In today’s fast-paced world of content delivery, where clients expect faster file turnarounds — along with more competitive pricing — businesses require efficiency, productivity and security from their solutions.

Some of the industry’s most recognizable companies use TWIST to achieve high throughput, reliability and flexibility in demanding environments. They gain significant performance with features such as the ability to build an almost infinite variety of processing paths; a very extensive modular feature set; and automation of repetitive tasks such as preflighting, file optimization and conversion, color management, and trapping (to name a few). With its association with noted industry organizations such as GWG and Fogra, and strategic partnerships with companies such as Adobe Systems Inc. and GMG, DALIM SOFTWARE ensures that the quality of produced files exceeds industry standards.

Meanwhile, as soon as you start thinking about Web2Print and other self-service client portals, you need more from your workflow engine. In addition to processing documents to the highest quality standards, the level of integration and automation becomes increasingly important. With TWIST, file-naming conventions are used to drive workflows and reduce operator interaction. And, combined with a SQL database — or XML data created and fed by a custom-built, customer-facing web interface or MIS system — TWIST starts to work on its own, taking relevant information to set graphic parameters specifically for that incoming document.

Often enough, the documents themselves already provide enough information to streamline a workflow. Whether it’s through embedded XMP tags to describe the exact specifications of a newspaper ad — or the contents themselves — the powerful TWIST JDF-preflight engine collects all data for further use in the process. This way, output format, color specifications or final file submission can be set up dynamically, trapping settings can be chosen independently for pure CMYK or spot color jobs, and PDF/X-4 files can be left untouched while others are normalized.

The Linux and OS X versions of TWIST all offer stable system architectures, with plenty of room for scalability, if needed. With the integration of third-party tools through scripting, TWIST is the most flexible and future-proof digital production workflow available.