PostPress Studio is the layout and hand-over desk that sits beside your press. Lay a job out, see exactly what the press will receive, and send it only when you are satisfied. One kit for every installation.
The download is free to take. Studio asks for a licence file the first time it opens, and we issue those. Windows only. How to open it.
Every sheet is checked before it can be sent. A stop is something the press cannot make, or would make differently from the preview, and it turns sending off; a look is a judgement call left to you. Every finding says how to fix it.
Sending opens one screen with the file name, the folder it lands in, every page and every separation, and the press button is on that screen. A RIP prints a separation it does not recognise as ink, so this is where a cut line is kept off the print.
Pieces are packed by the line the blade follows, not the box round them, so shaped stickers interlock. When that beats laying them out in rows, Studio tells you by how many sheets.
Work is grouped into runs of one press, one roll, one Quick Set and one finish, and ordered so the roll comes off as few times as it can without printing Thursday's work before Tuesday's. Each material carries the Quick Set it rips with.
Studio hands each sheet to the RIP the shop already owns, ONYX, Caldera or Fiery XF, by writing it into the folder that RIP watches. It never starts, stops or reorders anything on the RIP.
These are being built. None of them is in Studio today, and a contract signed now does not depend on them.
Studio's own RIP, run in the cloud for each contract. Until it exists, Studio hands every job to the RIP the shop already owns, as it does today.
Media profiles that arrive with the printer, so a new stock does not start from nothing. A shop's own measurements and presets always win over the library's.
A company's own presets and materials, set up once and shared across its sites.
Companies printing their own work on their own presses. There is no checkout here, and nothing to pay to download it: ask us for a licence.
A contract for a company printing its own work on its own presses. The number of people who sign in is agreed with us, and Studio goes on as many of the company's computers as it needs.
Contact us for a licence keyStudio for one person printing on their own. Not offered yet. Tell us you want it.
This is an early build, for partners testing Studio with us. The finished release replaces it on this page when it is published.
Start a job with a job number and a company, shown on every board. One Press screen follows work from waiting to printed, goes full screen, and Stopped asks why. Drag a box to choose several stickers and move them together. The Cut tab says where a cut line came from. A screen that stops drawing says your job is safe. A copy from an early 0.1.0 kit also gains the licence check.
Updates arrive inside Studio, signed by us. Nothing installs that we did not publish. An early build takes stable updates until it is told otherwise: to be offered the next early build, a supervisor chooses test updates under This installation… in the profile menu.