PRESS FOR SUCCESS Meeting the Document Make-Ready Challenge
MEETING THE DOCUMENT MAKE-READY CHALLENGE PAGE DESIGN AND LAYOUT TEXT EDITS PDF FILE GENERATION COLOR CORRECTION COMBINING DOCUMENTS IMPOSITION MAIL MERGE Today’s print professionals are challenged by the need to use multiple applications and ad hoc tools to complete preflight and make-ready tasks on digital documents. Every print job you receive comes with its own challenges, yet each also shares many characteristics.
DOCUMENT MAKE-READY CHALLENGES •F iles received in multiple formats and sizes from digital and analog sources COMPLEX JOBS BRING COMPLEX CHALLENGES • L ast-minute edits that require restarting jobs • Need for manual document preparation Every job type comes with a variety of business challenges that can potentially disrupt workflows, reduce productivity, and impact profits.
DEFINING THE VALUE OF YOUR BUSINESS Six common print applications can be money-makers—or barriers to profitability. Which role each may play in your business depends on whether you’re able to create and manage processes and workflows to support them while adding value for your customers.
TURN MAKE-READY PROCESSES INTO REVENUE OPPORTUNITIES, NOT COST CONCERNS Everything you do to empower your make-ready processes provides a measurable business advantage by helping to reduce costly—and often non-chargeable—print preparation time. Those operational business challenges that stifle productivity and disrupt your operations take valuable production time, and that may translate to fewer jobs per day. In a 2015 Epicomm survey of print providers, 47.
THE POWER OF OPTIMIZED WORKFLOWS The urgent need to improve processes, optimize resources, and reduce costs. Forward-looking print providers are increasingly searching for ways to improve their operations by making better use of their staff, reducing costs, and processing jobs faster. Software that increases automation can be the key to greater efficiency, productivity, and growth.
NOT ALL DOCUMENT MAKE-READY SOFT WARE OPTIONS ARE EQUAL Optimal efficiency needs software that integrates with a wide range of standard document creation applications. It must recognize page size requirements; handle tabs, color, and black-and-white pages in a single document; accommodate a variety of finishing and binding requirements; communicate with in-line finishing systems; and provide proofing and quality control while distributing jobs to print engines.
THE BENEFITS OF ACCELERATING DOCUMENT PREPARATION Add efficiency to increase value and performance. Optimized and simplified make-ready could yield improved savings and deliver measurable value to an organization’s bottom line.
USER CASE STUDY: COLOR SPLIT TING AND TABS MIXED MEDIA COMPLEXITY TABBED COMPLEXITY Consider the demands of documents containing a mix of color and black-and-white pages or ones with multiple tabs. Too often, such requirements impose hours of costly manual labor for setup, proofing, and reprinting. The challenge was a 29-page job with eight full-color pages, 21 black-and-white pages, and an 11” x 17” fold-out page.
DOCUMENT MAKE-READY MADE SIMPLE Comprehensive automation enables a streamlined process from composition through production. Seven core, make-ready essentials built into PRISMAprepare software allow you to complete tasks in whatever order you choose—and each can be automated by creating and applying templates for improved productivity.
PRISMAprepare PROFESSIONAL MAKE-READY SOLUTION PERFECTING PREPARATION Capability Composition Make-Ready Content Make-Ready Image Make-Ready Color Make-Ready Layout Make-Ready Media Make-Ready Production Make-Ready Production Benefit Preflight and combine pages from various sources into one document with multiple sections, shortening the time to meet deadlines. Variable Data Printing (VDP) capabilities enable personalized product production.
CONCLUSION A streamlined document make-ready process can empower and transform your operation and help deliver a measurable business advantage. Make-ready software that’s engineered to ease your pain points while working with your digital presses helps you efficiently produce print products that are ready for distribution. USA.CANON.COM/PRODUCTIONPRINTING Canon and imagePRESS are registered trademarks of Canon Inc.
