Productivity Optimization in Sheet Fed Offset Presses Through Effective Makeready Operations: A Review

In today's competitive climate, high productivity sheet fed presses play a crucial role in meeting turbulent printers demand and profitability. One approach to improve productivity is to reduce machine set up time using effective makeready operations. This session will act as a roadmap to set up effective makeready keeping in context the plate mounting, cleaning, sheet change, plate and impression adjustments, ink setting and speed adjustments. The effectiveness in makeready operations leads to some visible and non visible actions that when integrated with automation and management methodology provides novel techniques that improve machine productivity.