The International Cooperation for the Integration of the Processes in Prepress, Press and Postpress (CIP4) organization announced at IGAS 2007 the second place winners in all three categories for the annual The Jürgen Schönhut Memorial CIP4 International Print Production Innovation (CIPPI) Awards.
Second place in the “Most innovative use of process automation category” went to Daimu Co., a
Japanese print shop with a staff of 35 employees. Daimu’s objective was to completely digitize its workflow.
This company built their automation project around Olive’s PrintSapiens MIS system and integrated it in stages with Trueflow from Screen and K-Station from Komori, allowing Daimu to automate job planning, prepress and printing. In the process, Daimu integrated two facilities, eliminating waste in production operations and communication and creating a new proof workflow, dramatically reducing manual mistakes,and allowing employees to focus more on intellectual work, as opposed to repetitive and routine work.