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Presteligence quickly implements NewsXtreme Cloud for Womack Publishing Company

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Presteligence, an industry leading software developer and innovator, announces Womack Publishing Company has chosen NewsXtreme Cloud to manage its prepress production workflow.

The unexpected

During the busy week before Thanksgiving 2021, Presteligence received a call from a Kodak field technician. Womack Publishing had a site that was down due to hardware failure. The site was running on old hardware and outdated Workmates workflow system from ECRM.

The Kodak team wanted to know if we could help get them up and running while they reviewed all the options for recovery. Within a matter of hours, Presteligence had them back up and able to produce plates for the rest of that week’s publications.

While the Womack team tried to rebuild the aging workflow, they clearly saw the benefits of moving to a modern secure cloud-based workflow. While the emergency install of NewsXtreme workflow was running in the background for Womack, the Kodak team secured the deal to move Womack Publishing over to the NewsXtreme Cloud servers.

NX Cloud benefits

Now Womack has an automated prepress workflow with built-in PDF preflight with auto-correction and ink optimization. Besides saving up to 30% on ink cost, ink miser helps improve color quality of the publications it produces.

Moving forward

With the move to NewsXtreme Cloud, Womack now has the advantages of a reliable hardware back up with 24/7 full support, assuring that the 30 titles it prints weekly will hit the critical production times. The Womack team sends PDF files via FTP to the cloud and receives plate-ready files to the CTP devices.

Hardware failures happen fast and without warning. It is essential to ensure that those hardware failures do not disrupt the ability to continue production and workflow. NewsXtreme Cloud proves, again, to be the top solution to defend against them.

Milestone

The Womack NewsXtreme Cloud installation marks the first sale through the Presteligence global partnership with Kodak. Presteligence is very proud to partner with Kodak and is looking forward to great success now and into the future.


NewsXtreme Cloud offers a host of features

Included with NewsXtreme Cloud are Ink-Miser ink optimization and PDF Corrector. PDF Corrector provides advanced preflight inspection and reporting of common problems such as embedded fonts, color space usage, minimum text size and image resolution conflicts. Ink optimization automatically replaces areas of cyan, magenta and yellow with an equivalent amount of black ink, saving up to 30% of ink consumption.

Click here to find out more about NewsXtreme Cloud!