Automation Engine

Prepress Workflow Software
Automate workflows across various printing techniques such as digital, flexo, offset, and more.

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Product Overview

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Prepress Workflow Automation

Automation Engine is designed to maximize automation within your prepress department and beyond – supplying right first time proofs to your customers and high-quality print-ready files for your digital, flexo, offset, and gravure presses. Automation Engine enables you to standardize your processes, remove time wasted activities from your prepress, and minimize pre-production errors.

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Streamline the Prepress Process

Smarter Workflows

Automatically create jobs and efficiently organize data storage.

Step and Repeat

Automatically step & repeat and impose or nest files for both conventional and digital printing, including variable data processing.

Generate Insights

Automatically create job reports and 3D views for easy-to-read reports that can be shared with your customers.

Workflow Automation Made Easy

Use Automation Engine to automate processes and achieve high-quality outputs within the most efficient workflows.

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Automate Serialization, Validation, and Compliance

More 2D barcodes mean more work for prepress teams, unless that work can be automated.

Automation Engine integrates GS1 Digital Link into automated prepress workflows, helping teams generate and populate QR codes, apply serialization rules at scale, and validate GS1 data without adding manual steps to every job.

Centralized workflow templates help standardize the process, identify missing or invalid data early, and route exceptions for review. That means teams can handle growing GS1 Digital Link requirements with a consistent, repeatable workflow.

What does GS1 Sunrise 2027 mean for prepress? Read our practical guide for packaging teams.

Be Smart. Automate.

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Reduce Errors

Automate your quality checks.

Save Time and Money

Handle more jobs without the need to increase your headcount.

Reduce Ink Consumption

Optimize printing and cutting.

Better Color Management

Achieve precise color management using ink-saving tools and advanced color conversion capabilities.

Who Is Automation Engine for?

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Prepress Automation for Converters

Seamlessly transition to digital print technologies using existing workflows.

Reduce storage costs and speed up the process to file and store inactive jobs and products.

Generate easy-to-read reports that can be shared with your customers.

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Case Study

PT Menara Cipta Profilindo Drives Consistency and Efficiency Through the Esko Ecosystem

With over 100 employees, five flexographic presses, and two rotary letterpress machines, Menara Cipta is built for high-volume, high-complexity production — where consistency, speed, and reliability are not optional.

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