Xeikon has created a new program which it says responds to printers’ current challenges and has been designed to help users optimise their productivity.
According to the company, in the current market situation printers are looking to redesign their production processes. Xeikon’s ‘Do More with Less’ program, provides customers with tangible ideas on how to reduce material waste, production time, ink/toner and electricity consumption while delivering the best quality.
Paul Salmon, Xeikon’s global customer success manager, said, ‘In the special times we live in, printers face increased costs and shortage of materials. Xeikon’s Customer Success Managers across the globe are evaluating and implementing new methods and processes that have a tremendous impact on cost-effectiveness for Xeikon customers.’
The ‘Do More with Less’ program offers a range of actions that improve all aspects of the print production workflow: it helps to reduce lead time, minimise the amount of material waste, and keep ink/toner consumption and operator efforts to a minimum.
One feature of the new program is VariLane, a workflow option of the X-800 digital front-end, allows printers to add labels on different lanes alongside an existing job, with the option to have labels of different sizes. This allows Xeikon users to optimise the usage of the substrate.
Beyond this, Vectorizor, a software add-on to the X-800 digital front-end, increases productivity and efficiency for label finishing. It generates the shape of “frames” to be transferred to the die-cutting device. At the same time, barcodes are printed alongside the job, sending instructions on what shape to use.
Another feature is Xeikon Color Services, which can help in many ways, e.g to reduce colour setup waste by providing predictable color and by offering different quality levels, thereby reducing toner and ink consumption.
Job Optimizer, an X-800 feature, reduces production time and substrate waste up to 30% for multi-variant jobs. These jobs use the same die-cut but with an unlimited amount of design variations. With Job Optimizer, printers can organise their jobs in a way that drastically reduces their costs. This is a unique feature of the Xeikon workflow.
Xeikon’s ‘Do More with Less’ program will be shared with customers during a dedicated Xeikon Café TV session and at the upcoming editions of the Xeikon Café in Europe and North America. Customers can book individual meetings with Xeikon experts to discuss their specific needs. Press operators are also invited to sit with Xeikon digital specialists and subject matter experts who will train them on how to minimize waste when setting up new, alternative substrates
