Modern Litho-Print: Pushing the Limits

Tomblinson saw the value of integrating Prinergy with Planner and worked with developers at both companies, becoming a beta tester in the process. “It’s been 18 months of a lot of work getting this entire suite fully functional and being the only printer in the entire country that is able to push from the EFI Monarch MIS system to plate imaging through Prinergy,” he says. “So, now we are bi-directional with instructions and scheduling to the production equipment and data back to the MIS system. Three years ago, people were talking about closed-loop JDF, but nobody could back it up with their vendors, because everybody was doing their own thing.