Transcontinental Inc.: Automating the Process

AUTOMATING THE prepress 
 process is a significant undertaking for any company. At an organization the size of Transcontinental, which is the second largest printer in Canada and sixth largest in North America, the challenges are magnified.

Transcontinental has made a concerted effort to automate operations for several years now, originally with the use of scripts and hot folders to automate specific tasks, for example, Adobe Photoshop Droplets and Batch Actions. Although they saved time and delivered performance benefits, "They were ad hoc silos of automation," recalls Matt Pugliese, technical sales and project support for Transcontinental Printing's Integrated Solution Center (ISC) team. "We didn't have an overall architecture or a standardized approach."