one of your presses by name. The RIP you own does the ripping. A person at the press starts the job.

It is made for shops that print their own work on roll-fed presses: sticker sheets, decals and banners off the roll.

What it does

  • Lays the sheet out by the cut line. Designs are packed by the line the blade follows, not the box round each one. See Nesting by shape.
  • Works to the whole roll. The sheet is as wide as the roll less only what the press cannot print at its edges, and every job says how much of the roll it uses. See The whole roll and the roll view.
  • Draws and edits cut lines. Traced from the artwork, taken from your file, or drawn by hand. See Cut lines, kiss-cut and bleed.
  • Checks every job before it can go. A stop holds the job. A look is a call left to you. Fix these issues makes the fixes in one go. See The preflight.
  • Keeps your shop's lists. Presses, stock with the Quick Set each rips with, presets, colours and people, the same in every browser.
  • Hands work round the shop. Give a job to a named person, mark it checked, plan the day across your presses. See Hand out a job and mark it checked.
  • Lets a customer answer a proof. One link, one picture, no account. See Proof links.
  • Puts a job on a press. The hand-over shows what goes, and a press connector beside the press writes the print file into the folder your RIP watches. See Put on a press: the hand-over.

What it is not

  • It is not a RIP. It hands each sheet to the RIP you own. Studio's own RIP is in development.
  • It does not start, stop or reorder anything on your RIP. The one thing it writes near a press is the print file, into a hot folder.
  • It does not change your colours for the press. Your RIP does that, through the ICC profile for the stock and ink set.
  • It is not made for a phone. The design screens are for a desktop or laptop with a mouse.

More on this in What Studio does not do.

What you need

  • A desktop or laptop with Chrome or Edge.
  • Your own account. When your licence is agreed we set up your shop and invite its first supervisor, who invites everyone else.
  • For putting a job on a press, a press connector on a computer beside the press. We set it up with you. See Set up the press connector.

Where to go next

What Studio Cloud is | Postpress