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News Release from: EnFocus Software NV | Subject: Pitstop Professional 6, Pitstop Server 3
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 10 September 2004
PDF Workflow Accelerates Holiday Giant
PDF workflow tools provider Enfocus Software, has installed with TUI UK (previously known as Thomson Holidays) a certified PDF workflow that has dramatically increased productivity.
PDF workflow tools provider Enfocus Software, has installed with TUI UK (previously known as Thomson Holidays) a certified PDF workflow that has dramatically increased productivity One important benefit has been the capability to generate high-resolution files in-house, eliminating external repro costs
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 29 Sep 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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TUI is the UK's largest tour operator and is part of TUI AG, the largest tourism and services group in the world.
TUI UK's publishing department produces a large volume of travel content that is adapted for both brochures and web sites.
The company is now deploying Enfocus's Pitstop Professional 6, Pitstop Server 3 and Instant PDF 2.0.
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Previously, TUI UK used low-resolution Quark files to create brochure layouts and the OPI (high-resolution picture replacement) was sent to an external repro house.
It could take up to 13 weeks to complete their 600-page summer travel catalogue.
Text content and images were stored on different servers, and it was complicated to efficiently re-purpose text for use on web sites.
TUI UK needed to migrate to a new workflow that facilitated smooth integration of text, images and files.
Cate Dixon, development manager in publishing at TUI UK, described how its production system provided maximum efficiency and cost savings.
"A new content management system and image database supports our in-house PDF workflow for page production, allowing simultaneous publication of content to brochures and the web.
Now we can output high resolution EPS Quark files in-house.
Additionally we installed Enfocus Pitstop Professional on four workstations, providing the design team with the flexibility to check and amend any PDFs, if required and at the last minute," she explained.
The main workflow consists of two Pitstop Servers that act as a gatekeeper for every PDF file that is produced and sent for printing.
TUI UK is also a heavy user of the action list technology within Pitstop for a variety of uses such as content re-sizing, file stamping and cross-media publishing.
The Pitstop servers also enable Enfocus certified pre-flighting for brochure pages, checking differences in file types and adding frames for brochure PDFs destined to be used in CD-ROMs.
The Publishing team can add page names to PDF files for the internal sign-off process.
TUI UK adheres to the PDF/X-1a specification, with Enfocus certified PDF information embedded in each PDF.
"We adopted this particular specification because we must be 100 per cent certain that the document receiver can accept and print the file.
As a result, we have complete control over our own files and full confidence in file delivery.
This gives us greater flexibility and control without having to rely on third parties," said Dixon.
She added that since implementing the certified PDF workflow, time and cost savings have been dramatic.
The ability to output a high-resolution file in-house has completely eliminated the external repro costs for brochures.
"A brochure that took 13 weeks to produce can now be output in just four weeks.
Without Pitstop Professional and our Pitstop server, our PDF workflow would not be complete," she said.
"We are satisfied to release a page to print only after it has been checked and certified using Enfocus technology! Additionally, since a high percentage of our PDFs go to continental Europe, we feel extremely confident since the certified PDF standard is widely acknowledged and accepted," commented Dixon.
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