PrintNow Training Agenda

Overview

In this 6-hour course, students will discover the capabilities and power of PrintNow with structured hands on training exercises that will them with the skills to apply it to real world production. Students will learn how to manage users, create Storefronts, set-up a wide range of products as well as retreive orders, manage pricing, run reports and maintain system settings. Students will learn first about the core PrintNow framework and how all the components fit together. More advanced set up features and functionality are covered during the second half of the course. Students will leave this course with a solid understanding of PrintNow a strong foundation for deploying the most flexible web-to-print platform!

Duration

• 6 Hours

Audience

• Designers/Prepress specialists
• IT Managers

Prerequisites

• Basic Computer functionality
• Knowledge of Adobe Indesign and Acrobat preferred
• Familiarity with Web technologies and paradigms

Topics

• PrintNow System Architecture Overview
  
  
• Admin Tools
  
  
• Storefront
  
  
• Users
  
  
• Product Manager
  
  
  • Products-Templates
    • Creating a New Product
    
    
  • Categories
    • Creating a New Category
    • Creating a New Sub-Category
    
    
  • Backgrounds
    • Creating a New Background Category
    • Background Image Management
    
    
  • Layouts
    • Creating a New Layout Category
    • Creating a New Layout Item
    
    
  • Themes
    • Create a New Background Theme
    • New Background Theme Item
    
    
  • ClipArt
    • Create a New Clipart Category
    • Upoad and Mange Clip-Art Items
    
    
  • Colors
    • Creating Company Colors
    • Creating a Company Color Palette
    
    
  • Fonts
    • Creating TrueType Fonts - FontLab 4.6
    • Creating TrueType Fonts - TransType Pro
    • Uploading Fonts to the PrintNow System
    • Assigning Fonts to a Company and Product
    
    
• Order Desk
  
  
• Pricing
  • Managing Pricing
  • Managing Order Options
  • Managing Mailing Options
  
  
• Reporting
  
  
• System Settings
  
  
• Templating
  
  
  • Simple Templating
    • Templating 101 - Tagging an InDesign Document
    • Templating 102 - Tagging in Adobe Acrobat
    • Templating 103 - Creating Layout PDF's
    
    
• Site Branding
  • Master Pages and CSS
  • Flex Editor Skinning