Prepress

OneVision at Fespa

Wednesday 04. March 2020 - Together with technology partner Canon Production Printing (Booth 7-A60) and on its own booth 7-A61, print workflow specialist OneVision Software will present an automated end-to-end workflow from data input to finishing. Thanks to the perfectly coordinated interaction of printing press, finishing equipment and automation software, numerous large format printers and sign makers benefit from shortened throughput times, reduced waste and higher efficiency.

It takes fast lap times to be the first to head for the chequered flag at the end of the race. Above all, the right equipment is crucial. Consistently fast printing speeds are guaranteed with high-speed inkjet printers such as the Canon Colorado or the Canon Arizona. The challenge now is to make maximum use of the machine park. Often the pre-press department cannot keep up with the speeds of the printing machines. In order to reduce the preparation times per print job and to synchronize the prepress with production, a high degree of automation is required in the prepress department.
With its comprehensive functionality, the Wide Format Automation Suite helps print service providers to achieve record production times: time-consuming preflighting, nesting, creation of cutting lines or tiles is done automatically by the Wide Format Automation Suite.
The software solution is based on a flexible, easy-to-use workflow management system that can be seamlessly integrated into the existing IT landscape (e.g. MIS, web shop and RIP). The workflow management system loads print data from FTP, web or e-mail servers and sends the files through defined workflows for automated print data preparation. The integrated prepress package (preflight, colour management, transparency flattening, file normalisation etc.) creates error-free, print-ready files, normalised to the respective press profile. Using a nesting function specially developed for wide format printers, print subjects requiring the same substrate are automatically placed in a space-saving manner. The result: fewer print runs, reduced material consumption and significant time savings.
Further processing and finishing is also part of the automation process. An integrated cut-line manager generates – taking into account functions such as cut line merging and optimized cutting paths – a separate cutting file and sends it for further processing. In this way, jobs that have been printed across customers can be cut and assigned to specific jobs.
Synchronization of the production of printed products with different production times
Large format printers such as posterXXL benefit from an End2End workflow from order entry to print data creation to finishing preparation. The Wide Format Automation Suite also proves to be very valuable when it comes to synchronizing the timely production of products with different long production times: “Different products all have different production times – controlling everything so that it all goes out at the same time is the crux. This is exactly what we are now able to do much better with OneVision”. This is the conclusion of Susanne Feller, Head of Production at posterXXL, one of Germany’s leading providers of photo services in digital printing. In order to keep the pole position with increasing incoming orders of individual products and fluctuating order rhythms, posterXXL relies on automated production processes with the Wide Format Automation Suite.
OneVision will be demonstrating live at the FESPA Global Print Expo in Madrid from March 24-27 how software, presses and finishing systems work hand in hand to achieve the highest level of automation. Printed products made from a wide variety of materials that have been prepared and tested with the Wide Format Automation Suite and printed with Canon’s Arizona flatbed printer will be cut on site with the Zünd S3 L-1200 cutter.