Postpress Automation — Backing into IT

Action Printing has also been using PPF data to set up jobs on its Polar flatbed cutter. The shop had the machine for two years before implementing the digital link, the operations manager reports. "We had to purchase a PC and CompuCut software to tie it in," he notes.

Through a separate initiative, the shop has already addressed the two-way flow of information. According to Doyle, direct machine interface (DMI) systems—including Auto-Count and Shop Floor Data Collection (SFDC) units from what is now Printcafe Logic—have been tied into Action's Covalent MIS server.