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News Release from: MAN Roland GB | Subject: Roland 900, Roland 700
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 05 July 2006
Three Roland Presses Replace Six
Machines
MAN Roland has re-equipped a large-format display and poster printer, taking out six presses and installing three.
MAN Roland has re-equipped a large-format display and poster printer, taking out six presses and installing three With the aid of an integrated JDF network the company, Klingsenberg in Berlin (Germany), is still able to produce the same volume of work
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 17 Jul 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Analysis of print room production at the company indicated that 70 per cent of press time was spent on make-ready and only 30 per cent actually printing.
That was caused by an imbalance that was caused by the nature of the work handled, which was large-format but very short run.
Following the installation of two new Roland 900 presses, one in size 7B and one in size 8, to run alongside an existing Roland 700 B1-format five-colour machine, JDF enabling software from Proseco, and printnet software from MAN Roland, make-ready times have been slashed, said MAN Roland.
Prior to the new installation, make-ready was taking as much as 16 minutes per print unit.
With the new set-up times have been halved and are now down to less than eight minutes per print unit.
According to MAN Roland, production with the JDF workflow is so efficient because the co-ordinated production flow enables existing and newly-generated information to fit together, over all areas of the company and over the entire production process.
Using the job data entered by the sales department in the Proseco ERP system, Proseco Scheduling produces a production plan and creates a JDF file for each job.
The job data is available to pre-press when work begins.
A printnet client connects the CIP3/PPF file from pre-press with the job information, which is then created in the printnet Pressmanager for each JDF data.
At the same time a job database is scanned and the technical data of a similar or the same job already printed is transferred over for the new job.
The complete job information is made available, fully automatically, directly at the machines without the operator needing to do anything.
The job status is passed on in real time to the ERP/MIS system Proseco D2 or other 'subscribed systems and can be seen by all concerned.
Fifty per cent make-ready time is saved per job on average.
Thus, it is possible to process the same quantity of jobs with three machines and an efficient JDF workflow as with the six older machines before.
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