“Suddenly the creative and approval process takes on a new dimension”

challenges

Ever-shortening production deadlines and downward pricing pressures have brought new challenges to the photographic, premedia, publishing and advertising industries.

DALiM DiALOGUE is a revolutionary online softproofing server application that allows real-time, colour-accurate, collaborative access and annotation to original high-resolution data. A standalone system without ASP-type “click-charges” or monthly subscription fees, DALiM DiALOGUE brings affordable, real-time interactive project collaboration to the masses.

open

A truly open-world solution that requires no specialised client software or need for high-bandwidth connections, DALiM DiALOGUE bridges the communications gap between imaging professionals and their clients. Only limited by the processing power of the host server, DALiM DiALOGUE can allow an unlimited number of concurrent users to be connected, without any inherent cost implications.

Project participants enter the system using nothing more than their standard web browser, removing the security, time and expense implications involved with systems that require clients to install proprietary software or web-browser ‘plug-ins’.

workflow ability

The ability to publish “watched folders” anywhere within the production workflow is an important feature of DALiM DiALOGUE.

In a matter of minutes you establish “watched folders”, add users and set permissions to allow or deny access to individual tools, features or folders. These folders can even be the “output” folders of a third-party workflow system, seen by DALiM DiALOGUE over the network. This flexibility and simplicity makes it easy to develop a powerful, efficient and trusted softproofing solution which can be branded with your own - or your clients’ - corporate image.

perfect clarity

DALiM DiALOGUE works by streaming just the right amount of file data required at any one time and sending it over the internet, freeing you from the restriction of a pre-determined file resolution. Both pixel and vector data can be viewed at up to 5,000,000% in perfect clarity, delivering an unmatched quality in soft proofing.

quality

High-resolution files of unlimited size can be viewed in seconds - even over standard dial-up connections. As soon as files enter a DALiM DiALOGUE “watched folder”, they can be accessed by all authorised participants. DALiM DiALOGUE’s unique data-streaming technology ensures that users view and collaborate on a file in its full, high-resolution state, without it ever leaving you!

colour critical

SWOP® (Specifications for Web Offset Publications, www.swop.org) is an independent industry organisation involved in raising the level of quality of publication printing by setting forth specifications and tolerances. Systems meeting the SWOP® standard have been tested by a group of independent industry judges to give colour-accurate output when compared to a hard-copy proof target.

SWOP® Certification assures both users and clients that proofs from the DALiM DiALOGUE system will match the certified press proofs used in production. Using standard calibration tools, calibrated monitors will display accurate colours matching a given CMYK colour space.