Work The Way YOU Want To Work: Dalim Software

DALiM TWiST is a fully-automated premedia job processing system, designed to streamline the creation of a wide variety of file types as well as automate your internal production workflow processes. The industry’s first enterprise-level solution, DALiM TWiST is used by some of the industry’s most successful companies in fields such as publishing, advertising, catalogues, retail, government, medical, premedia and all types of printing – inc. digital print, gravure, web and sheet-fed offset. When it comes to developing and managing your production workflows, nothing else comes close.

Whilst many automated workflow solutions are based on set procedures through a production cycle for specific output devices, DALiM TWiST employs a totally open model supporting more native formats and production tools than any other solution available today. Users throughout the world have invested in DALiM TWiST technology to deploy unique solutions that innovate production within their particular industry sector. DALiM TWiST allows you to utilise existing capital equipment, develop totally open workflows and deliver print predictable results time after time.

DALiM TWiST allows you to duplicate any out-of-the-box workflow in a matter of minutes - as well as easily adding unique, powerful features that automate production to higher levels.

In common with other systems, DALiM TWiST is server-based. However, DALiM TWiST does not restrict the number of concurrent users of the system. One client, ten clients - even one hundred clients - there's no price difference with DALiM TWiST. Integrating some of Dalim Software's award-winning web-based toolsets to the system allows anyone given permission to access and modify workflows, queues, output - and more.

there's 'workflow', then there's DALiM TWiST

More than just another “workflow” application, DALiM TWiST’s intelligent production automation tools allow you to concentrate on producing jobs faster, more accurately and with less human intervention than any other solution in the marketplace today.

Since it is structured around a modular, software-only model, DALiM TWiST allows you to pick the appropriate hardware, middleware and allied software that’s right for YOUR own unique production requirements. DALiM TWiST will interface to virtually any digital print engine, platesetter, imagesetter or proofer. The system can be tailored to produce virtually any number of “print-predictable’ files within a given space of time and feed any number of output devices concurrently.

DALiM TWiST is not a pre-configured system that ‘forces’ you to work or produce in a certain way. The power of the system lies in its flexibility centred around workflow “building blocks” – what we call Basic Tools. Individually, these modules offer features – e.g. internet job submission, preflighting, trapping, database connectivity, etc. – that can be linked together to create an extremely powerful, versatile “premedia engine” that can form the production backbone to your entire organisation.

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Enterprise-level features at an affordable price point

For the unique demands of Enterprise-level applications, DALiM TWiST offers features that no other system can equal. The system can be deployed as a ‘cluster’ to optimise load balancing, can be deployed as either high-availability of full failover configurations; and can even be deployed as part of a corporate-wide “hub-and-spoke” production system controlling sister systems across the world. No other system can offer the power, flexibility and reliability of DALiM TWiST.

remote control

DALiM TWiST interaction stands out in all areas of workflow design, development, deployment, management and administration. Over the Internet or local networks, DALiM TWiST's intuitive and platform independent interfaces make life less complicated.

TWiST also integrates with other Dalim Software applications extending its capabilities even further for specific industry needs.

DALiM DiALOGUE - JDF-enabled interactive soft-proofing system - now with SWOP® Certification.
DALiM PRiNTEMPO - web-based print production & deadline management system.
DALiM MiSTRAL - JDF-based automated project management & communication system.
DALiM MiSTRAL PACK - JDF-based automated production and communication system for the packaging industry.

don't hold back

DALiM TWiST assures you of incorporating the latest technologies, yet still maintains complete integration with legacy file formats such as Scitex, TIFF-IT.P1 through to PostScript Level 3 and PDF1.5. Industry-standard file submission formats such as all nine Ghent Workgroup (GWG) output specifications, Pass4Press v6, etc. are also supported. All in all, NEARLY 30 DIFFERENT FILE FORMATS are supported in input as well as output. You are no longer forced to work within the bounds of a specific manufacturer's workflow. Instead, DALiM TWiST gives you the flexibility and freedom to Work The Way You Want To Work.

jdf-driven file preflighting - a world first

Dalim Software brought you the "Worlds First Centralised JDF Preflight Server" utilising JDF preflight profiles with full audit capabilities. On-the-fly PDF preflight reports are dynamically generated and can be viewed or forwarded in many ways. DALiM TWiST's open model means you can build JDF-compliant workflows that meet your exact needs in administration and customer interaction. The ongoing evolution of the JDF industry standard brings a new and exciting period that reverberates throughout the graphic arts industries. Dalim Software are at the forefront in the definition, development and integration of the JDF standard.

“The FASTEST, most FLEXIBLE digital front end in the graphic arts industry”