You want to increase your packaging activity. That is a good idea. But is it so simple? Here are some points to think about.
Clients' needs: Consistency and accuracy for all batches + speed to market + price control.
Points of attention:
• The cost of a sheet of paper is higher (waste is more expensive),
• Clients are demanding (color, respect for the delivery schedule, controls = refusals are very expensive),
• Reprints must be the same whatever the press, the consumable (plate, ink, paper, blanket … ), the shift, or the day = more time and more waste
So you need to achieve:
• Accuracy: the right color faster - capable to match l*a*b* values (spectrodensitometer) - low deltaE specifications.
• Consistency: stay in the right color.
• Less waste of paper: better margin, less time.
• Ease of use: less human mistakes, less waste of paper and time - so the press operator can focus on the other parts of the printing process and increase the global quality and performance.
• Automation: less human mistakes, less waste of paper and time - so the press operator can focus on the other parts of the printing process, and increase the global quality and performance.
What you should consider and what Rutherford can fix
• Accuracy (better quality, from 0,001 density + individual ink-key curves = curves per paper, kind of ink, speed, plates, blankets ... ),
• Consistency (better quality, Artificial intelligence to do self-learning every day, and capability to reprint the same),
• Artificial intelligence to do self-learning every day: always accurate and consistent - No need to pay for redoing the curves,
• Ease of use: make it fast and easier for your team and upgrade the capabilities of the press operators - automatic translation from spectral values to density valuesin a click,
• Capability to reprint: self-learning, automatic update of the curves,