Who Studio Cloud is for
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.
Studio Cloud is for shops that print their own work on their own presses: stickers, decals and banners off the roll. If you run a roll-fed press, cut round your pieces or want a customer to approve a layout before it prints, it was made for you.
The shop
A licence covers your shop and an agreed number of people, each with their own sign-in, on any computer in the shop. Your shop gets its own account, with its own jobs, presses, materials, presets and people. See What a licence covers.
A shop with more than one site is still one shop. Each site puts a press connector on its own network, and each shows its own printers in Studio.
The people in it
Studio has two roles, Supervisor and Person. What each does day to day:
| Who | What Studio gives them |
|---|---|
| The owner or a supervisor | Everyone's work on Today, Hand out for giving the day's jobs to people, the press board, the day's plan, and the settings: presses, materials, integrations, people and the licence. |
| Prepress | A job started by the stock, designs nested by shape, cut lines, colour matching, the preflight with Fix these issues, and Save job. |
| The operator at the press | Your work first on Home, the job open exactly as it was saved, Mark as checked, and the press board to see what is waiting. |
| The front desk | Orders with due dates, the Jobs list found by customer or order number, and proof links to send a customer. |
One person can be all of these. A shop of one is a shop with one supervisor.
What it asks of you
- A desktop or laptop with Chrome or Edge, for anyone who lays a job out.
- A press connector on a computer beside the press, set up with you, for putting jobs on a press. Without one Studio still lays out, checks and saves, and Download the print file gives you the file to drop in a hot folder by hand.
- A RIP that reads a watched folder. ONYX is the RIP Studio is built most for. See Works with the RIP you own.
When it is not the right fit
- You want a phone or tablet to lay jobs out on. The design screens are made for a big screen and a mouse.
- You need Studio to start, stop or queue jobs on your RIP. It never does.
- You need a RIP from us today. Ours is in development.