APPLY “IMP” INTELLIGENCE FOR
ESTIMATION, IMPOSITION AND GANGING
Simplify and automate the process of creating cost effective, print ready layouts with the intelligence of award winning Imp, the smartest software of its’ kind. Pioneering innovations and sophisticated algorithms completely automate ganging and imposition for a variety of print jobs by different printing technologies.
FINALLY, PRINT ESTIMATION BECOMES AN EXACT SCIENCE….
Estimators’ dream …”calculate the best print/die layouts for jobs of any size, quantity & color.” A few clicks is all it takes for your estimators to graphically evaluate the best way to lay-out a job, while minimizing printing and finishing costs. Evaluate the trade-offs between material efficiency, printing costs & finishing costs to the last penny. Your estimates will be accurate like never before.
Layout plans created at estimation stage can be taken forward to planning & prepress, eliminating print layout creation from prepress or CAD department completely, saving time and money.
VALUE ADDITION BY IMP
Saves material & time
Imp software has reduced the layout planning (ganging & kitting) process at Baesman Group from hours and days to minutes. It has very short learning curve and our staff of six estimators and planners were up and running on it. The IMP software is very flexible. The layouts planned by our planners and estimators are sent to the Prepress Department and downstream finishing machines.”
Imp software can calculate the best print layouts for jobs of any size, quantity & colour, making it an ideal tool for estimators and planners. In just a few seconds, estimators can graphically evaluate the best way to lay-out a job, while minimizing printing and finishing costs. Software will produce efficient layouts each & every time.
Increase Productivity
“The main benefit of IMP in our company is optimisation of workflow in prepress department. It allowed us to increase the volume of jobs two times without increasing number of employees. Next but not the least valuable benefit of IMP software is decrease in the cost of producing jobs (about 22% is the average reduction of material costs during the last year).”
Process more jobs with less manpower. Print layout creation (either in prepress, planning or estimation stages) will be speeded up by few factors. In that way, Imp ganging and imposition software will dramatically boost your prepress throughput of print layouts.
It reduces make -readies and press runs by creating efficient gang layouts which will increase your profits.
Enhance Margins
“InSoft’s Layout Planning Software – “Imp” has become an invaluable planning tool for our organization. Now estimating has becoming an exact science. We are able to lower price the customers and still maintain or enhance margins and grow business because of Imp’s optimization. We have integrated it with our Microsoft Dynamics AX ERP system. This is heart of our planning, estimation and imposition.”
Apart from full automation features, Imp software comes with host of semi-automatic tools which will empower your ganging expert and make him more productive.
Once Imp is in place, your CAD department will no longer need to work on step & repeat layouts; instead they can keep their focus on design. Similarly, prepress departments need not work on imposition and instead focus on PDF and content. Imp can be that single application that will generate output for printing as well as die-making / cutting. There is no need to reproduce layouts generated at the estimation stage later in CAD or prepress department.
Automation with Built-in Intelligence
“I have 16 years prepress experience and I can honestly say this is the most powerful and dynamic imposition software I have ever used! Fantastic development it really has changed our business for the greater! And everyone we show the software to are amazed too!”
Imp software bears in mind that paper utilization is not a goal in itself. Other process costs accrued while printing, guillotine cutting, die-making, die-cutting, binding is also taken into account. Not only is the assembled sheet cost effective, software ensures that all operations, including finishing operations can be carried out correctly. All these calculations with imposed constraints are done dynamically for jobs of any size and shape.
EXCITING NEW UPDATES
With a record as one of the fastest feature addition/refinement cycles, the latest Imp Version 9.1 is now available with extensive new features. Some important features are listed below:
HANDS FREE LAYOUT CREATION WITH EXISTING LAYOUTS AND DIES
Planning jobs from hundreds of layout template files (. LYT files saved from Imp) or CF2 files (.CF2 files from 3rd party CAD programs) saved in a folder are now possible. Imp will select the matching template based on size and shapes of the jobs being planned automatically. Applicable for rectangular & die cut jobs.
UNIQUE METHODOLOGY FOR LARGE FORMAT GANGING
With less emphasis on reducing number of layouts and more on saving substrate and ink, the software will compute the most cost-effective ganged layouts, ensuring no overruns with innovation in algorithms for Large Format Printing.
REEL SHEETING FOR BOUND JOBS
Option to select the optimal reel width from inventory and calculate a cut length considering the printing and finishing sheet size constraints was available for unbound (rectangular & die-cut) jobs only. The same functionality is now extended to support planning and imposition of books.
CAMERA REGISTRATION MARKS FOR LARGE FORMAT FINISHING
Automatic placement of dot marks or camera registration marks on free space of layout for finishing on digital cutters or routers. If the fit is tight is on any one direction, Imp will find space in opposite direction and place marks smartly.
“INFER COLORS” TO UPDATE COLORS OF A JOB
Infer colors option automatically reads the colors from PDF file. Color bar and other relevant marks are mapped to colors in PDF automatically. Further, this feature enables digital printing segment to avoid printing extra clicks for colors that are not part of a job.
AUTOMATIC DELETION OF INEFFICIENT LAYOUTS
Despite the most powerful unmanned layouts creation module on the planet, inbuilt-intelligence of the software checks and deletes inefficient layouts. The log of unplanned jobs from the ganging pool is saved.
VARIABLE CUT-OFF FOR WEB-FED PRESSES
For web-fed presses (digital, offset or flexo) it is now possible to define the range of valid cut-off lengths. In the case of VSOP presses (variable sleeve offset press), user can further define the possible list of cut-off lengths considering sleeve diameter for different reel widths of substrate.
STEP & REPEAT OF SMALL DIE-LAYOUTS ON BIG PRINT SHEET
Modern presses can print sheet sizes much bigger than the traditional 30in x 40in barrier. However, since it is not often possible to upgrade all subsequent offline operations like die-cutting to such sizes, die-layouts which fit the die-cutting machine are created while the print layout is made scaled and enlarged to fit the bigger print formats by stepping and repeating the die-layout.