Workflow Automation
Automate the Work. Keep Production Moving.
Reduce repetitive tasks, make better use of your team, and keep more jobs moving through production.
While print production has become more demanding, many jobs still require operators to repeat the same tasks—handling files, checking pages, setting up jobs, calculating impositions, preparing proofs, and routing work to production.
Workflow automation helps remove repetitive work.
ECO3 APOGEE IQ brings prepress processes together in one integrated workflow, helping automate routine tasks while giving operators control when decisions or exceptions require their expertise.
Automate the Tasks That Slow You Down
Automate predictable, repetitive work. Shift focus to the rest of the "to do" list.
APOGEE provides multiple ways to automate tasks. One way, Automate Task Processor (ATP) can use page content or metadata to determine how jobs and pages should be routed through production.
Business outcome: Less time spent on repetitive work for operators and a more consistent production process.
Make Better Use of Your Presses
Shorter run lengths make press efficiency increasingly important.
APOGEE can intelligently combine print jobs while maintaining the identity of individual orders, helping printers use press capacity more efficiently without losing the information needed for finishing and order management.
Business outcome: More efficient press utilization, less wasted capacity, and better margins on shorter runs.
Reduce Manual Imposition Work
Creating the right imposition for every job can take considerable operator time.
APOGEE Impose automatically calculates optimal imposition schemes based on factors such as sheet size, page count, and available equipment, and can help reduce paper waste and combine jobs for more efficient production.
Business outcome: Faster job preparation, less waste, and fewer manual imposition decisions.
Automate Job Routing
Not every job should follow the same production path.
APOGEE's automation capabilities can use job information and predefined rules to route work to appropriate production plans, dividing digital jobs between different digital production resources according to production requirements.
Business outcome: Put the right job on the right production resource without relying on manual decisions for every order.
Automation That Can Grow With Your Business
ECO3's APOGEE includes the Scripting Engine, which extends automation capabilities through ready-to-use templates and connections with modules such as Export, Archiving, InkDrive and others. Both the on-site and cloud-based version of APOGEE allow production capacity to adapt as requirements change.
Business outcome: Build automation into your workflow today while keeping the flexibility to expand it tomorrow.
Automated Solutions to Fit Your Current Equipment
APOGEE adapts to fit you where you are. You do not need to buy all new equipment or all new systems. Use the cloud or on-site version of APOGEE to connect with your MIS, ERP, CRM, printers and more, while providing you with the efficiency, cost savings, and automations that APOGEE has to offer.
Business outcome: Use what you have more efficiently, saving time and money with APOGEE automation.
The Challenge: Too Much Repetitive Work
- Repeating the same prepress tasks
- Setting up jobs manually
- Checking and preparing files
- Creating impositions
- Routing jobs to different production resources
- Managing proofs and approvals
- Combining jobs for production efficiency
- Archiving and managing completed jobs
Automate Without Losing Visibility
APOGEE brings together workflow management and automation, helping printers control production from a single environment. The platform supports commercial offset, packaging, proofing and digital printing environments and can be deployed on-site or in the cloud.
The objective is to remove the work that doesn't need to be done manually.
That gives your production team more time to focus on quality, exceptions, customers and the decisions that genuinely require their expertise.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is print workflow automation?
Print workflow automation uses software to automate repetitive production processes, such as file handling, preflight, imposition, job routing, proofing and output. It helps printers reduce manual intervention while improving consistency and productivity.
How can workflow automation reduce operator workload?
By applying predefined rules to routine tasks, automation allows jobs to move through predictable production steps without requiring an operator to intervene at every stage.
Can ECO3 automate job routing?
Yes. Apogee's Automate Task Processor can use page content and metadata to apply rules and route pages and orders to appropriate production plans.
Can workflow automation improve press efficiency?
Yes. Apogee can intelligently combine jobs to optimize press time while retaining the information needed to track individual orders through finishing.
Can ECO3 automate imposition?
Yes. Apogee Impose can automatically calculate optimal imposition schemes based on production parameters and can help reduce paper waste and improve production efficiency.
Can automation support both offset and digital printing?
Yes. Apogee DigitalPrint Link provides a unified prepress workflow for traditional and digital presses, allowing both production environments to be managed through one workflow.
Can ECO3 workflow automation be used in the cloud?
Yes. Apogee Cloud provides a hosted version of the Apogee workflow, using ECO3-managed infrastructure and allowing production capacity to adapt to changing requirements.
Ready to Reduce Manual Work?
Your production team shouldn't have to spend valuable time doing the same task again and again. Workflow automation can take care of predictable production processes, helping your team increase capacity, improve consistency and keep jobs moving—even when deadlines are tight and resources are limited.