Xerox FreeFlow Print Server

The Power of Xerox FreeFlow

Xerox FreeFlow solutions enable businesses to connect with customers, reduce costs, and enable new applications. Thousands of companies worldwide rely on FreeFlow to streamline and automate workflow processes, saving time ⏳, labor ?‍?, and waste ?️, while shifting quality ✨, productivity ?, and efficiency ? into overdrive. Built on industry standards, Xerox FreeFlow integrates and extends existing workflows to deliver measurable business benefits.

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Key FreeFlow Solutions

• FreeFlow Web Services: Powered by Press-sense™, provides a 24/7 ? Web portal for customers to securely submit new jobs and reorder existing ones over the Internet or an intranet from virtually anywhere.
• FreeFlow Makeready and FreeFlow Scanner 665: Serve as a document composition solution offering prepress tools like scanning, imposition, tab programming, late-stage editing, color management ?, and integration with Adobe Photoshop® CS, maximizing print quality and prepress efficiencies.
• FreeFlow Process Manager: Automates typical prepress steps, enabling preparation, proofing, and printing with minimal operator intervention. This results in a touchless workflow ✅, processing more jobs with less time and money, ensuring printers remain active.
• FreeFlow Output Manager: Enables automated management of printer resources by acting as a centralized collection point for print jobs distributed across the enterprise. It allows multiple printers to operate efficiently with sophisticated load balancing ⚖️ and job scheduling ?️.
• FreeFlow Print Manager: Allows for easy job submission to all output devices, providing full Xerox job ticketing and JDF job ticket support. Printer activity is continually monitored, simplifying job tracking ? and shop status. It also supports job flow from popular offset shop management systems, maintaining a single workflow for both digital and offset print systems.
• FreeFlow Variable Information Suite: A collection of tools for producing optimal variable print jobs. It includes components for creating high-value, personalized documents ?, such as the print-optimizing VI Interpreter, delivering unmatched throughput and print efficiency ⚡.

Open Standards, Big-Picture Solutions

Xerox FreeFlow products and print engines are built on open standards such as JDF, PPML, ICC, PDF, and others, enabling seamless integration ? with existing production workflows. This includes integration with over 100 business partners specializing in print and document management.

Xerox FreeFlow Print Server: Step it Up ⬆️

Discover a sleek, simple, and smart way to enhance workflow productivity with greater control over data streams, job queues, and output quality. The Xerox FreeFlow Print Server combines Xerox's production solution heritage into a compact unit. Its drag-and-drop ?️ user interface simplifies training and operation. It streamlines and organizes workflows to optimize every production printer. With ConfidentColor Technology for enhanced color management, it represents advanced print server technology.

Built on feedback from over 35,000 Xerox DocuSP® Servers, it retains advantages while adding enhancements and providing a single workflow with common features across a production fleet. The server helps automate, reduce costs, and enable new applications, from simple digital printing to complex variable data jobs.

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Key Features and Benefits

• Simplicity: Intuitive and fast operator experience with a user-friendly GUI. Minimizes job submission to click, drag, and drop. Supports over 250 print queues integrated with hot folder submission. Utilizes JDF job tickets for status feedback and process times. Preflight capabilities check for common errors before printing. Offers two levels of preview: low-resolution proof and high-resolution Advanced Preview for pixel-level control.
• ConfidentColor Technology: Part of a PANTONE®-licensed solution. Provides consistent, predictable results with enhanced color matching, accurate tints, and highlights. Supports Duotone, Tri-tone, Quad-tone, and custom spot colors.
• DeviceLink ICC Profile: Enables real-time build of custom RGB and CMYK DeviceLink ICC profiles to emulate any printing device. Preserves the black (K) pathway for superior image quality across different printers.
• Automatic Image Enhancement (AIE): One-click photo enhancements for exposure, sharpening, saturation, and red-eye reduction, maintaining document integrity.
• Benchmark Security ?: Based on secure UNIX®. Offers encrypted job-submission modes (public and private key encryption). Provides custom security profiles, secure passwords, and print modes to limit duplicate page printing.
• Overall Performance: Efficiently composes Variable Information (VI) jobs with sophisticated formats. Supports various data streams (AFP/IPDS, LCDS, VIPP®) and commercial workflows. Enables PDF generation without additional workflow steps. VI imposition supports common formats including VIPP, PPML, PDF, PostScript®, and PCL5c. Parallel processing optimizes page or job parallel RIPping for peak performance ?.

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