Tharstern develops Digital Batch Tool

Tharstern has developed a new feature for its MIS technology, Digital Batch Tool, extending the possibilities in automation by batching multiple items together so that the press operator only needs to handle a single file to print several jobs.

Digital Batch Tool has been in development for the past few months and will be presented at the Dscoop event in Dallas, Texas next week (March 23-25)

Tharstern said its customers are already automating order input and artwork pre-flighting, and are able to submit print ready jobs to a press via JDF. Now the company has created another way to reduce touchpoints and increase value to a business.

Chris Burn, product manager, at Tharsten said: ‘For short run length digital, the job preparation on the press is the same whatever the run length so this has a real impact on margins when you get down to run lengths of just a few copies. Digital Batch Tool was created to mitigate this by creating a single production job out of numerous, similar orders.

‘You submit a single file to your RIP and all of your jobs are output in sequence, separated by individual job tickets. Each batch also has a header sheet with a list of all jobs in the batch so that they are easily managed through the subsequent finishing processes.’

Digital Batch Tool has been in development for the past few months and will be presented at the Dscoop event in Dallas, Texas next week (March 25-28).