Do You Measure Up? — Dickeson

Operation Codes are a vital metric in establishing the efficiency of a production system within a commercial printing plant. That’s a given. Or at least I had thought that it was until Buck opened my eyes to the envelope inserter operation.

Technology has a way of shifting our operational focus. Thirty years ago we spent a lot of our effort on typesetting, composition, separations, stripping, layout, film preparation—the prepress or front end of the process. Today that has shrunk, and is shrinking still. Not too long ago I recall the debate was hot about the need for computer labeling on the bindery lines. Now that debate is over—the computer driven ink-jet is omnipresent in the bindery.