Agfa and Stämpfli present best practice

Networking At the 2nd Automation Congress of the Printing Industry in mid-May in Hanau, Germany, Agfa Graphics and Stämpfli Publikationen AG from Bern jointly presented a best-practice example of an end-to-end automated prepress system that is networked across departments on the basis of the Job Definition Format (JDF). System components from other manufacturers were also integrated. During the live presentation, participants at the IRD Congress saw how a job was processed automatically - starting with the customer's data delivery via the Delano web portal, through planning of the job in the Management Information System (MIS) and processing of the job data in the ApogeeX workflow system, to preparation for forwarding to the press control station and to postpress. Finally, the actual job data was reported back to the MIS.