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Pacific Press Josh Hey, Production Manager

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Pacific Press Josh Hey, Production Manager

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    1. Pacific Press Josh Hey, Production Manager Nampa, Idaho

    2. Products Established in 1874 with a paper called “Signs of the Times” All In-House Printing Books Periodicals Magazines Publishing in several languages

    3. Equipment PREPRESS ˇ Brisque 4 Rip Digital Preset by Perretta ˇ800 V Lotem Platesetter ˇ 2 Iris 4Prints ˇ HP 2000 Plotter ˇ Macintosh & Windows operating systems PRINTING HARRIS M200 - WEB OFFSET 22 ž x 36; Six Unit; Dynascan CLC HEIDELBERG OFFSET 28 X 40 Five Color Perfector

    4. Equipment Cont’d FINISHING FOLDERS: MBO-B26 MUELLER STITCHER-PRIMA KOLBUS RATIO BINDER KOLBUS CASEMAKER LAMINATOR-AZZUFEED KLUGE FOIL STAMPING & EMBOSSING CHESHIRE CARD INSERTER POLAR-115 CUTTER MAILING ENVELOPE INSERTION Bell & Howell Phillipsburg Master Mailer II INKJETS Scitex-5120 w/Cheshire 697 base

    5. Automation Additions Harris 36” 6 Unit Web (June ‘91) Replaced Telecolor remote ink control with Perretta RIC and video plate scanner (April ‘02) Added 6th unit, Digital Preset and NT Operating System (June ‘02) Added Dynascan CLC

    6. Reasons for Buying CLC Operator skill level varies from 2 years to 30 years Needed better consistency for reruns Waste reduction ROI less than 2 yrs

    7. Dynascan Implementation Training: 1-2 weeks, User Friendly Mounting the Rollstand after the web guides Touchscreen Operator Workstation at the RIC console Prepress: Applies standard color bars on front and back of every job

    8. Dynascan in Action Preset remote ink control digitally or use previous file (63% reruns) Dynascan configuration for new or existing job is selected and preset CLC is used on every job (from 1 to 6 colors) Space needed for the color bar is less than 2mm.

    9. Pacific Press’ Product Mix Paper Stock Variety Job Configuration: Half web to Full web Single color and multi color jobs Repeat work New jobs Run Size Avg 1500-10,000 impressions for book signatures Up to 112 plate changes per shift, books 50,000 avg run monthly magazine other

    10. Results from Closed Loop Color Color Consistency – Particularly 10 & 12 Volume book sets run at different times Reduction of reprint press checks by 50% Less Waste ($) Faster Saving Time

    11. CLC Waste Savings Two 12 hr Shifts/ 5 days a week Paper: 50 % savings Time: 15 to 20 minutes (50%) Dollars: $4300.00 per week

    12. Conclusions Significant gains at Pacific Press by utilizing data for reruns (RIC and Dynascan) New jobs show much better Makeready numbers and color consistency (Digital Preset, RIC, and Dynascan)

    13. Future Currently adding color to color registration system to keep up with color at makeready Utilizing SPC data collected to further analyze the process

    14. Thank you

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