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Heidelberg Simplifies the Structure of the Prinect Print Shop Workflow |
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| 03/10/2008 |
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- Fully functional designations for the individual modules
- Categorized into eight separate areas
- Prinect Prinance renamed Prinect Business Manager
- Prinect Printready System renamed Prinect Prepress Manager
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Prinect is the print shop workflow from Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg) and integrates the complete range of print shop management and production processes. Prinect optimizes, simplifies and automates workflows based on an open data standard - the central JDF document - that contains all the job data. Virtually all Heidelberg presses, platesetters and postpress equipment can be integrated into the Prinect print shop workflow. As a founder member of the CIP4 organization, Heidelberg plays a major role in developing and shaping open standards such as JDF and PPF for the print media industry.
Print shop management with Prinect
With Prinect, Heidelberg is the only manufacturer to offer a print shop workflow that integrates and manages the entire print production process. Basically speaking, print shop processes can be broken down into eight separate areas that can be depicted using Prinect
- Online customer connection
- Print shop management
- Digital print workflow
- Prepress workflow
- Makeready optimization
- Color and quality management
- Machine operation
- Services
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Fully functional module designations facilitate an overview
Prinect is based on a system of hardware and software modules. This allows the print shop workflow to be adapted flexibly to the requirements of each individual company. All the different parts of a print shop can be integrated using the six so-called Managers of the Prinect workflow. Once generated at the start of the process chain, data is available for all subsequent applications at any time - right up to the finished product - based on Job Definition Format (JDF):
- Prinect Business Manager (previously Prinect Prinance)
- Prinect Integration Manager (previously Prinect Integration System)
- Prinect Prepress Manager (previously Prinect Printready System)
- Prinect Digital Print Manager
- Prinect Pressroom Manager
- Prinect Postpress Manager
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When the Prinect Business Manager (previously Prinect Prinance) management information system (MIS) is used for costing, it defines all job-specific production steps and thereby prestructures each job. The open interfaces to the software components of subsequent parts of the process chain allow seamless job processing at the print shop. Based on predefined costing methods, each individual job can be costed and coordinated separately.
As the overarching process control system, Prinect Integration Manager links all the systems and brings together all the different parts of a print shop. An electronic planning board known as the Prinect Scheduler provides the personnel in charge with an excellent overview of how the involved, and thus integrated machines are assigned.
Prinect Prepress Manager (previously Prinect Printready System) is the prepress production workflow that simplifies and speeds up prepress tasks. By communicating with Prinect Business Manager, it is possible to automate all prepress production steps - from data acceptance, file testing and impositioning to proofing and plate imaging.
Prinect Digital Print Manager makes it possible to integrate digital printing systems from leading manufacturers into the Prinect workflow.
Prinect Pressroom Manager manages and controls all data required for actual print production. All job and production data is collected in a digital job folder and is available to the relevant user - in real time of course. Everyone involved has access to the exact data they need. Print jobs are automatically forwarded to the press in the form of the relevant JDF files, without manual intervention.
Prinect Postpress Manager enables online linking of postpress equipment and data exchange with these units.
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Well-structured display with clear graphics
With Prinect, all processes are always transparent. Even in the event of changes, production can be adapted quickly and transparently, allowing all processes to be controlled effectively. Prinect is the print shop workflow from Heidelberg. Production and management processes are integrated into a single workflow. Areas that were previously separate are now growing closer together, as is apparent from the new Prinect graphics:
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Prinect is the print shop workflow from Heidelberg. Thanks to Prinect, areas of the print shop that were previously separate are now growing closer together.
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Thanks to Prinect and an open data standard - the central JDF document that contains all the job data - all processes are always transparent.
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Prinect - the print shop workflow that is also ideal for packaging printers
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All the different parts of a print shop can be integrated using the six Managers in the Prinect workflow.
Further information for journalists:
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
Corporate Communications
Matthias Hartung
Tel.: +49 (0)6221 92 50 77
Fax: +49 (0)6221 92 50 46
E-mail:
matthias.hartung@heidelberg.com
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