A PressProfiler server package from Prepress UK is enabling Jem Packaging, based in Dereham, UK, to "almost halve the makeready times" on its Heidelberg Speedmaster 72 press.
PressProfiler examines digital files received from any workflow and generates ink key pre-setting data to save time set-up an offset press at job changeover. A single copy of PressProfiler can feed multiple presses. At Jem Packaging the software works in conjunction with Prepress UK's CardWriter package, which allows press minders to check preview images of the job they will be running without leaving the press, before loading the pre-setting data into the press.
Accurate ink key pre-setting gives a shorter makeready, uses fewer run-up sheets, and takes less time before correct colour is achieved on the press.
Peter Horne, Jem Packaging's print manager, says: "Dramatic savings on make-ready were accompanied by a much more straightforward approach to good colour on the press. The standard ink profile that the system provides us with gives us a straightforward, known starting point. Even if we do have to make adjustments for a particular job - perhaps to achieve a special corporate colour - we know how to tweak things without getting too far away from the standard. We are now swiftly into good colour on every job, allowing us to make savings on materials as well as time."
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