Choose your features
- Modules provide large scale functionality to the Switch Core.
- Configurators give you application and integration specific features.
- Apps are created by partners, integrators and users for purpose-built additions to Switch.
For instance, you may need the Scripting Module to work with data from your MIS. Then, use that data to build jobs by layering PDF files with the Overlay PDF app.
Color Management
Alwan
Alwan ColorHub enables you to improve your Color Match, Print Quality and Productivity with a fully automated color server for all printing process.
Callas
pdfToolbox offers powerful, dynamic and easy to integrate PDF processing, from quick visual inspection and fixing to fully unattended processing of thousands of files.
ColorLogic
ZePrA color management server can be integrated into an existing workflow for immediate results.
GMG
A high-performant client-server architecture and a dynamic hotfolder concept provide maximum productivity and processing safety.
Conversion to PDF
Apago
Apago provides innovative software solutions for the manipulation of PDF, PostScript, and common graphics formats.
Axaio
axaio software streamlines automated PDF creation, printing and content correction workflows.
Callas
pdfToolbox offers powerful, dynamic and easy to integrate PDF processing, from quick visual inspection and fixing to fully unattended processing of thousands of files.
Corel
Over the years, Corel has brought a spirit of innovation to the development of a range of award-winning products that includes graphics, painting, photo, video and office software.
GMG GmbH & Co. KG
A high-performant client-server architecture and a dynamic hotfolder concept provide maximum productivity and processing safety.
Microsoft
Founded in 1975, Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software, services, devices and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.
Paloma Print Products
Paloma Print Products’ mission is to help our clients produce the highest quality customer communications at the lowest possible cost.
DAM
Chili Publish
CHILI Publish delivers innovative publishing technology that helps your business grow.
Elpical
Elpical Software develops and markets software solutions for the production and enhancement of digital images and the automation of image workflows.
Imaging solutions
Imaging Solutions AG offers special machines for the production of photo books and print-on-demand products.
VIESUS™ is theie automated image enhancement software.
WoodWing
WoodWing Software develops and markets a multi-channel publishing system, Enterprise, and digital asset management system, Elvis DAM.
Archive Plus
This script allows you to do exactly the same function as the "Archive" element with the added functionality of removing the top folder.
AWS S3 Upload
AWS S3 Upload provides an easy way to upload files directly from your Switch flow to an Amazon AWS S3 Bucket.
Make Thumbnails
This app will make thumbnails of your images. Set a size in pixels and set a resolution, optionally you can make a non-square image square.
WebDAV
Upload and Download job files and folders to a remote path on a WebDAV remote folder.
Data quality for postal mail
Accuzip
AccuZIP provides mail processing services for mailing using the US Postal Service.
Firstlogic DQ
Data Preflight
Data Preflight allows variable data and mailing operators to easily check the contents and constraints of a spreadsheet.
Digital Publishing
Meadows Publishing Solutions
Software development and integration company that specializes in database publishing and variable data printing automation.
Paloma Print Products
Paloma Print Products’ mission is to help our clients produce the highest quality customer communications at the lowest possible cost.
Twixl Media
Twixl media develops professional, easy and affordable publishing solutions for interactive applications on mobile devices.
Switch Web Services Module
Removes the limits from the Switch Client Module, and allows anonymous connections from an unlimited number of users.
Document archiving
Callas
pdfToolbox offers powerful, dynamic and easy to integrate PDF processing, from quick visual inspection and fixing to fully unattended processing of thousands of files.
Stuffit Expander
WoodWing
WoodWing Software develops and markets a multi-channel publishing system, Enterprise, and digital asset management system, Elvis DAM.
Archive Plus
This script allows you to do exactly the same function as the "Archive" element with the added functionality of removing the top folder.
File type conversion
ASI List Magic
Allows for each row in a CSV file to be read using a specified delimiter, then output as individual jobs through an outbound connector.
CSV Column Shuffle
It can move one column at the time and place it some where in the CSV at your choice.
Excel to XML
Submit an Excel file in the format .xlsx to a Switch flow where it will be converted to XML and/or metadata sets.
Make JSON
A multiline editor with variables where you can write your own JSON-code and add values from variables.
File transfer and output
AWS S3 Upload
AWS S3 Upload provides an easy way to upload files directly from your Switch flow to an Amazon AWS S3 Bucket.
Cloudprinter Integration
Enables print service providers to integrate as a print on demand partner in the Cloudprinter.com network.
Summa Job Pickup
Upload jobs to Switch from the Summa job folder where the customer file resides.
WeTransfer
Locates the download links in an email message body and automatically downloads the file.
Flow design and metadata handling
Auto Save Plus
Automate various auto-save for Switch, including flows, setting and custom folder.
Counter Numberer
Add, subtract, multiply, divide or reset the value of counters. Many possible: invoicing, cost calculation, statistics or stock management.
CSV Lookup
Allows a CSV file to be used as a simple database to help simplify Switch flows.
Date Calculator
Do simple calculations on dates, you can add or subtract a number of days from a given date.
Dummy Job Clock
Creates a tiny text file based on a user-defined interval. This can be used to trigger actions in elements.
Execute Command Friend
Allows the creation of a script file for use with Execute Command.
Hold Job Groups
Holds a group of jobs until the group is complete and sends them on at the same time without assembling them.
Inject Wildcard
Allows you to inject one or more jobs into the flow when triggered by an incoming job.
Private Data Extractor
Reveal the private data in your job, even if you don't know the correct private data keys.
Switch2Switch
Send to Switch, Receive from Switch can be used to transfer files from one Switch Server to another.
Switch Logger
Allows the creation and update of external text files for logging Switch job activities.
Take Notes
Allows you to collect data about a job, such as preflight status, ink coverage values, etc. and save it as a dataset stored in the job.
TXT Pickup
Converts any text file to an XML dataset and it offers methods for detecting key/value pairs so the resulting XML is nicely structured.
Variable Assert
Allows you to quickly verify assumptions of Switch variables before
processing.
Variable XPath Repeater
Allows you to use Switch variables in XPaths.
For example, to work with an xml order with many suborders.
XML Repeater
Allows the partition of XML files, which contain identically named nodes into separate XML files.
XML Magic
Allows the creation and update of XML and JDF files with help of a very intuitive control structure.
Image optimization
Elpical
Elpical Software develops and markets software solutions for the production and enhancement of digital images and the automation of image workflows.
VIESUS
Imaging Solutions AG offers special machines for the production of photo books and print-on-demand products.
VIESUS™ is theie automated image enhancement software.
Imposition / tiling / ganging
Callas
pdfToolbox offers powerful, dynamic and easy to integrate PDF processing, from quick visual inspection and fixing to fully unattended processing of thousands of files.
Dynagram
Flexible Imposition for Digital, Offset and Web Printers. inpO2 is a powerful, modular PDF imposition software, built right into Acrobat.
HP
SmartStream Designer enables the creation of sophisticated high-value pages through a variable data tool. SmartStream Production Center helps you more efficiently manage production.
Meadows Publishing Solutions
Software development and integration company that specializes in database publishing and variable data printing automation.
Quite
Enables OEMs, system integrators and independent vendors to create customized workflows using either the hot folder or command-line tools within Quite Hot Imposing.
Tilia Labs
tilia Phoenix is an imposition and planning solution designed for a range of work including packaging, labels, cards, tags, wide-format, and commercial.
Ultimate Technographics
Ultimate Impostrip® is designed to automate your imposition tasks. It eases you into the world of optimized imposition.
Automatic Imposition
Automatic imposition will do the most common impositions for your digital printer.
Banner Pocket
Help you get the printed sheets arranged in the way you need for attaching the front and back side pockets together.
Dynamic Imposition
The app will use Callas pdfToolbox to analyze the incoming file's trim box size and try to fit as many pages on the sheet as possible.
Impostrip Redirection Integration
Ultimate Impostrip® is designed to automate your imposition tasks. It eases you into the world of optimized imposition.
LFP PDF Slicer
Slicer splits large PDFs into smaller slices or tiles that will fit on your large format printer.
Metrix Automation Pro
Modifies Efi Metrix 2013 and 2015 compliant project MXML files. It then copies that MXML file into an Efi Metrix Automation Pro hotfolder setup and tracks the processing of that project within Efi Metrix.
Tilia Griffin
Automatic layout and tiling solution solution for wide format printers. Its primary goals are to increase efficiency and reduce errors.
Job management
Accuzip
AccuZIP provides mail processing services for mailing using the US Postal Service.
Aproove
Aproove Express is an affordable professional turnkey solution that enables the automated submission of digital proofs from any Switch workflow to print buyers.
Caldera
Nexio is a tool that connects the Caldera RIP to Switch making it possible to produce automatic sequences of actions and advanced reports.
Onyx Graphics
ONYX Thrive workflow software is a scalable print production solution based on Adobe® PDF Print Engine technology.
Paloma Print Products
Paloma Print Products’ mission is to help our clients produce the highest quality customer communications at the lowest possible cost.
Tharstern
MIS that supports the major disciplines of print including litho, digital, packaging, wide format and label printing, all within one solution.
Auto Save Plus
Automate various auto-save for Switch, including flows, setting and custom folder.
Count Rows
Counts the number of lines in a text file and puts this information into private data.
Counter Numberer
Add, subtract, multiply, divide or reset the value of counters. Many possible: invoicing, cost calculation, statistics or stock management.
DataLogger
The ASI DataLogger app for Switch is a tool to save information to a CSV text file.
Dummy Job Clock
Creates a tiny text file based on a user-defined interval. This can be used to trigger actions in elements.
Execute Command Friend
Allows the creation of a script file for use with Execute Command.
Hold Job Groups
Holds a group of jobs until the group is complete and sends them on at the same time without assembling them.
Inject Wildcard
Allows you to inject one or more jobs into the flow when triggered by an incoming job.
Multipress Lookup
Use Enfocus Switch to communicate with your Multipress Server to get all the info you need for order processing.
Place Content
Creates a workaround for a problem with some character encoding in the pdfToolbox Place Content fixup.
Private Data Extractor
Reveal the private data in your job, even if you don't know the correct private data keys.
Resize Spine
The app offers three strategies for correcting the spine size of a PDF book cover.
Split PDF Layers
This app splits an incoming PDF into several PDF's based on the layer properties of the file and the property settings of the app.
StatsGatherer
StatsGatherer collects information about jobs as they move through your flows.
Switch2Switch
Send to Switch, Receive from Switch can be used to transfer files from one Switch Server to another.
Variable Assert
Allows you to quickly verify assumptions of Switch variables before
processing.
Switch Reporting Module
Create custom job boards to view production metrics in real-time.
Large Format
Caldera
Nexio is a tool that connects the Caldera RIP to Switch making it possible to produce automatic sequences of actions and advanced reports.
Onyx Graphics
ONYX Thrive workflow software is a scalable print production solution based on Adobe® PDF Print Engine technology.
Tilia Labs
tilia Phoenix is an imposition and planning solution designed for a range of work including packaging, labels, cards, tags, wide-format, and commercial.
Banner Pocket
Help you get the printed sheets arranged in the way you need for attaching the front and back side pockets together.
LFP PDF Slicer
Slicer splits large PDFs into smaller slices or tiles that will fit on your large format printer.
Tilia Griffin
Automatic layout and tiling solution solution for wide format printers. Its primary goals are to increase efficiency and reduce errors.
MIS
Avanti
Bi-directional communication allows Switch to update Avanti Slingshot® milestones.
Imprint MIS
Integration to the Imprint Management Information System.
Allows access to various Imprint data sets and creation of new jobs
Summa job pickup
This app give you a function to quicker upload jobs to Switch from the Summa job folder where the customer file resides.
Tharstern
Gives advantages to preflight and PDF approvals and has the powerful ability to make changes within the Tharstern database.
Preflight
Alwan
Alwan ColorHub enables you to improve your Color Match, Print Quality and Productivity with a fully automated color server for all printing process.
Apago
Apago provides innovative software solutions for the manipulation of PDF, PostScript, and common graphics formats.
Axaio
axaio software streamlines automated PDF creation, printing and content correction workflows.
Callas
pdfToolbox offers powerful, dynamic and easy to integrate PDF processing, from quick visual inspection and fixing to fully unattended processing of thousands of files.
ColorLogic
ZePrA color management server can be integrated into an existing workflow for immediate results.
Global Vision
BarProof is a PDF barcode verification tool that automatically locates and verifies all barcodes on a label, carton or press sheet and grades each according to CEN/ANSI/ISO standards.
Enfocus PitStop Pro
Manual editing tools such as PitStop Pro are powerful in correcting problems in PDF files. PitStop Server takes that same power to an automated level.
HP EPM Preflight
Combined with Switch and PitStop Server, this solution automatically decides whether a job is suitable to print in EPM mode or not.
Print Production
Caldera
Nexio is a tool that connects the Caldera RIP to Switch making it possible to produce automatic sequences of actions and advanced reports.
EFI
Fiery® XF produces the most accurate and vibrant colors whether businesses use aqueous, solvent, eco-solvent or UV printers.
Fujifilm
GMG GmbH & Co. KG
A high-performant client-server architecture and a dynamic hotfolder concept provide maximum productivity and processing safety.
HP
SmartStream Designer enables the creation of sophisticated high-value pages through a variable data tool. SmartStream Production Center helps you more efficiently manage production.
Meadows Publishing Solutions
Software development and integration company that specializes in database publishing and variable data printing automation.
Onyx Graphics
ONYX Thrive workflow software is a scalable print production solution based on Adobe® PDF Print Engine technology.
rti-rips.com
The RTI Harlequin RIP Configurator allows Switch users to output PDF or TIFF files as either a composite file or individual separations.
Overlay PDF
The app Overlay PDF places one or multiple PDF’s on top of one, or multiple, other PDF’s.
Uncover PDF
Separates the cover pages from a PDF-file. Uncover PDF will pick up the first two pages and the last two pages and save them to a new PDF.
Proofing and online collaboration
Alwan
Alwan ColorHub enables you to improve your Color Match, Print Quality and Productivity with a fully automated color server for all printing process.
Aproove
Aproove Express is an affordable professional turnkey solution that enables the automated submission of digital proofs from any Switch workflow to print buyers.
EFI
Fiery® XF produces the most accurate and vibrant colors whether businesses use aqueous, solvent, eco-solvent or UV printers.
Paloma Print Products
Paloma Print Products’ mission is to help our clients produce the highest quality customer communications at the lowest possible cost.
rti-rips.com
The RTI Harlequin RIP Configurator allows Switch users to output PDF or TIFF files as either a composite file or individual separations.
Message Teams
Allows you to send information
you collect in Switch to individual or multiple channels in Microsoft Teams.
PDF Review Module
This Switch module enables the integration of an automated PDF review and approval process in a Switch workflow.
Post to Slack
Post messages to any Slack.com channel. Customize the appearance with user name and icon.
Variable data
Accuzip
AccuZIP provides mail processing services for mailing using the US Postal Service.
Chili Publish
CHILI Publish delivers innovative publishing technology that helps your business grow.
HP
SmartStream Designer enables the creation of sophisticated high-value pages through a variable data tool. SmartStream Production Center helps you more efficiently manage production.
Meadows Publishing Solutions
Software development and integration company that specializes in database publishing and variable data printing automation.
Paloma Print Products
Paloma Print Products’ mission is to help our clients produce the highest quality customer communications at the lowest possible cost.
rti-rips.com
The RTI Harlequin RIP Configurator allows Switch users to output PDF or TIFF files as either a composite file or individual separations.
CSV Column header changer
Take the header line from the CSV file and change the column header of the column you have selected.
Data Preflight
Data Preflight allows variable data and mailing operators to easily check the contents and constraints of a spreadsheet.
Excel to CSV
Submit an Excel file in the format .xlsx to a Switch flow were it will be converted to CSV.
HP PrintOS Composer
Automatically sends HP SmartStream Designer templates to HP PrintOS Composer in the cloud, to make sure you get the PDF you want, faster than ever before.
List Lookup
Search for and return a value from a CSV data file. Specify the target column and value and the tool returns the value and writes to private data.
Web-to-print
Chili Publish
CHILI Publish delivers innovative publishing technology that helps your business grow.
Print.com Production
Allows printing companies to connect to the Print.com print manufacturing platform. The app supports automatic job fetching together with jobsheets, XML/JSON, shipping instructions etc.
XpressionManager
This app downloads orders from XpressionManager directly into your Enfocus Switch workflow.
Switch Web Services Module
Removes the limits from the Switch Client Module, and allows anonymous connections from an unlimited number of users.
Workflow connectivity and integration
EFI
Fiery® XF produces the most accurate and vibrant colors whether businesses use aqueous, solvent, eco-solvent or UV printers.
ESKO
Automation Engine serves as the heart of any size prepress production operation. It enables unparalleled workflow automation with rock-solid quality control.
Paloma Print Products
Paloma Print Products’ mission is to help our clients produce the highest quality customer communications at the lowest possible cost.
rti-rips.com
The RTI Harlequin RIP Configurator allows Switch users to output PDF or TIFF files as either a composite file or individual separations.
Cimpress Integration
Package of four apps that facilitate order receipt, ganging and notifications for Cimpress.
Cloudprinter Integration
Enables print service providers to integrate as a print on demand partner in the Cloudprinter.com network.
Counter Numberer
Add, subtract, multiply, divide or reset the value of counters. Many possible: invoicing, cost calculation, statistics or stock management.
Extract text from PDF
Utility that will use the functionality in callas pdfToolbox to extract text in a PDF file and output it in some usable formats for use in Switch.
GMG CoZone
A high-performant client-server architecture and a dynamic hotfolder concept provide maximum productivity and processing safety.
GSApi process bufferline to MultiPress order
Process a bufferline entry in MultiPress to an actual order.
GSApi Order Submit for MultiPress
GSApi Order Submit enables you to submit XML or jSON orders to GSApi, with only a username and a password.
Handwriting.io Generator
Eliminate the hassle of handwritten communications and save time and money with digital handwriting.
HP PrintOS Composer
Automatically sends HP SmartStream Designer templates to HP PrintOS Composer in the cloud, to make sure you get the PDF you want, faster than ever before.
Message Teams
Allows you to send information
you collect in Switch to individual or multiple channels in Microsoft Teams.
Metrix Product Extractor
Allows the extraction of EFI Metrix 2013 and 2015 compliant product MXMLs out of MXML files exported from EFI Metrix.
Metrix Product Maker
Allows the automated creation of EFI Metrix 2013 and 2015 compliant product MXML files, supporting all product specific settings known from the EFI Metrix software.
Metrix Project Maker
Allows the automated creation of EFI Metrix 2013 and 2015 compliant project MXML files, supporting all project specific settings known from the EFI Metrix software.
Post to Telegram
Using Telegram with Switch allows you to send safe and encrypted communication.
Print.com Production
Allows printing companies to connect to the Print.com print manufacturing platform. The app supports automatic job fetching together with jobsheets, XML/JSON, shipping instructions etc.
Post to Trello
Automatically create, archive, unarchive and delete cards in Trello, move them in the board, add labels, members, comments, checklists, due date, cover or attachments and retrieve metadata from cards.
Send with Sprend
Lets you use the Sprend file sending service. The app uploads a job to the Sprend server where it will be stored until the receiver downloads the file.
Summa job pickup
This app give you a function to quicker upload jobs to Switch from the Summa job folder where the customer file resides.
Summa Notes
To use this app, enter the Summa OrderNo, this can come from a Submit point or other metadata.
When a job passes through this app, the note will be updated accordingly.
Summa Status Color
Reports the job status back to the Summa MIS. This app only works together with the Summa business and order system.
XpressionManager
This app downloads orders from XpressionManager directly into your Enfocus Switch workflow.