Customers, sales and CSR's can now accurately communicate job requirements without fear of miscommunication. Any SGI Indy, Indigo 2 with a camera on board can video the person describing the job to the camera, capturing the exact job requirements, even as the person holds a comp or transparency of the job up to the camera! Capture the video, and capture your customers imagination! Strippers review the video, add to it. Whether your prep personnel are 1st, 2nd, or 3rd shift, they can now "see" the person describing the job right on their screen. They simply call up the video, and begin the job by importing scans, PostScript
files, etc. At any time they are stripping, they can recall the video to insure that they are on the right track. No more midnight calls to your CSR's at home by 3rd shift strippers. This video based communication tool eliminates communication errors from departments, and between shifts. Eliminate communication breakdown between customers, sales, CSR, and prep. How many proofs do you create to get it right? How much time and cost does that add to the job? Avoid this problem, and get a leap on the competition. By adding a live video to the job jacket, communication errors can be eliminated. Send job to customer Indy for review and annotation.
If your customer has an inexpensive Indy (e.g., 8- or 24-bit, 1 Gb disk, 16-32 Mb ram), they can receive the Contex file over phone lines as an SGI "whiteboard" file. This lo-res version can be used for discussion about the placement of elements, traps, etc. It is not intended to proof color on the screen.
Fred Harrison
Marketing Manager
Contex Prepress Systems
101 Edgewater Drive
Wakefield, MA 01880
USA
617-245-4100
617-246-6263 (fax)
For applications in related solution areas, see the following indices: Desktop Publishing, Electronic Image Assembly & Prepress, Image Processing, Prepress, the developer index for Contex Prepress Systems and the market segment index for Graphic Arts.
