Aleyant
Pressero Now
Fully
Integrated
with HP SmartStream Solution Suite for Seamless
Web
to Print Order-to-Production
Workflow
August
4, 2015. Wheaton IL —
Aleyant,
an innovative leader in providing robust software services to the
graphic communications industry at value-driven prices, today
announced the full integration of its Pressero web-to-print solution
with HP’s SmartStream Solution Suite of workflow solutions using
Aleyant’s Automated Workflow Integrator (AWI). This is the
formalization of an earlier collaboration that made Pressero
available to HP SmartStream users.
“This
integration of Pressero with the SmartStream Solution Suite brings
Pressero’s affordable capabilities to HP Indigo users worldwide
that are currently using HP SmartStream Designer, Composer,
Production Center and/or Production Pro but still need a fully
functional, easy-to-use web-to-print solution,” said Greg Salzman,
Aleyant’s President.
The
collaboration between Aleyant and HP enables Indigo Print Service
Providers to more easily overcome the barrier of selecting and
implementing a web-to-print solution because of the tight integration
with the HP SmartStream Solution Suite. The thousands of HP Indigo
users that are using HP SmartStream Designer to create highly
sophisticated personalized pieces can now upload these templates into
the Pressero web-to-print interface for easy order submission. The
file is then sent directly to print through HP SmartStream Composer
for rendering, followed by either HP SmartStream Production Center or
HP SmartStream Production Pro for print production. This integration
allows users to leverage existing Designer templates and eliminates
the need to learn a new design tool for template creation, as well as
the need to export the data files and manually type all the meta data
(copy count, substrate). In this way, it stands to significantly
increase print production efficiencies and makes it easier for
customers to do business with Print Service Providers.
About
the HP SmartStream Solution Suite
The
HP SmartStream Solution Suite consists of three primary modules.
These include:
-
HP
SmartStream Production Center:
A shop-floor management system that addresses the needs of managing
and producing high-volumes of short run jobs more efficiently.
Production Center provides real-time visibility into every job on
the production floor from pre-press through shipping.
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HP
SmartStream Designer: HP
SmartStream Designer lets users create sophisticated, custom jobs
through a simple, affordable variable data tool optimized for HP
Indigo presses and based on industry-standard tools. With this
InDesign software plug-in, users can conveniently personalize any
print job’s images, text, and colors—creating virtually
unlimited variations of the design for maximize impact.
-
HP
SmartStream Composer:
Users can boost productivity with HP SmartStream Composer, a
powerful composition tool for personalized jobs using HP SmartStream
Designer templates, offering the next step in automation,
performance, and scalability.
HP
SmartStream Production Pro, HP’s Digital Front End for its Indigo
Presses, has also been integrated with Pressero so that jobs can be
sent directly to SmartStream Production Pro for users who are not
taking advantage of HP SmartStream Production Center.
Pressero
Web-to-Print
System
Aleyant
Pressero™
is an affordable and easy-to-use,
cloud-based B2B and B2C online storefront solution that can quickly
and easily be customized to individual client needs. This includes
‘mobile-first’ design for branded sites to ensure proper display
regardless of the viewing device being used. Pressero includes
Aleyant eDocBuilder™,
a web-based variable data publishing system built specifically to
easily integrate into Aleyant or third-party web-to-print or MIS
solutions.
eDocBuilder features
advanced typography control, imposition, scripting support, PDF
workflows, rapid template creation, Excel merge capabilities and
more. Aleyant’s Automated Workflow Integrator™
(AWI) connects the online storefront's to prepress and production
using a rules-based approach to automate such processes as file
retrieval and renaming, unzipping zipped files, or sending files and
metadata directly to a 3rd
party color management or preflight application such as Tucanna
tFlow, or a RIP for processing, eliminating multiple steps in the
workflow. Aleyant
Print Job Manager™ is MIS/ERP simplified. It uses a new mobile,
cloud-based approach to MIS that includes a fast means of generating
market-driven pricing, job management, inventory control, planning
and estimating.
For
more information
about Aleyant offerings, please visit www.Aleyant.com
or call +1.630.929.0104.
Our
blog can be found at blog.pressero.com.
About
HP Graphic Arts
HP
is a key player in the digital printing market, with more than 6,000
HP Indigo digital presses installed worldwide in industries such as
photo merchandising, publishing, commercial printing, labels and
packaging. HP offers customers end-to-end solutions with a wide
portfolio of workflow products from HP and its partners. The HP
SmartStream workflow solutions address the key growth challenges
facing the print industry today; maintaining operational efficiency
to stay profitable and having differentiation to gain a competitive
edge. To explore the complete HP SmartStream Solutions product
portfolio and learn about the graphic arts printing solutions that HP
and its partners have assembled to help grow your business in the
most effective way visit the HP SmartStream Solution Navigator.
About
Aleyant
Founded in
2005, Aleyant is an innovative leader in providing robust software
services to the graphic communications industry at value-driven
prices. Its expertise lies in developing highly functional and
flexible applications using the most current Web development
technologies available, including workflow aimed at lights-out
automation. Its flagship web-to-print software, Aleyant Pressero™,
is a highly customizable retail and business-to-business storefront
interface and has launched many of its clients into the exciting
world of Internet-based print sales. Aleyant also offers a Web-based
online design and variable data publishing (VDP) system, Aleyant
eDocBuilder™, as a separate product. Aleyant's
solutions are integrated
with multiple MIS and web-to-print systems.