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ReadyPDF use cases & solutions video

You Need Powerful PDF Optimization! Discover Use Cases and Solutions

How do you know if ReadyPDF server is a solution that might benefit your organization? This video shows examples of use cases and results from independent Keypoint Intelligence lab testing, customer experiences, and findings from our research and development.
About the author: Jonathan Malone-McGrew, edp, has literally grown up around PDF and the print and digital communications industries. In his early years, he watched his parents build a successful print software company … Read more

The PDF file format continues to gain popularity both in print and electronic or digital communications. As of 2020, there were an estimated 2.5 trillion PDF documents globally—a number that is growing every day. The abundance of PDF has tipped the scales for organizations taking in PDF for print and digital delivery by causing bottlenecks.

Bottlenecks can occur from inefficiently constructed files in make-ready, pre-processing and production, as well as during simple transfers of files. In addition, such inefficiencies may cause content to display slowly for users in interactive and consumer-facing workflows. This is why Print Service Providers (PSPs) need powerful PDF optimization tools integrated into their workflow. In fact, our Customer Advisory Council members helped support the development of this award-winning Solimar Systems solution by sharing their need for additional capabilities in our modular Chemistry™ platform.

ReadyPDF® Prepress Server™ is an industrial PDF optimization workflow software solution designed for those seeking to automate, templatize and rapidly improve the PDFs they are creating or onboarding to their print production or digital delivery environments. By taking the manual processes and interventions out of production workflow, many Print Service Providers (PSPs) are seeing an instant Return on Investment (ROI) that positively impacts their Costs of Good Sold (COGS).


Solimar Systems enables organizations around the globe to onboard, make ready, enhance, manage and deliver print and digital communications. As an early adopter of the PDF output format, our Chemistry™ platform optimizes and drives a variety of print and electronic workflows including transactional and direct mail printing, accessibility, archive services,…

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