by: James J. Mauro, Prinect Product Manager, Heidelberg USA, Inc. Today's aggressive printing environment is a by-product of fierce competition (from home and abroad); demanding customers, shorter turnaround times and runlengths; mergers and acquisitions; and increasing costs, all of which result in diminishing profit margins for printers. In many cases, the only way to … [Read more...] about JDF-based Print Production Workflow
Automation
Automating Your Bindery: What Equipment Do You Need to Drive Your 2007 Business Goals?
by: Nancy Lowther "The first red flag in any manufacturing operation indicating there is a need to automate is when there is a domino effect occurring, where one operation is affecting another in a negative way – a bottleneck, a slow process that impedes the next" says Douglas Kelly, editor and chief of APICS magazine and director of industry content. As well as identifying … [Read more...] about Automating Your Bindery: What Equipment Do You Need to Drive Your 2007 Business Goals?
The Benefits of Pick and Place Automation for Vinyl Binding Manufacturing
by: Ken Sherman In the United States, PVC is by far the most commonly used cover material for loose leaf ring binders. The field of Information Storage also includes the use of CDs, DVDs and other digital media. Vinyl heat-sealed binders and cases have proven popular for these products as well. Traditionally, vinyl has been the material of choice in custom binder … [Read more...] about The Benefits of Pick and Place Automation for Vinyl Binding Manufacturing
Postpress Integration: CIM-plicity Itself
by: Larry Tanowitz Postpress No Longer an "Also-Ran" Until relatively recently, the graphic arts industry has compartmentalized its thinking about process management. For years, talk of "seamless" integration stopped at the delivery end of the press, just short of the bindery. That thinking has been replaced by the understanding that printed products are only as good as the … [Read more...] about Postpress Integration: CIM-plicity Itself