Imagine if your print business had its own time machine. Not the DeLorean kind (though that would be awesome), but one that could quietly save hours of your team’s time every single day, without flux capacitors or 1.21 gigawatts.

Enter: Enfocus Switch — the print industry’s unsung hero and quite possibly the closest thing we have to a productivity time machine.

The Time Suck We All Ignore

Every print job, no matter how small, tends to go through at least three critical human touchpoints:

  • Sales (“Did the client send the right files?”)
  • Prepress (“Are the files print-ready?”)
  • Planning (“Do we have the right stock, imposition, and schedule?”)

Even under ideal circumstances, each of these stages takes at least 5 minutes per job. That’s 15 minutes of expert attention per order. And let’s be honest, when were conditions ever ideal?

Now let’s say your shop processes 20 jobs per day. That means 300 minutes (or 5 hours) of skilled labor is being used on mostly repeatable, mundane coordination tasks.

What if half of those jobs could handle themselves?

Switching Gears: What Automation Can Realistically Do

Let’s be optimistic, but not delusional. Full automation? Unlikely. But 50% automation? Totally achievable with Switch.

That’s 10 jobs per day you don’t have to babysit.

At 15 minutes saved per job, that’s 150 minutes or 2.5 hours daily.

Now multiply that by:

  • 5 days per week = 12.5 hours
  • 250 working days per year = 625 hours per year

That’s not just a time-saver. That’s a whole 78 full workdays (assuming 8-hour days) per year of expert time liberated.

Let That Sink In: 3.5 Months of Extra Brainpower

We’re not talking about giving people more free time to watch cat videos (though we fully support that during lunch). We’re talking about redeploying expert minds to do what they were actually hired to do:

  • Solve tricky customer challenges
  • Improve output quality
  • Run more complex, high-margin jobs
  • Innovate workflows

Basically: stop being paper chasers and start being print wizards.

The Hidden Time Thieves You Forgot About

Now here’s the kicker. That 15 minutes per job is best-case scenario. Most jobs aren’t that polite.

Let’s talk about the email triangle of doom:

  1. Client sends questionable file
  2. Sales forwards to prepress
  3. Prepress replies with issues
  4. Sales relays that to client
  5. Client sends new file (still not correct)
  6. Repeat

Each email? 3–5 minutes to read, reply, and not throw your computer out the window. Do that 2–3 times per job, and suddenly you’re burning 20+ minutes on one file handoff.

And don’t even get us started on last-minute changes, revised specs, paper stock issues, or machine breakdowns. Each of those often requires redoing imposition layouts and pinging multiple people.

With Switch, a huge chunk of that repetitive coordination disappears. Files go through automated checks. PDFs get routed and renamed without intervention. Sales gets notifications. Prepress gets files already pre-flighted.

People get to skip the chaos and focus on the actual work.

The Cost of Not Switching

Let’s put it bluntly. Without automation, scaling up means one thing: hiring more people.

If your volume grows by 20%, you either:

  • Burn out your existing team,
  • Hire more staff, or
  • Get smarter with automation.

Let’s say you don’t automate and choose to hire. At an average labor cost of €20/hour:

  • 625 hours/year = €12,500 of labor

Compare that to Switch:

  • Annual license: €5,500
  • Setup & training (one-time): €2,000

Year 1 total investment: €7,500 Time value recovered: 625 hours Break-even: Within the first year

Year 2? You’re just riding the time machine forward with nearly pure ROI.

Bonus Perk: Fewer Mistakes = Happier Clients

More time for your experts = more time to double-check the critical stuff. That means:

  • Fewer reprints
  • Fewer angry emails
  • Fewer “oh no” moments right before deadline

If 1 in every 20 jobs goes sideways due to human error, and you can cut that in half, that’s 125 fewer major issues per year in a 5,000-job environment. That’s not just efficiency — it’s sanity.

Final Word: Be the Print Shop with the Time Machine

Enfocus Switch is not a luxury. It’s not just a nerdy tool for prepress geeks. It’s a scalable, intelligent, and proven way to:

  • Take back months of valuable expert time
  • Handle more work without hiring
  • Improve quality and consistency
  • And yes — actually grow your business

So no, you don’t need a DeLorean. You need Switch. The time machine that fits right into your workflow.

Ready to stop burning hours on file wrangling? Fire up your Switch, and start turning time lost into time won.

Your future self will thank you.

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