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This is the recording of a webinar given by Isabelle Noppe, Switch Product Manager, on November 6th, 2024.

Topics:

• Get to know Isabelle and what's next for Switch
• What is new in Switch 2024 Fall
• New apps & 'Works with Enfocus Switch' Program

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Jeroen Van Bauwel (Solutions Director at Xeikon) and Davy Verstaen (Appstore Manager at Enfocus) on August 29th, 2024.

Topic: The Xeikon integration in Switch

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Sven Govaert and John Wilson (Kongsberg) and Davy Verstaen (Enfocus), on August 27th, 2024.

Topic: The Kongsberg Integration in Switch

Duration: 1 hour

This is a short movie to explain how teams can share their resources (Action Lists, Preflight Profiles, etc) through the Enfocus Cloud. Note that this feature requires a PitStop Pro subscription.

Duration: 2:27

This is the recording of a webinar given by Loïc Aigon, PitStop Product Manager, and Angelo Manno, Global OEM & Strategic Accounts Manager at Enfocus on April 17th, 2024.

Topic: PitStop Library Container

Pitstop Library Container, in short PLC, is Enfocus’ answer to the need of providing a PDF preflight and correction solution that is Cloud-ready, platform and OS independent, and scales when production peaks changes. It integrates easily with web applications using REST API as the interface, and you’re in control where and how you deploy PLC.

Duration: 1 hour

This is a short "how to" movie in which Davy Verstaen, Enfocus Review Product Manager, explains:

•  How you can create forms that will be used as a redirect with one of the approval options.
• How a customer can upload a new file using one of the forms.
• How the uploaded file can be downloaded back again in Switch.

Duration: 09:06

This is the recording of a webinar, given by Laurent De Wilde, Solution Architect, and David Platt, Application Specialist, on June 27th, 2023.
In this webinar, Laurent introduced Griffin, the wide-format nesting powerhouse! Griffin is an award-winning software that automates and supercharges your job-nesting process, greatly boosting your print business.

Topics:

• Griffin standalone
• Griffin with Switch integration
• Griffin with PitStop Server integration
• Phoenix teaser (answering the question "what are the differences?")

This is the recording of a webinar given by Michael Reiher (Good2Go) and Piet De Pauw (Enfocus) on June 30th, 2023.

Good2Go helps printers capture, organize, and share email orders, document changes and help manage jobs to print approval.
 
The new App bundle for Good2Go connects the ground-based automation of Switch with a powerful, cloud-based work management system — Good2Go.

With the Good2Go Apps, you can:

• Keep files in the cloud until approved for print.
• Monitor files for status changes to drive automation.
• Send files for online proofing.
• Communicate to Switch when new files are entered.

This is the recording of a webinar given by Laurent De Wilde and Freddy Pieters on April 20th, 2023.

Duration: 2 hours

In this mini-course we explain the use of this app bundle which contains 2 apps:

• Mail receive with OAuth 2.0
• Mail send with OAuth 2.0

Duration: 5 minutes

Highlights of PitStop 2022:

- Support for PDF 2.0 

- Bleed improvements

Duration: 5 mins in total

My Enfocus is your customer portal where you can manage all your Enfocus interactions such as assigning subscriptions, checking your dashboards and finding your product keys. This portal has been totally revamped. 

Watch this movie to discover the new and improved My Enfocus.

Duration: 5 minutes

This is the recording of a webinar given by Toon Van Rossum, Switch Product Manager about the features of the Switch 2021 Spring release.

Duration: 40 minutes

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bails-Collins on April 1st, 2021.

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, and Laurent De Wilde, Solution Architect at Enfocus.

Contents:

• Using apps from the Enfocus Appstore: some basic apps + PitStop Server apps
• Integrating third-party applications
• Smart preflight with Switch
• Advanced metadata: XML, JDF, webhook
• Connecting with rips, ERP, MIS, databases
• Switch Client and the Switch Web Portal
• The PDF Review module

Duration: 1 hour

Learn about the great new features this upgrade brings:

• Color swatches 
• Tracing a shape to create a path 
  
• New bleed check
• Overlay PDF
• Check if visual content exists (based on computer vision technology)
• A number of new powerful Action Lists

Duration: 3 short movies (about 2 minutes each).

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager at Enfocus, and Deborah Corn on May 28th, 2020.

In this webinar, they give the first demo of our new tool, BoardingPass, which will enable customer facing staff at printing companies to quickly onboard PDF jobs, and give customer feedback in a minute, no prepress required.

Duration: 50 minutes

In this mini-course we explain the use of Split multi-job, one of the Switch flow elements, which can be found in the Basics category.

Other tools that are covered are Archive, Unarchive and Recycle bin.

Duration: 5 minutes

In this short eLearning course, we explain the use of the 'Check if visual content exists' Action, introduced in PitStop 2020.

Duration: 5 minutes

In this eLearning course we'll explain the use of two flow elements that can be used to rename jobs.

Duration: 5 minutes

In this course we explain flow elements that enable you to split up and reassemble folders:

• Ungroup job
• Job dismantler
• Assemble job

Duration: 10 minutes

This movie has been designed to guide you through the online activation and deactivation process for Enfocus software (only valid for perpetual licenses).

Duration: 6:54

This is an introduction to the new features of PitStop 2018 (released in April):

• Massive improvements to Pantone color handling to both PitStop Pro and PitStop Server.
  
• Ability to hard crop line art, allowing you to clean up files quickly and easily.
  
• Action List Visualizer, a new tool that allows you to troubleshoot your Action Lists.
  
• New vector editing tools that allow you to combine and divide groups of line art objects.
• New Action that generates barcodes directly in PitStop.

Duration: 2-5 minutes per movie

This is an introduction to the new features of PitStop 2019:

• Preflighting for digital print: converting pages that "look" black to real black.
• The PitStop Server Dashboard
• Show objects outside page box
• The new Object Browser
• Check barcodes
• Rasterize selection

PitStop 2017 brings an all-new technology to PDF Preflight: the PDF Geomapper Technology.
By preflighting only the objects needed to render or print a PDF, false errors are eliminated.

Duration: 3 minutes

This movie gives a brief overview of the new features of PitStop 13 update 1.

Features include:

• Improved processing speed for PitStop Server
• Add copied graphics Action List
• Contour based selections
• Check, select and replace complex pages
• Improved Crop images Action List
• Improved Select pages Action List
• Improved Select spot color Action List
• ...

Duration: 8:50

This movie highlights the new features in PitStop Server 13, such as:

• The option to edit and create Action Lists in PitStop Server
• The Add bleed Action List
• Customized messages
• Preflight restrictions
• Improvements to the CLI version

Duration: 8:48

This is an introduction to the new features in PitStop 12 update 2 (User units/page scaling factor, customizable shortcuts,...)

Duration: 11:04

Discover the new features in Switch 2022 Spring:

• JSON Support
• Default apps
• Other highlights

Duration: +- 10 minutes in total

This is an introduction to the new features of Switch 2019 Spring:

• Switch Server messages: new design
• Improved Submit points: 
• Submit metadata without a file 
• Create direct link URLs to a Submit point
• Switch Dashboard enhancements
• The Remote process element
• Inject job improvements

Duration: 5 minutes

Duration: 10 minutes

This movie highlights the new features in Switch 13:

• UI improvements
• Web messages

Duration: 4:40

This movie gives a short overview of the new features in Switch 2021 Spring (released May 27, 2021).

Duration: 4 minutes

This is an introduction to the new features in Switch 12:

• Switch Remote Designer
• Users and groups
• Submit points and Checkpoints
• Split PDF/Merge PDF
• ...

As from update 1, Connect 13 runs on the PitStop 13 Library.

This brings extremely powerful features to Connect:

• Automatically add bleed to PDF files
  
• Customizable preflight messages
  
• A whole new approach to PDF preflight, called Preflight restrictions
  

This is the recording of a workshop given by 2 of our App Creators, John Trap (Canon Production Printing) and Thomas Deschamps (Bluewest), on March 6th, 2024.

Topics: 

• John Trap from Canon Production Printing introduces the PRISMAsync app bundle, which allows users of Enfocus Switch to take full advantage of the power of PRISMAsync. All apps can create dynamic decisions and/or settings based on JMF responses from the connected Canon device.  
  
  
• Thomas Deschamps from Bluewest presents some of the new apps that Bluewest has released, including the PDF Form app, which won the “Most innovative app of 2023”-award on the Enfocus Virtual Channel Event in January earlier this year. 
  

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a workshop given by Loïc Aigon, PitStop Product Manager, on January 3rd, 2024.

Topics: 

• Customer cases: 
  • Adding and using output intents
  • Clipping varnish
• PitStop 2023 update 1 release:
  
  • Form XObjects, Transparency, New Actions
  • And many more new features!

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Davy Verstaen, Switch Product Manager, on November 8th, 2023.

Topic: Enfocus Review

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a workshop given by Shone Fix, Phoenix and Griffin Product Manager, on May 8th, 2024.

Topic: Optimized imposition and planning for print converters 

• What is Griffin?
• Why connect Griffin and PitStop together?
• Best practices in setting up and using Griffin
• Review some sample PitStop Actions for wide format
• Intro to Griffin Auto
  

In this course you'll learn the basics of PitStop Pro.

Content:

• Activating a permanent license or subscription
• Exploring the user interface
• Setting the PitStop Pro preferences
• Try it yourself (interactive exercise)

Duration: 20 minutes

In this course you'll learn about PDF quality control ("Preflighting") using PitStop Pro.

Content:

• Introduction
• Preflight Profiles
• Running a Preflight check
• Automating Preflight

Duration: 15 minutes

This course consists of the following parts:

• Introduction
• Setting up Workgroup Manager
• Setting up PitStop to use a license from Workgroup Manager
• Quiz

Duration: 15 minutes

This is a course on Action Lists in PitStop Pro. It consists of 5 modules with a lot of exercises. You can quit whenever you want and resume later.

Each module starts with a short explanation followed by a number of exercises (going from very easy in the first module to quite advanced in the last module). You will be asked to download files with relevant material for the exercises. Note that you must have Acrobat and PitStop Pro installed and activated, so you can practice.

Content of the 5 modules:

• Module 1: Getting Started
• Module 2: Selections
• Module 3: Changes
• Module 4: Checks, informs and settings
• Module 5: Extra exercises

This course consists of the following parts:

• Overview of the categories in the PitStop Inspector
• An interactive exercise

Duration: 15 minutes

This is a course about using Smart Preflight variables in PitStop Pro:

• A short introduction to Smart Preflight
• How to set up Smart Preflight
• Where to find example files and how to use them
• Smart Preflight and Action Lists
• Interactive exercise

Duration: 15 minutes

This is a course about using Smart Preflight variables in PitStop SERVER:

• A short introduction to Smart Preflight
• How to set up Smart Preflight
• Where to find example files and how to use them
• Smart Preflight and Action Lists
• Quiz

This is a short introduction to the Workspaces functionality in PitStop Pro.

Duration: 5 minutes

This course is a short introduction to Certified PDF.
You'll learn:

• What a Certified PDF is, 
• How to create one and 
• How to check the Certified PDF status of a PDF.

Duration: 10 minutes

This is a short introduction to the Action List Visualizer, which allows you to see what an Action List is doing when you create or edit it.

Duration: 5 minutes

This is a short demo on how to activate a PitStop Server subscription.

Duration: 1 minute

Introduction to the basic tools of PitStop Pro.

This short movie is intended for new users.

Duration: 5 minutes

• Looking back at hero features from past versions
  
• Using Standard resources to ease your onboarding
  
• Fixing typical pain-points in Digital Cutting with PitStop
  

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar, given by Loïc Aigon, PitStop Product Manager, on May 3rd 2023.

Topic: PitStop 2023

New Features

• Log as Info
• JSON Reports
• Select Texts with RegEx
• Log Texts properties
• Variable Sets improvements
• FastLane

Other topics

• Speed Improvements
• Default CMM
• Security
• Requirements
• Bug Fixes

This is the recording of a webinar given by Freddy Pieters, Solution Architect, on November 2nd, 2022.

Topic: Color management

• Color management engine support
• Color spaces
• ICC tagging
• Output intents
• Blending color spaces
• Black point compensation
• Device links

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by John Dean, PitStop Product Manager, on September 7th, 2022.

Topics: Wide Format

• Finishing concerns (grommets, hems, pockets)
• Effective resolution
• Page scaling factor
• Paths (cut lines, close paths, trace paths)
• Hard proofs (virtual mockups)

Duration: 50 minutes

This is the recording of a webinar given by John Dean, Product Manager, on July 6th, 2022.

Topics:

• PitStop 2022 Hotfix release
• Strange behavior when adding bleed

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by John Dean, Product Manager, on May 4th, 2022.

Topic: Smart Preflight

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by John Dean, Product Manager, on March 2nd, 2022.

Topic: New features of PitStop 2022 (preview)

Duration: 45 mins

This is the recording of a webinar given by John Dean, Product Manager, on January 5th, 2022.

Topics:

• Imposition
• Reordering pages
• Create a simple dieline
• Duplicate pages

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on November 3rd, 2021.

Topics:

• Workshop Review
• PitStop 2021 update 1
• Customer files
• Resources and links
• Top 10 Actions

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on September 1st, 2021.

Topics:

• Adding a spine to an imposed cover
• Using masks
• User units (page scaling) explained

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on July 7th, 2021.

Topic: Ink coverage (TAC/TIC) and ink usage

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Laurent De Wilde, Solutions Architect, on May 5th, 2021.

Topic: Combination of PitStop Server and Switch Core Engine, some automation basics and tips and tricks

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on February 3rd, 2021.

Topics:

• Manual step and repeat
• Delete and add graphics
• Creating dielines and cutter guides by tracing
• PDF Review Module 02 (sneak peek)

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on December 2nd, 2020.

Topics:

• PitStop 2020 update 1
• PDF/X-6

All topics and video timeline

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on October 7th, 2020.

Topics:

• Intelligently splitting pages
• Removing empty forms
• Dense ink issues on a laser cutter
• User units

All topics and video timeline

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on August 5th, 2020.

Topic:

• Color management

All topics and video timeline

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on June 3rd, 2020.

Topics:

• Issue with Acrobat update on Windows 10
• Customer case - Roll fold to single panels to spread

All topics and video timeline

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on April 1st, 2020.

Topic: Transparency

• History of transparency
• Blend modes
• Blend spaces
• Groups
• Flattening
• Benefits of live transparency
• Preflight of transparency

All topics and video timeline

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Freddy Pieters, Solution Architect, on Feb 5th, 2020.

Topic: Overprint 

Files used during this workshop

All topics and video timeline

Duration: 30 minutes

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on December 4th, 2019.

Main topic: Action Lists (Part 1)

All topics and video timeline

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on September 4th, 2019.

Main topics: 

• Tiling patterns
• Pantone colors (remapping, creating and other functionality)

All topics and video timeline

This is the recording of a webinar given by Freddy Pieters, Solution Architect, on July 3rd, 2019.

Topics:

• Introduction (00:00-03:30)
• Design Layouts (03:30-11:30)
• Workspaces (11:30-16:00)
• Shortcuts (16:00-22:00)
• Importing special colors (22:00-end)

All topics and video timeline

Duration: 34 minutes

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on April 3rd, 2019.

Main topics:

• PitStop 2019 release: 
• PitStop Server Dashboard
• Improvements so Insert Pages
• Improvements to Number of Separations Check
• Adding Corners to Rectangles and Page Boxes
• Split Action List
• Watermarks and adding content in general

All topics and video timeline

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on February 6th, 2019.

Main topics:

• OpenType SVG fonts update
  
• Selecting black-and-white images for special handling
• CSR Preflight Profile

All topics and video timeline

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on December 5th, 2018.

Main topics:

• PitStop analytics
• Clean up black
• Converting to black and white (grayscale)
• Black and white (minimum clicks for digital)
• Bleed revisited
• Large format pockets
• Two-sided banners

Agenda and video timeline

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Freddy Pieters, Product Support Manager, on October 3rd, 2018.

Topics:

• PDF Layers
  
• Split layers app
• Resize spine app
• PitStop Server v3 XML Reports

All topics and video timeline

Duration: 50 minutes

This is the recording of a webinar given by Jonas Yde, Support Engineer, on June 7, 2018.

Main topic: Action Lists

All topics and video timeline

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Jonas Yde, Software Support Engineer, on April 4th, 2018.

All topics and video timeline

Action Lists used during this workshop

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on February 7th, 2018.

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Jeff Philips, on November 1st, 2017.
Jeff Phillips is responsible for education, training and support of Enfocus products for North American customers.

Topic: Working with Fonts

All topics and video timeline

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on September 6th, 2017.

Action List used in this webinar

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on July 5th, 2017.

Main topic: Latest standards

All topics and video timeline

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on May 3rd, 2017

Main topic:  PDF Geomapper technology released with PitStop 2017

All topics and video timeline

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on March 1st, 2017.

Main topics:  Color & DeviceLink Profiles

All topics and video timeline

Presentation and files 

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on January 4th, 2017.

Main topics:  

• Bleed revisited
  
• Standard Action Lists discussed
  
• Color Action Lists

All topics and video timeline

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on November 2nd 2016.

Main topic: Masterclass in the image toning/retouching capabilities within PitStop

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on September 7th, 2016.

Main topics: standard Action Lists and Page Boxes 

All topics and video timeline

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on July 6th, 2016.

Main topic: Getting Started with PitStop Server

All topics and video timeline

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on May 4th, 2016

Main topics: 

• Finding out if a certain text phrase or a certain color is in or not in a PDF
• Making masks in PitStop

All topics and video timeline

Action List for 2-color job

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on March 2nd, 2016.

Main topics:

• Customer file analysis - text dropping off when output/pages dropping off when imposed and output
• Preflight Restrictions - practical demos on how Preflight Restrictions can be used

All topics and video timeline

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on January 16th, 2016.

Main topic: Spot Colors

All topics and video timeline

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on November 5th, 2015.

Main topic: Overprint

All topics and video timeline

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on September 2nd, 2015.

Main topic: PDF Standards

All topics and video timeline

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on July 1st, 2015.

Main topic: Getting Started with PitStop Pro (Acrobat XI/DC).

All topics and videotimeline

Basic Preflight Profile and Acrobat DC PitStop Custom Tool Set

Duration: 1 hour

This is a recording of a webinar given by Jeffrey J. Phillips (Senior Product Specialist) on May 6th, 2015.

Main topic: Working with selections and page boxes

All topics and video timeline

Duration: 1.5 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on March 4th, 2015.

Main topic: Color Management in PitStop

All topics and video timeline

Duration: 1 hour

This is a recording of a webinar given by Jeffrey J. Phillips (Senior Product Specialist) on January 7th, 2015.

Main topic: Action Lists in PitStop Pro

All topics and video timeline

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on November 5th, 2014.

Main topics: 

• PitStop 12 update 3 features
• Flatten a PDF with transparency
• Ink coverage, ink usage

All topics and video timeline

Duration: 1 hour

Questo modulo di e-learning è costituito da 2 parti:

• Parte 1 - Le categorie dell’Ispettore
• Parte 2 - Esercizio interattivo di utilizzo dell’Ispettore

Durata: 15 minuti

The second Switch Getting Started module consists of the following parts:

• The Switch user interface
• Flows and flow elements
• Creating a flow

This fourth Switch module consists of the following parts:

• Embedded metadata and file information
  
• Variables
• Try it yourself (an interactive exercise)

In this course you'll learn ...

• How to get quick access to your test files
• How to clean up your flow in between test runs
• How to avoid that jobs get lost
• How to retry problem jobs
• ...

Duration: 15 minutes

This is the recording of an online training given by Freddy Pieters and Laurent De Wilde, Solution Architects.

Duration: 2h

In this mini-course, you'll learn about the Switch Web Portal features for administrators,
such as:

• Viewing flows and flow properties using the Flow viewer
• Adding annotations to flows
• Starting and stopping flows remotely
• Checking logins and system info
• Placing your company's logo on the Web Portal login page

Duration: 5 minutes

In this course we explain how you can easily move jobs within a flow, from one flow to another, or from one Switch Server to another. 

The tools explained in this course are:

• Pack job, Unpack job and Monitor confirmation (flow elements)
• Switch2Switch (free app)
• Portals (free app)

Duration: 10 minutes 

This is an introduction to two flow elements in the Communications category: FTP send and FTP receive.
FTP send enables uploading jobs to an FTP site, FTP receive enables downloading jobs from an FTP site to submit them to a Switch flow.

Duration: 10 minutes

This is a short introduction to the Switch Reporting Module.

Duration: 3:13

Note that there's also an eLearning course about the Reporting Module.

This is a short introduction to the Metadata tools in Switch:

• JSON pickup
• XML pickup
• JDF pickup
• XMP pickup
• Opaque pickup
  
• Export metadata
• XMP inject

"XSLT transform" is also explained in this course.

Duration: 15 minutes

This is short course about the Switch 'Sort files in job' flow element.

Duration: 5 minutes

This is a short introduction to Enfocus TestDrive, a tool that enables you to quickly compare the output of your Switch flows to a set of earlier created reference files. That way you can verify that:

• Your existing flows still work correctly after you have installed a new version of Switch, an app, a third-party application,…
• Your changes or extensions to a flow do not break any existing functionality.

Duration: 15 minutes

This is a short introduction to the Switch "Inject job" flow element.

Duration: 5 minutes

This product movie shows you how you can take advantage of the power of regular expressions in Switch.

Duration: 10 minutes

This movie explains the Database Module, which automates the communication between databases and Switch, without the need for additional scripting.

The movie was recorded with Switch version 12, but the content is still relevant if you're working with a newer version of Switch.

Duration: 6 minutes

This is a short introduction to the Switch "Execute command" flow element.

Duration: 5 minutes

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrea Mahoney on July 13th, 2016.

Andrea Mahoney is an Information Systems graduate with a database programming background.

Your Web to Print solution is up, running and successful. Now the next step, you want to automate the orders. In steps Enfocus Switch - in this case as a middleware solution. As an example: Andrea Mahoney uses Pageflex metadata to automate Switch workflows dealing with digital, offset, wide format, spot colors and outsourced items.  She covers database integration, preflight before data-merge using Pitstop Server and other nice workflow tricks. 

Duration: 50 minutes

Enfocus Switch in a nutshell.

Duration: 1:10

This movie is aimed at existing users of PitStop Server and at anyone interested in implementing a server-based Preflight solution. It's an introduction to PitStop2Switch, the bundled solution of Enfocus Switch and Enfocus PitStop Server.

Duration: 4:13

This is the recording of a workshop given by Davy Verstaen, Switch Product Manager, on February 8th, 2023.

Topic: Asset management in the cloud

Nowadays we are moving more and more from an on-premises way of storing our assets to a cloud service. But did you know that Switch already has a lot of apps on the Appstore that enables you to connect to these kinds of services. 

For example: 

• Dropbox 
• Google Drive 
• AWS S3 
• Wetransfer 
• Smash 

This is the recording of a workshop given by Laurent De Wilde, Solution Architect, on November 9th, 2022.

Topic: Hierarchy in apps, elements, scripting...

Job hierarchy has already been used in Switch for many years, but what can you do with this? In this workshop we show you the simplest way of using Job hierarchy using some of the default elements that come by default with Switch.
But we also highlight some other apps from our Appstore that use job hierarchy.

And we show you how you can use job hierarchy in combination with scripting.

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a workshop given by Davy Verstaen, Switch Product Manager, on October 12th, 2022.

Topic: How to revert back to a previous version or state of your job after it has gone through some processing steps.

For example, you have downsized a PDF file to be able to forward it to your customer for approval. Or you have manipulated the file to add or extract some information but you will need to revert to a previous version before you forward it to production. 

This is the recording of a workshop given by Freddy Pieters, Solution Architect, on August 10th, 2022.

Topics:

• Folder Apps:
  • Filepool Cleanup
  • Job Sorter and Spacer
  • Filetypes Counter
• Generic application
• Execute command

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar moderated by Angelo Manno, Global OEM & Strategic Accounts Manager on April 12th, 2023.

Topic: App Creators in the spotlight

• Bluewest, an Enfocus reselling partner in France, is an IT services company, providing training, production support, pre-press and IT integration, as well as the sales and deployment of collaborative solutions, focused on multi-channel digital distribution.
  Bluewest joined the Enfocus App Creation program in February 2021 and has since released 17 apps in the Enfocus Appstore, which you can check out here.
  
  Thomas Deschamps takes the opportunity to present some new apps that Bluewest is working on, and will show some nice use cases for apps that are already in the Appstore.
  
  
• Colorflow Solutions, an Enfocus reselling partner in South Africa, provides consultancy and solutions to the print and graphics industry while implementing products from a range of industry leading principle suppliers. With complete automation in mind, they continue to provide the highest level of service and expertise and look forward to connecting their solutions to the challenges found within a fast-moving industry. Colorflow Solutions joined the Enfocus App Creation program in May 2022 and has since released 4 apps in the Enfocus Appstore, which you can check out here.
  
  Carl Tiedt takes the opportunity to present the latest updates to some of theirs apps.

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a workshop given by Jan De Brabanter, product specialist, on May 11th, 2022.

Topic: Tips and tricks

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a workshop given by Davy Verstaen, product manager, on March 9th, 2022.

Topic: How to visualize the end result?

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a workshop given by Davy Verstaen, product manager, on January 12th, 2021.

Topic: The App creator program

• Introduction by Angelo Manno (Enfocus)
• GrafiStore apps (Jeordy Bouck and Germen Kroon)
• Apago apps (Dwight Kelly)

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a workshop given by Freddy Pieters, Solution Architect, on November 10th,  2021.

Topics:

• The new My Enfocus
• Variable types 
• Text vs Integer/Rational
• TextIndexed
• Variable manipulation
• Index / Separator / Prefix - Suffix
• Search
• Centralizing variables
• Private data
• Global data

This is the recording of a workshop given by Freddy Pieters, Solution Architect, on September 8th,  2021.

Topics:

• New app: Split PDF pages by Enfocus (based on a dynamic page range)
• Scripting: PitStop Server CLI on github.com 

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a workshop given by Toon Van Rossum, Product Manager, on June 23rd, 2020.

Exceptionally, this webinar is free for everyone!
(Normally the monthly workshops are reserved for maintenance users/subscribers)

Topic: Switch 2020 Spring 

• Flow viewer in the Web Portal (for admins) 
• Scripting: support for Node.js

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a workshop given by Toon Van Rossum, Product Manager, on April 15th, 2020.

Topic: Webhooks 

This is the recording of a workshop given by Toon Van Rossum, Product Manager, on February 27th, 2020.

Topics: 

• Private data
• Remote processing

Duration: 37 minutes

This is the recording of a workshop given by Toon Van Rossum, Product Manager, on October 15th, 2019.

Topic: Enfocus TestDrive

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a workshop given by Toon Van Rossum, Product Manager, on August 29, 2019.

It is the third part of a series of monthly workshops, in which Toon shares a lot of tips and tricks and best practices while building a smart solution for managing and archiving media files.

Duration: 55 minutes

This is the recording of a workshop given by Toon Van Rossum, Product Manager, on June 26th, 2019.
It is the first part of a series of monthly workshops, in which Toon shares a lot of tips and tricks and best practices while building a smart solution for managing and archiving media files.

In this first workshop, Toon walks you through a complex flow and explains what you can do to find out how it works, and how you can make such a flow easier to read and to maintain (using colors, using the alignment tools, adding info, etc).

This is the recording of a webinar given by Toon Van Rossum, Product Manager, on December 13th, 2017.

Topic: Best practices to improve your flows, for example when handling large flows. 

This is the recording of a webinar given by Jeff Philips, Senior Product Specialist, on June 14, 2017.

Topics:

• Working with Switch Messages
• Switch Crash Reporter
• Collect Application Data
• Application Data Tips
• Switch Processes and Running Switch as a Windows Service
• Introduction to Execute Command

Duration: 51 minutes

This is the recording of a webinar on databases in Switch, given by Toon Van Rossum, Product Manager, on March 8th 2017.

Duration: 53 minutes

This short eLearning course explains how to activate a Connect YOU trial.

Duration: 2 minutes

In this eLearning module you’ll learn how Connect YOU can check (and fix) your artwork for common issues like image resolution, trim page size, spot inks, transparency etc. 

Thanks to the predefined ‘Check Job Essentials’ project, this is now a piece of cake ...

Duration: 15 minutes

In this short eLearning course you'll learn all about the different types of Job Tickets and how they can be used and configured in Connect ALL.

The course includes a number of videos in which Michael Reiher, Connect Product Manager, talks about this powerful feature.

Duration: 20 minutes

This is an introduction to Enfocus Connect.

Duration: 4:03

This movie is a short introduction to Enfocus Connect ALL.

Duration: 1:00

This is a short introduction to Enfocus Connect YOU.

Duration: 1:00

This is an introduction to Enfocus Connect SEND, our versatile data transmission tool that streamlines and simplifies the task of sending files to the desired recipients.

Duration: 5:58

This is the recording of a webinar given by Michael Reiher, Senior Product Manager, on June 21st, 2017.

Duration: 30 minutes

This is the recording of a webinar given by Michael Reiher, Senior Product Manager, on March 15th, 2017.

Michael overviews some support issues including: 

• An error with Smart Preflight
• Uploading very large files to FTP
• How to access the Enfocus Support Portal to submit a support case

Duration: 15 minutes

This is the recording of a webinar given by Michael Reiher, Senior Product Manager, on January 4th, 2017.

Michael talks about Smart Preflight:

• How it works
• Approach
• Sample project walk-through

Duration: 45 minutes

This is part of a workshop given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager. In this webinar he talks about the standard PitStop Action Lists that allow you to change various aspects of images, such as:

• Brightness
• Contrast
• Unsharp masking
• Gaussian blur
• Resampling image resolution
• Cropping unneeded pixels

Duration: 6:53 mins

This is part of a workshop given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager. In this webinar he teaches our customers how to create an Action List that puts certain objects (in this example: cutter guides) on a layer.

Duration: 11:26

This is part of a workshop given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager. In this webinar he talks about font editing.

Main topics:

• Checking for embedded fonts using a Preflight Profile or an Action List
• Subset fonts
• Fonts in the PitStop Inspector, functionality and options, e.g. converting text to outlines
• Font embedding and subsetting in InDesign and Adobe Distiller

Duration: 54 minutes

This is part of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager.

Topics:

• Adjusting Page Boxes in the Inspector and applying to a document
• Setting Page Boxes to crop marks
• Setting Page Boxes to a the value of a different Page Box 
• Defining the size between the Trim, Bleed and other boxes
• Sizing the Trim Box based on the bounding box of a cutter guide

This is part of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager.

In this webinar he explains how to align and distribute selected objects.

Duration: 3:34

This is part of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager.

In this webinar he explains a number of techniques for working with files with a little bit of color such as hyperlinks that should print black only and converting them. 

This is part of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager.

In this webinar he explains how you can automate duplicating a page using an Action List.

Action List used in this webinar

Duration: 8:11

This is part of a workshop given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager. In this webinar he explains some options for cleaning up black only files and he gives some tips on how to improve color to black and white conversions.

Action Lists used in this webinar

Duration: 6:00

This is the recording of a webinar given by Davy Verstaen and Steven Nuyt on 24 June, 2024.

Topic: Highlights of the Switch 2024 Spring release

Duration: 30 minutes

This is the recording of a commercial training given by Tyler Thompson, Director of Software Business Development, on 11th of April, 2024. 

Duration: 1,5h 

This is the recording of a class room training given by Shone Fix, Phoenix and Griffin product manager. This training is intended for Enfocus Partners only.

Duration: The recording is divided into several sessions of 2-3 hours.

This is the recording of a webinar given by Freddy Pieters and Laurent De Wilde, Solution Architects.

Topic:

•  PitStop Pro Inspector and object editing

Duration: 2h

This is the recording of an online training given by Freddy Pieters and Laurent De Wilde, Solution Architects.

Topics: 

• Preflight
• Certified PDF
• Smart Preflight
• PitStop Server

Duration: 2h

This is the recording of an online training given by Freddy Pieters and Laurent De Wilde, Solution Architects.

Topics:

• Advanced Action Lists
• Color topics
• Overprint
• Transparency
• Forms

Duration: 2h

This is a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins on February 17th 2020.

Duration: 30 minutes

This is a short course for Enfocus Certified Resellers. In this course, we explain how they can help their customers with activation issues.

Duration: 5 minutes

This is a short introduction to the Digital Printing Sales Kit (only for Enfocus Certified Resellers).

In this training we want to give you a comprehensive view of the Enfocus solutions for prospects in the digital printing market and for customers that have digital print as part of their overall offering and are looking for solutions to benefit all parts of their business.

Duration: 15 minutes 

Here you can find the recorded webinars given during the Enfocus Channel Event on 1-3 February 2022.

'PitStop Pro 2020 Test' is a test for Enfocus Certified Resellers.

LINK: https://learning.enfocus.com/course/view.php?id=288

Discover what kind of application BoardingPass is. 

Duration: 2 minutes

Learn how to set your preferences in BoardingPass. This includes the creation of presets.

Duration: 2 minutes

Learn which issues are detected by BoardingPass and how you can verify these issues in your files. We're talking about font issues, image resolution, insufficient bleed ...

Duration: 6 minutes

Learn how to enable your own dashboard and how to access your usage data.

Duration: 2 minutes

This is a short "how to" movie in which Davy Verstaen, Enfocus Review Product Manager, explains the main features of Enfocus Review.

Duration: 07:20

This is a short "how to" movie in which Davy Verstaen, Enfocus Review Product Manager, explains how your customers can provide feedback using annotations.

Duration: 05:51

This is a short "how to" movie in which Davy Verstaen, Enfocus Review Product Manager, explains how you can share a bunch of files in one go.

Duration: 06:15

This is a short "how to" movie in which Davy Verstaen, Enfocus Review Product Manager, on creating multiple themes in Enfocus Review.

Duration: 11:42

In diesem kurzen Film wird erklärt, wie Teams ihre Ressourcen (Aktionslisten, Preflight-Profile usw.) über die Enfocus Cloud gemeinsam nutzen können. Beachten Sie, dass für diese Funktion ein PitStop Pro-Abonnement erforderlich ist.

Dauer: 2:27

This is the recording of a webinar for beta users of PitStop 2022 given by John Dean, PitStop product manager, on February 23rd, 2022.

Découvrez les nouvelles fonctionnalités de Switch 2022 Spring :

• Prise en charge de JSON
• Applications par défaut
• Autre points forts de cette version

Durée: 8 minutes au total

Este vídeo ofrece una visión general de las nuevas características de Switch Fall 2022.

Duración: 2 minutos

Este vídeo ofrece una visión general de las nuevas características de Switch.

Duración: 4 minutos

Scoprite le nuove funzionalità di Switch 2022 Spring:

• Supporte JSON
• App predefinite
• Punti salienti

Durata: 8 minuti in totale

Entdecken Sie die neuen Funktionen von Switch 2022 Spring:

• Native JSON-Unterstützung
• Standard-Apps
• Andere Besonderheiten

Dauer: insgesamt 8 Minuten

Dans cette formation, vous apprendrez comment installer PitStop Pro et comment activer une version d'évaluation gratuite.

Durée : 5 minutes

Dans cette formation, vous allez découvrir les présélections qui existent dans PitStop Pro. Ce module comprend cinq parties :

• Partie 1 - Introduction
• Partie 2 - Changements globaux
• Partie 3 - Utilisation d’un Script d’Actions
• Partie 4 - Création d’un Script d’Actions
• Partie 5 - QuickRuns
  

Durée : 20 minutes

Dans cette formation, vous allez apprendre comment activer und licence d'abonnement PitStop Pro.

Duration: 1 minute

Dans cette formation, vous allez apprendre les bases de PitStop Server. Ce module comprend sept parties :

• Partie 1 - Introduction
  
• Partie 2 - Installation et activation de PitStop Server
• Partie 3 - Interface utilisateur de PitStop Server
• Partie 4 - Configuration des dossiers actifs
• Partie 5 - Vérification des fichiers traités
• Partie 6 - Préférences de PitStop Server
• Partie 7 - Questionnaire

Durée : 30 minutes

Dans ce cours, vous allez apprendre comment ajouter un fond perdu avec PitStop Pro.

Durée: 5 minutes