Tilia Labs Inc has released an update of its flagship imposition and planning solution, Phoenix with new features for streamlining signage and greeting card work.
Phoenix 4.0 expands upon the powerful folding carton and label imposition and ganging tools found in earlier versions.
Wide format presses are now fully supported out of the box across all editions, including new mark types and increased sheet capacity. Combined, these enhancements allow the software to not only unite imposition and planning, but to do so across all press types for virtually any job.
Auto ganging capabilities have also been greatly enhanced, providing an unprecedented level of automation during layout creation.
Optimal, tightly nested layouts for irregular shaped products, making Auto Impose and Auto Optimize modules ideal for auto ganging folding cartons as well as non-rectangular labels, cards and signage. Nested layouts can be exported as CFF2, PDF or PostScript for cutting.
Designed for post-press, guillotine based layout generation of rectangular products now minimises the number of sheet turns needed wherever possible, reducing costs and time during postpress.
Sheet turns are reported in results with lower complexity cuts being favoured. Nested ganging is also tuned to favor lower layout complexity.
Auto Impose and Auto Optimize can be run simultaneously across multiple jobs.
Results are available in a persistent panel allowing users to apply ganged layouts to any job at any time. Lock bottom folding carton pairs are also automatically detected and grouped during ganging.
Sagen de Jonge, CEO, said, ‘From the start our goal has been to automate the imposition process as much as possible for all non commercial work. Phoenix 4.0 is a huge step in this direction with the addition of nested ganging and wide format support. One key aspect of this solution that makes it so unique in the market is the ability to create optimal layouts in seconds but still be able to drill down and control every aspect of the job with our extensive set of existing tools, something that is crucial when eliminating errors, especially with nonrectangular work.’
Alan Dixon, CEO of Workflowz Ltd, a Phoenix distributor, said, ‘We have been looking for a suitable solution specifically targeting the packaging and labelling sector for some time. Finding a product that compliments our existing portfolio is essential, but the real strength is a dynamic team who are easy to work with. Tilia Labs have created an awesome tool that goes beyond the niche markets and has great appeal to other sectors like POS and greeting cards. Its ability to do tessellated and interlocking impositions is extremely powerful and leads to greater efficiencies in production and reducing waste. Which after all is our ethos driving business processes efficiently.’
