Enfocus entry point: PitStop Pro
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 became the perfect tool to edit the PDF without having to open the native applications and having the risk of altering the original file, which could only bring them even more problems in the long run. PitStop Pro allowed them what Adobe Acrobat cannot offer on its own.
PitStop Pro can detect all of this and fix it in four or five clicks. Four or five clicks that don't require the operator to directly touch or manually alter the PDF. Moving a layer or shifting a cutting line can be critical for accurate file registration and PitStop Pro makes all of this easy and straightforward.
Miguel Abarca
What PitStop Pro had to offer
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.
