Overview
EFI Proteus® serves as the IT hub for multi-department publishing operations by providing editors, art directors, sales managers, production managers and printers the ability to independently produce an issue, while working within a common software environment on a centralized file.
Feature Highlights
- Simple to learn and understand. The user-friendly interface offers simple commands and familiar terminology, enabling users to quickly learn the solution.
- Reduces costs. EFI Proteus ensures that the staff’s changes won’t conflict with requested positioning, eliminating costly and embarrassing mistakes. Accounting departments also appreciate Proteus’ Cost Odometer™ and Costing Ledger, which tracks costs such as ink and paper to ensure that projects stay within budget.
- Advanced sharing capabilities.The product allows staff to share advertising and editorial information and geometry and images easily between Proteus and programs such as Excel™, Word™ and QuarkXpress™.
- Customized solutions to fit users’ needs. The solution offers four different versions, catering to customers’ requirements.
- Proteus View is a read-only application that allows the user to access and view all data within a given publication file without having the authority to edit the information.
- Proteus Foundation delivers an entry-level planning and mapping tool, enabling users to define a publication size and to create and place advertisements and edits and inserts based on specific placement requirements booked against them.
- Proteus Professional offers all the features of Proteus Foundation and includes comprehensive presswork and cost management functions.
- Proteus Gateway provides all Proteus Professional’s features and adds regionalization/editioning functionality and bindery and distribution cost management functionality.
