What you need to know when it comes to automation initiatives that can radically transform your business.
Our unique proposition for your unique printing business
There are dozens of workflow software integrators on the market today. So why choose Significans? Well, our small, dedicated team has over 400 years of combined experience as well as the print-shop-floor expertise that transcends most competitors. In fact, we have grown to become the largest niche software integrator in north and south America because we are the specialists to integrate the most diversified and complex printing techniques in the industry. We’ve helped to improve virtually every type of printing business across the U.S. and Canada, regardless of size or product specialty – from offset to wide-format to labels, from corrugated and board packaging to promotional print, from digital to in-plant, from online printers to print franchises.
What sets our solutions apart? Aside from the transformational case studies detailed on our website, our vendor-neutral team has a vast knowledge of each and every workflow platform on the market today, along with their strengths and weakness. This allows us to mix, match and deploy customized workflow software unique to specific production environments. We also provide employee training, making each client more independent when it comes to dealing with workflow issues. Our training covers a wide variety of key areas including prepress, ink management, coding (scripting), customer service training, development services, and many more.
Our workflow automation tools can include all foundational platforms on the market today, depending on which specific software combinations are best for which client and his or her application requirements. As a vendor-neutral software integration partner, we always prioritize the best solutions rather than push standalone “out-of-the-box” products. Customer-driven, each installation therefore becomes bespoke, unique to that particular printer’s production environment, current workflow needs, and future goals.
That being said, below are three of our most popular solutions.
Turbo Switch Packs
Like flicking a turbo switch, you can send your print-shop production into overdrive, outputting more projects more cost-efficiently and accurately than you ever imagined! Turbo Switch Packs is an easy-to-install, lite-customized combination of software and support services that streamlines workflow in three lucrative markets: Digital printing, large-format printing, and labels & tags. The proprietary solution offers best-in-class workflow automation combined with layout software, highly customized workflows configured to your specific production environment, and powerful Enfocus Apps produced by Significans Automation. Installation can be completed in just one or two hours, delivering immediate capacity gains and a fast ROI. Follow-up ongoing training, maintenance, and software support from our team of experts makes this solution an easy entry point into full, in-shop, ‘lights-out’ automation.
What also sets Turbo Switch Packs apart, is their future-proofed, state-of-the-art technology that’s affordable and expandable – and can be integrated easily with other existing customized software and services in your business, regardless of how long you’ve been using them. Your clients will be happier, your employees will become more efficient and engaged, and your business and profits will grow because you’ll spend more time selling and less time fixing production problems.
S-Launch
Configurable and ready for any possible production environment, S-Launch has already evolved significantly since its first release in 2025. S-Launch is a 100% configurable Form Builder. Businesses can create a submission portal for proofing, pre-flight, estimation, W2P, etc. One-time data entry can be done easily through a tablet, desktop computer, or mobile device. The Workflow Builder within the S-Launch solution allows businesses to take a more managed approach to their data by “massaging the data” before sending it to key processes, subsequently saving a massive amount of time while reducing costly errors.
By handling the up-front data preparation, validation and routing (with conditional logic), S-Launch enables key business systems and workflow tools to focus only on their core tasks (i.e. actual pre-flighting). S-Launch software is API-first, allowing for effortless integration with other existing systems such as MIS/ERP, workflow automation tools, imposition softwares, custom websites, etc. The Asset Store offers a secure/protected entry point for uploading any file type to public or private folders.
Stickerbeat, a North American-based online business and early adopter, specializes in custom stickers, magnets, labels, and decals. It handles a huge amount of incoming, time-consuming telephone orders each day, in addition to online requests from Shopify, and had been using Version1 of S-Launch as a pilot project for one year. The result?
“Right now, with our current 4 employees in prepress, I feel we could easily achieve $20 million dollars in yearly sales without adding more staff,” said Bruce Petroff, Corporate Production Control Manager and Analyst at Stickerbeat. “If we didn’t have this highly customized workflow software set-up from Significans, I would likely have to spend another $250,000 in labor just to do what we were doing before, based on our current volume.” Today, Stickerbeat can handle 400 orders a day instead of the previous 150. Plus, costly human errors have been cut by about 90%.
Customized Enfocus Phoenix2Switch
Significans is now the top global reseller of Enfocus Phoenix – the award-winning, AI-powered software that’s transforming print and packaging businesses by slashing time and costs with transformational job planning and imposition solutions. Phoenix calculates a printer’s best options, schedules jobs, and estimates costs accurately for all devices. Our clients now save hundreds of hours per week through automated planning and workflow layouts. This is the power of Phoenix software, customized and configured by Significans.
Avoid DIY solutions
Many printing businesses lack the in-house technical expertise to create customized workflow automation solutions. This may lead to systems that are difficult and expensive to maintain, are prone to errors, and ultimately fail to meet short-term and long-term needs. Scalability can also become a problem as a printer’s workflow automation needs to evolve. A system that has worked well in the past may be inadequate as a business expands, leading to production disruptions. Finally, once customized workflow automation is deployed, it requires ongoing maintenance, support and updating, to ensure optimal performance.
To eliminate these challenges, Significans partners closely with its clients, beginning with the workflow assessment and ending with the final implementation of a future state that is mapped and documented. Significans Automation also offers specialized training and ongoing support, as well as Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) with the long-term goal of making our customers self-sufficient.
Let experts handle your challenges in 2026
As a general rule, the more printing and finishing devices you have, the greater the need to simplify workflow processes. Larger, more complex printing environments (e.g., hybrid shops that combine digital and offset), demand more agile and sophisticated solutions. Seamless integration of all of a printer’s production-critical processes has always been the primary challenge. This necessary path to integration can be complex, time-consuming and fraught with errors. Systems that are not compatible can lead to data ‘silos’ – hence ‘department silos’ with evident redundant processes, human errors, slow turnaround times – and ultimately erode profits and leave customers unhappy. Plus, some staffers may resist change, fearing loss of their jobs, or may feel uncomfortable working with the new software.
The expanding role of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Integration is key – and AI is becoming one of THE major drivers. AI is not a trend; in many ways, it’s the future of the corporate world that interfaces with print and packaging initiatives. Artificial Intelligence is already disrupting our industry, revolutionizing traditional practices, and introducing new, more efficient solutions. AI offers huge opportunities to optimize production processes, reduce errors and waste, personalize customer experiences, boost competitiveness, and help employees and management better perform their tasks, to name just a few. AI can read proofs, accept web-to-print orders, spot issues with client artwork at the prepress stage, and so on.
Significans leverages AI to enhance and streamline workflow processes for our print and packaging print clients. Our approach, generally speaking, involves integrating various AI technologies into workflows to enhance efficiency, reduce errors, and dramatically improve productivity. Real results from real printers (our customers) include, for example, a 30% – 300% increase in yearly printing capacity, several hours of labor reduced to a few minutes, job prep times reduced from 8 hours to 5 minutes, prepress productivity increased from 10 to over 50 jobs a day, labor costs cut by over 50%, 73 separate, time-consuming workflows reduced to 3 easy-to-use tools, etc.
Finally, I can think of no better example of the unprecedented benefits of customized workflow automation than one of our most recent U.S. clients, Work House Signs of Pottstown, Pennsylvania. We helped this growing web-to-print signage printer reduce over 3,000 hours of job-processing work to a mere 6 hours! Only customized workflow automation (in this case combined with AI technology) can yield game-changing results like this.
Call us today for an assessment
When it comes to automation initiatives for 2026, we can provide an initial assessment that considers your budget, current needs and future goals. This “roadmap” has helped hundreds of clients across Canada and the U.S. radically transform their businesses.
For more information, please visit our website or call 1-877-463-4465.
