Print. Action - Canada's Graphic Communications Magazine. At drupa 2. 01. 6, Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG unveiled a new operating philosophy called Push to Stop, also referred to by the press maker as autonomous printing. It basically applies a true manufacturing approach to printing in that operators only push a button to stop the press, rather than the traditional approach of pushing a button to activate jobs. The concept is to have the press initiate a series of print jobs that are properly queued up by Heidelberg’s Prinect software, depending on ink layout down and imposition, and then run consistently without operator intervention. ![]() Compare Adobe software licensing programs for your organization or business. Get started today.![]() Ultimately, the technology platform can also leverage colour management tools to reach pre- specified Delta e levels and a tagging system in the press delivery. Print. Action spoke with Heidelberg’s Ray Fagan about Push to Stop and automation in the printing industry. What is the state of automation in the printing industry? RF: I would say in general print shops are behind other industries in automating their processes. There is a trend toward getting away from the craft of printing more toward the manufacturing of printing. And that is a bitter pill to swallow for a lot of printers, more so for the commercial companies than in packaging. Packaging companies have been in a manufacturing mindset for a longer period of time, because of the nature of what they print. Are printers ready for Push to Stop? RF: We are learning very quickly that most companies are not in a position to take advantage of Push to Stop automation. The press ends up waiting. There is a fellow who has joined Heidelberg by the name of Anthony Thirlby and he is head of Prinect now, driving some of these processes.. He estimates 5. 5 percent of the time a job is in a printing company is before it even gets to the CTP. It’s in estimating, job costing and prepress – 5. So if an average job time takes three days to get out the door, one and a half of those days is spent just getting the job ready to be plated. Find licenses and terms for Adobe products and services. Note – in some Adobe agreements, these terms are referred to as End User License Agreements (EULAs). How to Install Photoshop 6 or 7 on Windows 7. If you've been trying to install your old copy of Photoshop on Windows 7, you may be banging your head against your desk. At some point, most of us have tried to use a chore chart or wheel, or maybe just a list, to get our partners and housemates and families to do their share of the. How does Push to Stop look beyond just the printing component? RF: Push to Stop is part of what we call the Smart Print Shop, which is more holistic in the approach, where Push to Stop is the print processing element of it. To have a Smart Print Shop, you need to think about how do I align my jobs so that I can truly manufacture at an acceptable operating equipment efficiency or an OEE number for a new press? How do I justify putting this piece of equipment on the floor? What is Heidelberg’s answer for creating an OEE number for a capital investment? Follow this step-by-step guide to download and install Adobe Creative Cloud apps. Easily find and install multiple versions of Adobe Creative Cloud apps. Most of the ebooks available to download from eBooks.com (but not all) are protected by Adobe DRM. This is a requirement from our. Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have a new crew member—an adorable robotic ball capable of recording video while moving in zero gravity. RF: You should only think in terms of throughput and you should only measure, in our opinion, cost per thousand sheets. What is the cost of running a thousand sheets for my company? Why has Heidelberg focused on cost- per- thousand- sheet manufacturing? RF: We are launching a big data platform this year in a couple of satellite plants as a beta test. We are going to be collecting every single piece of information from the press and any other automation that is in front of, or behind, the press that can provide data. Then you can start to do a few things like intensify your colour management, streamline your stock purchasing by big data analysis. You can determine a lot to drive your cost per thousand sheets down. But it is not only based on capacity. If you can make every thousand sheets more profitable, a three- shift printer can become a two- shift printer and be more profitable even if they do not see an increase in print volumes coming. What is big data telling you about print? RF: There are so many decisions now where you can try to remove the emotional element and just focus on what is happening. It is interesting to see the look on a customer’s face when you tell them their overall operating efficiency . They have these big pockets of unexplained time. How common is it for printers to have an OEE number well below 4. RF: Most are below 4. And in fairness, a lot of people are getting hung up on overall operating efficiency. You can be the most efficient printer in the world but if you are a really short- run printer your . Why is Push to Stop a new operating philosophy for printing? RF: I do not think anybody has ever gone from makeready to good sheet before without having a physical interference. To be able to process multiple jobs in sequence without interruption of a person has never been done before and now we have the capability to do it at a press level. What is new I would have to say is the ability to queue up multiple jobs from the prepress department into the queue of the press, all ready to go. Well, Chris Harding and his colleagues can’t take you there, but thanks to their innovative work and the advancements of 3. D printing, you can hold the natural wonders of the world in your hands. Harding, an Associate Professor of geological and atmospheric sciences, is part of a research team at Iowa State University and together they have created Touch. Terrain. Essentially, Touch. Terrain is a Web application that allows users to print 3. D models of any place on Earth. So, instead of relying on a flat map or screen, instead of relying on 2. D depictions of real terrain (like those lines which get closer together indicating a higher altitude), you can actually study 3. D representations of mountains, canyons, the ocean floor and the Canadian Shield, among any geological feature, with a hands- on model. In the Touch. Terrain program, you just select a rectangular section on a map and enter in your 3. D printer’s parameters (Harding and his team have used a Makerbot Replicator 2x and Flashforge Creator Pro). Then the server downloads the elevation and terrain data through Google Earth Engine and downloadable STL files of that area are created. The project started in late 2. Harding says, when his colleague in the department of geological and atmospheric sciences, Franek Hasiuk, got some experience working with the Makerbot Replicator 2x 3. D printer in his lab and mentioned the idea casually.“I think he said . Harding says Renner was a “big help” in teaching him how to create 3. D models reliably and efficiently on low- cost printers. Since the program went public in mid- March, Harding says Touch. Terrain had over 2. D terrain model downloads in the first two weeks. The team has also received a lot of positive feedback and interest from high school teachers, university professors, museum curators and geoscientists.“They see value in using 3. D- printed terrain models in an educational setting,” Harding says. In addition to producing 3. D models of the wonders of our world, Harding has also experimented with those of other worlds, such as the Moon and Mars. He recently received a request from a teacher at a school in California which caters to visually impaired students.“Besides giving them the ability to touch the shape of the Grand Canyon,” Harding says. The project is growing faster than they can keep up with and Harding says they have already begun to experience issues with scalability when many users are trying to access the system. They are hoping other programmers will provide feedback to improve the codebase and are searching for the funding required to bring a Web programmer in on the project.“In addition to better scalability, we have a whole list of improvements we would like to see based on user requests,” Harding says. Touch. Terrain is an open source project hosted at Git. Hub which provides code for the Apache server run at Iowa State and a standalone version. You can access the Touch. Terrain code at https: //github. Ch. Harding/Touch. Terrain. Harding and his partners provide the service to educators and the general public free of charge.“We hope that printing out these models and using them in a teaching context means that ideally more people become aware of 3. D printing and how useful and affordable it can be,” Harding says. The change to DATA Communications Management from The DATA Group in the summer of 2. Canada – also consolidated all of its issued and outstanding common shares and began trading under a new TSX stock symbol, DCM. The transformation of DCM is a story of powerful investors who have influenced Canada’s printing industry for a couple of decades, mergers and acquisitions, reorganizing a national footprint and investing in a unique service platform run by highly skilled employees. Leaning on the printing legacy of one of Canada’s largest and longest- surviving document producers, DCM is now positioning itself as a managed communications provider with leadership expertise in marketing services. This is driving DCM to build a breadth of printing services to, as the company’s rebranded homepage explains, become The Execution Engine for Business Communications. Rounding out print“The business has been in transition for many years, giving credit to prior management. They acquired, stitched together and moved the business forward in a lot of different ways,” says Michael Sifton, who has served as the Chief Executive Officer of DCM since April 2. To increase the breadth of its printing capabilities, DCM has made key acquisitions like February’s share purchase of Thistle Printing and substantially all of the assets of Eclipse Colour & Imaging. The acquisitions came after Sifton spent two years rightsizing the company, which reduced DCM’s production footprint from nine facilities to just five, which the company today labels as Centres of Excellence – in Brampton (headquarters) and Mississauga, Ontario; Calgary, Alberta; Drummondville, Quebec; and Niles, Illinois. One of our big initiatives is to become more united because we were disparate parts and not really working together with a mission,” says Sifton. 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