What Studio does not do

A tool you trust is one that says where it stops. These are Studio Cloud's edges.

What it leaves to your RIP and your press

• It does not start, stop, pause, cancel or reorder a job on your RIP. A person at the press starts the job. The print file in the hot folder is the only way out of Studio.
• It does not convert colour for the press. Your RIP does that, through the ICC profile for the stock and ink set. Studio measures and changes the colours in a file, never what the press lays down.
• It does not give a total ink coverage figure. The number depends on the black your profile generates, and a number that can swing from 145% to well past 300% is not one to commit a roll to.
• It does not read what is in your RIP. The press connector reads the press's name and whether it is busy or ready, and nothing of a job or a customer. It does not read a press's ink, its roll or its job.
• It does not know your Quick Set names. You type each stock's Quick Set once, and the preflight stops a job where one is missing. It cannot catch one that is misspelled, because Studio cannot see your RIP's list.

What it leaves to your people

• A proof link is a picture of the layout, not a colour proof. The customer's page says so. "Approved by" is a name typed by whoever held the link.
• Nothing stops a job going to a press without an approval. That is your shop's own rule.
• Studio does not e-mail you when a customer answers. The Jobs list shows it.
• Weeding is your call. A narrow neck is a look, never a stop, because one shop weeds it with a hook and another reprints.

What it does not do on a phone

The design screens are made for a desktop or laptop with a mouse. The press board keeps the computer layout on a phone and scrolls sideways.

What is in development

None of these is in Studio today, and a contract signed now does not depend on them.

• Studio's own RIP. A RIP that comes with Studio, one press at a time. Until it exists, Studio works with the RIP you already own.
• ONYX's own job lists in the browser, so Studio can show what is ripping and printing. Today Studio writes the sheet into the hot folder and the press board shows what your connector reports.

What is built and not yet applied

• Colour profiles. You can add your own and see the ones PostPress publishes, and Studio chooses and shows one. The chosen profile is not yet handed to the RIP or applied to a job. That waits for Studio's own RIP. See Colour profiles.

What has only been tried against a stand-in press

The press connector, putting a job on a press, the day's plan put on the presses in one go, a ganged roll's print file and the hot folder picker have been tried against a stand-in press, not yet beside a shop's own. We set the connector up with you and watch the first job through.