New Product Launch - February 2006
Automate your Diploma Manufacturing

Cyan 7 is pleased to announce a revolutionary automation solution for the creation and management of diplomas, certificates, and awards. Combining our reknowned pdf creation expertise and extensive print manufacturing experience, we have developed a superior custom solution to the historically laborous process of managing the creation of thousands of unique diplomas for educational institutions.

Re-Engineering an old process

In the old days, most institutions had a number of calligraphers who were retained to manually produce diplomas one by one. They were usually beautiful, were very expensive, and took weeks to produce.

In the last 10 years or so, diplomas have generally been produced by inhouse graphics departments using page creation programs such as Quark Xpress, Adobe InDesign, or Aldus Pagemaker. A desktop publishing specialist would cut and paste names, degrees, faculties, and other variable information into pre-defined templates. Once each degree was complete they would save a PDF file and then send these PDF files to a printer where they would be overprinted onto diploma masters. Needless to say, this was also very laborious and time consuming.

Now there is a new solution !! 

Totally automated - highest & consistent quality - very efficient management !!

Simple, fast, automated, & comprehensive
Step	Notes	Benefit
Prepare lists of graduates by faculty / department in an Excel spreadsheet.	Centralize or distribute by faculty the preparation of lists of graduates.	Many ways to import your mainframe graduate data into an Excel spreadsheet where it can be updated and modified as required.
Upload your Excel spreadsheets with all required variable data.	Simple, fast uploading of thousands of graduates.	Automatic input to our system for 1 or thousands of graduates.
Mofify diploma information for each graduate, if needed.	Can put a diploma on hold or transfer a graduate from one year to the next.	Total, last-minute flexibility.
Create diplomas for each graduate in a matter of seconds.	Can put a diploma on hold or transfer a graduate from one year to the next.	Total, last-minute flexibility to add, change, or delete graduates.
Create linked PDF files for print production.	Automates print manufacturing process by grouping all print files into a single PDF file by faculty or department.	Your diplomas will be quickly and efficiently produced and your print person or provider will love you.
Track print orders submitted.	Total control of all aspects of the process in real time.	The time savings in administration will astound you.
Full history of diplomas by graduate.	If someone needs a duplicate or replacement diploma, you can locate the actual diploma in a few seconds and send the print file for production exactly as it was first produced.	The time savings in administration will astound you.
No IT systems or maintenance.	Our custom hosted systems are created to your exact specifications so you are not buying a canned solution. We offer superior customer service and deliver 7/24 online availability.	We manage the entire process including software support, database administration, customer service, as well as system upgrades.

Our systems ensure the highest quality typography and perfect, consistent design for all products produced - giving you total graphic control and greatly improved productivity.

Cyan 7 has developed and implemented numerous print creation systems for major universities that serve tens of thousands of end usere clients.

Our systems are simple to use - users need only have a current browser like IE6 or FireFox and Adobe Acrobat.

In addition, as a full fledged systems developer, we can design and deploy custom systems for unique requirements.

We would be pleased to assist you in discussing these opportunities at greater length. Please contact our Director of Marketing, Louise Phaneuf at 514.420.2734 or by e-mail for a fully featured demo or more information.