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 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 Web-to-Print and JDF" 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. |
 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. |
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 Mit dem CIP4 International Print Production Innovation Awards (CIPPI Awards) würdigt die CIP4-Organisation grafische Betriebe, die auf dem Gebiet der digitalen
Integration, Vernetzung und Automatisierung Weltspitze sind. Ausgezeichnet wird natürlich auch die Zulieferindustrie. Heuer unter den Siegern: Gutenberg-Werbering, Linz.
In den letzten Jahren ging die Auszeichnung immer an Druckereien, die ihren Workflow durch die JDF-Vernetzung optimierten. Dieses Jahr gehen die CIPPI Awards erstmals
an Betriebe, die über das Software-Tool HIFLEX Print Support unternehmensübergreifend kommunizieren und Anfragen sowie Bestellungen damit abwickeln. Die prämierte
Implementierung in der Kategorie "Innovativste Nutzung der Prozessautomatisierung" bindet drei Unternehmen ein: Gutenberg-Werbering, Linz; das Druckhaus
Berlin-Mitte (DBM), Berlin und Grieger Offsetdruck, Nettetal-Kaldenkirchen.
Continue reading the article "CIPPI Awards 07: CIP4 Innovationspreis an Gutenberg-Werbering, Linz" 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. |
 PDC Tangen in Norway is completely networked - from administration to bookbindery.
When a Norwegian child picks up a schoolbook or children's book, it has most likely come from Aurskog, a small city about 20 miles east of Oslo. This is where PDC Tangen,
the largest Norwegian sheetfed offset printer, is located. Annually, PDC Tangen prints about 1,500 books and illustrated books, circa 120 periodicals, as well as brochures and
annual reports. PDC stands for Print Data Center and Tangen is the name of a recently acquired print shop. The company is larger than the second and third ranking firms in the
Norwegian market combined and the first Scandinavian printer that implemented JDF.
Continue reading the article "A Perfect Workflow as if by Magic" here. |
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 Jung ist bei Köller+Nowak GmbH in Düsseldorf das Team, dynamisch die Geschäftsentwicklung und erfolgreich vernetzt die Produktion mit der Administration.
Kodaks Prinergy-Workflowsystem wickelt die Vorstufenproduktion ab und ist zugleich eine integrale Komponente des JDF-Szenarios.
Die Kompetenzfelder von Köller+Nowak reichen deutlich über das hinaus, was der Offsetdruck abdeckt. Konsequenterweise führt die Internet-Suche nach
Köller+Nowak zu keiner Homepage mit klassischer Firmendarstellung. Vielmehr ist koellernowak.de eine Print-Service-Plattform, die Kunden und Partnern rund
um die Uhr vielfältige Möglichkeiten offeriert: den direkten Draht zur Druckvorstufe, Web-to-Print, andere Drucklösungen, Media-Asset-Management oder eine
für Kunden zugängliche Online-Verwaltung eingelagerter Halb- und Fertigprodukte.
Continue reading the article "Jung, dynamisch und erfolgreich vernetzt" here. |
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 Produktivität um 20% gesteigert, ROI über 600%. "Der technische Fortschritt marschiert weiter, und wir wollen mit ihm
wachsen. Dazu bedienen wir uns intelligenter technischer Lösungen, denn die führen immer zu gesteigerter Produktivität",
sagen Albert Contzen und Helmut Stoppe, beide Geschäftsführer der Mediengruppe UNIVERSAL Grafische Betriebe Manz und
Mühlthaler GmbH (MGU). Konsequenterweise sucht die 40-Mitarbeiter starke Offsetdruckerei immer nach neuen Wegen,
die betriebliche Effizienz zu steigern.
Continue reading the article "Die Mediengruppe UNIVERSAL erhält CIP4 Innovationspreis für die Umwandlung von PPF (CIP3) in JDF (CIP4)" 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. |
 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. |
 Four HIFLEX customers were awarded the highly prized "Best Practices" - title for the benefits they achieved through automation technology. The title was awarded
by the German "Institute for Rational Corporate Governance in the Print Industry" or "IRD" which is a print manufacturing institute whose charter goal
is the streamlining and automation of the printing industry.
Continue reading the article "Four Hiflex Customers Awarded 'Best Practice' Enterprise" 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. |
 BURLINGTON, VT -- (October, 2004) - Lane Press is celebrating its 100th year with a fully
integrated Networked Graphic Production (NGP) environment. The company has automated its production
process from creative through press and plans to continue
that trend through finishing and delivery.
Continue reading the article "First North American Printer ... (Press Rel.)" here.
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NGP Partner systems were connected to demonstrate how an NGP-specified JDF-enabled workflow can enhance
printers' businesses by creating an optimized and efficient digital production environment.
NGP Partners KBA, MBO, Creo and HIFLEX produced the NGP Daily.
Continue reading the article "How the NGP Daily was produced ..." here. |
 Vancouver, BC, Canada (July 8, 2003) – Creo Inc. (NASDAQ: CREO; TSX: CRE) welcomes HIFLEX GmbH
of Germany as the newest partner in Networked Graphic Production™. HIFLEX is a leading developer and
supplier of management information systems (MIS) for the printing and media industry. This partnership will
enable Creo and other Networked Graphic Production Partners to deliver a wider range of JDF-based
integrated solutions to shared customers worldwide.
Continue reading the article "Creo welcomes Leading MIS ... (Press Rel.)" 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."