The Role of CIM Technology in the Automation Control of Newspaper Printing

CIM is computer integrated manufacturing technology, also known as workflow automation. CIM can digitally control every production process from receipt of orders to delivery. It began in 1950 on punched paper tapes using coded data instructions.

Automobile manufacturing industry and newspaper industry have different interpretations of CIM. It is difficult for newspaper producers to control the contents of newspapers. Unlike car seats, news and advertisements are varied, they never appear in the same place, and they cannot be controlled. The quality and format of the original image. Now, newspaper automation technology has emerged. We are able to handle a wide variety of data, automate the placement of advertisements, and assign different printing plates to different press cylinders. You can use CIM to execute the program you need.

Newspaper-specific CIM

Printing shop automation is the key, but to understand the overall interests of CIM, the printing shop needs to communicate with the prepress department, the prepress department needs to communicate with the editorial and advertising departments, all of these departments need to communicate with the administrative, sales and delivery departments.

In the print production environment, automation requires data digitization and the transfer of data dual workflow terminals to other programs to complete the order's transmission capabilities step by step. PDF-based workflow software simplifies page processing and data transfer programs.

Workflow production software is the key to newspaper production. For maximum efficiency, it needs unlimited flexibility. This will allow you to greatly increase your digital conversion capabilities so that you can accomplish your goals with ease. It can also meet sudden needs at any time.

Workflow software is flexible enough to handle complex multi-platform network work and single point of control. So it can be long-ranged according to your needs. The computer needs to complete the multi-version work by automatically exchanging page content. It will organize the content and the position of the advertisement, and can pass instructions to the printing shop and the shipping department.

The CIM manufacturing environment continuously searches for and monitors the manufacture of products through scanning and video recorders to ensure the high quality of products. The newspaper CIM production monitors the equipment through advanced communication technologies of quality control and camera devices, automatically identifies potential problems and proposes solutions.

CIM can combine business functions and production through data. The JDF technology was developed specifically for the print production environment and can exchange business information with production and management information and information technology departments. When transmission instructions can hardly be updated in the newspaper workflow, JDF technology will facilitate the exchange of instructions at multiple locations.

CIM also promised automated program control, including communication between the prepress and printing departments, ink setting, color management, and quality parameter provisioning instructions.

Instant control means starting a dynamic job from your software interface. With this browser-based remote control, you will be able to start work or proofread anytime and anywhere. The ultimate goal of CIM is to make production simpler and to control all aspects of production.

It may take some time to use a single work platform to control the newspaper production, but the process of converting the process between prepress and printing into a continuous and uninterrupted program will be realized quickly.