The prepress bottleneck
Tired of prepress holding your shop hostage? Pressley fixes it—licensed seats plus a private server that keeps fuel flowing to your presses 24/7.
Sales chase updates, customers wait on proofs, production yells when files aren't ready—and your presses sit idle. For decades, this has been the painful reality in every print shop.
Customers still send the wrong file types when a simple PDF would do.
A tireless, accurate prepress assistant handles standard, repetitive PDF workflow tasks at machine speed—keeping your presses fed while skilled prepress focuses on the jobs that need human expertise.
PDF in, production out. Seat holders submit customer PDFs from anywhere. Pressley automation on your private server handles folder structures, proofs, and RIP-ready files at machine speed—so your expert prepress team focuses on the complex work.
Print lives in PDF. When clients send a PDF at the right scale, your team renames it to shopVOX order and line and drops it in—folders, checks, proofs, and RIP-ready output follow automatically.
Pressley runs repetitive PDF work at machine speed—steady fuel for your presses—while seat holders submit and experts stay on complex art.
PDF Workflow
Print runs on PDF—images, fonts, and color space in one file, the standard PitStop and your RIP expect. Train customers to send PDFs at the right scale. Your team renames to shopVOX order and line (e.g. 26200 1.pdf), drops it in Pressley, and automation builds folders, proofs, and production files.
Why Pressley
Licensed Pressley users submit and track from anywhere—office, home, or on the road—while your private server runs automation 24/7. You choose who gets seats; the engine keeps typical jobs moving for the whole shop.
Each shop runs on its own isolated Windows Server—parallel access, fully private, sized to your volume.
With a Pressley seat—receive customer PDFs, rename to order and line, and drop in. No Switch or PitStop knowledge required.
PDF in: folders, checks, proof PDFs, production PDFs—always on, always consistent.
Technical seats: app + VPN-mounted file tree like your NAS. Complex art, exceptions, and quality calls.
Printer-ready files when the press needs them—less yelling across the shop floor.
Parallel access — not one desk
Sales
CSR / PM
Prepress
Pressley App (licensed seats)
Customer PDFs in parallel
No queue at one prepress desk—your shop isn't hostage to a single submitter line. Standard seats in the app; Technical seats can mount the full tree over VPN. Seat types
Competent is not expert. Shop rules in automation keep output consistent even when the submitter isn't a prepress veteran.
Customer PDF in—rename to order and line—drop in Pressley. Automation on your server handles the rest at machine speed; your experts stay on the hard stuff.
Seat holders (Sales, CSR, PM, and more) drag-and-drop customer PDFs into Pressley from the office, home, or on the road—rename to order and line; no fighting for one prepress desk.
Your always-on assistant builds folder structures, runs PitStop checks, generates proofs, and prepares production-ready files at machine speed.
Everyone sees real-time job status in the pipeline. No more chasing or “Where's my job?” messages.
Proof and production PDFs land in your pipeline and folders—view status, open files, and keep fuel flowing to your RIP. No approval workflow in Pressley—that stays in shopVOX if your shop uses it.
Licensed users work in the app; serious automation runs 24/7 on your private server—so typical jobs reach production without the usual pile-up.
PDF → App → File Server → Enfocus → RIP
Pressley is not only an app—your shop gets hosted job storage on a private server where active folders, proofs, and production files live. Optional XML or JSON for your RIP. What is a file server?
Prepress capacity for your whole shop—licensed seats for your submitters.
A tireless prepress assistant on your private server—not one desk—keeps fuel flowing to your presses while experts handle the hard files. Managed Switch + PitStop; printer-ready PDFs for your RIP.
Real shop work
Pressley is built for the jobs that actually stress prepress: wide format, rigid, fleet, and retail — not cute little business cards. Example: a 4×8 retail banner from drop to rip-ready without rebuilding folders by hand.
Submit the art
PM or CSR drops the wide-format PDF into Pressley (or triggers from shopVOX) — sized file, line item, done.
Job folders on your file server
Pressley builds your folder tree on your dedicated hosted server and pulls dimensions, substrate, finishing, and account rules from shopVOX.
Preflight at scale
PitStop catches resolution, bleed, fonts, and profile issues before someone burns vinyl on the wrong setup.
Proof PDF for the client
Branded proof with job data, scale notes, and finishing callouts — the same “for approval” artwork type your shop already uses, built automatically.
Rip-ready output
Marks, bleed, cut paths, and production PDFs land in your rip folder — flatbed, roll, or router picks it up.
Agreement preview
Explore options up front so your demo conversation starts with context—not a shopping cart.
Stronger tiers process more jobs at the same time on your server while licensed users work in parallel in the app—not queued behind one desk.
Step 1 — Hosting model
Step 2 — Choose a power tier
Dedicated tiers (Ultra, Titan, Apex) for maximum throughput.
Illustrative only — not a quote or contract. Your signed agreement is finalized on your demo.
Ready to keep your presses running?
Rush jobs, wrong PDFs, presses waiting—we've lived it. Tell us about your shop and we'll walk your setup on a real demo.
Built by Tyler MacDonald — 25+ years in print, shopVOX user, automation specialist. Pressley changes who can participate in prepress, not only how fast the same few people click.
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