Enfocus announced its solution partnership with Aproove, which entails providing automated online collaborative approval of PDF and image files to customers using Aproove Express and Enfocus Switch.
Enfocus Switch customers can now easily provide online approval services to their customers without the need to invest in additional hardware and software. Aproove’s online soft proofing and collaboration service is 100% cloud-based and is provided as a service to customers via subscription.
Angelo Manno, Global OEM & Strategic Account Manager for Enfocus said, ‘Aproove redesigned their approval solution specifically to integrate smoothly with Switch. Customers simply subscribe to the approval service via the Aproove Express website, and once they receive their login credentials, they simply enter those in Switch in the Aproove developed configurator. From this moment, on the online collaboration and approval can start as Switch will automatically upload files to Aproove Express where they can be viewed as a flipbook or dynamic flat plan. At the same time Switch will invite stakeholders such as the print buyer to the approval process, and receive the results on approved and rejected files.’
Users can submit jobs easily and securely from anywhere in the world and invite print buyers instantly to any job or part of a job. Aproove Express provides immediate input, comments and approvals.
Further, the Aproove configurator in Switch instantly connects any Switch flow to a dedicated preconfigured Aproove Express Cloud Services. All decisions made in Aproove Express are immediately forwarded to Switch, which moves the job further to the next appropriate process step in the flow. The quality of jobs is elevated as errors are avoided and files are correctly routed, depending on their approval status.
‘The solution is aimed at advertising agencies, printers, service bureaus, large accounts and photographers. Its benefits include a direct gain in performance and control for the customer,’ added Serge Lo Grasso, VP Sales and Marketing, Aproove. ‘This partnership fits perfectly with our strategy of developing SaaS online proofing solutions for the market of print production and it is a continuation of our Digital Content Collaboration range launched four years ago.’
Customers using Switch 12 can immediately take advantage of this new online approval and collaboration service by retrieving the Aproove configurator using ‘Manage configurators’ in Switch, or by downloading the Aproove configurator from the Crossroads portal.
