Prepress in a digital environment

Whether you run your own printing business or you’re managing an in-house print room, as a print provider you will be highly aware that only an intelligent set-up for printing and streamlined pre-press phase will let you produce and supply impeccable print products within tight deadlines.

Make-ready: set up your printing press for the future


Professional ‘make-ready’ capabilities are at the heart of a well thought-out print set-up. Make-ready options let you react flexibly to the last-minute changes customers so often request, enhance your efficiency and help you optimise your services.

The technical benefits of using make-ready print software to ensure you can rely on a well set-up printing press are huge. The print preparation work underpinning production – from setting up your printing press through to the client signing an OK sheet – can be repetitive and unnecessarily time-consuming.


Professional make-ready software puts you in a position to make last-minute changes to print job settings seconds before the job is sent to production. With the right make-ready application, it is no problem to insert tab sheets, delete pages or add complex job processing details like booklet finishing, imposition, colour splitting or crop marks just before printing, combine different types of document, create a layout and more. Thanks to the real-time preview, you immediately see any changes made to the job.


This saves you valuable time because you no longer have to produce sample prints, and lets you deal professionally with those last-minute changes customers so often make to orders – involving the page size or number of pages, finishing settings such as booklet, binding, stitching and similar – and end-customers benefit from the more competitive prices you can offer.

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So what exactly is a “make-ready” printing software, and how can it benefit your company?

Professional make-ready capabilities enhance your efficiency, and let you react flexibly to any last-minute changes customers may request. They help you and your staff streamline your print preparation, so you no longer need to waste time on the recurring tasks required to set up print jobs, can set up your print production efficiently, and cut costs by splitting jobs into colour and black-and-white.

Hardware
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Efficiency and flexibility with high-speed colour production printers

AccurioPress. With their lightning-fast speeds, simple operation and powerful in-line finishing, our high-speed digital presses raise the bar in digital productivity by saving time and labour costs (as well as space on your production floor).

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Give your print room the flexibility it really needs

Optimised for use in CRDs and the in-house print shops of public organisations, universities and corporations, AccurioPro Flux Essential provides the functionality needed to minimise your costs and maximise your return on investment. Powerful make-ready functionality is included for professional job editing. Late job editing enhances the flexibility of the print room, while impositioning simplifies and speeds up the lengthy task of arranging several pages on a single sheet.

Services
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Always at your Service

Our experienced, knowledgeable specialist staff will answer any questions you may have, and show you how to operate your product. Our services function for your benefit, within a support system designed to ensure you and your company benefit fully from the solutions. We offer a range of different services, including optimised print services to combine your consulting; hardware and software implementation; workflow management to lower your document spending; and smart security services, to keep your business safe.

Discover what Make-Ready print software can do for you

With professional make-ready print software, you will enhance your overall flexibility, efficiency and competitiveness. Imposition templates free up manpower, so your staff won’t have to enter similar or the same settings repeatedly for every new job, while the colour-split functionality boosts production speeds and ensures cost-effective production of mixed colour and black-and-white jobs.


Professional make-ready print software capabilities are essential to you, as they let you react flexibly to the last-minute changes your customers frequently request. Such capabilities enhance your efficiency and help you optimise your services, while late job-editing options also allow last-minute changes to be input into print jobs quickly and easily, so you are always reacting more flexibly to customer requests. You’ll be sure to find a make-ready software application perfectly suited to your purposes in Konica Minolta’s extensive application portfolio! 


The benefits your company will experience from using this software include…

   

   

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No problem to insert tab sheets, delete pages or add complex job processing details like booklet finishing, imposition, colour splitting or crop marks just before printing.

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Software lets you organise your print production in the most efficient, least costly way, always using best-suited output device for the production of each job. Splitting jobs into separate colour and black-and-white prints is often the most cost-effective approach.

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Enhance your overall flexibility, efficiency and competitiveness.

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Professional software applications let you accommodate requests for late changes from your customers. That way, you react with the highest flexibility and are able to meet even the tightest delivery deadlines.

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Thanks to the real-time preview, you immediately see any changes made to the job. This saves you valuable time because you no longer have to produce sample prints.

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Imposition templates free up staff from entering the same or similar settings repeatedly for every new job.

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You’ll no longer have to waste time on print preparation, those repetitive set-up tasks that print jobs of a similar nature so often require. Doing this work manually is time-consuming, inconvenient and generates unnecessary costs, as it requires more staff.

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High productivity that will enhance your print profitability

Do you think a make-ready system might be right for your company? To chat about how our joined-up software and hardware solutions could be meeting your needs, contact one of our specialists.