By: E&P Staff Having installed ProImage NewsWay workflow automation software at its plants in Stockholm, Boras and Malmo, to gain groupwide efficiency, Sweden's Bold Printing returned to VBS, ProImage's partner in Scandinavia, to further reduce costs through implementation of ProImage's OnColor ECO ink-saving software.
In all, Bold Printing produces approximately 850 million copies of 40-plus titles on its seven presses, consuming more than 120,000 tons of paper annually.
"Ink savings of more than 15% are already being achieved on our presses whilst we are maintaining the highest possible print quality," Bold Printing Prepress manager Conny Bergkvist said in a statement, pointing to the printer's smaller carbon footprint from its reduced ink consumption.
Ink saving for Bold Printing consists of three OnColor ECO servers at DNEX, the group's central prepress facility, where they are integrated into and load balanced by NewsWay. OnColor ECO automatically analyzes PDF files and calculates the exact amount of ink needed to produce the optimum print quality. ProImage OnColor ECO's e easy-to-use sliders allow additional fine-tuning without having to make new profiles.
Workflow is fully automated, with products assigned different processing setups to ensure optimized output depending on product, priority, paper quality and other matters.
"Incoming files are mainly paired PDF tabloid pages. The average processing time for each file is 20 seconds, which provides a possible peak load of 540 files per hour across all three servers, which gives us plenty of spare capacity," adds Bergkvist explained.
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