MAKE-READY Characteristics – Templates – Colour split – Job editing
APPLICATIONS MAKE-READY
Colour Management
Web-to-Print
Variable Data Publishing
Print Automation
Make-Ready
Document Capture & Management
Security
Connectivity
User & Cost Management
Output Management
Device Management
Cloud & Mobile Printing
FOCUS ON STREAMLINED PRINT PREPARATION Whether you run your own printing business or operate an in-house print room, as a print provider you know that only with a streamlined prepress phase can you produce and supply impeccable print products within the shortest of deadlines. Consequently, professional Make-Ready capabilities are essential to you, as only they enable you to react flexibly to the lastminute changes your customers frequently request. Such capabilities enhance your efficiency and help you optimise your services.
– You don’t want to lose time with the repetitive tasks that setting up similar print jobs usually requires. Doing this work manually is time-consuming, inconvenient and generates unnecessary costs, as it requires more manpower. – You want to organise your print production in the most efficient and least costly way, always using the best-suited output device for the production of each job. Splitting jobs into separate colour and black & white prints is often the most cost-effective approach. – You need professional software applications to accommodate requests for late changes from your customers. That way, you react with the highest flexibility and are able to meet even the tightest delivery deadlines.
Professional Make-Ready software puts you ina a position to make last-minute changes to print job settings right before the job is sent to production. With the right MakeReady application, it is no problem to insert tab sheets, delete pages or add complex job processing details like booklet finishing, imposition, colour splitting or crop marks just before printing. Thanks to the real-time preview, you immediately see any changes made to the job. This saves you valuable time because you no longer have to produce sample prints. The imposition templates of professional Make-Ready software give your overall efficiency a boost. Colour split enhances your profitability while late job editing capabilities shorten reaction times and maximise your flexibility.
APPLICATIONS MAKE-READY
TYPICAL CAPABILITIES AND WHAT THEY MEAN FOR YOU Templates Preparation work for print production is usually very repetitive for different jobs, which is tedious and unnecessarily time-consuming. It blocks manpower and incurs costs that can easily be avoided with proper Make-Ready software. Taking advantage of the application’s imposition templates, operators only need to enter the job settings once for each template. After that, key operators are freed from such repetitive work and can turn their attention to more profitable tasks. Print jobs are reliably produced by selecting the suitable imposition template, and misprints are altogether avoided.
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Job editing Customers frequently demand last-minute changes to their order. These requests might concern the page size or number of pages in the set, as well as the finishing settings, such as booklet, binding or stitching – alterations that are difficult to incorporate at a late stage before production unless a professional Make-Ready software application facilitates the late editing of jobs. With the proper Make-Ready software, the operator can easily enter all requested changes via the graphical user interface and can instantly view every incorporated change on-screen via the real-time preview. No time is lost because there is no need to produce sample prints. End customers benefit from being able to correct possible mistakes they might have detected in their document literally at the last moment.
Colour printing might have become much more common in recent years, but colour pages are still more costly than black & white prints. Producing mostly black & white print jobs with just a few colour pages on a colour output device incurs costs that can easily be avoided by applying the colour split functionality. After producing the colour pages separately, the post insertion feature on most output devices allows convenient automatic compiling of all prints in the correct order. Print providers benefit from the cost-effective production of all pages on the most suitable output device. Ultimately, the print provider achieves better margins and ensures his competitiveness in the market. End customers likewise benefit from the more competitive prices that the print provider is able to offer.
With professional Make-Ready software, you enhance your overall flexibility, efficiency and competitiveness. Imposition templates free up manpower, avoiding your staff having to enter similar settings repeatedly for every new job. The colour split functionality boosts production speeds and ensures the cost-effective production of mixed colour and b/w jobs. Late job editing capabilities facilitate the incorporation of last-minute changes in print jobs, enabling you to react more flexibly to customer requests. You will easily find a suitable Make-Ready software application for your purposes in Konica Minolta’s extensive application portfolio.
APPLICATIONS MAKE-READY
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PRINT SHOP Some examples for typical workflow scenarios
Last-minute changes 1 The end customer selects a template with the suitable settings for his print job, including sizes and finishing format.
2 The end customer submits his print file to the print room via the network. In line with the customer request, the print room operator accesses the print file once more and switches the format from portrait to landscape.
3 The printshop operator then sends the job to the output device.
2 Only the colour pages are now printed more expensively on the colour printer.
3 During printing of the document sets on the b/w production device, the colour prints are automatically inserted in the correct positions.
1 To save production costs, the print room operator uses the Make-Ready software to separate the colour pages from the black & white pages of this job.
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01/2015
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