Tailored Solutions has developed the latest version of the Label Traxx Version 5.6, which is now in beta testing and scheduled for full release later in 2010.
Label Traxx Version 5.6 reduces file preparation time for label printers using both conventional and digital presses, including the HP Indigo WS6000. The Label Traxx digital file planner enables prepress operators to automatically arrange grouped labels into files or plates for press and reduces prepress processing time by 90 percent or more in most cases.
Tailored Solutions president Ken Meinhardt said that when a label printer moves to digital print, they typically process more short-run orders. In many cases, each order may contain a number of SKUs, or variants of the same product, and the customer may order varying quantities of each SKU.
“When the file planner is used in combination with the Label Traxx JDF module and Esko/Artwork Automation Engine 10, the prepress operator can then click one button to send the file plan automatically to the Esko/Artwork software, which creates the stepped files that will be sent to press,” Meinhardt concluded.
Label Traxx recently conducted a series of comprehensive tests to determine the actual timesavings digital press owners could realize using the new workflow.
Label Traxx Sales Manager Dorothy Asboth said that the Label Traxx digital file planner is currently installed at beta sites, was debuted at the Digital Label Summit in Barcelona in late June, and will be demonstrated at Labelexpo Americas in Chicago in September.