A Workflow Under Pressure
Miguel Abarca, Truyol's automation expert, explains how their prepress department was facing mounting bottlenecks: repetitive checks, manual fixes, and long turnaround times. He mentions 70% to 80% of PDF errors may be the same: errors in the cutting boxes, wrongs colors for technical finishes, and low resolution.
That’s a familiar story for many print and packaging businesses. More jobs, tighter deadlines, and higher quality expectations make manual file checking increasingly unsustainable. Realizing this, Truyol turned to Enfocus—not simply to validate PDFs, but to fundamentally change how they handle incoming files, detect issues, and automate corrections.
PitStop Pro can detect all of this and fix it in four or five clicks.
Miguel Abarca
The question that was natural after using PitStop
And what if we automated all of this?
Miguel Abarca
That's how they evolved from just using PitStop Pro to a full Switch automation. After using PitStop Pro and realising the potential of automation, it becomes natural to take the next step into automation workflows were you can connect the whole process, from receiving the file, inspecting and preflighting it, and running the necessary changes before final print.
By combining Switch with PitStop, Truyol completely transformed prepress:
- From 10 prepress staff handling 100 jobs/day
- To 6 prepress staff managing 700–800 jobs/day
- The other 4 team members were reassigned to customer service, where they now create added value for clients
Miguel summed it up perfectly:
“There is no way we could achieve the smooth and efficient order processing for those 700-800 orders if it weren’t for PitStop and Switch. Without them, the prepress process would take hours, machines would sit idle, or we would have to stop the processes here and there. Thanks to Switch, we have a non-stop flow of orders to the machines and deliver without interruption.”
Miguel Abarca
That’s efficiency, scalability, and customer focus — all rolled into one. At Truyol, no two years have looked the same. Growth has meant regular building expansions, new equipment, new product offerings, and more colleagues joining the family.
What they learned with PitStop Pro
What stands out in their story—and what we’re so proud to support with PitStop Pro—is the shift from manual preflight and correction to automated, rule-based corrections. Here are some of the key improvements Truyol experienced:
- Automated detection of issues -what we call Preflight: Instead of manually inspecting every page, their prepress operators rely on PitStop Pro to highlight inconsistencies, misplaced objects, wrong colors or missing elements before files reach production.
- Action Lists and Global Changes: PitStop not only allows manual editing of a PDF within Adobe Acrobat, providing all the tools that are needed to prepare the file for prepress. But, it also allows you to automate the changes you want to apply in a file through the creation of Action Lists and Global Changes.
- The additional value for customer service: PitStop Pro fits perfectly into Truyol’s existing customer service since they use it to provide accurate feedback to their customers, make specific corrections and provide detailed explanation.
Final Thoughts
The story from Truyol Digital is both inspiring and instructive. It shows how automation and intelligent rule-based tools can transform a busy prepress department into a fast, consistent, and dependable production engine.
If you’re still relying on manual PDF checks, now is the perfect time to explore how PitStop Pro. And if you are already using PitStop Pro, consider then jumping towards more automation with PitStop Server or Switch, which will standardize your work and reduce manual tasks even more.
And even while already having a fully automated environment, PitStop Pro continues to bring extra value for customer service and specific manual changes that are required by the customer.
As always, we are eager to hear your success stories and feedback. Let’s continue driving innovation together.
