Artwork Systems Webway™

WebWay™ provides convenient, secure, costeffective and internet-based communication between print buyer and production plant or between different departments within one company. Inside a userfriendly collaboration space, project managers can create projects and set up teams. Projects can be populated, monitored and discussed by the team members. Team members can use a standard internet browser to view projects, make annotations and approve or reject them.

WebWay can connect to a hotfolder based workflow system like Nexus™ or Odystar™ to allow project files to preflight, convert to PDF, trap, etc. In all stages of the collaboration process, WebWay automatically generates e-mail notifications and keeps track of all information through XML job tickets.

Organize your project collaboration
WebWay provides a complete internet based and secure collaboration platform in the user's preferred language (Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Slovak, Spanish & Swedish). Privileged members can manage users and teams and set up new projects with appropriate access privileges. Up and download access is based on WebDAV technology and can be granted to a user as needed.

The WebWay server is hosted in your own production environment and allows you to reduce file transfers to a minimum. Clients work completely browser based, are therefore platform independent and need no software installation to access the system or take part in the approval cycles.

The WebWay collaboration forum will greatly simplify communication between the project creator, team members and the production plant. The forum allows quick turnaround times for last minute corrections.

Notification and audit trail
WebWay monitors closely what happens to the projects and logs all changes, notifications and collaborations made inside a project. Whenever necessary WebWay sends out e-mail notifications e.g. requests for approval or approaching deadlines of the project. A WebWay project is always accompanied by a WebWay jobticket (webway.xml) which includes the updated history and status information of the project e.g. the team the project belongs to, the deadline, notes, approvals made, requests to other users, etc. This XML jobticket system makes it extremely simple to archive a project with its history trail when it is concluded and to allow other MIS or database systems to ‘listen in’.

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