PDF workflow automation for print shops

The cockpit and control center for your print production

Save time and reduce errors with automated print workflows – from estimating through preflight and imposition to finishing.

How to automate your print production

The Impressed Workflow Server (IWS) connects the input and output systems in your print production – from the web shop and MIS through preflight, approval and imposition to printing presses and finishing.

The IWS is the control center between all your software and machines – both for the systems you use today and for those you add in the future. This lays the foundation for automating the processes in your print shop across the entire value chain.

At the same time, it is the central cockpit for monitoring and controlling all processes – so you always have everything in view, wherever you are.

This makes your production processes more efficient and more reliable – you save time and money, increase your throughput and improve the quality of your service and products. Watch the video to see how it works.

Investment protection and future-proofing

Automation made easy

We have already developed a wide range of IWS interfaces to the input and output systems commonly used in print workflows. That makes it almost “plug and play”.

You will find an overview of the currently supported systems below. And thanks to the open and flexible architecture of the IWS, custom interfaces can be created as well.

Supported systems & standards

The Impressed Workflow Server currently supports the following systems and standards (as of early 2026)

Input systems

MIS systems

  • Advanter
  • Keyline
  • Lector
  • Megalith
  • Obility
  • Omikai
  • Pace
  • PaginaNet
  • Prinance
  • PrintPlus
  • uTraxx
  • etc…

Print brokers

  • Flyeralarm
  • Saxoprint/CeWe
  • UnitedPrint
  • WePrint
  • WIRmachenDRUCK
  • etc…

Web shops

  • Magento
  • shopware
  • shopify
  • etc…

Metadata

  • Printtalk
  • XJDF
  • JDF
  • XML
  • JSON
  • Excel
  • CSV
  • etc…

Output systems

Digital printing systems

  • Canon
  • HP Indigo
  • Kodak
  • Konica Minolta
  • Océ
  • Xeikon
  • Xerox
  • etc…

Output workflows

  • Agfa Apogee
  • Kodak Prinergy
  • HP
  • etc…

RIPs

  • Caldera
  • efi-Fiery
  • Fujifilm JetPress
  • HP
  • Onyx
  • etc…

Printing processes

  • Digital printing
  • Offset printing
  • Large-format printing
  • etc…

Finishing

  • Folding
  • Cutting
  • Die-cutting
  • Shipping
  • etc…
Pricing examples

Fair, usage-based pricing for the IWS

The Impressed Workflow Server is sold as a subscription license with a 12-month term. The monthly price depends on the basic module, the number of users, the input channels used and the products that run through the IWS. The following examples give you an overview.

Pricing example 1

€018/product

IWS Pro Basic Module incl.:

  • 1 user (concurrent user)
  • 1 input channel

1,000

products*/month

Pricing example 2

€005/product

IWS Pro Basic Module incl.:

  • 1 user (concurrent user)
  • 1 input channel

6,000

products*/month

Pricing example 3

€003/product

IWS Pro Basic Module incl.:

  • 1 user (concurrent user)
  • 1 input channel

11,000

products*/month

* For details of the Impressed Workflow Server pricing model, please see our pricing page. We will be happy to prepare an offer tailored to your needs – just get in touch.

Status at a glance

Dynamic preflight and correction

The order-based, standardized preflight compares the order information with the production data and generates an inspection report. The report can be viewed directly in the browser and emailed to the customer.

Faulty PDF files can be corrected locally at the workstation and fed back into the workflow. For common corrections – such as adding bleed or converting RGB images and spot colors to CMYK – automatic corrections are available directly from the IWS user interface.

Integration of external systems

From estimating to finishing

Integration of external systems

Connecting external systems such as web shops or management information systems (MIS) to the Impressed Workflow Server links order information with production data. This ensures that every production file is processed in the workflow according to its order information.

Highly flexible scalability

The IWS is not limited to preflighting and correcting PDF files. Its modular design allows you to extend its functionality with the optional integration of a color server, web-based approval of PDF files, imposition, print job planning and gang-run sheet creation.

Production
control & data management

The IWS is optimized for the typical workflow in a print shop and forms the ideal interface between order management and production. The order information is used to generate a job ticket that dynamically controls the workflow – from order-based preflight and corrections through optional online approval to the imposed and optimized print form.

Browser-based control center

The heart of the IWS is its graphical, browser-based user interface, which gives access to all functions of the IWS server. Jobs can be created, controlled and monitored from here, and the status of every job is displayed at all times. The order-based, standardized preflight compares the order information with the production data and generates an inspection report.

References

What customers say about the Impressed Workflow Server

Introducing the Impressed Workflow Server as the automation solution for our print workflow led to a complete rethink among management and all our colleagues. It was, so to speak, the starting signal for our digitalization drive.

Andreas Wurdak, braun druck & medien GmbH

IWS significantly reduces initial setup costs and enables faster, simpler and more cost-effective deployment through more than 20 standardized, expertly preconfigured flows, while offering the flexibility to add further input and output flows.

John Panton, Digital Distributors, South Africa
When I first saw IWS, it really answered some of the most important questions of potential Switch customers who are used to traditional workflows.
John Panton, Digital Distributors, South Africa

Once again, many thanks to Mr. Käsbauer of Impressed – without him, we would not have been able to realize our ambitious projects!

Andreas Wurdak, braun druck & medien GmbH

The Impressed Workflow Server was our most important investment of the past 15 years and freed us from old, entrenched structures!

Andreas Wurdak, braun druck & medien GmbH

In more than 70 years of our existence, we have always been open to innovation, and supporting our employees has been part of our corporate culture from the very beginning. Our decision for the Impressed Workflow Server fits perfectly into that picture.

Mark Fischer, Druckerei Bühler

We have always felt understood and well looked after by Impressed. The team always responded to our requirements, took us by the hand, asked clear questions and then quickly delivered practical solutions for our needs.

Tom Petrak, Druckscheune OHG

With our new software landscape, we can not only impose and produce most jobs fully automatically – thanks to the high degree of standardization, errors that used to occur again and again are avoided, and the finishing processes run much more smoothly. We also now always have an exact overview of the status of every job.

Tom Petrak, Druckscheune OHG

When we realized the potential and possibilities of the Impressed Workflow Server, we felt like kids in a candy store!

Andreas Wurdak, braun druck & medien GmbH

Across interfaces, the Impressed Workflow Server enables us to standardize and automate numerous manual process steps that used to be very time-consuming, and to overcome apparent incompatibilities – while increasing quality and output at the same time!

Andreas Wurdak, braun druck & medien GmbH

The Impressed Workflow Server brochure

You can download our compact brochure on the Impressed Workflow Server as a PDF file (in German).

The Impressed guides for print shops

The Impressed guides are aimed at all print shops that want to prepare for the transformation of the printing industry (in German).