CIP4 Announces 2007 International Award Program Winners

• No unnecessary correction cycles / clear job content

• Increase of sold productivity on the presses due to ameliorated transparency and flexibility

• Automatic, accurate creation of cutting program (dramatic reduction in make-ready)

Special CIPPI Honorable Mentions were made to McCallum Printing (Canada) and R/T Associates (USA). McCallum Printing was granted Honorable Mention for “Achieving outstanding customer responsiveness as a result of process automation.” McCallum, a Heidelberg installation, grew its revenue from its first year of business from $13 million Canadian to $17.5 million Canadian in 2007 with an increase of only one person in administration. Even more outstanding were the five pages of customer testimonials to its customer responsiveness in its CIPPI Awards application. R/T Associates was granted an Honorable Mention for “Achieving an exceptional level of automation, from customer order to distribution, in digital printing.” R/T Associates used Objective Advantage’s OASymbio to integrate its Saepio web-to-print front end with a Hewlett Packard Indigo press and a Duplo DC-645 that cuts, slits and creases in a single pass. R/T Associates achieved a level of automation that eliminates nearly all repetitive manual tasks. Although work in the shop has nearly doubled, no staff has been added and the owner estimates that a minimum of five additional production staff would have been required without the solution. They also achieved a breakeven on their investment in just six months.