Prinect
Prinect.
The Print Shop Workflow from Heidelberg.
4 The Integrated Print Shop 6 Print Shop Management –
Always Available.
10 Online Customer Connection –
Closer than Ever Before to your Customers. 12 Prepress Workflow –
Even Closer to the Printing Process. 17 Digital Print Workflow –
Digital, Offset, or Both? 18 21 24 26 28 30 Make-ready Optimization –
The Quickest Way to the Printed Product. Color and Quality –
The Integrated Color Workflow. Machine Operation – Productivity at your Fingertips. Packaging Printing Workflow – Integration in Packaging Printing. Services –
Our Prinect Service Offering. Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
The secret behind your success – Prinect. Job cost-ing, production planncost-ing, prepress, press, postpress, delivery, and billing – can any one person have a per-manent overview of all these separate processes and intervene immediately if necessary? You can with Prinect®. The great strength of this print shop work-flow solution is its ability to cope with the complex processes in a print shop and provide clear and sim-ple answers. Prinect delivers everything you need for effective production, enabling you to perform opera-tions faster and more efficiently with complete con-trol. It is the key to your integrated print shop and a successful future.
A common problem at print shops. Order processing, prepress, press, and postpress still operate largely in-dependently of one another at many print shops. This results in error-prone communication between the separate sections. Again and again, queries arise and additional steps are required. This is time-consuming and may affect the cost-effectiveness of your entire business in the long term.
Well connected with Prinect. It is no longer enough simply to link production processes. Prinect integrates all your company’s processes in a standardized work-flow. This applies to both production and manage-ment and is the only way to create workflows that are truly synchronized across the board.
“Prinected” – the license for perfect cooperation.
All the presses, platesetters, and postpress equipment integrated in your Prinect print shop workflow are “Prinected”, which means they are perfectly coordi-nated from the outset. As a result, the job flow as a whole is quicker thanks to more efficient production workflows and greater process transparency.
Information and control with Prinect. Prinect always keeps you up to date on the current status of your jobs. You can make decisions based on sound data and actively control processes. What’s more, you can keep a handle on quality and costs, even when un-scheduled changes need to be made. This enables you to exploit the potential for rationalization and op-timization to the full, leading directly to enhanced performance and a better profit margin.
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The Integrated Print Shop.
Prinect Optimizes Processes, Improves
Quality, and Makes your Print Shop More
Cost-effective.
A secure investment thanks to JDF – the industry standard. Prinect is based on CIP4’s universal JDF data format. This means you benefit from unlimited compatibility, a stable technology base, and long-term
result, you are always at the cutting edge of technol-ogy with Prinect.
A customized rather than a one-size-fits-all solution. The integrated print shop with Prinect.
“The same questions come up all the time in print shop management. What is the current job status? Are we still within budget? How is our capacity utilization looking? Are we making a profit? And what else can we do for our customers? Prinect provides the answers to all these questions – instantly.”
Peter Göppel,
It’s time for Prinect. In times such as these when a great many things are becoming more complex and demanding – especially where technology is con-cerned – Prinect makes life easier. Important as tech-nological progress is to us, the primary objective of Prinect is to simplify your workflows and pave the way to business success.
Instant offers – a quicker response to customer inqui-ries. How long does it take to get all the relevant data for a customer inquiry on screen? No time at all! Providing a rapid response and reaching agreement quickly are vital in today’s competitive environment. Thanks to Prinect, you have immediate access to all the data you need on customers and their jobs. Prinect has all the tools required to save your print shop an enormous amount of time and give it that vital edge over the competition.
Information at the touch of a button – or knowledge on demand. With Prinect, you have permanent access to all job-related data – whether regarding an offer, address details, costings, or the progress of a print job. Data only needs to be entered in the system once, cutting costs and eliminating possible sources of er-rors. Of course, it is also possible to access data on-line. This makes Prinect the ideal platform for your sales department, enabling field staff to provide your customers with binding offers.
Everything you need to know about customers – at a glance. Even at large companies where there are a number of different customer contacts and different departments who may place orders independently, Prinect has a complete overview of all the relevant customer details. You can call up a status report on outstanding orders, jobs, invoices, and sales at any time.
Automatic offers are quicker. Dealing with inquiries not only involves an enormous amount of time and effort but is also extremely cost-intensive. Prinect makes the offer acceptance and costing process much quicker thanks to a high level of automation. Offers can be prepared much faster, enabling you to deal with more inquiries in the same amount of time or to take on more jobs. Prinect also helps you with job acceptance and individual costing. Standardized data entry makes it easier for you to define product de-scriptions, deadlines, and production processes. Stan-dard inquiries can be processed quickly, leaving you to concentrate on more complex projects. The real advantage of Prinect is that customers receive their offers promptly, something that can be decisive when they are looking to place orders for urgent projects.
Always Available.
Speed is a question of organization. Professional pro-duction is essential to cope with the high demands resulting from the increasing number of jobs with short runs, tight turnaround times, and last-minute changes. With the Prinect planning and scheduling system, even jobs with the tightest of timeframes can be processed smoothly. The digital planning board is a valuable tool for quick and flexible job planning, en-abling you to identify bottlenecks early on and take action immediately. Reliable production scheduling ultimately gives you better control over deadlines and optimizes capacity utilization.
Transparent production. The integrated workflow makes your print shop transparent and displays your current production status in real time. Never have you had such a clear overview. The digital planning board in Prinect enables you to view all scheduled prepress, pressroom, and postpress, operations and machine assignments. An early warning system enables you to rectify scheduling conflicts and remove bottlenecks immediately. There is no longer any need to go look-ing for information, savlook-ing you both time and unnec-essary legwork.
No more assumptions. With Prinect, everyone uses the same data. This enables you to organize your production efficiently, scheduling similar jobs to run consecutively so that you can cut make-ready times still further. What’s more, your changes can be seen immediately throughout the system. There is no lon-ger any need to distribute information – a time- consuming and error-prone process. A simulation The integrated workflow makes all processes transparent and
displays your current production operation in real time.
scenario enables you to test and assess rescheduling in advance. Once you have completed your produc-tion schedule, Prinect automatically provides the rele-vant sections and equipment with the required infor-mation.
Put your warehousing in expert hands. There is no need to worry about ordering ink and paper in good time because Prinect incorporates an efficient ware-housing and logistics function. Automated materials management makes all your warehousing and order processes more straightforward. Optimize your stocks to tie up as little capital as possible yet reliably pre-vent interruptions in production caused by materials running out. Prinect has a central master data man-agement system that is of great benefit when it comes to material sourcing and warehouse logistics. Keeping inventory management up to date is no problem as you can track activities in real time. You can establish the exact location of an item at any time, giving you a sound basis for planning material flows and prevent-ing time wastprevent-ing and productivity losses.
All’s well that ends well – post-calculation and evalu-ation. There is just as much to be learnt from success as from failure. When processing orders with Prinect, it is easy to draw the right conclusions for the future. With its detailed analyses of operating and job data, Prinect shows you the current potential for improve-ment – point by point – for more effective production. Precise post-calculation and commercial/technical analyses are no problem either. Prinect collects all the relevant production data and makes it available for evaluation in no time at all. You identify weak points at an early stage and can take targeted action to make your production processes quicker and more efficient.
The rapid connection – interfaces to other systems.
As an open system, Prinect offers you a large number of interfaces to other workflow solutions, such as the standardized JDF/JMF interface to industry software systems (MIS) and the CIP4/PPF interface to prepress workflow systems. This enables you to link existing products at your print shop from other suppliers to the Prinect workflow. A linked system of this kind nor-mally works much better than separate standalone workflows. The better the coordination of a compa-ny’s interfaces, the more efficiently it operates. Con-sequently, Prinect covers the entire workflow with modules that complement one another perfectly and can be extended at any time.
Get Prinected for:
Better customer service:
• All your staff use a
standardized database and always have up-to-date information on customers and jobs.
Faster costing:
• Automation means speedy
calcula-tions, even for complex products. Clear planning:
• Prinect incorporates a central
materials management system and orders auto-matically if required.
Precise operational and job analyses:
• You
identify weak points and potential for improvement early on, thereby boosting your profitability.
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The print shop is connected to your customers online.
Straight to the print shop with a click of the mouse.
Is it possible to link new customers to the print shop while also minimizing the amount of customer sup-port required? It is with the Internet! The quickest way to process orders, exchange production data, and coordinate proofs is online. The technology simply needs to be used correctly – and Prinect makes this easy. Given the growing number of inquiries and of-fers, an online connection to customers not only saves you a great deal of time but also provides far greater transparency and process reliability because errors are avoided at the data entry stage.
Your customers work with you. Having your own on-line portal enables you to process customer inquiries with much greater speed and efficiency – thanks to Prinect. Customers log onto the portal, which has password-protected access, and submit their inquiries with the help of product-specific input masks. You use this data, simply adding to it as necessary and setting key dates that are used directly in the produc-tion planning system if an order is placed. The costing process is standardized and implemented quickly at the touch of a button. Your customers have round-the-clock access to the offer on the online portal.
Closer than Ever Before to your Customers.
The Online Customer Connection Opens up
New Sales Channels.
The built-in zero error principle – exchange of produc-tion data. Prinect enables you to exchange job-related production data via the online portal. It works incredi-bly quickly and also reliaincredi-bly eliminates sources of er-rors by automatically checking the uploaded files for errors or deviating contents. You can dispense with the time-consuming administrative work involved in exchanging additional information by e-mail, phone, or fax.
This system enables you to establish exactly which data has been sent and the current processing status. It results in much shorter throughput times and al-lows production data to be sent or changed right at the last minute, irrespective of location. This also makes it possible to establish long-distance customer contacts.
In-time approval with remote soft proofing. The virtual proof is now a reality. Even with today’s digital pro-duction, hard-copy proofs are still required for correc-tions and approvals. This generates substantial mate-rial and administrative costs – and generally takes a great deal of time. With Prinect, you can deliver re-mote soft proofs directly to your print shop using the online portal. Customers receive an automatic e-mail notification and can examine the color-matched proof on screen, sending corrections and/or comments back to you online. The approval process is automatic.
Turning the customer portal into an online shop.
In addition to processing print jobs quickly, the Prinect online portal can also be used for ordering. You simply enter the items available and administer them. The online portal provides all these services
from a single source, giving your customers a much better service. They can purchase items online, send print jobs round the clock, check their outsourced warehouse, or request just-in-time deliveries for ware-housed print products. This enables you to reach en-tirely new customer segments – and open up new markets.
24-hour production with the web-to-print service.
Print products with fixed layouts such as brochures, business cards, stationery, and repeat jobs are often produced with only minimal changes. Companies are also increasingly moving current print and layout files from their storage facilities to the print shop. With this in mind, Prinect offers you the opportunity to store editable layout templates on the print shop portal. Your customers can edit these templates themselves online at any time and submit a production order. With web-to-print, you can also be proactive and offer various standard templates for advertising materials. Thanks to lower order processing costs, fewer com-plaints, and less paper waste, your customers benefit from high-quality, low-cost print products.
Get Prinected for:
Better customer service:
• Cutting-edge expert
service portfolio.
Less administrative work:
• Customers enter their
own data. Fewer errors:
• Excellent transparency thanks to
clearly structured data exchange. Significant time savings:
• Fast approvals, even
outside your normal working hours, over long dis-tances, or with several sets of proofs.
“Prinect has made us much quicker. It saves us a great deal of time, especially in prepress, and makes us more competitive. To give a concrete figure, our team has increased the company’s job throughput by 20 percent thanks to Prinect.”
Thomas Ambühl,
Prinect integrates prepress and pressroom into a sin-gle system. By integrating prepress operations, Prinect automates and speeds up data processing all the way to the proof and plate output stage. This paves the way for quicker and more reliable production, en-abling you to exploit the strengths of your equipment to the full.
Prinect takes care of routine tasks, leaving you to concentrate on what is important. It also simplifies all prepress production and checks – with high- performance modules and intelligent automation. Create your very own prepress workflow geared spe-cifically to your requirements. You are free to choose your required level of automation and increase this at any time by adding further functions. Although all Prinect modules work fully automatically, you always have the option of intervening and taking control. The flexible Prinect prepress workflow prevents operating errors and boosts efficiency. The data supplied is checked quickly and extremely precisely. Errors are identified and reliably logged. Prinect shows you the changes required and makes these changes in the very same step.
Greater efficiency – automatically. All print data sup-plied by customers goes through several prepress pro-duction operations and checks. These take a great deal of time if performed manually. Prinect takes care of routine tasks for you. The repetitive sequence of
operations is automated according to fixed rules. Data checking and print data processing are made simpler, more reliable, and much quicker. Prinect offers a number of software modules for this purpose – from automatically checking and optimizing incoming print data, impositioning the sheet layout, ripping, calibrat-ing and proofcalibrat-ing to automatically selectcalibrat-ing the right screening method and archiving job data.
Complete control. The modules are grouped into cus-tomized process templates in which you can define all automated processes and checkpoints. The level of automation can be adapted to your precise require-ments. Prinect enables you to automate all workflows and approval processes or just individual subprocess-es such as data trapping or checking PDFs. If you find you require a higher level of automation, you can sim-ply adapt Prinect accordingly.
Information gives you the edge – order processing.
You need to ensure prepress has all the information it requires in order to maximize efficiency. Is the job urgent? Are you still waiting for your customer’s ap-proval, even though the job is already scheduled for the pressroom? Have changes been taken into ac-count in the costing? You need to be up to date at all times in order to be able to answer customers’ ques-tions. If, for example, the plates have already been imaged, can data still be changed and how much will this cost? Prinect has all the answers.
Even Closer to the Printing Process.
Pave the Way for Successful Production Right
from the Prepress Stage.
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Prinect manages all information centrally. The data is added to on an ongoing basis and is available simul-taneously throughout the print shop at the Prinect Cockpits. This makes all your print shop’s processes more transparent while also improving your quality and productivity. All processes also benefit from long-term documentation, providing precise analyses and proof of quality and work having been performed.
The “dress rehearsal” – preflighting and data optimi-zation. Customer data can rarely be used as is with-out editing. The print data checking process – known as the preflight – ensures that the data does not con-tain any errors. Prinect incorporates a number of combinable preflight modules. Depending on the re-quirements of your press, Prinect checks the number of colors created in the document and the resolution of the embedded images, thereby ensuring the quality of your print result.
Reliable merging of all variables with job versioning.
If you are producing print jobs in a number of differ-ent languages, the CMY color printing plates mostly stay the same, while the black plate has to be re-placed by the relevant language version. Spot colors are also often used on a version-specific basis. To en-sure smooth production, it is crucial to separate the contents precisely into fixed and variable sections and assign colors appropriately so that there are no over-laps. Consequently, Prinect separates the data at the job acceptance stage and assigns it to different ver-sions. The data is then thoroughly checked before you can output the various combinations using a conve-nient proof mechanism and perform a final check pri-or to platesetting.
Variable equals profitable – impositioning with Prinect. The task is clear – optimizing sheet usage while also being able to react flexibly to changes in machine assignment. Prinect gives you a better over-view and far more visual checking options. Here too, Prinect makes use of the job costing data. A clear job overview and a perfect preview of the print sheet are displayed on the monitor – complete with all production-related assembly parameters such as paper sizes, cutting marks, distances, and motif sizes. Print sheet assignment is automatic and highly effi-cient. Impositioning is also quick and easy with Prinect. Automatic processes and templates minimize both the amount of time required and sources of errors. All settings made are saved centrally and are thus available for subsequent jobs.
Simpler rescheduling. You can change a job that is al-ready in the system to a different format in just a few simple steps thanks to Prinect and its integrated mark editor that creates individual control and text marks or barcodes directly. This means, for example, that color-dependent control marks can be created that automatically adapt the color bar to the document coloring during impositioning.
Optimized sheet. A further module enables you to determine the optimum print sheet assignment with repeats in different formats. This module calculates the number of sheets required, the amount of paper waste, and any excess needed. Prinect also uses product information from the job costing – such as binding methods, formats, and page counts – at the impositioning stage to specify presets for folders and cutters.
On your marks, get set, image. Speed and precision are crucial aspects of print plate production. Here too, your process becomes quicker, simpler, and more reliable as the level of automation increases. The ras-ter image processor (RIP) converts the layout data for a print job into high-resolution screen dots that can then be output on platesetters. The Prinect RIP is based on Adobe® Standard and works with the Adobe PDF Print Engine. The special thing about this process is that you can rip all PDF documents without first
converting to PostScript®. The PDF documents are processed correctly with all transparencies, avoiding errors during proof and plate output. Prinect only uses one RIP for both proof and plate, thereby ensur-ing integrated color management and identical output results throughout your print shop workflow. The digi-tal data created at the prepress stage is used in the Prinect workflow both for platesetting and as a basis for controlling downstream press and postpress pro-cesses.
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Matching proofs and prints. Proofs simulate the print result. They are used internally for checking the quali-ty of work and externally for customer approval. In order to produce a result that is very close to the original, Prinect controls all standard proofers directly. For true color reproduction with matching proof and print, Prinect works with the standardized Interna-tional Color Consortium (ICC) color profiles. These can be obtained from any source and processed with-out any conversion whatsoever. Using the same RIP for calculating the proof data and output to the press optimizes color matching. Spot colors are also dis-played true to the original in the extended proof space.
Optimized for printing – Heidelberg screening.
Prinect offers you a choice of conventional amplitude-modulated (AM) screening as well as frequency- modulated (FM), and hybrid screens. This versatility ensures that you can select the best screen for each customer configuration based on the plates, plate-setter, paper, and press used. You can also combine different
screening systems within a single PDF document to screen individual text, image and graphic objects us-ing the ideal method. This enables you to optimize the relationship between print quality and production costs at any time in response to customer require-ments.
Get Prinected for:
Full integration:
• Prepress and the pressroom
become a single system. Better quality:
• Automating routine tasks prevents
errors and frees up capacity. Reliable data:
• It is easy to reproduce and track
procedures. Faster production:
• Optimized print data and
ex-tensive automation speed up processes. High precision:
• Process reliability is ensured by
matching plates and proofs.
Is there a way of integrating digital printing into the workflow? Of course there is! Prinect enables you to complement offset printing with digital printing, thereby extending the range of services you are able to offer. Prinect ensures a high level of automation and standardization in digital printing, too. It also allows you to leave the decision as to the most cost-effective printing method until just before printing starts.
A single workflow for two printing methods – thanks to Prinect. Prinect combines the offset and digital presses of leading manufacturers into a single workflow. This gives you the flexibility to benefit from the different strengths of the two printing methods – for example, to produce very short runs using the most cost-effective method.
Fully integrated with Prinect – the digital printing workflow. Prinect defines all job and digital press parameters. This means that there is no need to input any additional data after switching the print job to the digital printing system and you can start the printing
Digital, Offset, or Both?
The Choice is Yours – Right up to the Last
Minute.
process immediately – a feature unique to Prinect. You can also save parameters for standard products, enabling you to repeat the print run at any time with updated contents. There are far fewer steps in the process and you benefit from a highly automated workflow. Prinect receives job-related feedback with status information, consumption and counter status data, and details on times. This is available for post-calculation or analyses as soon as the job has been completed.
Get Prinected for:
Freedom of choice right up to the last minute:
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A completely integrated management and produc-tion workflow for offset and digital printing. Flexibility to choose the most cost-effective •
printing method: Digital printing, offset printing, or both methods.
Optimum controlling:
• Automatic online feedback
to the management information system (MIS) on times, cost-related data and printing progress.
“Prinect boosts our productivity and minimizes make-ready times. This means we can earn money with short runs, too – sometimes even more than with long ones. Prinect color management is the real key, helping us to become productive – i.e. profitable – more quickly.”
Hauke and Helge Beisner,
Less is more – the Prinect principle. Short make-ready times are an effective way of boosting produc-tivity – extremely effective in fact! Fast make-ready and short downtimes automatically increase the amount of time during which your press can operate to full capacity, thereby boosting productivity. Prinect helps you achieve short make-ready times by optimiz-ing processes and unlockoptimiz-ing synergies.
Double the efficiency with Prinect. All data entered in the system at the job acceptance stage is transferred automatically – from customer details and data on colors and job structure to the planned machine as-signment and imposition layouts. This eliminates du-plicated entries and the associated high risk of errors. Prinect also enables you to define frequently repeated activities as automated sequences. This saves you having to initiate each separate step every single time – all specified process steps follow on from one an-other automatically. Automation thus speeds up data optimization and reduces the amount of work re-quired to reach the platesetting stage.
Make-ready time starts at the prepress stage – data optimization with Prinect. There’s no doubt about it – the automated optimization of print data shortens the preparation times that are inevitable with manual processing. A crucial factor here is the fact that auto-mated processes are more reliable and dispense with the need for error-prone manual routine tasks, leaving you free to concentrate fully on monitoring functions at the prepress stage.
Quicker out of the blocks – make-ready optimization in the pressroom. Prinect automatically provides you with all relevant job data at the control station – from paper type and format, color and run length to job number, customer name, and register marks. For eas-ier print job identification, you are provided with a preview and the color presetting data. Typical proper-ties of the print job are taken into account and ink zones are set faster. This means you can set up the press efficiently with only a small amount of paper waste and also ink up quickly.
Prinect supports job-specific saving of all setup pa-rameters, too. These parameters are then available for subsequent jobs at the touch of a button. In such cases, the press is set completely automatically, lead-ing to greater reliability in production and faster make-ready. This leaves you time for fine-tuning, im-proves print quality, and makes it reproducible at any time. Job preparation is also much quicker with Prinect and can start while the previous job is still in progress. By comparing the current job with the next job in the schedule, Prinect establishes which settings can be left and the changes that need to be made. This generates a dynamic process list with an opti-mum sequence of steps, thereby reducing your work-load and cutting make-ready times.
The Quickest Way to the Printed Product.
Fast and Reliable Processes – Short
Make-ready Times and Minimal Paper Waste.
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Setting is decisive in postpress, too. Prinect enables to you save time throughout the production process, including postpress. All key job data is automatically available to machine operators. Prinect supplies pre-setting data for pre-setting up die cutters, folders, and saddlestichers step by step in an automated process. Cutting and folding marks and folding layouts are cre-ated at the prepress stage. You can also specify an imposition layout that takes into account both the structure of the end product and the properties of the machines involved. As a result, Prinect optimizes postpress options at the prepress stage and makes it easy to identify jobs with identical machine require-ments, which saves time when processing them.
Prinect provides you with a clear overview of all job data, enabling you, for example, to schedule jobs with the same folding layout to run consecutively on a giv-en machine so that no time-consuming changeovers are required.
Get Prinected for:
Fast and reliable processes:
• There are no more
routine tasks to be carried out manually. The re-quirements of subsequent process steps are taken into account from the outset.
Short make-ready times and less paper waste: •
Automation speeds up data optimization and re-duces the associated workload.
Fast and reliable inking up – the color workflow from Heidelberg ensures uniform coloring.
Meeting growing demands – high-quality production with Prinect. How can you ink up quickly and reliably while also maintaining a high level of quality through-out the run? It’s really very easy! Prinect ensures reliable color and quality management, making life easy for you by presetting the press automatically and making sure that the exact coloring required is achieved quickly and maintained throughout the run.
Prinect, prepress and press become a single system. A large number of pressroom parameters are estab-lished at the prepress stage and subsequent printing is based on clearly defined colorimetric values that you can check using reliable spectrophotometric color measuring devices. Deviations from the specified val-ues are corrected with absolute precision, and inking is accurate and reliable. Prinect logs the production
The Integrated Color Workflow.
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Reliable production – printing based on standards.
Printing based on standards such as the ISO standard or the process standard for offset printing facilitates color and quality management, enabling you to com-ply with customer specifications faster and more easi-ly. Reference values and tolerances are defined during standardization. These values are then used to pre-cisely coordinate proofers, platesetters, and press.
A question of profile – optimized results for proofing and print. Prinect ensures that proofs and prints match perfectly, making lithographic processes at the press a thing of the past. The proof accurately simu-lates the print result. The RIP also has access to a series of calibration profiles for platesetting that are coordinated with the relevant press and the consum-ables used. This ensures that the dot gain always complies with the values specified in the coloring standard, even with different printing conditions.
Reduced make-ready times – Prinect paves the way.
Inking up is much quicker with Prinect thanks to job-specific color presettings – all the way from the pre-press stage. Digital data is transferred via the RIP to the pressroom interface. Color presetting profiles are stored for different ink/paper combinations and are loaded automatically. If color values are adapted dur-ing printdur-ing, you can adopt the settdur-ings as a new profile.
A matter of precision – excellent register accuracy is essential. Prinect can measure and control the ma-chine register absolutely automatically on the fly. This cuts make-ready times and ensures perfect quality. Control marks can be located at the edge of the sheet or in the color bar to save space. This enables you to automatically identify and correct register deviations as small as one hundredth of a millimeter – a real ad-vantage, especially at high press speeds.
Everything under control – with color measurement.
Color consistency also needs to be ensured in the production run if you want cost-effective production. As a result, you need to be able to identify and cor-rect even the smallest color deviations on the fly. This speeds up production significantly while still main-taining the highest of standards. Prinect offers you various color measuring systems for quality control purposes. They all measure spot and process colors spectrophotometrically. In addition to colorimetric color differences, ink densities and tonal values are also displayed and adjustments for the individual ink zones are calculated automatically. As all measuring systems are linked to the press control system, you can correct deviations directly. Depending on the sys-tem, measurements may be performed inside or out-side the press, in the color bar, or in the entire image.
Your third eye – quality inspection. Prinect has inline inspection systems that cover all aspects of sheet in-spection. These systems compare each sheet pro-duced with a digital reference sheet, enabling you to identify and correct printing errors immediately – long before you incur high costs for paper waste and re-working. Defective sheets are marked in the delivery pile.
Process control on the fly – identifying and compen-sating fluctuations in the printing process. With Prinect, you can control the coloring process on the fly. In addition to color bars, Prinect also uses measuring elements known as Mini Spots that can be positioned anywhere on the sheet. They are measured on the fly and compared with the standard’s target values. If de-viations are identified, you can immediately apply corrections to the existing printing characteristic dur-ing plate manufacture or to the ICC profile bedur-ing used. The next plate set or the next proof will be per-fectly matched to the new printing conditions. All the measuring data obtained can be logged and used for long-term evaluations or as a quality reference.
Get Prinected for:
Consistently high quality:
• Precise and reliable
inking throughout the run. Fast inking up:
• Rapid implementation and precise
production.
Flexible application of customer specifications: •
Quicker response to new conditions. Shorter make-ready times:
• Maximum utilization
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The control station’s wallscreen gives you a permanent overview of all processes on your press.
Highly productive presses and shorter runs mean fre-quent job changes. Setup times and downtimes are having a greater effect than ever before on your pany’s profitability. The quicker a job change is com-pleted, the more efficiently you are able to utilize your press. To maximize efficiency, Prinect runs a large number of highly automated processes in parallel, thereby systematically preventing operating errors. This cuts setup times and downtimes and maximizes returns.
The control station ensures productivity. To optimize workstation processes, Heidelberg presses come with an ergonomically designed control station and associ-ated control panels. All the important work is carried out here – from job preparation to setting up and con
trolling the presses and peripherals. As a result, Prinect speeds up your production process signifi-cantly, taking over all the data and presettings re-quired for setup. Smart automation cuts the number of steps required for job changes substantially and makes it easy to save all the settings for repeat jobs. The press control system makes life easier for you with its integrated operating concept and standard-ized navigation. You can easily switch from one ma-chine to the next without having to learn new skills.
Productivity at your Fingertips.
Integrated Press Control for Smart Automation
and Effective Processes.
Intelligent job changes with Speedmaster presses from Heidelberg. Job preparation is also much quicker with Prinect and can start while the previous job is still in progress. By comparing the current job with the next one in the schedule, Prinect establishes which settings can be left and the changes that need to be made. This generates a dynamic process list with an optimum sequence of steps that can be work-ed through automatically. There is much less legwork and far fewer settings need to be made, which mini-mizes errors and cuts make-ready times.
Everything at a glance. All Speedmaster® presses are based on a standardized hardware and software platform with full integration of key peripherals and the color measuring and control systems for monitor-ing print quality. All components can be controlled simply, centrally, and reliably. You have a clear over view of settings and no data needs to be entered on external devices, cutting down the distances you have to walk and significantly improving reliability in production.
Order management and job data collection. The direct transfer of order and production data is essential for working effectively and productively. At the press control station, the operator will find a list with all jobs to be completed and the associated production data. The data does not need to be captured again. Prinect automatically records job and machine data generated during production. You can carry out a production or business management evaluation of this data at any time, thereby creating a reliable basis for accurate post-calculation and analyses. You can spot weak points at an early stage and take targeted action, identifying work that has not been billed and making your processes quicker and more efficient.
All press control systems from Heidelberg have the same user interface.
Get Prinected for:
Fast job changes:
• Up to 70 percent less work
thanks to the process-oriented operating concept. Improved performance:
• Depending on the type of
job change, productivity is increased by up to eight percent.
Flexible responses:
• Legwork is reduced thanks to
optimized job preparation. Excellent reliability:
• Automated processes
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One for all – integrated folding carton production.
There is no need to have separate workflows for pro-ducing packaging, labels, and commercial products, because Prinect also supports functions developed specifically for packaging printing. You can combine product development, prepress, press, die cutters, and gluers in a single end-to-end workflow. Thanks to Prinect, production is much quicker, much more flexi-ble and reliaflexi-ble, and a great deal more transparent in terms of costs.
In perfect shape – efficient product design with Prinect. For packaging printers, Prinect incorporates an intelligent CAD/CAM system for structural product design. It is used to develop packaging, simplifies lay-out generation and provides data for toolmaking and automatic presetting of postpress equipment. Com-parisons of run length and the amount of waste help you select the optimum production process in no time at all.
Integration in Packaging Printing.
From the Design Stage to the Finished Folding
Carton.
Data processing – quick and automated. Prinect ensures efficient automation – whether for data trap-ping, handling spot colors, or last-minute corrections. During impositioning and sheet assembly, convenient functions such as import and export formats from CAD systems, sheet optimization, and the creation of trim and other marks are a great help. It is also pos-sible to calculate optimized complete forms from indi-vidual repeats and to correct data displayed in 3D. By sending soft proofs with two- and three-dimensional data, you save time and can dispense with expensive sample production runs.
Like two peas in a pod – a perfect match, even with repeat jobs. Consistent color quality across differ-ent runs is a must in packaging printing. That is why Prinect includes calibration, profiling, and quality control tools – for reliable results that are reproduc-ible sheet after sheet and repeat after repeat. Color and register fluctuations can be reliably identified and corrected. Depending on the system used, measure-ments can be performed in the color bar or in the entire print image, inside or outside the press, and on the fly. Prinect checks every single detail, identifying defective sheets and marking them automatically. It spots even the tiniest of deviations in the print im-age, enabling you to rectify errors immediately and save both time and money, avoiding expensive paper waste.
Management made easy. With Prinect, you always know exactly which jobs are in progress. You are able to base your decisions on concrete facts and control your processes with absolute precision. Machine data is collected automatically, facilitating analyses and post-calculation. Your production operations become more flexible and productive – for absolute competi-tiveness and satisfied customers.
Get Prinected for:
Shorter make-ready times:
• Presetting data speeds
up production and improves utilization of machine capacity.
Precise production:
• Measuring and control
sys-tems ensure consistently high print quality through-out the run.
Accurate reproducibility:
• The fact that all job data
and machine settings are stored ensures top quality time and time again.
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Our Prinect Service Offering.
Good Service Makes for Happy Customers.
Focusing on what matters – your customers.
Heidelberg offers you a comprehensive range of services geared specifically to your needs and based on Prinect and Computer-to-Plate (CtP). This avoids downtimes and ensures permanent system availabil-ity, resulting in consistently high quality and produc-tivity.
First-rate service from the outset. Heidelberg services support you right from the investment stage. We will give you comprehensive advice on which Prinect modules best suit your production environment, in-stall these products for you, and even integrate them into your existing workflow. The Systemservice36plus service package will keep your platesetters and color measuring devices in perfect working order at all times. Maintenance, calibration and any repair work required – including spare parts and expert assistance by phone or Remote Service – are all included for 36 months!
Training makes perfect. We provide your staff with comprehensive training to maximize efficiency. Training covers everything from press operation and software use to management courses, and can be provided on your company premises using your actual systems or at our Print Media Academy.
Always bang up to date. Our scalable software maintenance contracts ensure you always have the very latest updates. All the latest developments are
incorporated in your software, ensuring perfect compatibility – even when used in conjunction with third-party software.
Reliable color management. Our Print Color Manage-ment (PCM) experts will optimize your color workflow. PCM ensures the perfect interplay of all color-related parameters – from prepress to press. You benefit from consistent quality, achieve maximum color fidelity, and boost your productivity.
Rapid online connection. Remote Service saves time with an online link between your press and the Heidelberg Systemservice experts who will assist you with remote maintenance, provide you with applica-tion advice and come up with soluapplica-tions to your prob-lems. This service is available worldwide and involves no waiting. Not only that, but our Remote Service solves 90 percent of all Prinect/CtP-related queries directly and online.
The Heidelberg Partner Program. All our service offer-ings can be combined as required in the Heidelberg Partner Program to create your very own made-to-measure package of services. This enables you to plan with greater certainty in terms of system avail-ability, reliability in production, and service costs.
Get Prinected. Prinect integrates the traditionally separate areas of management, prepress, press and postpress, automates the entire printing process and boosts your print shop’s profitability. Integration of all these processes leads to more efficient production workflows, offers greater transparency, and acceler-ates the job flow. Prinect thus makes a valuable con-tribution to unlocking your print shop’s full potential
Prinect covers all areas of the print shop.
Get Prinected.
The Future is Now.
The integrated print shop with Prinect. Heidelberg is the only manufacturer to offer a print shop workflow that integrates and manages the entire print produc-tion process. Prinect covers everything from print shop management, online customer connection, prepress and digital print workflow to make-ready optimization, color, quality, machine operation, and a full range of services. Further information on these
Print Shop Management Online Customer Connection Prepress Workflow
Digital Print Workflow Make-ready Optimization Color and Quality Machine Operation Services
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Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
Heidelberg, a tradition-based yet technology-focused pioneer, is synonymous with innovative,
top-class products and services. Each solution is developed with one goal in mind – to boost the
success of your business. Heidelberg solutions cover the entire process and value-added chain
of sheetfed offset printing, from management and prepress to press and postpress. We ensure
that you can improve your production processes, making them better, faster, more cost-effective,
and more environmentally friendly. Our portfolio is designed to increase your productivity, fl
exi-bility, and quality – all crucial factors when it comes to satisfying your customers.
Products from Heidelberg promise peak performance in print quality, speed, and reliability in the format classes 35 × 50 to 121 × 162 cm. The Prinect printshop workfl ow integrates and optimizes all working processes in printshops, thus boost-ing the effi ciency of production workfl ows, ensuring greater process transparency, and accelerating the entire job fl ow.
Heidelberg Systemservice offers you the widest range of services for your company – from technical service with state-of-the-art remote diagnosis and original service parts, to optimization of print results and process consulting. With Saphira consumables from Heidelberg, you can be sure that you are using process materials designed to perfectly match the requirements of your Heidelberg equipment. Heidelberg Financial Services provides you with the advice and support required to meet your fi nancing needs. In addition, Heidelberg
Business Consulting offers business management advice.
The Print Media Academy in Germany is the center of a worldwide network – currently covering 18 sites – and offers a comprehensive training program tailored specifi cally to the requirements of the industry. Intensive
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