Welcome to Unified Technology Ltd. We have been specialising in publishing systems since 1986. We are currently leaders in web2print publishing technology with a portfolio of systems designed to deliver full featured publishing of various kinds...

You are putting together a website for a corporate end user; imagine what an asset it would be to be able to add a couple of chunks of html and allow your customer's employees to order their business cards themselves! Your client gets faster turnaround, consistent quality and order tracking.

For large corporates, Printflo offers a way to implement brand control. Orders can be placed by anyone with a web browser and the orders are then printed by approved suppliers only. Printflo can send orders to print providers anywhere in the world for fulfilment, so both print quality and location – and hence delivery time – are optimised.

Print companies can publish all or part of a Printflo workflow for their clients to use. This might simply to be provide order tracking, but can also include on-line proofing and revisions.

Our imposition module can be configured to support multiple spread formats to support your press's requirements. Gutters, marks, rows and columns, sides etc can all be configured via the web interface. The optional top-sheet can include user specified text, pdf overlays and tracking bar codes.

As we've said, the input formats supported include pretty much everything you can think of; so do the outputs. A workflow can be configured to do one or more of the following:

• Nothing; this allows a workflow to be driven manually by one or more administrators.
• Output to pdf. A workflow knows all about colour spaces and resolutions and can be configured to produce a pdf suitable for web use, e-mail, bubble jet, digital print or litho.
  

Printflo has a management and production interface which can be integrated into your, or your customer's intranet. Our 'off the shelf' interface is always available, but where specific functionality is needed, an alternative is to use our interface kit. This consists of a set of modules available for a range of commonly available cms's. Using these, you can make the interface you want (requires some programming).

Whether incoming jobs originate from legacy systems, text data, e-mails or xddf documents, they can all be integrated into one or more streams for further processing.

Though Printflo can accept all sorts of inputs, the most flexible are documents designed using Unified Technology's 'xddf' intelligent document format. These documents can be tightly integrated into a website and provide the following advantages.

• XML format with xsd schema means that xddf documents can be authored with standard tools and expertise.
• Documents can include variable data. Any standard variable data tytpes can be included – a set of text options, free form text, web images etc.
  

Printflo can handle just about anything for input. You might have an existing system which end-users use to order their business cards. It's output might be an email to your printer, a purchase order, raw text file with the users details or you might have a system which can assemble print ready pdf's. Printflo can handle all these, and in addition you'll get:

• On screen proof display and/or approval for orderer.
• Order tracking for orderer and/or administrator(s).
• Live automatic imposition of placed orders.