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The internationally announced CIP4 International Print Production Innovation (CIPPI)
Awards were awarded for the first time in August 2005. With this effort, the CIP4 Organization
values the achievements of innovative graphical companies in the field of digital integration,
networking and automation. Since 2005 HIFLEX customers have always been among the top prize
winners, summing up to 15 CIPPI Award Winners by now. These awards won for successful
real-life JDF installations testify to the practical and economic benefits which can be
achieved in printing companies with JDF connectivity. They are further evidence that HIFLEX
is the technological leader in JDF connectivity.
The winners are determined by the CIPPI Awards Review Panel of judges who are an independent,
international distinguished group of industry experts, specifically organized by the
CIP4 Organization for the purpose of creating a competition amongst vendors and printers
in order to elevate the productivity of our industry. After all applications are examined,
the experts vote and the winners are selected.
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Most innovative use of process automation technology (4 x 1st Place)
Biggest improvement in efficiency and customer responsiveness (3 x 1st Place, 1 x 2nd Place)
Best cost/benefit realization (2 x 1st Place, 3 x 2nd Place)
Best process automation implementation - Europe (1 x 1st Place)
Best process automation implementation – North America (1x 1st Place) |
Following actual Press: CIP4 Innovation Awards
 C. Maurer is a commercial printer that currently employs 100 print professionals.
'Star Publishing' is the global print buying agency for a leading car company from which several hundred
orders are placed per year. The Car Company in question belongs to one of the largest corporations in the
world and the car segment alone generates a yearly turnover of more than 50 billion Euros. Its cars stand
for leading technology, top-quality interior, comfort, luxury and elegance.
Continue reading the article "C. Maurer wins CIPPI in cooperation with Star Publishing" here. |
 Ampersand is a full service offset printer located in Guelph, Canada, that currently employs 17
people. Their product portfolio includes high-end and high quality prints from full colour variable
data digital printing, to high end commercial printing utilizing 10 Micron KODAK STACCATO
screening.
Continue reading the article "Ampersand is now completely JDF wired" here. |
 Sirivatana is the largest printing factory in South East Asia. They currently employ 4,000 highly trained
professionals with a turnover of 1850 million Baht (54 million USD). The Sirivatana product portfolio
includes typical offset print products such as magazines, pop-up books, coffee table books, commercial
print materials, maps, boxes and calendars. Almost 200 machines are available to handle jobs from the
point that they are ordered, up until their physical delivery.
Continue reading the article "Sirivatana increases the productivity thanks to JDF" here. |
 HIFLEX Webshop implementation earns Print Plaza prizes in two CIPPI categories
The CIP4 Organisation presents its coveted annual innovation awards, the so-called CIPPI Awards, to honour the achievements of the most innovative companies in the international graphic arts industry in the fields of networking and process automation. HIFLEX users have been regulars on the list of CIPPI Award winners from the very beginning - and this fourth year was no different.
Continue reading the article "CIP4 Innovation Award 2008 for synthesis of Web2Print and JDF" here. |
 Three companies are awarded the CIP4 Innovation Prize 2007 for their cross-company network. In the past few years, the awards referred to workflow optimization
within the company due to JDF integration. This year and for the first time, the CIP4-Award was given to a network of buyers, printing houses and print finishers,
who use the HIFLEX Software tool for cross-company communication and the handling of inquiries and orders. The awarded implementation integrates three companies:
the print buyer Gutenberg-Werbering from Linz, Austria, Printing House Berlin-Mitte (DBM), who provides Gutenberg with print products and Grieger Offsetdruck,
from which DBM purchases external work (UV varnishing). All three companies now receive the CIPPI-Award for the "Most innovative use of process automation technology".
Continue reading the article "Cross-company print production using JDF and Hiflex Print Support" here. |
 Ampersand Printing is the first Canadian company, amid a new international contingent, to break into German domination of on-the-floor Job Definition Format (JDF) control.
Until this year, Deutschland printing companies had won nine out of a possible 12 CIPPI Awards since the competition first began in 2005, organized by the CIP4
specification body. Based in Guelph, Ampersand's second-place 2007 CIPPI in the category of Improvement in Efficiency and Customer Responsiveness
(one of only three categories) is highlighted by a 1815-percent ROI based over five years.
Continue reading the article "Connecting Hiflex, Polar and Prinergy" here. |
 Norwegian offset printer implements HIFLEX MIS and JDF between five different vendors' systems and realizes ROI of 1847% . PDC Tangen from Oslo is the first Scandinavian
printer that implemented JDF connectivity. Starting early in 2006, they to date have realized most convincing results of process automation implementation which earned them
the 2007 CIPPI Award in the category "Best cost/benefit realization as a result of process automation implementation". The case story of PDC Tangen revealed impressive
benefits of the JDF implementation: an increase in the turnover by 20% (+ EUR 5.2 Mio / NOK 40,6 / USD 7,17), a productivity increase of 25% on the presses and 15% on the
folding machines. The profit after taxes was improved by almost 900%. Calculated on a five year period, the competitive advantage due to process automation amounts to
EUR 5.180.906 / NOK 40,490,404 / USD 7,131,880 and the investment pays itself back 20 times. The CIP4 Award places the offset printer from the North amongst the world-wide
most successful users of process automation technology.
Continue reading the article "PDC Tangen and Hiflex - A JDF Success Story from the North" here. |
 CIP4 Innovation Awards 2007 again honoured three HIFLEX users. The CIP4 Innovation Awards are given to the world-wide most successful users of process automation technology.
For the third year in succession, HIFLEX users won two out of three categories and achieved second place in the remaining.
Continue reading the article "Unbeaten CIPPI Award Success for Hiflex Users" here. |
 CIP4 awards Köller+Nowak for "Biggest Improvement in Efficiency and Customer Responsiveness". Full-service printing house Köller+Nowak of
"Drupa-City" Düsseldorf had already set a course for automation years ago. In the early stages of their journey, Köller+Nowak has seen that automation
does't just begin when a job is created in the system but much earlier: it begins with the customer's operations. With the implementation of the HIFLEX
eBusiness module in August 2002, Köller+Nowak integrated their customers transparently and efficiently into order processing which provided tangible
benefits for the printing house and eventually has also significantly strengthened customer relationships.
Continue reading the article "JDF scores well also with customers" here. |
 Belgium offset printer successful in the 2006 CIPPI Awards. End of 2002 Patrick Tanghe, CEO of Tanghe Printing NV, decided to start a CIM project
(Computer Integrated Manufacturing) for his company. The goal was to integrate all organisational and technical IT functions that are related to the
production processes in one central IT system (the HIFLEX MIS). In order to automate processes this system should make joint usage of all data relevant
to production. Since the go-ahead four years ago Tanghe Printing NV has increased its total turnover by 45 percent (2006: EUR 4.8 Mio.) while simultaneously
reducing the workforce of around 35 to 23 people.
Continue reading the article "Tanghe Printing Benefits from Investment into JDF" here. |
 Panel of experts honors three HIFLEX users for their JDF-projects. The CIP4 International Print Production Innovation (CIPPI) Award for printers,
who successfully networked their production, goes once again to three honored HIFLEX users for the 2006 awards. These official awards are announced for
three categories. As in 2005, HIFLEX customers were nominated in all three categories, won two awards, and were given an exclusive honorable mention in the third.
Continue reading the article "Hiflex customers win CIPPI-Award 2006" here. |
 Darmstadt, Germany (September 2, 2005) – The International Cooperation for the Integration
of Processes in Prepress, Press, and Postpress (CIP4) today announced that Kraft Druck und
Verlag GmbH of Ettlingen, Germany is the winner of the 2005 CIP4 International Print
Production Innovation (CIPPI) award in the category of "biggest improvement in
efficiency and customer responsiveness as a result of process automation" Kraft
Druck und Verlag’s application was selected as the result of ballots cast by CIP4’s advisory
board.
Continue reading the article "CIP4 Announces Second 2005 CIPPI Award Winner" here. |
 Executive Summary - Kraft Druck installed a HIFLEX Print Management Information
System (Print MIS) in order to improve process automation. Recently, they implemented
electronic scheduling and JDF between MIS, Prepress and Press.
Continue reading the article "HIFLEX MIS and JDF implementation valued at over $750K" here. |
 Executive Summary - HIFLEX customer, Druckerei Bauer KG (Bauer), recently employed
JDF to connect their HIFLEX MIS with their sheet fed presses and Muller Martini saddle-stitcher. One particular
aspect of the JDF integration involved a ground breaking innovation: the JDF connection between HIFLEX MIS and
Muller Martini's saddle-stitcher required considerable development and resulted in the world's first fully integrated postpress JDF/JMF connectivity.
Continue reading the article "JDF Innovation Translates Into Increased Profit" here. |
 Executive Summary - Druckhaus Berlin-Mitte GmbH (DBM) has been using HIFLEX MIS for
a number of years. In February 2003, they began the implementation of electronic scheduling
and connectivity between HIFLEX MIS and their MAN Roland presses using JDF.
Continue reading the article "HIFLEX MIS and JDF implementation valued at over $2m" here. |
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Ampersand Printing, from Guelph, (Toronto) Canada, achieved second place in the world-wide 2007 CIP4/JDF "CIPPI Award" in the category "Biggest improvement in
efficiency and customer responsiveness as a result of process automation."