Stop costly miscommunication caused by sending documents and changes by email or ftp. Collaborate faster and more accurate with your clients and shorten your production cycles by using eProof. 

Success Story: Ford decided to use eProof instead of Acrobat 5 for Proofing...

Key Highlights:

• Correct the orignal text online: With a simple click on the proof, clients can easily correct the original text in a formatted editor, which is automatically filled with the formatted text block of the job, of e.g. Microsoft Word, PDF, or Postscript documents, changes are highlighted with different color.

• Collaborate online on the same document: Work together with others on the same document at the same time and see each others corrections and annotations immediately, even if they are 5000 miles away.

• Quickly remote proof the original high-resolution production files: Deliver remote hard-proofs fast, view a 1 gigabyte high-resolution file in seconds and zoom in it at e.g. 2400 DPI in real time, over a standard dial-up connection, by using the ultra fast RapidImageView Streaming Technology.

• Remote proof jobs color-accurately: Proof jobs color-accurately with Mac and PC clients, measure colors exactly with the advanced densitometer tool. Display and print proofs with color-matching the printing press, which guarantees that you don't hear the remark "the proof looks much better than the printed job" again. 

• Annotate and approve jobs online: Easily mark up, annotate and approve various file formats: Microsoft Word, PDF, PostScript, JPEG, TIFF, PhotoShop, Scitex CT, TIFF/IT, etc. in just a few minutes using a standard web browser.

• Easy deployment: eProof is so convenient for your clients, as the web interface is easy-to-use and there is no need to buy or install any extra software on clients side

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Usage-based pricing available: no investment - no risk - immediate cost and time savings.

More Detailed Product Information:

Simplicity for Users:

List of the Key Benefits:

        1.     Boost your productivity and cut your costs
        2.     Complete the job at much greater speed
        3.     Improve your client commitment
        4.     Team with your clients
        5.     Coordinate production management

1. Boost Your Productivity and Cut Your Costs

SmartCorrectionDisplay™ With SmartCorrectionDisplay, text changes are highlighted in a different color. You can easily see the part of the text that has been corrected, by whom and how it has been done.

ElementRelatedCorrections™ As all corrections are related to page elements, it's easy to tell which corrections belong to which page element. There can, for example, be no misunderstanding if the customer corrects 3 times the word "the" on a page with a text of 600 words, in which the word "the" occurs 30 times. Furthermore, the page elements that were corrected are highlighted with colored rectangles when the proof is viewed.

Color Matching Using ICC profile calibration of MacOS 9, MacOS X ColorSync® and of Windows 98/ME/2000/XP color management functions, eProof RapidImageView provides reliable and coloraccurate online proofing. The advanced Densitometer tool ensures exact color measuring.

Following are more of the advanced features of cyan eProof:

    •     Scalability and Distributed Computing eProof's server components can be distributed on several servers, which can be located anywhere within the Intranet or on the Internet. These technologies make uploads of large files over the Internet unnecessary. Clients can access the database and web interface through one eProof server, but the high-resolution files and the rendering components can reside on other servers on the Internet. The image data is transferred from these servers to the client by using the RapidImageView™ technology, which ensures that only the image data that is actually visible on the client's screen is transferred.
    •     Express Hi-Res Uploading With the help of eProof's Scalability and Distributed Computing technologies, Repro houses never have to upload the high-resolution assets over the Internet, as they can be accessed quickly by using the RapidImageView™ technology. Clients will not even notice that the high-resolution files are stored on other servers on the Internet.
    •     Load Balancing Files are automatically distributed among several eProof rendering servers so that the combined computing power of these servers is optimally utilized and the overall performance maximized. Clients still see only one eProof server, but the processing of their image viewing, database and HTTP requests will be distributed among several servers.
    •     Workgroup Publisher Proofs can easily be published on local and remote eProof servers by using hot folders (incoming folders) to which Mac and Windows users can print from any application in order to publish proofs on local or remote eProof servers.

These are additional opportunities for corporate cost cutting with eProof RapidImageView and solutions for more efficient ways to operate and manage day-to-day operations:

    •     No IT-maintenance overhead and no software purchases for users. No need for buying additional client software (unlike the Acrobat 5 full version or other programs that require investments in software for each PC), nor need to involve your corporate IT Department
    •     Billing-per-page pricing model. You will not encounter ANY financial risk with cyan eProof. You pay only when you use it
    •     Much shorter proof cycles and cumulative turnaround time
 

2. Complete the Job at Much Greater Speed

Multi-Language-Corrections™ Correct easily texts in different languages over "cross-platforms" without having to bother about file attachments or “copy and paste”, which often doesn't work. The new corrected and formatted text can easily be taken from web browser window and placed into the layout file (Quark, PageMaker, InDesign, etc.).

Various layout file formats eProof RapidImageView supports all of the common industry-standard file formats, including Microsoft Word, PDF, PostScript, JPEG, TIFF, PhotoShop, Scitex CT, Scitex CH, TIFF/IT, etc. Regardless of the file's size in native format, often too large to be quickly transferred, eProof allows loading the proof file on customer's machine within seconds, with no loss to the quality of the layout.

Annotation and Markup Tools Easily attach sticky notes to the pages and mark areas of interest with various powerful markup tools over the Web without having to install or buy additional software on the client computer. A wide selection of sticky note types for any purpose: from rectangular and oval annotations to point and freehand (greese) markup types. The powerful measure and cropping tools for absolute precision in corrections.

    •     Total browser based solution. Using eProof RapidImageView is very intuitive and requires no training. Most companies will implement it in minutes with no need to read software documentation.
    •     Stand alone solution. cyan eProof RapidImageView works as a standing alone solution with the possibility of flexible adjustment and can be implemented to boost productivity with any of your clients.

3. Improve Your Client Commitment

Click'n'Correct™ With the Click'n'Correct technology, the customer instantly (just pointing and clicking), with a simple mouse click on a page element of the job, corrects the element in question.

RapidImageView™Only the image that is actually visible on the client’s screen is transferred over the Internet - nothing more. You can quickly view and correct a 1 GB (gigabyte) PostScript file over a 28Kbps connection and zoom into the job at e.g. 2400 DPI. The client can even enlarge the image until a resolution of 2 pixels on the screen, which equals one pixel of the original image, in order to see important information, such as trapping.

Using the high-speed RapidImageView image streaming and compression technology, eProof streams full-resolution images to user's computer in seconds, showing gigabytes of full-resolution high-res files as if they were small kilobytes of data. Rapid image streaming quickly fills in the details as the customer zooms in or scrolls, enabling 1:1 zoom ratio and higher.

The key advantages of RapidImageView™ are:

    •     Need-based data transfer: Only the part that is actually visible on the screen is being transferred, at exactly the requested resolution.
    •     Uncompromised quality: RapidImageView ensures full image quality, pixel for pixel, coupled with unmatched quality views zooming in and out of the image.
    •     Unique zooming data streaming: Only the difference between a lower and a higher resolution is transferred to the client's computer when zooming in.
    •     A variety of industry-standard image formats supported: EPS, TIFF, JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF, PSD, TIFF/IT, Scitex CH, etc.
    •     Unique high-speed image rendering: Ultra-fast viewing of high-res images over the Internet and lossless image quality.

Here are more ways to improve your client commitment with cyan eProof RapidImageView:

    •     Put your clients first. No need to install software on the client side. The system uses Java applets, which are automatically loaded from the Internet without requiring any interaction from the user, who does not even notice the presence of them on his/her PC.
    •     Share your work in a reliable and secure environment. Advanced security system using SSL, user accounts, user groups and category based permissions. The system employs 5 roles of user groups: users, layouters (designers), managers (having authority to release jobs for printing), administrators, and setup administrators.
    •     Increase your customers’ satisfaction. In your fully customizable cyan eProof RapidImageView application, certain features can be deactivated (made invisible). The feature-limited version will be extremely user-friendly and foolproof for your clients with moderate computer knowledge. More importantly, the ideas of your clients will be immediately visible to you.
    •     Simplify Communication. The system will automatically detect the language of the user computer and pre-select this language for the client's user interface.
    •     Enhance your workflow, don’t replace it. You can easily share and proofread high-resolution images, PostScript and PDF files without changing your workflow.
 

4. Team with Your Clients

ElementOnClick™ Our ElementOnClick technology allows singling out (recognizing and extracting) individual elements (text, images, tables) from the job page as a whole. eProof RapidImageView is extracting automatically the individual element from the job and the customer can easily correct the element within the browser interface over the Internet.

FormattedCorrections™ The FormattedCorrections technology of eProof RapidImageView provides the customer with a convenient formatted text editor, which is automatically filled with the formatted original text of the job's text block the user has clicked on.

Table Editor  Unique Table Editor tool allows editing cells' text in tables extracted from the layout. Cells' text can be edited in both the plain and rich text format. Regardless of the size of a table, eProof enables users to edit all table's cells while in the same window, without the need to leave the editor and come back again for each subsequent correction. Furthermore, correction requests can also be attached to the table as a whole, enabling users to leave comments on the table attributes.

High-Res Printing eProof provides a possibility to send high-resolution images to a digital printer for high quality hardcopy proofing. For this, system transmits the original file data from server to client and recreates this file there in its original resolution and color space for proofing purposes.

    •     Work on your proof when you want and wherever you are. You and your clients will be able to review a document, layout or design from any location at any time.
    •     You choose the user interface that fits your creative process. Simple user interface provides that users, charged with submitting the approval, see only those elements/features that they use in their work. At the same time, users can access only those jobs they are allowed to.
    •     See the whole job at one time. The status bar above each page shows how far the page has progressed in the proofreading process and provides an overview of the process with a number of parties involved as a whole.
    •     Collaborate with your clients. Customizable e-mail notification system informs involved users about corrections, new versions, new jobs, etc.
 

5. Coordinate Your Production Management

You easily manage in-house schedules and activities using cyan eProof RapidImageView while speeding up the proofreading process! Your manager in charge of the production plant will be empowered to monitor the process of production using a PC. Your production facilities that are scattered on a large territory or distant from the management team – will successfully perform with no need for your physical presence on site.

Empower your management team. The cyan eProof RapidImageView features are activated on request, so according to the needs  and workflow of the company, the system can be made extremely powerful for power-users (e.g. for Production Management).
 

The Proofing Challenge

In the modern publishing industry, graphic production involves many people outside an enterprise. The proofreading phase is growing to include the marketing team of the client in different geographical locations as well as product managers of the graphic company and other external partners. Buyers are often frustrated by the communication hassles and delays in that lengthy process that adds days to the production cycle.

The traditional way of dealing with this challenge was the cumbersome document exchange of printed proofs. Today your customers expect more from your company – better care, faster service and more options. As a businessperson, you want to do more for your customers – and do it faster and cheaper.

The cyan eProof RapidImageView technology is committed to supporting these critical needs of printers, publishers, ad agencies, designers, packaging houses and corporate communications departments making proofreading clear and manageable irrespectively of the number of people involved. Your numerous customers’ feedback will improve the quality of your work. cyan eProof ensures that it is easy for the customer to give you valuable feedback to achieve customer loyalty and retention, value-based pricing and cutting-edge growth of your business.
 

The Solution – A Web Based Proofing Solution

cyan eProof RapidImageView is a breakthrough solution to the traditional proofing and approval process used by publishing, printing and advertising industries. It eliminates the practice of printing costly proofs and delivering them by fax or courier. It allows your client to access the eProof server with their own secure and customizable workspace set up by an advertisement agency or pre-press house.

As soon as a document file has been produced and placed in cyan eProof RapidImageView, it is accessible to all eligible participants through an Internet browser and is available for proofreading. The distant users can simultaneously view the documents at full resolution, make corrections and discuss images. It includes the numerous features the users were inquiring about: proof tracking, automatic alerts, PDF support, multi-page, uploads, encryption and a host of other functions. Any creative products such as advertisements, packaging, postcards, brochures, labels and magazines can be presented for proofreading in a highly collaborative, team-oriented manner.

With cyan eProof RapidImageView, changes can be made and compared easily. Proofs can now be sorted by client, upload date, upload status, proof status or tracking number. The designer can upload the prepared proof file and choose to hold the job. The colleagues of the designer are informed that a proof file is being held and can access the file to add their information and make the proof available to the client.

With eProof RapidImageView’s unique set of tools, your clients will be able to attach correction requests to any page elements: text paragraphs, images, tables, table cells, as well as mark up areas in various shapes to indicate changes to a specific area of a proof. Moreover, they are enabled to edit even the text formatting and make precise measurements for their correction requests. These corrections do not change the original text but overlay the user's version of the document. Then, the end user submits that version back to the designer or layout person.

Additional Features

• Quickly view actual high resolution image over the Internet with advanced image streaming technology

• Annotations, mark-ups and corrections are immediately visible for other users; no need to synchronize manually as with other solutions

• Correct formatted of Microsoft Word, PostScipt and PDF files. With a simple click on the proof, clients can easily correct the original text in a formatted editor, which is automatically filled with the formatted text.

• Multi-Language-Text-Corrections

• Highlight text corrections (differences) in different colors

• Highlight corrected page elements in proof view

• Cropping tool

• Support of Microsoft Word, PDF, PDF/X, PostScript, TIFF, TIFF-IT, Scitex-CT, JPEG, EPS, DCS, DCS2 ,BMP, PhotoCD, PICT, PNG, GIF, etc. files

• Mark-up and annotate files with point, rectangular, oval, freeform and text annotation tools

• Manage categories, jobs and their versions

• Administer user groups, accounts and assign permissions

• Multi-level email notification system with immediate and daily dispatch subscriptions

• Workgroup Publisher

• Color matching technologies including densitometer and separation view (Pantone, RGB, CMYK, CIELab etc.)

• Color matching proof display on Windows clients

• Color matching proof display on Mac OS 9 and OS X clients

• LoadBalancer: Distributes work load among eProof's server components that can be installed on serveral servers which can be located anywhere within the Intranet or on the Internet

• Express Hi-Res Uploading: Makes uploads of the large files unecessary. Clients can access the database and web interface through one eProof server, but the high resolution files and the rendering components can reside on other servers on the Internet. The image data is transferred from these servers to the client by using the RapidImageView technology, which only transfers the image data that is actually visible on the client's screen

• Scalability and Distributed Computing: With the help of eProof's Scalability and Distributed Computing technologies Repro houses never have to upload the high resolution assets as they can be accessed quickly by using the RapidImageView technology. Clients will not even notice that the high resolution files are stored on other servers on the Internet

• Remote hi-res hard proofing without downloading the entire file; Including color matching support

• No need to purchase 3rd party software for each user in order to make annotations

• Job upload tool for Mac and PC clients. Large files can be uploaded, scheduled and processed in the background while the user can work on other trask

• File cache for accelerating viewing and printing speed and reducing amount of downloaded data

• Native client side code for fast display of image data

• Corrections print function that gives a cumulative overview of annotations and text corrections including a preview of the page

• Graphics and colors of image viewer and web page can be customized with customer templates

• Emulate the production printer's color gamut on screen and with printed hardproofs with Windows and Mac clients

• Support of multi languages in user interface

• Server does not require a/any permanent internet connection to a remote database server

• Customizable job fields (fields in which free information can be entered)

• Jobs are assigned to categories (key words)

• Release function (authorized persons can release jobs for production/print)

• Application Service Provider version available
   

cyan eProof Versions

You may choose one out of several cyan eProof versions to ensure the solution is absolutely tailored to the needs of your workflow. Some versions are based on the unique high-speed RapidImageView technology, others on the free Acrobat viewer which can be already installed on client computers. Click this link to view the eProof feature chart:

 >>cyan eProof version comparison chart...

cyan eProof Server Specifications

    •     Based on MS SQL Server; Windows XP / Windows 2000
    •     Can be integrated into an existing MS SQL Server installation
    •     No need to buy an SQL server as eProof is shipped with the engine of the MS SQL Server

eProof, cyan eProof, RapidImageView, SmartCorrectionDisplay, ElementRelatedCorrections, Click'n'Correct, ElementOnClick, FormattedCorrections are trademarks of cyan soft ltd., Cyprus.