PRINECT BUSINESS
ON THE WAY TO A
SMART PRINT SHOP.
PRINECT.
PRINECT PRODUCTION
11.1 Monitoring
Boost autonomous production on Speedmaster printing presses by leveraging best presets and optimized job sequencing.
Benefit from a comprehensive overview of your production process, keep track of key job and pressroom indicators and trends in real time, and use benchmarks and recommendations to further improve your performance.
8.2 Push to Stop
9.6 Hybrid Workflow
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Integrate digital printing into your overall workflow and benefit from synergies with offset printing – especially for color management and rendering.
Prinect Business
9.5 Integration
Quickly generate a clear overview of your current machine utilization to decide how best to process new orders and distribute production tasks.
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Create variable data such as serial num- bers, text and barcodes based on e.g. CSV files with the help of user-friendly tools.
4.2 Dynamic Marks
5.5 Capacity & Load
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Color & Quality
9.3 Variable Data
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4.1 Layout Composition & Sheet Assembly
Track the status of each job along the entire production chain based on realtime feedback from your connected machines and workstations.
Make the most of the autonomous signature production function of your Stahlfolder machine with PFX feeder, with its automatic status and quantity messages.
5.4 Job Progression
10.2 Push to Stop
Imposition
Optimize the sequence of orders for your printing presses to radically reduce makeready and downtime across your production operations.
Make the most of a toolset that includes all the functions you could possibly need for preflighting, document creation, imposition, calibration and color matching.
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5.2 Optimization
5.5 Capacity & Load
Benefit from an automatic scheduling functionality that plans the incoming orders with correct time and machine assignments without manual effort.
9.4 Automation
5.3 Job Timetable
Use color proofs produced on inkjet printers to reliably and cost-effectively simulate offset printing and other printing techniques. Check output consistency and reproducibility by consulting detailed color quality reports.
3.4 PDF Color Management
5.1 Automatic Scheduling
Improve your throughput and response times using smart customer interactions such as automated online softproofing, revision and approval workflows.
When producing multilingual or versioned jobs, save preparation time and plates by separating common and variable elements.
3.3 PDF Trapping
1.2 Online Softproofing & Approval
3.2 PDF Editing
4.3 Versioning
3.1 PDF Preflighting & Optimization
Enhance your efficiency by using Smart Automation to reduce touchpoints and sources of error.
Benefit from powerful planning and scheduling tools that make all your production processes, order deadlines and status updates totally transparent in real time.
Complete your prepress tasks faster and more easily by automating and stream-lining all your processes using simple management tools.
Boost your efficiency and productivity and reduce the number of manual tasks in your overall workflow by using one-click production of standardized jobs.
Reduce makeready waste due to misreg- istration and increase print quality using professional trap tools creating overlaps in adjacent printed colors.
2.3 Smart Automation
Planning & Scheduling
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Rely on optimized quality control where every plate you produce precisely matches your set standards for linearity of expo- sure, screening and calibration. Ensure your production meets the ideal levels of print standardization, consistency and reproducibility specified in ISO 12647-2.
Monitor your print quality using inline or workflow-integrated measuring instruments, and reduce your paper waste based on high-quality color reports.
Use pressroom planning to produce your printing plates – save time by eliminating labor-intensive plate sorting.
6.6 Quality Control
11.3 Quality Reports
7.4 Plate Pilot
8.6 Color Database
8.5 Pallet Sheets
Print Shop Analytics
8.4 Presetting
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Cut down manual labor by using auto- matically generated pallet sheets.
8.3 Repeat Order Management
Quickly, easily and reliably generate imposed print sheets with all necessary marks and control elements, as well as presets for further processing.
Simplify job tracking and take advantage of automatic access to job progress and press status updates in real time.
Save the optimized press settings so you can call them up for repeat jobs.
Reduce your ink and powder consumption as well as drying times using special ICC profiles in the integrated Prinect color management. Sheets can be handled faster and with much less set-off and marking.
In your overall workflow for digital and offset printing, choose production sequences on the basis of run lengths and profitability.
6.2 Ink Savings
Achieve significant cost benefits and improve your processes by leveraging the expanded color space to easily and accurately reproduce spot colors with Multicolor.
Take advantage of automatically generated plate sheets that use barcode scanning to make it easier for you to select jobs in your Prinect Press Center and minimize search errors.
7.2 Plate Sheets
Boost your throughput and reduce the time it takes for plates to reach printing presses by using additional renderers and effective print planning.
Prinect Business offers a highly efficient workflow for your business processes from automatic estimating, job preparation and material management to delivery, invoicing and reporting.
Together with the fully integrated Prinect Production workflow and a comfortable online connection of your customers, this is the perfect workflow solution for a Smart Print Shop.
To obtain instant information on presets, together with feedback on status, actions and results, integrate your offline postpress machines and processes.
10.4 Data Terminal & Data Capture App
Reduce touchpoints and boost produc- tivity and consistency by implementing fully automated workflows for standard jobs and Web-to-Print applications.
Create jobs automatically using informa- tion from MIS or Web-to-Print systems, or from .CSV files – ready for processing by your production staff or automatically by Smart Automation.
Cut out the complexity – use Compucut to define the most efficient cutting sequences on your Polar Cutter.
2.2 Automated Job Creation
Significantly reduced lead times, cycle times and response times, while at the same time improving the transparency of the entire production process, both for the customer as well as for sales and production staff.
10.3 Compucut
Use high-quality screening systems such as AM, FM or Hybrid with different patterns, resolutions and dot shapes to achieve best results across a wide range of applications.
6.1 Screening
Avoid costly printing errors using an early-warning system that detects potential printing problems and either warns you in advance or automatically corrects them for you.
3.1 PDF Preflighting & Optimizing
Ensure your reproduction and color harmonization are up to standard with the help of powerful calibration tools for process and color control of plates and print output.
9.2 Full Toolset
Track every job in real time through a convenient web portal – from your desktop or tablet, in your print shop or while you are out visiting customers.
File Preparation
1.3 Online Job Tracking
7.1 Calibration & Profiling
4.5 3D Visualizations
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4.4 Book Production
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Take advantage of user-friendly tools to create special color separations for applica- tions such as coatings, white or safety red in digital and offset printing.
6.5 Hardcopy Proofing
3.5 Coating Editor
6.4 Automatic Paper Stretch Compensation
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Draw up convenient work schedules for each machine and every production process, for printing out or displaying onscreen.
6.3 Multicolor
Use powerful, user-friendly PDF editing tools to make minor corrections – no more need to waste time accessing the original source files.
Automatic Scheduling
Use 3D views to enhance your production consistency and review your jobs and finishing processes before you start production.
Take advantage of our clear, intuitive user interface to process jobs with minimal effort – use WYSIWYG live previews to minimize rejects.
Minimize the makeready time involved in setting up Heidelberg folding machines by presetting paper types, sheet formats and folding layouts.
7.5 Ink Consumption
2.1 Job Creation via JobMaker
9.1 Easy Operation
10.1 Presetting
2.4 Gang Automation
7.3 Load Balancing
Use a comprehensive set of tools to achieve optimal color reproduction and consistent output quality across your print shop.
Enhance the productivity of your inte- grated digital printing presses by setting up a hybrid workflow using a compre- hensive toolset developed especially for digital printing.
11.5 Performance Benchmarking
Cut down your setup times and paper waste by creating high-quality, perfectly screened and calibrated printing plates.
Optimize your material management by predicting the quantity of ink required for each job.
Pressroom Digital
Seamlessly integrate postpress equipment and processes into your workflows for capturing production data and optimizing makeready times.
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11.6 Performance Advisor Technology – PAT
Rendering & Plate Making
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11.6 Performance Advisor Technology – PAT
Postpress
Use dynamic marks to minimize manual intervention – so standard jobs are processed automatically, but can be flexibly adjusted if necessary under visual control.
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Evaluate the performance of your machinery and identify hidden potential by comparing your presses to those of competitors with similar job profiles.
Take advantage of the tight integration between Speedmaster printing presses and color measurement systems and benefit from complete job data as well as feedback on status, actions and results.
8.1 Processes & Machine Integration
Minimize operating errors by synchro- nizing the color references of the various Prinect color measurement systems with a central color database.
Upload data quickly and conveniently into your production workflows – including automated preflight and deadline monitoring – while reducing throughput times and errors.
Cut down your waste and setup times by using fast, reliable job and preset data.
1.1 Online Upload & Preflight
Provide your in-house and sales staff with a user-friendly, web-based user interface for creating jobs on your system – ready for processing by your production staff or automatically by Smart Automation.
Proactively manage your print production thanks to easy-to-read OEE reports that document your systems’ effectiveness over time.
11.4 OEE Reports
Save valuable production and setup time by taking advantage of precise press pre- sets to generate your first saleable sheets as fast as possible.
Use automatic paper stretch compensation (APSC) to improve register and print quality while cutting down setup time and paper waste.
PRINECT PRODUCTION. COMMERCIAL WORKFLOW.
When producing hardcover books, ensure that all necessary steps are taken care of in your production system – or transfer them automatically from Prinect Business Manager.
Pressroom Offset
Make the most of powerful marks, creeping, bottling and routing tools to imposition your jobs, no matter how simple or complex they are.
Print Buyer Integration
Evaluate the effectiveness of your production process by using flexible onscreen dashboards to analyze paper waste, production times, performance, quality and many other parameters.
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Leverage potential cost savings with the help of AI. Benefit from regular suggestions for improvements, plus tips on practical ways to further enhance your print shop’s efficiency.
Print more efficiently and reduce printing plate consumption by automatically combining multiple smaller jobs into gang runs.
Use reliable color conversion to automat- ically prepare PDF files for a wide variety of printing processes in BW, CMYK, spot colors or Multicolor.
Job Creation & Automation
11.4 OEE Reports
11.2 Production Performance & Statistics
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Commercial
Packaging
Label
6.1 Automatic Scheduling
9.1 Full Toolset
3.3 Step & Repeat
Create conventional, 2D, data matrix or machine barcodes and special packaging marks like station number and position them with drag & drop.
4.4 PDF Color Management
4.5 Coating Editor
3.4 Artwork Design (Illustrator Plug-in)
4.6 PDF Compare
7.5 Hardcopy Proofing
8.5 Ink Consumption
7.2 Ink Savings
8.2 Plate Sheets
9.3 Repeat Order Management
Cut down your waste and setup times by using fast, reliable job and preset data and use a comprehensive toolset developed especially for digital printing.
9.6 Variable Data
10.2 Data Terminal
5.6 Label
7.4 Automatic Paper Stretch Compensation
Nest multiple jobs on one or more print sheets with the click of a button resulting in plate savings, less print runs and higher print efficiency.
9.2 Push to Stop
9.4 Color Database
Cut out the complexity – use Compucut to define the most efficient cutting sequences for labels on your Polar Cutter.
8.3 Load Balancing
4.3 PDF Trapping
5.3 Marks
3.6 Job Reports
Use pressroom planning to produce your printing plates – save time by eliminating labor-intensive plate sorting.
5.2 Bleed Handling
8.1 Calibration & Profiling
4.2 PDF Editing
PRINECT PRODUCTION. PACKAGING WORKFLOW.
4.1 PDF Preflighting & Optimizing
3.1 Libraries & Components
7.6 Quality Control
8.4 Plate Pilot
Create variable data such as text and barcodes based on e.g. CSV files with the help of user-friendly tools. The processing of full variable content is also given.
Complete your prepress tasks faster and more easily by automating and stream-lining all your processes using simple management tools.
Automatically create optimized print sheets saving tons of wasted carton board and hours of manual work.
3.2 Prototyping & Varnishing (CAM)
Upload data quickly and conveniently into your production workflows – including automated preflight and deadline monitoring – while reducing throughput times and errors.
5.1 Step & Repeat
6.4 Job Progression
5.4 Gang Forms
Professional customizable job reports created with a click of a button showing 1-up, 3D drawing and layout in a convenient and printable PDF format.
3.5 3D Models with Effects
Take advantage of the toolset with its clear, intuitive user interface and all the functions you need for preflighting, document creation, step & repeat, calibration and color matching.
Differenz
Minimize the setup effort of your Heidelberg finishing machines with presetting data.
6.2 Optimization
7.3 Multicolor
6.3 Job Timetable
Nest die-cut layouts with one or multiple 1-ups automatically using only the minimum necessary material size.
Create professional 3D models of your labels with finishing effects, e. g. foils, varnish, embossing and 3D objects in an email friendly PDF format or html link.
Use powerful tools for your job’s sheet preperation from nesting over marks placement to 3D creation.
The Illustrator Connect plug-in allows CAD drafts from Package Designer to be used directly in Illustrator for design in a familiar environment.
Pressroom Offset & Digital
6.5 Capacity & Load
Create box designs including 3D and step & repeat with easy tools.
Improve production security with tools to easily compare revisions and detect changes in object properties, position and color.
7.1 Screening
5.5 3D Visualisation
Also for sheet preperation in label printing use the above mentioned tools enhanced with dedicated features.
To obtain instant information on presets, together with feedback on status, actions and results, integrate your offline post- press machines and processes with the Data Terminal.
CAD Design
Easy bleed generation and automatic or interactive conflict resolutions in case of overlapping bleed areas.
Create 3D simulations with placed marks and gradients of other one-ups showing your customers a realistic impression of the ready box.
Significantly reduce your preparation, through- put and response times while simultaneously increasing transparency across the entire workflow process – not just for your sales and production staff, but also for your customers.
Fast and precisely create carton and corrugated boxes with the help of fully resizable box libraries (ECMA & FEFCO) and customizable components.
Enhance production security by creating box prototypes on real carton materials together with varnish blankets and counter dies.
Prinect Business offers a highly efficient workflow for your business processes from automatic estimating, job preparation and material management to delivery, invoicing and reporting.
Together with the fully integrated Prinect Production workflow and a comfortable online connection of your customers, this is the perfect workflow solution for a
Smart Print Shop.
Create special color layers for applications such as varnish, white and other finishing effects with easy to use tools.
Original
Revision
Take full control of all your consumables and optimize both your stock levels and your estimating based on actual consumption.
6.3 Job Ticket
2.3 Gang Forms for Commercial Printing
Leverage the products that are best and most profitable for your business by making the right choices for your portfolio based on comprehensive product reports.
Use automatic estimating for a fast quote generation, including complete preparation of print production.
9.2 Transport Planning
2.6 Customers & CRM
2.2 Offset or Digital
Transport & Delivery
Less efforts for you, more user-friendly for your customers – easily and conveniently generate online price lists for your standard products.
10.4 Interface to Accounting Systems
Sales Orders
4.4 Contract & Repeat Orders
Reduce your production costs and turnaround times by combining the production of several different print products directly in your MIS.
Enhance your book production efficiency with automatic estimating and full preparation of your Prinect production workflow.
4.3 Manual Orders in MIS
1.2 Online Ordering
1.1 Online RFQ & Quote
Streamline your business and administration workflow by adopting standardized, predefined products that are synchronized between Prinect Business and Prinect Production.
Enhance customer satisfaction and reduce your admin costs with the help of a user-friendly web portal that includes a simple ordering interface.
3.6 Product Ordering & Stock Withdrawal
8.4 Job Monitoring
3.5 Online Product Pricelists
Generate new shapes based on industry standards. Extract shapes from customer- supplied PDFs, or else import and manage them.
10.2 Group Invoicing
3.2 Shape Management
11.3 Product Reports
Reduce the time required to draw up quotations by using gangform results from production optimized on the fly.
Product Workflow
8.1 Quote Monitoring
2.1 Automatic Calculation
3.1 Product Calculation
2.4 Gang Forms for Packaging Printing
Make your sales process even more efficient and streamline your customer communications by taking full control of all customer data and projects.
Easily, quickly and – optionally – also automatically confirm receipt of customer orders, while making your ordering workflow even more trans- parent and secure.
Use delivery details from your MIS to automatically arrange shipments with your logistics partners, speeding up deliveries and significantly reducing your manual workload.
Save time and cost after customers place their orders by completely preparing jobs and putting them into production with minimal manual input.
Reporting & Profitability
Job Creation & Planning
6.4 Outsourcing
Tracking
5.4 Material Consumption
Offer your customers and order managers the user-friendly option of placing orders online at the click of a mouse, directly via the Prinect Portal.
Use automatically generated job tickets to transfer all relevant order data from your MIS to your production line, even without an online connection.
Simplify job management and optimize your production costs by streamlining the handling of outsourced production processes.
Benefit from a fast, easy-to-use ordering facility directly in the MIS – even without an online connection to your customers.
7.2 Optimization
Ensure you have a perfectly transparent overview of all the resources you need in your production process, so you can select precisely the right paper, ink, tools and packaging materials, as well as any other materials.
4.2 Order via Prinect Portal
Estimating & Quote
Check the exact status of your shipments online, at the click of a mouse – and let your customers see exactly when the goods they ordered are due for delivery.
5.2 Material Planning & Purchasing
Take advantage of detailed reports on your business processes and data. Make the most of key figures on jobs, customers and products to identify trends that will help you boost your profitability.
3.4 Product Approval
See at a glance which of your jobs are profitable and exactly where you need to adjust your production processes or quotation prices.
Benefit from powerful planning and scheduling tools that make all your production processes, order deadlines and status updates totally transparent in real time.
Take intelligent control of your shipping activities to reduce your workload, costs and delivery times – and boost customer loyalty.
Use flexible administration of framework contracts to securely and transparently manage complex business relationships with your customers.
Offer your customers the perfect billing service, with flexible options extending from individual invoice items right down to personalized invoice layouts.
7.1 Automatic Scheduling
5.1 Material Master Data
Track the status of each job along the entire production chain based on realtime feedback from your connected machines and workstations.
10.3 Digital Invoicing
Use Prinect Business to automatically calculate the best production workflows for all your print products. This will enable you to set competitive, cost- optimized prices for quotations while reducing production costs and throughput times.
7.5 Capacity & Load
Benefit from an automatic scheduling functionality that plans all incoming orders with correct time and machine assignments without any manual effort.
Generate and send digital invoices based on various digital formats such as XML. Display QR codes on your invoices.
1.4 Online Tracking
7.4 Job Progression
Improve your portfolio’s security and make it easier to define standard products by implementing a simple approval process.
2.5 Book Calculation
8.3 Shop Floor Data Collection
11.2 Customer Reports
5.3 Stock Management
3.3 Tool Management
Reduce your administrative workload and the material costs of your stock items by taking a highly flexible approach to managing stocks of everything from raw materials to tools through to finished products.
1.3 Online-Upload & Approval
Manage and import existing die cutting tools, or generate new tools based on shapes. By linking shapes and cutting tool, you reduce both workload and errors.
Invoicing
6.1 Full Preparation of Production
11.4 Material Reports
10.1 Invoice Templates
Track the progress of all your jobs in real time along the entire process chain right through to logistics, including feedback of all connected machines and workstations.
4.5 Order Confirmation
Take advantage of reliable, real-time data on your production status. Collect it easily and flexibly – either automatically, via your fully integrated machines, or with a few mouse-clicks via user-friendly data entry terminals.
2.3 Gang Forms for Commercial Printing
7.3 Job Timetable
Scheduling
Draw up convenient work schedules for each machine and every production process, for printing out or displaying onscreen, also directly at the machine console.
Prinect Production
Automatically transfer all billing data to your accounting system and identify open invoice items at a glance with the help of payment confirmations.
Prinect Business.
4.1 Order via Web Shop or ERP
Use a fully integrated milestone system to give you a complete overview of key deadlines for each and every job, thus avoiding delays and downtime.
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Create the right conditions for fast invoice payment by using a precise, flexible billing system that needs minimal effort to manage.
Optimize the cost of your materials and ensure all the resources you need are available on time with the help of centralized material planning and semi-automated purchasing.
Prinect Production enables you to optimize also your production processes with a highly efficient workflow – from online customer connection, automated data preparation, planning, color and quality management to automated production in offset printing, digital printing, finishing, and reporting.
In combination with Prinect Business, this is the perfect workflow for the Smart Printshop.
9.1 Packing Calculation
Manage your quotations more effectively by seeing at a glance which quotes are still open, which quotes have turned into jobs, and where further details are needed. This saves time and enhances customer loyalty.
Substantially reduce your job preparation efforts – and eliminate potential errors – by automatically reusing all the data you specified earlier in the quote calculation.
8.2 Milestones
9.3 Online Connection to Carriers
Manage your sales activities using detailed analyses of your customer base. See at a glance which customers are profitable and where you could optimize your selling strategy.
Automatically process orders from a connected web shop with zero manual input, up to and including immediate production startup.
10.5 Sustainability
Material Management
Offer carbon offsets for your print products by integrating a CO2 calculator that produces all the relevant certificates and labels.
Bundle multiple orders on one invoice by applying user-friendly selection and filtering rules. This reduces the administrative workload for your customers and your accounting team.
Use smart planning and combine your shipping orders to minimize your transportation costs.
Reduce your packaging and shipping costs by using semi-automatic calculation of optimal packaging types and materials.
Enhance customer satisfaction by setting up simple online ordering processes for your standard products and stock items.
Make the most of simple, secure, flexible ordering processes to cut costs and enhance customer satisfaction.
Put jobs quickly and reliably into production by automatically taking over the job specifications created during quote calculation, including layout and process net.
Quickly and easily track the current status of all relevant processes in your business based on real-time data – from customer inquiry through quotation to production.
9.4 Delivery Tracking
Analyze your use of materials and find the right pressure points for cutting your material and inventory costs.
6.2 Online Transfer to Production
Dramatically simplify your pricing and quote generation processes by combining a browser-based inquiry form in your portal with automatic estimating and quote generation.
Quickly and easily calculate the cost of your standard products so you can ensure that optimized quotation prices are automatically available for all future customer inquiries.
11.1 Job Costing
Improve your throughput and response times by introducing smart customer interactions for easy data upload and user-friendly approval workflows.
Take advantage of a flexible, end-to-end material management system – using smart planning tools to reduce your administrative workload and cost of materials.
Easily compare the automatically calculated costs of offset and digital printing and apply flexible options to find the best, most cost-effective production workflow for your print shop.
5.1 Cut Labels
5.4 Marks
10.1 Compucut
3.1 Cut Labels
3.6 3D Models with Effects
Integrate digital printing into your overall workflow and benefit from synergies with offset printing – especially for color management and rendering.
10.3 Presetting
5.5 Gang Forms
5.2 Cut&Stack Labels
Use a wide range of settings for quick and easy sheet preparation of cut labels. Handle intermediate cuts, mark positioning, etc. quickly with the help of easy-to-use tools.
Import customer data quickly and reliably by checking the shapes with the help of a number of tools and repairing them if necessary.
3.4 Shape Extraction
Create shapes for diecut and cut & stack labels quickly and precisely with the help of fully resizable libraries and customizable components in the CAD system.
Use the Illustrator Connect plug-in to create the graphic design in the familiar Illustrator environment on the basis of your CAD designs.
3.2 Diecut and Cut & Stack Labels
1.2 Online Softproofing & Preflight
Generate individual one-ups on the basis of the PDF file or individual label size. Use a number of tools to add bleed, marks, etc. automatically.
Simplify job tracking and take advantage of automatic access to job progress and press status updates in real time.
Create professional 3D models of your folding cartons with finishing effects, e. g. foils, varnish, embossing and 3D objects in an email friendly PDF format or html link.
PRINECT PRODUCTION. LABEL WORKFLOW.
Evaluate the effectiveness of your production process by using flexible onscreen dashboards to analyze paper waste, production times, per-formance, quality and many other parameters.
3.5 Artwork Design (Illustrator Plug-In)
Use powerful tools and automatic functions for sheet preparation that make step & repeat easier for you – irrespective of the production method.
Extract the shape conveniently from your customer’s individual one-up PDF, and benefit from the automatic storage in the system.
5.3 Diecut Labels
3.3 Shape Import for Diecut and Cut & Stack Labels
Use the appropriate marks for each production method to support label production both in press and postpress. Benefit from quality assurance and a smooth production process.
Build the sheet for diecut labels quickly and with minimum waste of material. Benefit from tried-and-tested functions and special tools, as well for inmould label production.
Use reliable color conversion to automat- ically prepare PDF files for a wide variety of printing processes in BW, CMYK, spot colors or Multicolor.
Create one-ups for a wide range of labels quickly and precisely with the help of a number of functions tailored to the respective production process.
One-up Design
Take advantage of complementary functions for the combined production of cut&stack labels. Use the shapes of the labels as a basis and simplify handling in postpress with the help of special marks.
Create gang forms automatically by combining different orders on one or more printed sheets with one click – irrespective of different production variants. This saves printing plates, reduces the number of print runs, and increases your job throughput.
3.5 Artwork Design (Illustrator Plug-In)