Automated prepress workflows are key to improvements in quality and time to market in package printing.

By Jean-Marie Hershey

Kodak

Kodak’s Prinergy Workflow System for Packaging incorporates a rules-based automation feature that allows users to automate every action and event in the workflow. This new form of automation enables printers to eliminate manual steps in the print process that were previously difficult to automate in conventional systems, according to Kodak. Rules can initiate any function that the system can perform, and can be custom scripted via the integrated VB.NET engine to enable interactions with other company databases and systems. It also includes two Adobe Acrobat plug-ins that automate the management of correction cycles.