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News Release from: EFI | Subject: Auto-Count
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 15 April 2005
Counting System's Upgrade Is Now
Multi-Lingual
EFI has released its first upgrade to Auto-Count in three years, adding multi-language support, a simplified user interface and enhanced integration with Hagen, Logic and PSI print management systems.
EFI has released its first upgrade to Auto-Count in three years, adding multi-language support, a simplified user interface and enhanced integration with Hagen, Logic and PSI print management systems Auto-Count is a real-time production counting and machine monitoring tool that reduces waste and improves productivity, claimed EFI
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 26 Jun 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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With a claimed minimal set-up, screen wording can be customised by users to fit individual terminology and the look and feel of the product has been simplified to make it easier to navigate with new pull-down menus and fewer buttons, added EFI.
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New functions have been added to support tandem press configurations and to send counts from combined presses to a single Auto-Count, as well as to support multiple Paper Monitors for those tandem configurations.
In addition, Auto-Count is now integrated with the EFI's Printflow scheduling application.
Auto-Count supplies information to Printflow so it can schedule and synchronise the plant in real time for customers with EFI's Logic, PSI, and soon, Hagen OA, added EFI.
The new changes are said to improve integration with EFI's print management information systems (MIS), letting operators display run lists, production logs, job tickets and other critical production data on the Auto-Count monitor.
Auto-Count provides a patented direct machine interface (DMI) for capturing waste data from analogue equipment and features its usual Windows interface, added the company.
Udi Arieli, director of product management for EFI's CIM products, said: "The product has seen many improvements since its development in 1983, but we're most proud of the recent enhancements to its features and user interface.
We're confident our customers, particularly those in non-English speaking countries, will be impressed with the changes.
Auto-Count is a key component in the workflow of a true computer integrated manufacturing (CIM) printshop, providing the most accurate counts available from any system today." Dartmouth Printing, a Sheridan Group company based in Hanover, New Hampshire (USA), specialises in short run publication printing.
Its president, Dave Hewitt, commented: "We have been a dedicated user of the Auto-Count system since installing our first web press.
As a printer using full size web presses with a primary market focus on short runs - often under 10,000 copies and sometimes under 5,000 - accurate counts are not only critical to our profitability but to our survival.
Auto-Count has consistently allowed us to be confident that we are running enough signatures to complete a binding, but not so many that there are significant overs or differences between signature counts.
They are a critical part of our web printing process and we could not survive in our market without them.
Auto-Counts have been one of the ingredients to our growth and success over the last 27 years.".
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