It's all about the Artwork Templates!
When we embark on a working relationship with your business one of the fundamental areas that we will be working on, with you, is the development of the suite of online design templates. This means that we are creating an online version of either your brand or the brands of your clients.
International Technical Expertise
We have an international team of template developers that work around the clock to produce hundreds of new artwork templates which are then supported by our systems every week. At the time of writing our system supported more than 50,000 active templates.
We also have a number of highly skilled technical trainers that can either come to your facilities or work from ours to train your production or technical teams in the development and building processes involved with online design templates. The up-skill of your staff is often a far more cost effective way for you to license Workstream‘s technology and also means that you can redeploy your best people from the production or design team rather than loose them.
An overview of the template creation system features and its capabilities are listed below:
Capabilities of the Template Creation System
- Flexible templates ensure brand compliance with as much or as little variation as required/permitted.
- Templates are designed using a desktop publishing application GUI, then turned into online templates using an online application.
- Supports multi-page print layouts.
- Powerful conditional controls to allow templates to adjust to form data.
- Automatically detects text overflow.
- In-built spell checker.
- Templates can be assigned to individual clients or client groups as required.
Workflow
- Various artwork approval models supported.
- Various material delivery options supported.
- Powerful template usage and characteristic reporting functions.
Image
- Photo and PDF upload supported.
- Incorporates functionality for multiple client image libraries.
- Automatic resizing of images to set DPI and compression rates according to specific publication/printer requirements for optimal file-size and results.
Usability
- Screen-form interface for client-side artwork production ensures little or no expertise required.
- Seamlessly integrated into AdConstructor and CampaignTRACK.
- Photo cropping/placement tool with image resolution and white space checking.
- Typical 3-5 second proof time.
Pagination/Compositing
- Composite module tool allowing placement of artwork modules in pages/blocks.
- Support for master compositing permissions for multi-office networks.
- Ability to incorporate online designed and offline designed artwork modules in layouts.
Output
- Automatic adjusting for edge-bleed or non-bleed based on positioning of artwork modules in composite layouts or as stand-alone advertisement.
- Back-end configurable color enhancement options for photos, automatically applied to all images on a publication-by-publication basis.
- Automatic ICC color profiles per publication/printer.
More Information
If you would like to know more about ArtSpeed, please contact us.