Mixed Configuration - machine setup for printing and different types of finishing

Summary

With PrintVis, you can configure a Cost Center to handle both printing and finishing operations. A Cost Center with the type "Mixed Configuration" can manage various machine types, enabling flexible handling of both sheets and items.

Setup

The setup involves configuring the Cost Center with the appropriate machine types and configurations:

1. Configuration for Finishing Sheets or Signatures:
2. Quantity is calculated per sheet.

3. Examples include folding or lamination of covers.

4. Configuration for Finishing Items:

5. Quantity is calculated based on the final product.
6. Examples include saddle stitching, where multiple sheets are merged into a final product.

Key Points

• Distinction Between Signatures and Final Items:
• While a finished signature is technically an item, PrintVis calculates based on the final configuration, such as books, rather than individual signatures.

Example

Configuration 1

• Production quantity based on signatures per printed sheet, plus scrap/waste.

Configuration 2

• Production quantity based on the ordered quantity, plus scrap/waste.
• Examples include the number of books on a perfect binder or inserter.

Printing Machine

• For presses that handle both sheet and web paper:

• Set up two configurations:

  • Sheet-Fed Press
  • Web-Fed Press

• Historical Context:

• Previously required three separate cost centers (signatures, sheets, and items).
• The "Mixed Configuration" option simplifies this by allowing configuration changes at the machine level.

Solution

• Setup the Cost Center as a "Mixed Configuration" type:
• This allows you to modify the Machine Type directly in the configuration setup.