Cloud, in your browser.
Lay out and check a job on any desktop or laptop in your shop that runs Chrome or Edge. Everyone signs in to the same account and sees the same jobs.
Studio Cloud, for shops that print their own work
See the sheet before the press does.
PostPress Studio Cloud is sticker printing and roll printing software that runs in your browser. Lay a job out by its cut line, check it with a preflight, and hand it to your RIP when you are satisfied.
Studio opens in your browser. Your shop signs in with the account we set up when your licence is agreed. It is made for a desktop or laptop, in Chrome or Edge.
Prefer it on your own server? Ask about on-premise.
Integrations with the RIPs you own.
Studio hands each sheet to ONYX or Caldera through a hot folder, a folder your RIP watches, with a press connector beside the press. Shopify, Etsy and an order e-mail inbox are coming.
From artwork to press, orders coming.
Artwork and jobs come into Studio today, and the sheet goes out to your press. Orders flowing in from your shop's storefront are coming.
What Studio Cloud does
Everything your shop does between a customer's file and the press, in one place.
The sheet, nested by the cut line.
Add your designs and Studio packs them by the line the blade follows, not the box round each one, so round and shaped stickers sit closer. When that beats laying them out in rows, it tells you how many sheets you saved.
The whole roll.
Pick the stock and the sheet is laid out to the width of the roll, less only what the press cannot print at its edges. Every job says how much of the roll it uses. Jobs on the same stock wait together on one roll, Studio tells you when it is full enough to print, and a person at the press prints it.
Kiss-cut and cut lines.
Studio draws the cut line round your artwork, or uses the one in your file, or you draw your own and move its points by hand. It kiss-cuts round each sticker and cuts through along the sheet's edge so it comes off the roll. A stock with no liner is never offered a kiss-cut.
Bleed and panels.
A banner is offered only on a stock with no liner. One wider than the roll is split into equal panels, each with the stock's bleed and an overlap at every seam, and the hand-over lists every panel in order.
A preflight that stops what should stop.
Every sheet is checked before it can go. A stop is something the press cannot make, or would make differently from the preview, and it holds the job. A look is a call left to you. Every finding says how to fix it, and Fix these issues makes the fixes in one go, with one Undo.
Quick Sets, caught early.
Type the Quick Set each stock rips with, once, under Materials. A job on a stock with no Quick Set is stopped on your screen, not found out at the RIP.
A proof the customer can answer.
Send a customer a link, made from a saved job, to one picture of their sheet. They approve it or leave a comment, with no account, and every answer is kept as a line of its own. The link ends after the days you choose.
Hand-over to the press.
Put a saved job on one of your presses by name. A press connector, which we set up with you, fetches it and writes it into the folder your RIP watches, and a person at the press starts it. Studio never starts, stops or reorders anything on the RIP.
A job, from the first question to the press
The screens ask in the order a shop thinks, and every step says what it is doing.
- 1
Pick the stock first.
Start a new job and choose the material type, the material and what you are making: a sticker sheet, die-cut singles or a decal, or a banner on a stock with no liner. The stock decides what the press can do, so a product it cannot make is not offered, and one that is not built yet is marked not available.
- 2
Add the designs.
Add design puts each one on the sheet with its cut line drawn. Drag a piece and Undo puts it back; type a gap and the pieces move apart.
- 3
Read the preflight.
What stops the job is listed in words you can act on, with a fix beside each. What only needs a look is marked as a look.
- 4
Put it on a press, or send a proof.
Put it on one of your presses, or send the customer a proof link to approve.
Built for the browser
Everything your people need is in one place that every computer in the shop opens the same way.
Nothing to set up on each computer.
Studio opens in Chrome or Edge on a desktop or laptop, so laying out and checking a job needs no program on each machine.
One account, one set of jobs.
Your people sign in from any computer in the shop and see the same jobs, orders, presses and materials. Studio shows who has a job open.
Next to the press.
A small press connector, which we set up with you, sits beside the press and fetches the jobs you put on it.
Integrations
Studio hands each sheet to the RIP you already own, and a press connector fetches jobs beside the press.
Built today
- ONYXThrough its hot folder.
- CalderaThrough its hot folder.
- Press connectorFetches the jobs you put on a press, beside the press.
Coming
Being built. None of these is in Studio today, and a contract signed now does not depend on them.
- ShopifyOrders from your online shop.
- EtsyOrders from your Etsy shop.
- Order e-mail inboxOrders that arrive by e-mail.
- And moreMore are on the list.
From artwork to press, orders coming
Artwork and jobs come into Studio today, are laid out and checked, and go to your press through the RIP you own. Orders flowing in from your shop's storefront are coming: Shopify, Etsy and an order e-mail inbox.
- Your artworkOrderComing
- Studio
- Hot folder
- Your RIP
- Press
Works with the RIP you own
Studio hands each sheet to the RIP you already run.
For every press you give Studio a hot folder, and the sheet is written into it. For ONYX, Studio hands the sheet over through its hot folder. Studio never tells it anything beyond that file: it does not start, stop or reorder a job.
Other RIPs that read a hot folder should work the same; we have not yet checked each one.
Your jobs and customers stay yours
PostPress never reads or touches your customers' details, your jobs or your artwork. Not to fix a fault, and not for any other reason.
Who it is for
Shops that print their own work on their own presses: stickers, decals and banners off the roll. A licence covers your shop and an agreed number of people, each with their own sign-in, and they can sign in from any computer in the shop.
Tell us about your shop and get a licence.
Prefer to read first? The manual shows how Studio works.
Read the manualOn-premise
Studio Cloud is the way we recommend. If your shop wants Studio on a server of its own, ask us. It is the same browser Studio. Tell us what you have in mind and we will reply.
Ask about on-premiseTell us about your shop.
We set Studio Cloud up for each shop when its licence is agreed. A person replies by e-mail.