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Online business offers enormous profit potential for print companies by facilitating multiple-product forms and encouraging more efficient utilization of production capacities. Even ultra short runs can be printed at lucrative prices.
A special feature of Web2Print production is the often exploited opportunity to compose multipleproduct forms. With this feature a print company reduces the costs for printing plates as well as fixed costs, since similar jobs from different customers can be printed together. Printing with multipleproduct forms leads to a stronger competitive position on the Web2Print market.
HIFLEX Webshop can be optionally linked via MXML (Metrix XML) to a Metrix server, which allows users to assemble optimized multiple-product forms quickly and reliably. Metrix combines print products in various formats and for different order volumes, folded or unfolded and with individual bleeds and grain directions, into a single sheet layout. The system automatically calculates even the most complex layouts for cut, folded and bound products with different final formats.
The calculated layout is exported as an imposed PDF file, a JDF layout, or a Preps template format for additional processing by a compatible workflow system, such as AGFA Apogee, Kodak Prinergy, Screen Trueflow or Fujifilm XMF.
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- Order placement in HIFLEX Webshop.
- Order passed to the order book; job number generated.
- Job transfer to Metrix: All the pending jobs for which print data is already present are assigned via MXML (Metrix XML).
- Metrix: The auto-plan functionality assembles several possible multiple-product layouts. The system or the prepress operator decides which of the offered alternatives is to be used.
- MXML output: Metrix creates an MXML (Metrix XML) file with all the jobs for which there was no space on the assembled form. This MXML file is later filled with new jobs from the system and serves as the basis for the next calculation of a multiple-product layout.
- JDF imposition: HIFLEX receives the imposition information in JDF format.
- A production task for the newly defined multiple-product form is compiled.
- HIFLEX passes the print data and imposition parameters to the prepress system, adding the job number of the assembled work to the imposition data.
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