DRUPA 2000--CIP3 Developments

CIP3's promise of embedding complete information for and about a job into its digital workflow, concurrently to improve productivity and lower costs, is perhaps more feasible than practical at this stage. For example, Muller Martini reports that a number of customers purchasing new saddle stitchers have initially chosen not to incur the 20 percent investment premium required for their auto makeready system (AMRYS), which is CIP3 compatible. AMRYS, originally introduced at DRUPA 1995, will reduce the typical 30 minute manual makeready to three minutes.