Management Information With JDF Connectivity

Visitors to Drupa 2008 will see Hiflex demonstrate its management information system, Hiflex MIS with its JDF and JMF connectivity.

The Hiflex MIS will be linked to 10 pre-press, press and post-press systems from various manufacturers.

The demonstrations will take place in a show theatre on the Hiflex stand - 9D44 - with three screens, each displaying a different integrated system.

Presentations will focus on the computer integrated manufacturing concept now utilised by Hiflex users that integrates all processes relevant to production across system boundaries, including the integration of external partners as well.

Visitors to Drupa 2008 will also have an opportunity to experience demonstrations of the Web2Print system, added the company.

The closed Web2Print, Ebusiness, is claimed to enable customers and suppliers to access individually configured, secure areas on the printer's website with log-in data to carry out various processes, such as job tracking, warehouse release orders and soft proofing.

The open Hiflex Webshop, is said to provide a global web shop system that facilitates an integrated product configuration, enabling a printed product to be assembled from several modules whilst communicating with the printing company's MIS via digital JDF job ticket.

Webshop is also claimed to be the world's first and only online ordering system with the ability to create printed products 'dynamically'.

Hiflex said that with Webshop's product selection-graphic interface, ordering of print online is fast for simple and complex products.

Buyers can change paper type, finishing, format size, colours and virtually all job requirements whilst viewing pricing changes.

The company also claimed that Webshop provides the largest combination and assortment of printed products of any other Web2Print storefront in the industry.

The open Webshop is described as enabling buyers who have never made prior orders to buy new items for each visit and is suitable for the most complex offset, digital or folding box printing product types.

Also highlighted at Drupa 2008 will be KBA Complete, the new independent consulting company formed jointly by the Hiflex Group and press manufacturer KBA.

KBA Complete is said to create integral workflows providing reality JDF connectivity that will provide ultra manufacturing efficiency and automation across a spectrum of pre-press, press and post-press systems.

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