Automation has been implemented in most manufacturing environments for more than a decade, providing efficiencies and cost reductions. Locally, printers have been slow to take up workflow automation to take advantage of these high-value efficiencies.
Printers can benefit significantly from automating workflows in their print business, which:
- significantly reduces errors that can creep into manual, repetitive tasks
- dramatically reduces time and labour required to complete jobs
- frees up staff to contribute in other high-value areas of the business
- decreases turnaround times for clients while increasing volumes and margins
- delivers other tangible benefits to clientele.
How automation delivers benefits
Commercial printers around the world have used automation to help grow their businesses by focusing on these key areas:
- automating the process of job splitting and prepress to save hours of manual work
- letting customers order online through simple web-based interfaces with 24/7 access
- automating online order workflows that trigger prepress, printing, finishing, and shipping processes
- automating invoicing and payment processing, improving cash flow and freeing up valuable time and resources.
What’s stopping you from doing this already?
The cost and complexity of implementing automated workflows can seem daunting for many printers. Furthermore, if you have invested heavily in legacy systems, have a mixed-vendor environment, or deal with highly varied workflows with multiple entry points, the idea of automating these processes might seem too complex for one automated solution.
Some printers, long accustomed to having full control over every job, see no reason to automate these manual processes.
How AccurioPro Solutions can help
Our prepress and print automation software suite, AccurioPro Flux, has been designed to cater for a wide range of requirements, with three tiered levels available. All three levels enable automated workflow tasks and centralise control of the print workflow system so your business can be more efficient.
