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Ultra Litho, the largest privately owned sheetfed printer in South Africa, has bought a new
RAPIDA 105 Universal from the KBA stand in Hall 16 (B45 + C45). This new 6-colour plus coating
press will be connected via JDF links to the company’s HIFLEX MIS installed in January this
year, bringing it a big step closer towards a fully integrated workflow. The company already
has JDF connectivity between its Creo prepress and HIFLEX MIS via Creo’s Synapse Link and is
anticipating the benefits of working in a complete end-to-end NGP environment. |
If you analyse a week’s mistakes, the amount of lost production time caused by human
communication errors can be significant,’ says prepress operations manager, Barry Hasleham.
‘The integration of prepress workflow system with MIS under the NGP Partnership can help
eliminate this for us. One example is a feature of the Prinergy workflow management system
which lets us record all the reworking we do that is rechargeable. This is tracked in HIFLEX so
it can be costed accurately and invoiced.’
Just one day after installation of the HIFLEX MIS, it began to exchange JDF information with
Ultra Litho’s prepress system. When the JDF network is extended to the KBA Logotronic
Professional system on the new and existing presses, the exchange of JDF and JMF data will
deliver shorter make-readies, increased production time and reduced errors.
Press status will be reported to the MIS during the production run. Real-time information,
including speed and saleable sheet count, will be displayed on the HIFLEX monitor where
it will be at the fingertips of the scheduler and administration personnel.
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Specialising in the production of magazines, marketing literature and financial reports, Ultra Litho
has 170 employees based at one site in Johannesburg. Ultra Litho Director Victor Sweet describes
how the company is planning on moving forward in the future: ‘We have always had a policy of keeping
up with new technologies and are looking into the possibility of including digital printing in our
portfolio. If we do, that must also be integrated with our MIS and with our current NGP Partners’
products, we are confident that we will be able to do that.’
The company is already the proud owner of the first 12-unit plus drying B1 press in the world
with coating before perfecting.
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