“Push to Stop” the Presses: Heidelberg Demonstrates Concept of Autonomous, Navigated Printing
Imagine a press so thoroughly automated that it almost seems to be a member of its own crew. This is what Heidelberg says it has made possible with the concept it calls “Push to Stop.”
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Patrick Henry is a journalist and an educator who has covered the graphic communications industry since 1984. The author of many hundreds of articles on business trends and technological developments in graphic communications, he has been published in most of the leading trade media in the field. He also has taught graphic communications as an adjunct lecturer for New York University and New York City College of Technology. The holder of numerous awards for industry service and education, Henry is currently the managing director of Liberty or Death Communications, a content consultancy.
Whoever came up with such a negative slogan - "Push to Stop" - should be assigned to writing spam email subject lines.
And extrapolating a two minute - 2 minute! - savings per makeready to $83,200 annual savings is such a false economy. No company is going to cut back an operator's work day because of 16 scattered two minute savings per shift.
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By Gordon Pritchard on Nov 08, 2016
They're working on making a faster horse.
By Pete Basiliere on Nov 09, 2016
Ha!
I agree with Gordon.
Whoever came up with such a negative slogan - "Push to Stop" - should be assigned to writing spam email subject lines.
And extrapolating a two minute - 2 minute! - savings per makeready to $83,200 annual savings is such a false economy. No company is going to cut back an operator's work day because of 16 scattered two minute savings per shift.