Prepress workflow for print shops

Adapt Every File.

Drop a PDF, run a saved workflow, and send it print-ready — preflight, imposition, numbering and routing in one standalone Windows app. No Adobe Acrobat.

No credit card · 14-day trial · Built inside a working print shop
Chamellio Preflight — flagging low-resolution images and transparency before press
Built in a real print shop. One shop owner talking to another.
15Tools in one window
0Adobe licenses needed
Day 1New-hire ready
$390Founding rate / year
The daily grind

Stop rebuilding the same job every day.

A customer sends a file. You check it, fix it, impose it, save it, and send it somewhere. Tomorrow, almost the same thing again.

The usual way

Bounce between Acrobat, plug-ins, and utilities
Redo the same setup steps by hand
Every employee does it a little differently
Drag finished files to hot folders manually

With Chamellio

One app for preflight, imposition & routing
Save the steps once, replay on the next file
Same correct workflow, every operator
Routes finished files where they belong
See it work

One drop, start to print-ready.

Watch a raw customer PDF become an imposed, marked, print-ready sheet — in about ninety seconds.

Chamellio Mini View — a compact, always-on-top window of saved one-drag workflows
Mini View

Pin it on top. Drop a file. It runs.

Collapse Chamellio into a compact window that floats above whatever else you’re working in. Every card is a saved workflow — drag a PDF onto one and it runs the whole sequence, then drops the result where it belongs.

  • Always-on-top — drag straight from any app
  • One drop runs a full saved workflow
  • Routes to an output folder or a printer hot folder
Real workflows

Recognizable jobs, ready to replay.

Chamellio is a file tool at heart — it prepares the PDFs your shop actually produces. Save any of these as a reusable workflow.

WORKFLOW 01

Add bleed & crop marks — even when the file has none

A customer sends a flat 8.5 × 11 with the artwork running right to the edge, but no bleed and no crop marks. Chamellio extends the bleed and drops the marks in for you — no hunting through Acrobat for a feature that was never really there.

  • Adds true printer’s bleed
  • Places crop & trim marks
  • Works on any standard size
Chamellio adding mirror bleed and crop marks to a page
WORKFLOW 02

Business cards — imposed & marked

Drop one card design and get a full press sheet: bleed added, ganged up N-up, crop marks placed, routed to the right folder.

  • Auto bleed & crop marks
  • N-up imposition to your sheet size
  • Routed to folder, hot folder, or RIP
Chamellio imposing loyalty cards 21-up on a 12x18 sheet
WORKFLOW 03

Booklets — pages into printer spreads

Hand Chamellio sequential reader-order pages; it checks the count, imposes them into saddle-stitch printer spreads, and adds fold marks — so the booklet reads in order once it's printed double-sided, folded, and stapled.

  • Page-count check
  • Automatic spread imposition
  • Fold marks for clean folding
  • Creep compensation on folded stock
Chamellio laying out reader pages as saddle-stitch printer spreads
WORKFLOW 04

Numbered tickets — sequenced & ganged

One ticket design becomes a numbered run: sequential numbers stamped, duplicated, imposed up on the sheet, and saved ready to print.

  • Sequential numbering
  • Duplicate & impose up
  • Saved as a finished print file
Chamellio numbering and imposing sequential tickets ABC-1001 to ABC-1006, 6-up on a 12x18 sheet
PostcardsMailers (VDP)Flyers CatalogsSaddle-stitch bookletsLabels CalendarsNotepadsNCR / carbonless forms ProgramsRaffle / event tickets + build your own
How it works

Set it up once. Then it's just a drop.

1

Build the workflow once

Save the repeated steps — bleed, resize, impose, number, booklet, merge — as a reusable Action: a saved recipe you replay on the next file.

2

Drop in the next file

Run that saved Action on a new PDF through the full editor or Mini View. No re-setup, no guesswork.

3

Send it where it belongs

Route the finished file to the Chamellio Output folder, the source folder, or a RIP hot folder — automatically.

Everything inside

15 production tools. 2 views.

Every tool lives in Full View — your full production workspace. Mini View is the compact, pin-on-top companion that runs saved workflows with a single drop. Same app, two ways to work.

Mini ViewDrag-and-drop production
PreflightCatch issues early
ActionsSave & replay steps
Bleed + crop marksPress-ready edges
Imposition / N-upGang to the sheet
ResizeFit any size
CropTrim precisely
RotateFix orientation
BookletSpreads & fold marks
Page numberingSequential stamps
Mail Merge (VDP)Variable data
BatchMany files at once
InterleaveCombine pages
MergeCombine PDFs
Destinations & routingFolders, hot folders, RIP
Job Log & NotesTrack every run
The math

One app vs. a stack of separate tools.

$1,560
typical first-year tool stack
$390
Chamellio Founding Shop / year

Pricing varies by vendor, plan, reseller, and region. The point is simple: Chamellio brings the everyday production-prep workflow into one standalone app.

Where it fits

An honest look at the lineup.

Most tools do one job well and need Acrobat to run. Chamellio's edge is the everyday production workflow, standalone.

What you needCompetitorsChamellio
Runs without Adobe AcrobatUsually noYes
Preflight + imposition togetherSeparate toolsIn one app
Works offline on the shop machineVariesYes
Saved workflows, batch & routingRarelyBuilt in
Deep, specialized features for one taskOften yesFocused on the everyday job
From the floor

What early shops are saying.

★★★★★

“PDFs that looked perfect on screen, ready for press, kept coming off the press with pieces missing or funky transparency issues — it cost me more than once. Since switching to Chamellio, that problem’s been solved.”

Verified early user
Local print shop owner
★★★★★

“This new software is awesome — it’s so easy to use!”

Verified early user
Early-access tester
Pricing

Simple subscription. Annual is the deal.

Monthly Annual
≈ 2 months free

Cancel anytime, no contract · 14-day free trial, no credit card · All updates & email support · Windows 10 & 11 (64-bit)

Regular
$490/yr
Billed annually
  • All 15 tools + Mini View
  • Saved workflows, batch & routing
  • Up to 3 seats — no per-seat tax
  • Runs offline, no Acrobat
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FOUNDING SHOP · FIRST 100
Founding Shop
$490$390/yr
$100 off your first year, then $490/yr
  • Everything in Regular
  • A say in what we build next
  • Early access to new tools
  • First 100 shops only
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Founding Shop pricing is available for the first 100 shops and stays locked in while your subscription is active. Need more seats? Get in touch.

FAQ

Straight answers.

Just like "chameleon," but ending in "-io" instead of "-on":
kuh · mee · lee · oh
The name is the whole idea — drop a file and it adapts to whatever the job needs.
No. It's a standalone Windows desktop app. Nothing else to install or keep subscribed.
Chamellio replaces your prepress stack — the checking, fixing, imposing, and routing you'd otherwise do across Acrobat Pro and plug-ins. It isn't a PDF reader or a printing app, so you'll still want a separate reader to open and print finished files. Free options include Adobe Acrobat Reader, SumatraPDF, and Foxit; for an affordable paid step up, PDF-XChange Editor is a solid one-time purchase.
Yes. It runs locally on your Windows computer. Your customer files don't get uploaded to a browser tool.
No. Chamellio preps the file and drops it in your RIP's hot folder or an output folder — your existing RIP or press takes it from there. Fiery or your printer driver still controls stock, copies, finishing, and media settings.
Small and mid-sized print shops, copy shops, digital printers, sign shops, in-plant print rooms, and production teams that repeatedly prepare PDFs for output.
Open or drop in PDFs, or image files — PNG, JPG/JPEG, TIFF, and BMP. For mail merge (variable data), bring your list as an XLSX or CSV. Chamellio always outputs a clean, print-ready PDF.
Windows first. If you run a Mac shop that also needs real prepress, join the Mac waitlist below — it's how we measure real Mac demand.
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Regular pricing is $49/mo or $490/yr. Founding Shops keep their locked-in rate as long as the subscription stays active.

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