With pressure to lower costs, increase profits, and retain customer bases, package printers look to business production software to organize workflow.

By Missy Smith

The following companies offer business production solutions.

Imposition editor gets an update

With DiMS! 700, users can create impositions detailing a job’s edition block, fold lines, cutting lines, glue lines, color bars, slitter lines, crosshairs, and delivery positions using customer-defined XML templates. New scheduling module features include a materials histogram with a graphic history of stock usage, scheduling board with production order information, cylinder planning module, and Outlook-like views of scheduling details. Shipping instructions can be entered into the DiMS! system, exported into an Excel spreadsheet, and sent to a courier to determine transportation requirements.—DiMS! organizing print, www.dims.net