Four Pees has taken on the international distribution for Tucanna. With tFlow, PrintControl and RapidCheck, the Tucanna product-line covers PDF workflows, colour management and quality control for digital and conventional printing.
Tom Peire, CEO of Four Pees, said: “The Tucanna products perfectly fit into and extend our existing product portfolio of automation and quality control solutions. Conventional, digital and large-format printers who are looking for an easy and affordable way to automate and optimise their production will find exactly that in the Tucanna products.”
The tFlow product line consists of two main products: tFlow Approval and tFlow Production. tFlow Approval is a job submission and online collaboration portal. On one hand it allows print providers to prepare an order basket for their customer through which the customer can supply all corresponding files of an order. All files are checked upon submission. On the other hand tFlow Approval also allows for the different stakeholders of that job to provide feedback, submit corrections, approve or reject a job and handling all the communication along the way.
tFlow Production simplifies and automates the task of preparing jobs for output. Multi-platform and client server-based tFlow Production handles preflighting of incoming jobs and optimises the files and colour for the intended output. In addition to automated preflight, correction, colour conversion and impositioning, tFlow Production also allows for basic job routing and metadata-handling, enabling advanced automation through rules-based workflows.
Through the tFlow Connector, a plug-in set for InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator both tFlow Approval and tFlow Production can be driven directly from within the Creative Suite applications. Integration with MIS, ERP and third-party production automation systems is also possible.
As part of the agreement Four Pees will also take on international distribution outside of the America’s for PrintControl and RapidCheck.