Heidelberg's Prinect is both more and less. Prinect is much more than some people think it is, and yet less than others imagine it to be. It's time to sort it out, so let's start at the beginning

Prinect is not something you buy to make Heidelberg's products talk to each other. It's not a language; it's not an integration initiative. Prinect, very simply, is Heidelberg's brand name for a suite of integrated workflow products that extend through management and production systems and link management information systems (MIS) to prepress, press and post-press applications and equipment.

The name Prinect comes from combining Print and Connect. It's a collection of about a dozen or so different modules that automatically work together when they're connected in the same network, creating a Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) environment. A Prinect integration can encompass as few as two products or as many as are needed to link an entire production facility.