United States of America
Seattle InDesign User Group
Meeting Summary: Workflows
Tue, Mar 9th, 2010 at 6:30 PM
Adobe University
Event DetailskEvin opened the meeting with a brief overview on Workflows. The PDF resource he quickly showed during the intro, "Agency Workflow Book for Small Agencies" by Edwin Burgoyne, is available for download at:
http://www.adsubculture.com/news/2009/3/3/agency-workflow-book-for-small-agencies.html
Workflow at a printing company
Presented by User Group member Don Kincl, Prepress Manager at Printing Control
- Prepress
- What is the size of the printed product
- How many pages
- Page 1 is the front cover
- Is there bleed
- Preflight
- Check all pages
- Swatches/spot colors
- Separation preview
- All fonts loaded
Workflows in a Design and Marketing Department
Presented by User Group member Holly Kean, Marketing Manager at Burkhart Dental Supply
(A PDF of this presentation is available below.)
- Company structure affects workflow
- Strives to build long lasting relationships with the greatest goals
- Determine type of project
- Packaging
- Campaigns
- Publications
- Wearables
- Magazines
- Advertising
- Trade Shows/Environmental Graphics
- Logos
- Brochures/Sell Sheets
- Stationary
- Direct Mail
- Forms
- Responsibilities/Service Offered
- Workflow Process/Design
- Graphics on demand
- 0-2 hrs. use of time
- Request turnaround 48 hrs./goal is 24 hrs.
- Ideal PDF conversions, help with logo
- Login spread sheet, Excel
- Keep track of repeat requests
- Track date, date completed, request time
- Scheduled Projects Milestone
- Setup meetings
- Concept/Design
- First Proof
- First Proof Changes (Client)
- First Proof Changes/second proof
- Second Proof Changes/Final approved
- Prepress
- Prepress Review (Outside Department)
- Packaging and Delivered to Printer
- Ship by Date
- Available Date
- Scheduled Project Time Keeping
- Meeting
- Research
- Art Direction
- Concept/Idea Develops
- Marketing Collateral Internet Site
- Allows Setup Marketing Collateral Pieces
- Eliminate Branding Hack
Workflow/Creative Overview
Presented by User Group member Jason Pynn, Marketing Manager at Costco Wholesale
(A PDF of this presentation is available below.)
- Creative Development
- Publishing
- costco.com
- Packaging Department
- Print Copy Centers
- Sign Center
- Marketing
- Who are you working with
- Membership/Marketing
- Merchandising
- Costco Services/Website Design
- Ancillary Business
- Other Businesses
- Corporate Groups
- Mail, Brochures, Flyers/Takeaways, Inserts, Posters,
Banners & Signage
- Who gets involved
- Project Manager
- Creative Team
- Art Director, 9 Graphic Designers, Copy Writers and Proof Readers
- Internal and External Clients
- Workflow/Managed by Hand
- Client request help
- PC collects information
- Creative Team/Discovery
- PC Starts Job & Submits
- CM Assigns Work
- Sometimes multiple designers
- Sometimes what is asked for/what we suggest
- Internal Review (per client review)
- Create presentation when needed
- PC sends proofs to client
- Reviewed by multiple proofers
- PC Reconciles and consolidates ads
- PC Submits for more work
- Review Confirming Proofs
- Work Completed
GridIron Flow
Presented by Dave Gillespie, Director of Creative Development at Gridiron Software
GridIron Flow
Dave Gillespie from GridIron Software demonstrated the revolutionary Workflow Visualization product Flow. The session was very interactive with attendees learning how Flow could help them with Versioning, Time Tracking and Navigation while providing a clear understanding of the anatomy of a project. Dave compressed his demo into the available timeslot and was unable to cover many of the benefits and features in depth, and has indicated he would be happy to work with anyone one on one to better understand how Flow could help them bring Order to the Chaos that is Creative (contact information below).
- Organization through chaos
- Flow agent
- Linked files/Visual version
- Version System
- Hierarchical Stack
- Creates Chain of files/Isolates files
- An Airbag for Workflow
- Can break links/removes them
- Has layer recovery
- Free File Association
- Manual File Association
- Visual Version File/can un-flatten a Photoshop file
- Can bring a project out of archives and scan it with links
- Searches on layers
- Daily Reports/sends out
- Creates file
- Name of person working on file
- Keeps track of time worked on file (even when stopped for lunch)
- Brings up Excel file with date, time, names (who worked on project) and hours worked
on file
- Packaged files can have
- File
- All Versions
- Single files
- Color Library
- All files
- Plug-ins
- Free files
- Thumbnails
- Fonts
- Time
- Move or Copy
- Save to disk or external drive as an FLMP
Dave can be reached directly to orchestrate virtual or onsite engagements with your company/organization:
Dave Gillespie
Director of Creative Development
GridIron Software
(714) 658-6139 Mobile
dgillespie@gridironsoftware.com
RAFFLE
Lots of exciting prizes raffled off including a subscription to InDesign magazine, a variety of reference books, and most importantly a copy of InDesign CS4!
Thank you
Thank you to our wonderful volunteers:
Teresa Anderson - Check-in
Kelly Parke - Check-in
Bernard Mann - Check-in
Annette Dwyer - Note Taker
And to our fellow User Group Members who offered presentations:
Don Kincl
Holly Kean
Jason Pynn
Upcoming Industry Events
InDesignSecrets Print and ePublishing Conference
May 12-14, Seattle, WA
www.indesignsecretslive.com
InDesign User Group members can get 10% off the conference registration fee.
See the Member Benefits area to get the discount code.
Next Meeting
Our next meeting is the night before the InDesignSecrets Print and ePublishing Conference begins, so David Blatner and perhaps some of the other presenters will be joining us. Definitely a meeting you won't want to miss!
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