What are the advantages of the printing machine automation workflow?
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At present, some or even complete automated workflows can be realized in small-format printing. With the rapid development of wide-format inkjet printing technology in recent years, automated workflows have been gradually promoted.
The wide-format inkjet printed products are “personalized” or “one-off”, so each job is brand new and tailor-made. In the production process, there are few standard constraints, and there is rarely a complete replicable templated system, which also restricts the development of automation.
01 hardware and software synchronization to achieve efficient automation
While print customization issues have made wide-format inkjet printing automation a challenge, the need for automation across the industry has increased. "Technology innovation" is the core key point to solve this problem, making automation gradually become possible.
Here we take Zünd and Esko as examples. The two companies have introduced robotic arms for their cutting tables in hardware, and the speed of loading and unloading boards is obviously much greater than manual. If you can make a robot service multiple cutting tables, and not only for input and output cutting, but also for scrapping off, you can achieve maximum automation productivity.
In addition, in the actual production process of the printing company, more time is spent on the pre-press document processing, resulting in a lot of wasted time and increased costs. To solve the cumbersome pre-press problems, prepress processing software is needed to provide a holistic solution. The Esko automation engine, which is currently better software, can automatically perform pre-press tasks such as pre-checking. The “design-print-cut” integrated solution workflow reduces errors, saves time and reduces waste. Its automatic intelligent layout, convenient docking RIP and direct conversion of PDF enhance the productivity of the enterprise and supply chain and achieve the fastest output.
02 Big Data solves dimensional problems and improves order efficiency
The key to small-format printing automation is the templating method of the product. For example, business cards, postcards, flyers and other products have been easily commercialized. Users can directly select templates on the Internet and replace the personalized customized content on the appropriate template. After the upload is successful, it can be directly sent to the printer's port for printing. However, wide format inkjet printing products have not yet reached the level of the template.
At present, the large-scale service of the wide-format inkjet printing industry is still in large-format advertising, subway bus stop signs, enclosures, commercial super-advertising and other services. The inconsistency of the size of the screen and the inconsistency of the screen are also the main reasons for the difficulty of template formation.
For example, in a chain store advertisement, a large chain store will change the advertisement screen according to the festival, season or promotion. Even if the screen is the same, the advertisement size of each store may be different. So if you're doing light boxes, walls, windows, floors, or other in-store graphics in these stores, each location requires a custom graphic size, and how to automate it becomes a problem.
In order to solve this problem in the field of large format inkjet printing, more and more printing equipment manufacturers began to create customer databases. From a technical point of view, each light box, wall, window, or other surface of a particular storefront will be generated as a bar code that links to a database of precise dimensions. The printing device can simply enter the code for the surface of each ad slot in the device and the production workflow will automatically output the correct image size. This process has been successfully automated, and it has also brought more screen application opportunities to the printing industry. Because the same screen can be directly generated according to the barcode of different media, it can be directly sprayed on any medium.
Automation not only saves time and costs, but also expands the scope of business in terms of operating companies. Under the premise of prepress automation software to improve print quality and file processing time, it is equipped with high-speed automation hardware facilities, and finally through the generation of automated size, to achieve the brand's overall advertising solution. I believe that the future industry will also quickly promote the automation of wide-format inkjet printing technology.