Prepress automation. How to increase job throughput and print quality with prepress automation software

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2 Prepress automation How to increase job throughput and print quality with prepress automation software Classical prepress jobs such as preflighting, impositioning, color management, ink saving, image and pdf editing tied in to a flexible workflow management system makes a fully automated end-to-end workflow with the software acting as middleware between your MIS and DFE.

3 Workflow + Automation Wikipedia defines a workflow as a defined follow-up of activities in a working system or an organization. A Workflow consists of an amount of steps, which follow up one by one to reach a defined target. Each day we conduct such workflows without identifying them as a workflow: refueling at a gas station, preparing a coffee or booking a holiday trip, etc.

4 The workflow refueling consists of these single steps: get out of the car, open the filler cap, insert filler neck, refuel, remove filler neck, close the filler cap, pay and get into the car again. Workflow + Automation Wikipedia defines a workflow as a defined follow-up of activities in a working system or an organization. A Workflow consists of an amount of steps, which follow up one by one to reach a defined target. Each day we conduct such workflows without identifying them as a workflow: refueling at a gas station, preparing a coffee or booking a holiday trip, etc.

5 Workflow + Automation In the light of Industry 4.0, the 4 th industrial revolution also known as the networked revolution, the target is not only to automatize recurring work steps, but also to combine these to workflows and let them run fully automatic Focused before more on automatizing single work steps, now workflow management systems network/combine these steps and deliver a fully automated workflow of these single steps Let s go back to our workflow sample refueling. Car owners treat this workflow as a regular recurring one. Even if some work steps out of the whole process chain were already automatized, like paying at the gas pump, the challenge is now to fully automatize the whole process

6 Workflow + Automation In the light of Industry 4.0, the 4 th industrial revolution also known as the networked revolution, the target is not only to automatize recurring work steps, but also to combine these to workflows and let them run fully automatic Focused before more on automatizing single work steps, now workflow management systems network/combine these steps and deliver a fully automated workflow of these single steps Let s go back to our workflow sample refueling. Car owners treat this workflow as a regular recurring one. Even if some work steps out of the whole process chain were already automatized, like paying at the gas pump, the challenge is now to fully automatize the whole process

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8 The five biggest blockers to workflow automation 1. Incompatibility 2. Lack of standardization 3. Fear of high investment costs 4. Lack of knowledge what is possible 5. Caught up in old structures

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12 Production times, shorter than ever 41 % 21 % 24 to 48 hrs How many percent of your digital print jobs have to be produced within the following time period? < 24 hrs 310 Print companies responding 38 % 48 hrs Source: Printing Critical Element in the Communications Mix, InfoTrends

13 Transformation of workflow Prepare PrePress Print PostPress Prepare PrePress Print PostPress Prepare PrePress Print PostPress Prepare PrePress Print PostPress Prepare PrePress Print PostPress Prepare PrePress Print PostPress Prepare PrePress Print PostPress

14 Workflow by OneVision Toolbox Assembly Lines Drag & Drop Workflow creation

15 Quick list: Asura features Most important features: Automatically identify and fix issues in files ü Normalizing PDFs: adjusting them to your print environment & creating errorfree, print-ready PDFs ü Preflighting ü Flatten transparencies ü Add missing bleed ü Get colors printed correctly ü Avoid white gaps by trapping PDF files ü Place barcodes or watermarks ü Trim pages to cutting dies or crop marks ü Modify page formats ü Merge, compare and split documents ü Add flexibility by allowing workflows based on meta data, file names or bar codes ü Integrate Asura with your MIS ü And much, much more More automation Error report Flatten transparencies

16 Cut line Manager WORKFLOW AUTOMATION YOUR WAY - Powered by OneVision Completely automated impositioning Receiving and checking jobs Flatten transparencies Extensive (4D) Color management Normalizing PDF files Add missing bleed Resizing page format Varnish masks White masks Spot color Manager

17 Customized segment solutions Book Automation Suite for Book Printers Label Automation Suite for Label Converters Wide Format Automation Suite for Wide Format Printers

18 Siepro Wide Format Workflow

19 Print and cut sheets

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21 Bosch Druck GmbH Staff: 160 in total, 18 thereof PMM,12 Web-to-Print Premises: Landshut Web-to-Print: Operation of 12 portals and rendering servers Print and fulfillment for 15 portals IT/Prepress: Automated processing of 1,1 Mio. PDFs per year Offset printing: 30 print units, 75 x 105, Heidelberg Digital printing: 36 printers HP Indigo, Océ SW, LFP Inkjet printing: Canon / Océ ImageStream 3500 Finishing: Softcover, Hardcover, wire-binding Warehouse: 7,000 sqm high shelves, 16 dispatch stations Logistics: DHL, UPS, GLS, DPD, carriers globally Awards: Innovation Award, Druck & Medien, PrintStars Certifications: FSC, PEFC, PSO, DIN ISO 9001:2008 Climate-Neutral Printing Quality: End-to-End production control

22 Reference industry publisher automotive web2print : Bosch-Druck GmbH, Dr. Rüdiger Schmidt

23 Optimised Availibility and Costs Minimizing production costs by way of toner, inkjet and offset

24 Files per month Digital Printing Offset Printing

25 OneVision Book Automation Suite

26 10,000 files per day Print relevant parameters Color control dynamic optimization barcode driven cover/content split

27 Who are we? OneVision is: A leading manufacturer of software solutions for the printing, publishing, and media industries. Our core competency is to automate your prepress with our software solutions ü Prepress automation ü Workflow automation and workflow monitoring ü Automated corrections of print data to ensure a smooth printing process ü Fully automated image enhancement ü ICC color management ü Interactive editing of text, pictures and graphics

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