SAi’s software solution includes powerful new 64-bit RIP that delivers more than a 30% increase in speed as well as suite of practical new tools to meet design to production challenges of sign & display and large format print providers.
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| Find my Font automatically detects the font or best match of various image files |
“As the largest ever upgrade to our all-in-one signmaking solution, Flexi 19 packs an extremely hard punch in catering for the varied and sometimes intricate requirements of those operating at the coal face of today’s sign and display industry,” says Gudrun Bonte, vice president of product management, SAi.
Central to the Flexi 19 is a faster and more high-performance 64-bit RIP engine. Thanks to an increase in speed of more than 30%, the new solution delivers significantly improved production capabilities.
Created as an all-in-one solution for design, print, print-and-cut and direct-to-vinyl production workflow, Flexi 19 also comprises a host of easy-to-use features and tools – some of which will be available free-of-charge to SAi subscription-based customers. These include more than a dozen brand new additions, each geared towards improving the design, production and business aspects of users’ operations.
From Design…
Among the convenient new tools introduced to ensure a more efficient and hassle-free design workflow, is Find my Font. This lets users open different photo files – including Bitmaps – before automatically detecting the font or the best match of that used in the file.
Another new addition is a PANTONE Fine-Tune Spot Color Matching Tool. Particularly useful for sign & display companies that regularly use Pantone books, this tool allows users to measure charts and make manual adjustments to achieve precise colour matching from ICC profiles – not only saving time, but also ensuring colour accuracy.
And Production…
Within Flexi 19’s suite of production tools is a newly-introduced Cut by Layers or Colors tool, which allows users to expand their ability to cut intricate designs based on the layer. This builds on Flexi’s long-standing use of colours to distinguish between the different vinyls to be cut. For added convenience, SAi has also enabled layers for those users that work with other software, but who can then take the job into Flexi. In addition, Flexi 19 includes a handy printed Ruler along artwork to let operators know where they left off.
To Business...
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| Sidekick lets businesses manage customer accounts and implement a CRM workflow |
Flexi 19 also comprises a raft of business-enhancing tools, including five completely new additions. Among them, Pulse, delivers ‘data in a dashboard’. This allows sign and display users to track production and media usage of projects in progress via graphs and pie charts. In addition, Sidekick lets users create quotes, manage customer accounts, and ultimately implement a CRM workflow so jobs can quickly and effortlessly be exported into the invoicing process.
Other highlight tools include:
- •Improved Spot Color Mapping – a particularly useful feature that empowers users to rapidly and accurately map spot/corporate colours in the design file to exact output values. This ensures the printer matches the desired output colour for each new job. Using Custom Spot Color Mapping enables sign and large format print providers to easily build their own custom library of spot colours, ensuring such colours are precisely replicated every time they are printed.
- •An enhanced Profile Wizard – designed to make it easier when setting ink limits and alleviating the invariably complicated process of splitting ink. The automated Profile Wizard lets users obtain such information from measuring charts, taking away the manual guess work required when creating profiles visually.
SAi will unveil Flexi 19 at the ISA International Sign Expo in Las Vegas, USA, from April 24 – 26 (Stand #3047); and at FESPA Global FESPA Global Print Expo 2019 in Munich, Germany, from May 14-17 May (Stand A5-F31).
For further information, please visit: www.ThinkSAi.com
