InSoft Automation has been awarded the 2016 InterTech Technology Award for its flagship product Imp software. This award, presented by the Printing Industries of America (PIA), each year recognizes innovative technologies that are expected to have a significant impact on the way print is produced. Imp has been recognized for its level of intelligence, automation and ability to fit into a wide variety of work flows. The software represents the cuttingedge in intelligent layout, imposition, ganging and die management across multiple printing technologies like offset, digital, VSOP and large format.’
“This prestigious award recognizes the breakthrough technology that simplifies complexity in the day-to-day life of printers across the world and translates into improved profits due to material and machine usage optimization,” says Santosh Mulay, vice president of InSoft. Imp is a versatile software that automates creation of cost based print-ready layouts. The stand-out feature is the ability to optimize layouts across a variety of job types (from packaging and labels to magazines) and print processes (offset, digital and wide format). Moreover, rectangular flat jobs and diecut jobs can be ganged separately or together.
With Imp software, printers do not need to invest in and maintain multiple products from different vendors, but can run an integrated work flow for different job types and printing/finishing technologies instead, considerably reducing complexity in their daily operations. The software automatically suggests the optimal sleeve length to be used and creates imposition plans for books on complex multi-web presses with in-line slitters and folders. With such an automated print layout planning software, another major benefit that will be realized by the customer is quick and accurate estimation and quote generation.
Imp has a built-in intelligence that automatically plans and creates print layouts. Not only is the assembled sheet cost-effective, it also ensures that all operations, including finishing operations are carried out correctly. Moreover, the software offers holistic optimization as it recognizes that paper utilization is not a goal in itself. Other process costs accrued while printing, guillotine cutting, die-making, diecutting, binding are also taken into account. A new approach ensures that a great amount of problems are solved, and complexity is simplified for customers by offering a single interface for book imposition, flat jobs and nested layouts for diecut jobs.
