ExtremeZ-IP

Stop the presses? It’s not an option in today’s printing industry. No matter what’s running on-press, printers and their pre-press partners must manage an ongoing series of critical deadlines. As the industry’s first and most trusted solution for seamless file and print sharing between Mac desktops and Windows servers, ExtremeZ-IP provides a highly reliable and scalable platform that meets the changing needs of printers by providing:

• The proven solution for top print and prepress firms in meeting and maintaining even the most challenging workflows, backed by more than 13 years of hands-on experience in the printing & pre-press markets.
• Highly reliable file sharing services designed to meet tight production deadlines.
• Filename policies empower administrators to limit filenames, ensure compatibility and foster collaboration in a shared environment with Mac, Windows and other operating systems on the desktop.
• Clustering Services (MSCS) with failover support for added reliability and scalability.
• Fast start-up in case of service interruption without re-indexing downtime.
• A high-performance solution that can manage millions of files–archives, pictures, and other materials–in a file server share optimized for fast filename searching.
• Complete compatibility with all current workflow systems, including Kodak Prinergy & Rampage, and with all major Mac applications like Adobe Creative Suite (CS3) and Quark to ensure seamless management of larger Mac files and greater file volumes in general.
• Active Directory support for user management such as disk quotas, Home Directories, Access Control Lists ACLs and password expiration notification.
• ExtremeZ-IP Zidget™, which lets users easily browse for file and print servers through a simple dashboard widget or web interface–while completely eliminating AppleTalk from your network to reduce IT management and maintenance costs.
• Optimized print and imaging workflow, along with simplified print log tracking to better manage resource usage patterns and costs.
• The only Windows AFP server that allows Mac OS X clients to create file names longer than 31 characters--and to access, create, and copy files of any size on the server.
• Tracking pages printed to better manage resource usage patterns and costs.

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MassTransit

Today’s market for print is highly competitive. To survive and profit printing firms must wring every ounce of productivity from their production processes and bring customers the best and most innovative service possible. Printing today requires the movement of millions of files and terabytes of data – and to do so with anything but the most productive, most controlled file transfer processes is prohibitively expensive. In addition, customers expect and require the ability to interface their printers through the Internet and associated digital means. Optimized digital delivery infrastructure is one of the keys to success.

Utilized by 7 of the top 10 printers in the United States, MassTransit is the industry standard for digital file transfer in the printing business. For more than ten years, leading printers have depended on MassTransit to optimize their production workflows and win business. MassTransit is currently deployed within printing organizations for a range of solutions including:

• Prepress-to-print – Enable fully automated, reliable, fast delivery of high volumes of production data from prepress facilities to print facilities.
• Prepress centralization – Support consolidation of prepress facilities to hubs and associated cost savings by enabling fast, reliable transport of plate files from prepress to print via WANs and Internet.
• Customer portal – Offer customers an extremely easy, fast web-based solution for sending and receiving jobs and data to and from print facilities, including integrating central web portal with other web-based offerings including digital asset management systems.
• Customer servers – Provide customers with the benefits of fully automated, secure exchange of high volumes of files to and from prepress and print facilities, including value-added workflows such as remote proofing and automated pre-flighting.
• Facilities Management Support – Support on-site facilities management through high-speed, automated delivery to and from internal facilities, equipment and processes.
• Global sourcing – Facilitate global sourcing and associated competitive benefits by allowing fast, reliable transmission of large digital files to and from global facilities.
• DAM – Efficient transport of assets in and out of DAM systems including automating and increasing efficiency of asset and meta-data ingest.

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