Seshat · for print · live
Send a file with the order it is for. Seshat checks it against that order and the print standards, decides per finding what should happen (fix, ask the customer, refuse or just note it), explains it in your customer's language, and makes the print-ready version.
For web-to-print shops, print portals and prepress teams. PDF, EPS, ZIP and pictures; files up to 10 GB in parts.
Checks
Every finding names its pages and places, so you can show the customer exactly where. The checks run on Rekhu's own servers in the EU without an AI model; a model only writes the explanation.
Fixes
Each fix reports what it changed, side effects too. Running the fixes again on a fixed file changes nothing more.
Proof
The plates, as the file separates through its own output profile; an ink heat map where the total is over your limit; a proof of every page; and a report for the customer. Seshat measures ink the way the print standard does, so your numbers and your press agree.
Fonts, text and pages too: replace a word or a font, merge and split, compare two versions of a file, fill a template from a list.
Standards
Seshat follows the published print standards. Each shop sets its own limits on top, per product group: total ink, resolution, bleed, the distance from a fold. A setting can be stricter than the standard, never looser where the standard is a hard limit.
The print industry's preflight specification: total ink, small text, line widths, rich black and white overprint, in seven presets for sheetfed, web and newspaper.
The ISO exchange format for print: output intent, boxes and fonts as a press expects them.
Post-press: the folding tolerance by the number of folds, the least distance text keeps from a fold.
Barcodes: a retail code and its quiet zone never on a fold, a crease or a seam.
Connect
One package for Node.js or Laravel and an app key from your account. Your tenants, limits and prices stay yours: every call is kept in your own ledger next to what Rekhu charged, so you can bill your customers per file or per plan.
No code? Check a file from the command line with the same package.
Every question, with the call it takes ↗# Node.js
$ npm install @rekhu/core
const seshat = createRekhu({ key, knowers: ['seshat'] }).seshat({ user });
const check = await seshat.check(file, { name: 'flyer.pdf', order });
const fixed = await seshat.fix(check.file_id, 'auto', order);
# Laravel
$ composer require rekhu/core
# no code: the command line
$ npx @rekhu/core check flyer.pdf --size 148x210 --bleed 3
fix no bleed: the background stops at the trim
ask picture at 118 ppi as placed (page 1)
$ npx @rekhu/core check flyer.pdf --size 148x210 --bleed 3 --fix --out flyer-ready.pdf
Price
$0.05
per file checked
up to 20 pages, with the explanation, report and proof of that file
$0.002
per page above 20
a 300-page catalogue costs more than a business card
$0.02
per fix
at most 5 per fixed file; a fix that changed nothing is free
$0.01
per extra
plates, versions compared, pages as pictures, merge, split
From the same prepaid credit as every Rekhu product; a new account starts with $10, enough for 200 files. Files sent for a check are deleted after 24 hours.