CTP--New Tools, Old Theories

There are two possible scenarios: The bottleneck could be before or the bottleneck could be after the resource with excess capacity. Often these theoretical discussions can become difficult to understand. Therefore, let's look at some case histories that may make this a bit easier to understand.

For example, let's take a printer whose platesetter requires a dedicated person, and the bottleneck is upstream, that is, before this resource (operator). In other words, the bottleneck is not in the platemaking area but in the digital proofing area. In this example, if the proof is made before the plates, then we have an example of a bottleneck (proofing) in front of the resource (operator) with excess capacity (platemaking).