Sherwood improves workflow efficiencies with Shuttleworth

- JDF creates automated workflow system in repro area

 

- JMF is ‘next logical stage’

 

The Sherwood Press Group is using JDF software from Shuttleworth Business Systems to streamline its processes and make efficiency gains.

 

Working with Shuttleworth Business Systems, Sherwood has been able to remove much of the administrative cost and time out of the process of producing printing work with the introduction of state-of-the-art JDF.

 

Richard Hawker, repro supervisor at The Sherwood Press Group, said: ‘Using the JDF links from Shuttleworth to our Kodak Prinergy system in repro provides us with a truly automated workflow, and we have seen immediate benefits through streamlining the workflow process from the customer service team through to pre-press.

 

‘Adding JDF links to our press management software has given the Shuttleworth system the power to talk to the press with real-time job information. We can automate further into the business making us more efficient and saving valuable time.

 

‘We create a job in Shuttleworth, which then produces a JDF file in the background that is sent off to the Kodak Prinergy system. When the JDF file reaches Prinergy, it automatically creates a new job with an imposition in place ready to be populated with artwork by the repro operator.

 

‘Speed, accuracy and consistency are dramatically improved.’

 

The Sherwood Press Group’s JDF investment will open doors for further advances, with Hawker saying: ‘JMF is the next logical stage for us here at The Sherwood Press Group, giving us information rich data back from the shop floor so we can monitor our key performance indicators even closer than before and see how each job performed in order to help future estimating and job production.’

 

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