Mr. Sturnick goes on to explain that what kind of post-press solution to use depends on what kind of output device is connected. It starts with explaining which of the seven types of documents to produce, and Xerox will give them the post-press. The partner issues an RFP (requirements and recommendations), and they compete to provide the best solution. The criteria for selecting collaborators mainly include the technical perspective, support capabilities, and business value (including price and profitability). Mr. Sturnick said that Xerox's goal is to allow its post-press solutions to be highly flexible, allowing on-line, near-line, and off-line production based on customer needs. Xerox hopes that it can provide all modes of processing production. Although not necessarily every model is required by customers, it is a direction of Xerox's postpress system development and a requirement for postpress suppliers.
Xerox Corporation is a typical representative of the UP3I organization, which together with other companies to promote the formation of a common alliance between different brands of equipment. This standard tool brings great benefits to Xerox in terms of interactions between pre-press and post-press interfaces. It helps Xerox's post-press system to support two key parts of digital output. One is to use a minimum amount of paper and Postpress modules do document production; the other is to apply these modules as much as possible to different productions. Xerox hopes that its post-processing partners can support UP3I, which is the best standard for all digital equipment suppliers.
Xerox is one of the sponsors of the UP3I organization, as well as digital printing companies such as Duplo, Hunkeler, IBM, Océ, and Stralfors, as well as 16 major workflow technology developers in post-press processing. The goal of this organization is to create an open standard information hub for digital printing lines, including post-press processing equipment. This specification complies with the JDF standard and some of his accepted standards, and can be freely adopted by any device manufacturer.
Mr. Bruce E. Otte, strategy product manager for product solutions at IBM Printing Systems, said that while choosing a post-press solution for the Infoprint 4100 and other output devices, IBM has always kept a focus on the value of end-user operations, and at times some print service supplies The business is not able to calculate the clear.
Mr. Otte said that IBM considers itself to be an intermediate link in the entire printing production workflow. They value the monitoring and analysis of data that is about to enter the post-press processing document. This detailed review process can help IBM systems be more efficient and effective. Adding a hardware-based or software-based solution can help monitor the workflow, such as adding a barcode reader, or a simple manual input by the operator. The goal is to give the document producer enough information to calculate all the costs of completing and delivering the entire job, not just the cost per page. IBM's print management solution, Infoprint Workflow, recently made the latest upgrade. It enables one-click control of the entire document processing process from data creation to job creation, effectively helping customers improve productivity and reduce costs.
IBM has always been a core member of UP3I. At the On Demand show, IBM partnered with CP Bourg and Plockmatic to provide UP3I-compliant roll-fed and single-sheet post-press solutions. IBM's Infoprint 4100 is a wide format web (3-sheet, 6 x 9 inch) device that fully complies with the UP3I specification to ensure that data for postpress equipment that will be used in compliance with the UP3I format can be controlled by the 4100 The device is well managed. IBM promises to implement open standards like UP3I to better connect the interface between the press and the postpress facility.
In order to find a suitable post-press solution for its series of multi-documents, single-cuts and wide-format printing equipment, Océ North America informed its post-press collaborators that they would submit the equipment to Boca Raton of Océ, FL headquarters for testing. James N. Hughes, Digital Document Systems Cooperative Project Manager, said that Océ’s technical engineers will assess the reliability of the equipment and the quality of the documents. It may be necessary to dismantle the components of the equipment. At the same time, Océ also hopes that these suppliers can provide training to Océ staff to make them more aware of the relevant knowledge of these devices.
Océ company can usually tell its supplier within three or four days whether it is possible to accept the solutions they provide, but it takes about one month to completely complete the testing process. For its multi-document device, Océ has tested about 250 post-press equipment, and the company has now conducted similar tests on its post-press solution for the cut sheet printer. The purpose of each goal assessment is to establish a post-press solution that will ensure that it will not block the production run of the press. In other words, the post-press processing speed must be able to keep up with the running speed of the printing press, enabling the printing function. Uninterrupted production at full speed. If the press does not run, the customer cannot make a profit, and the added post-press equipment must be able to run without stopping, even when printing very light weight paper.
Océ has fulfilled its responsibilities as a creator and it has designed all its multi-documents and cut-sheet printers to conform to the UP3I standard format. Customers want their equipment suppliers to meet uniform standards, which will allow the printing and post-processing systems to be well connected, allowing the creation of a unified digital job ticket, minimal human intervention, self-calibration of documents, and intelligent automation. produce.
The Delphax CR1300 digital web printing machine was mainly exhibited at the show, supplemented by a school book processing line for other equipment, which perfectly demonstrated the entire production process including post-processing. Explains that postpress equipment is fully capable of keeping pace with high speed digital presses. However, Delphax has new requirements for the post-press manufacturers. They use the CR1300 digital press on site. It can walk 45,000 feet of paper in 150 minutes at a speed of 300 feet per minute. A new CR2000 has been introduced on Ruba, and its operating speed has been raised to 450 feet per minute. Bob Vandenboom, global sales manager at Delphax, said that this 50% increase in speed has put pressure on us and we need to re-find the postpress system supplier that meets the conditions, but this time we can target those who can meet at least 300 ft. Minute speed requirements for postpress suppliers.
Martini's on-demand solution manager Andy Featherman stated in public that this was not a problem for their company. He said: Delphax's 450 feet/minute challenge gave them a unique opportunity to prove No processing speed is a bottleneck. No one can match the speed of Delphax, and no one can catch the speed of Martini's binding equipment. Martini and Delphax are also posting their next-generation development goals to industry players on Drupa to better integrate printing and postpress in high-speed document on-demand production systems.