3 Steps to Reassess a Print Shop to Boost Business Growth It’s often useful to think of print shops optimize workfl ows, a shop can start to fall behind. An experienced consulting partner may be able to help implement these steps. If these problems sound familiar to a shop owner or operator, it may be time to consider embracing or enhancing automation in the shop. Ricoh’s (Booth 2035) consulting services, including workfl ow assessment, can help. Simplify Print and Finishing On Demand with award-winning technology and innovation Visit Formax Booth #1319 to Capture a Pokémon, and Enter to Win One of Four Fitbit® Alta™ Wristbands! 3+ -$ ) '$1 Ǽ*)Ȑ ()+-$)/$)"/*.1 4*0/$( )(*) 4)''*24*0/*-$)"(*- 2*-&$)Ȑ #*0. 2$/#+-*! ..$*)'- .0'/.Ǽ/*-(3**/#ȯǔǖǔǜǻ /0..#*24*0#*2 " Ȑ/*Ȑ " +-$)/$)" ''*2.*+ -/*-.*!/# #-+*'*--* -$ .ȐǚǘǓǓ/**0/+0/#$"#Ȑ,0'$/4Ǽ!0''Ȑ' **&' /.$)Ȑ '$) ǻ'0.Ǽ 3+ -$ ) /# +*2 -!0'Ȑǔǔ$ -4-$)/ -1 --$1$)"/# ) 2'4Ȑ'0)# ȐǔǕǓǘ *)*#-*( -* -$ .Ǽ). #*24*0)!0-/# -.$(+'$!44*0-+-$)/Ȑ*)Ȑ ()2*-&!'*2ǻ Then, streamline your operation 1 )(*- by letting Formax take you through the rest of the steps after you press “Print.” From cutting, to folding, to mailing, to specialty print. Find your solution at Formax booth #1319 Partners Pokemon Go Players! Visit booth #1319 and show us that you have achieved Level 5 or above on the Pokémon Go app in order to capture your very own Pokémon character plush toy while supplies last. While there, enter a drawing to win one of four Fitbit Alta fitness wristbands. Drawing is open to show attendees only. You must be 21 years or older to participate in the drawing. Exhibitors, Formax employees and Sharp employees are not eligible. Winners will be randomly selected after the close of the show. Wristbands can only be shipped to U.S. addresses. as a human body. Operators are the head; devices, the hands; and so on. But the lifeblood, running throughout the shop is the workfl ow. And, as any doctor will tell you, no matter how healthy you are, you can always be healthier. Even if a shop is operating at its highest capacity there’s good news and there’s bad news. The bad news is, you could do better. The good news is, you can do better. Through the implementation of key best practices, they can see their shops’ capabilities reach far beyond what they ever thought possible and drive innovation. To get there, they can follow these three steps: • Assess workfl ow. Slow turnaround times tend to stem from two places: slowly executed steps, and slow transition from one step to another. While both can be the result of reliance on manual processes it’s the transitions among steps that would benefi t the most from exploring new ways to automate. With shorter runs bringing on tighter deadlines, error-driven reprints don’t just cost time and money, they can cost customers. If operators fi nd their shop encountering these problems, looking for ways to limit opportunity for human error is in their best interest. Additionally, it’s not news that inactivity represents lost revenue. Operators should consider fi nding ways to maximize uptime, not just for devices, but for operators. • Analyze operations. Every shop has that one step that takes so long to complete and is so repetitive, operators often fi nd themselves wondering why a machine couldn’t be doing it. Maybe it should, so operators can get back to more expertise-intensive tasks. At the same time, repetitive, unengaging tasks that demand operators’ full attention for long stretches can breed errors. Taking them off of these tasks in favor of automation can help cut costly errors. • Integrate disparate systems. Tight communication between customerfacing job ordering mechanisms and the prepress process is absolutely vital. Errors can cause lost orders, declining business, and, worst of all, bad word of mouth. Oftentimes, information is lost or altered in the manual handoff between operators, devices and/or tasks. Managers and operators have always had to keep information straight, but with runs becoming shorter and shorter, the same volume of work brings a lot more data points to track. Without a solid system in place to track it all and Offi cial Show Daily | PrintingNews.com GRAPH EXPO 16 | September 27, 2016 | 19
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