Enfocus Crossroads Partners Comment on Switch 2011 InterTech Technology Award

Application partner solutions integrate with the modular, expandable Switch automation platform


Enfocus Crossroads partners, whose solutions are configured to work with leading automation solution Enfocus Switch, are congratulating Enfocus on Switch’s receipt of the 2011 InterTech Technology Award. Printing Industries of America announced the Award earlier this month.

“The Award is creating even more interest in the Switch automation platform, and the quality solutions that integrate with it,” says Fabian Prudhomme, Vice President of Enfocus. Although any application can integrate with Switch, Prudhomme says that Crossroads partners are typically best in class developers and marketers. These partners and their customers, he says, have come to realize the exponential value Switch provides with rapid, flexible automation; extensive configurability and ease of use. 

Crossroads partners comments on the Enfocus Switch 2011 InterTech Technology Award include:

Elie Khoury - President, Alwan Color Expertise

We congratulate Enfocus on the 2011 InterTech Technology Award for Switch. The Enfocus Switch platform enables hundreds of Alwan CMYK Optimizer users to extend the available automation options through a high level of workflow integration. Specifically, PowerSwitch enables upstream processing of received data necessary for color standardization. Downstream in the workflow, Switch enables Alwan’s award-winning color standardization software to drive any output workflow, offset, gravure and various forms of digital printing with the appropriate high quality color.

Dwight Kelly - President, Apago

Apago has been developing customized high-volume workflows for printers and publishers since 1991. These workflows required a collection of custom-developed scripts for managing hot-folders, queues and processes. Enfocus PowerSwitch allows us to concentrate on solving our customer’s process issues instead of the supporting framework. We can easily leverage commercial software, custom developed software and scripts, XML, JDF, databases and web services. Once implemented, our customers can manage their flows using Switch’s intuitive Dashboard and Client.

Karina Zander - Marketing and Sales Manager, axaio software

Everybody can save a document manually from Adobe InDesign/Illustrator or Quark XPress. But when you have an extensive editorial team, the reality is that you need fully automated and standardized processes to obtain consistent results. The integration of MadeToPrint in Switch results in exactly that. The combination provides strict enforcement of output formats, naming conventions and output locations. Thanks to the drag-and-drop workflow creation in Switch and the MadeToPrint configurator, automation is affordable and easy to implement and maintain.

Olaf Drümmer - CEO, callas software

We’re happy to see Switch win this prize as it’s a recognition not only for Switch, but also for all of the vendors developing applications that integrate with Switch. pdfToolbox and pdfaPilot alone provide flexible automation of PDF-related tasks such as PostScript to PDF conversion, creation of PDF/X and PDF/A, visual comparison, impositioning, preflight and correcting. Integrating these tools into larger workflows using a simple automation product brings substantial additional benefit for our customers.

Barbara Braun-Metz - owner and CEO, ColorLogic GmbH

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