As CIP3 begins to mature, it is necessary to scrutinize companies that have adopted this technology and study its success. The CIP3 only represented automatic plate change (APC) six years ago, but now it is not just that. For many printers, it is a confusing thing, maybe "it's not for them," maybe the technology is not yet mature. But this new technology has gone unnoticed into the world of printers. First of all, the system has the function of the plate scanner. The plate scanner is very popular among printers. With the CIP3, the plate scanner will no longer be needed. Not only that, but also its function is to provide a connection with the binding, more importantly, to establish a necessary production process. All current printer manufacturers will develop their CIP3 support capabilities on their own devices, and prepress suppliers will move in this direction. Of course, not all printers are suitable, and not all combinations of prepress and printing can be realized instantly. For example, Heidelberg has focused its attention on its sheetfed offset presses rather than rotary presses. With its London-based company, Miter Press, which owned CIP3 in 1997, it was one of the first companies to have CIP3. It is also one of Heidelberg's UK development sites. A year and a half later, the production of CIP3 files has become one of the company's most basic business activities, so that even without its employees, it is unwilling to work. A prepress manager said, "If we don't provide CIP3 files when we send printing plates, the master print shop will be very angry." Because it is unanimously agreed as a test site, the company added a Creo Trendsetter to the printing process. To complete the digital prepress work, the focus will be on Heidelberg prepress setup and RIP output to multiple processes at one time. The RIP file is used to expose plates, proofs and make CIP3 files. The file is sent to the CPC 32. The CPC 32 is used to perform the necessary operations to control the amount of ink at different locations. As a pilot of Miter, it will have the option of resuming the use of plate scanners or continuing to use CIP3 files in return. They answered with great certainty: Since CIP3 is working properly, there is no need to restore it to its original state. If the document does not have any value for the printing shop, employees will not ask for them, it will definitely save time, especially when using better plates. Customers are also realizing the advantages of prepress and printing integration. Through it, the homework in the five-color machine can be reduced to 500 pages, indeed. On an ordinary workday, the company prepares for the print preparation of 15-20 jobs. They have experience and said: “With CIP3, it has become very simple, with the characteristics of an assembly line operation.†Another user in Heidelberg and The proponent of CIP3 is the Garden House Printing Company in Greenford. The company is the test site for the screen company's software. The software's role is to connect the TaigaSpace product and the Heidelberg press. Richard Langeveld, the company’s general manager, was the supporter of CIP3. That was 18 months ago. With the software modifications, the generation of CIP3 files has become an automatic process, and there is a kind of document that is almost taken for granted by the Northwestern London company. He said: "In the testing process, we feedback some points that need to be improved. Those are just like selecting the names of the conferences. They are so simple that one side of a good paper is consistent with the other side. "Come here." "Now we are setting up a CIP3 file at the same time as the printing plate is exposed, and we hand it over to the printing shop when we print it. If the printing operator can't get this file, they'll come back and find it." As CTP was just using, it was a bit puzzled to start some of the leaders, but now they are asking for direct imaging of the plates. The situation in CIP3 is the same.†He continued: “The jobs we did were mostly from the very beginning. Digital, so it has a definite profit, and all jobs are bound in CIP3, even in monochrome jobs. We have a very high success rate." The system has a thicker ink layer on a pure black background A better match cannot be achieved and the operator must perform additional help. It also affected the ever-increasing print preparation time, but with the CPC32 register control and the direct imaging plate cleaning, its impact on a single element is really small. But short-run printing is different, and just as Mr. Langeveld said, we are now printing five times more than once a decade ago, and printing preparation has become an important part of the day. The CIP3, together with the direct imaging of the plate, facilitates platemaking and imaging until it is printed. Garden House Press found that the accuracy of using a plate scanner is greatly reduced, and the plate must be removed, scanned, and replaced at work. All of these increase the possibility of scratching or destroying the surface of the printing plate. In the worst case, they have to be re-plated. The company's next step will be to bring CIP3 into the post-printing process. They have Muller Martini binding machines, Stahl folding machines and Polar cutting machines. All suppliers have a great interest in the CIP3 report. Mr. Langeveld said that the CIP3 will be the preferred choice for the field of cutting. Ordnance Survey, Southampton has already worked with the CIP3 file generated by the Bacco system. It has been applied to Rapida 130 for only six weeks, but the improvement has been achieved. At present, since the printing industry has not established a network with prepress, only disk transmission can be used, but the era of network connection will not be far away. CIP3 is part of a large-scale control project that also includes the use of spectral densitometers to capture and analyze color data and feed back into the system. It is pre-calibrated for the density of the ink used in the Ordance Survey as a target point. This is the connection with the printing press. During the running process, adjustments are made and data is fed back to the database. According to this information call, the printing status can be quickly adjusted. Some companies have already begun to fully switch to new process equipment, equipped with a full range of print preparation features, and led to changes in work practices. In the past, waste paper was used as overprint paper. Now, since waste paper is rarely used and the color can meet the requirements in an instant, overprint paper has to be replaced with paper. The use of waste paper for making offset paper has many problems compared to the use of good paper, because when we use good paper, we do not need to retransfer the ink after the ink is normal. We do not have to pile up a large pile of waste paper, which can save a lot of space and of course save money. . CIP3 data is crucial because it is the interface to the printing plate data. Ordnance Survey installed CIP3 in January and then installed prepress equipment, which is relatively early. On the other hand, Spicer Grant, a commercial printer in the north of England, has been using CIP3 files for a year. It connects the front-end Saturn equipment with the Roland 700 printer. As a commercial printer it must handle jobs from different customers, different quality and different job lengths, and the requirements of each job cannot be the same. Director Derek Hirst said: “Before use, they told us that using CIP3 can achieve 90% accuracy. In fact, our work can even achieve 100% accuracy. It makes the work speed increase considerably. It is very important to attract short-lived companies, and some people may think that it might be better to consider Indigo digital presses, but the problem is that it needs B1 paper.So, Spicer Grant has 1000 or 500 print jobs and sometimes even 100 prints. When talking about the use of CIP3, Mr. Says: "In the 24-hour period, three or four jobs were replaced. Most B1 printers could not do this, but due to the extremely fast replacement speed and print preparation time after using CIP3, We can do it. "" Thanks to this technology, otherwise we must only do Indigo market business. We can beat them not only in terms of paper size flexibility, but also in terms of price. "Since any new system will have minor problems, Mr. Hirst pointed out that since there is already a concept, the company should do the job well. He said:" I think it will be 100% successful. What I want is to go from prepress to The plates are fully digitized, not the first output of analog film, and then plated and converted into digital information by a plate scanner. This is a detour. I do not believe we must do this. The company relied on the printing supplier PPS, in particular Seychelles’ support, and requested Herzlia’s development group to help solve the problem. Now using the SaiJe RIP concept, the same file can be generated directly from the film or on the proofer in Israel. Proofing or linking to the InkPro CIP3 interface translated by the press.Spicer Grant is currently working with Saatchi through the information in the CIP3 file and uses it to set up the company's Polar 137 cutter.The problem is binding in the prepress stage. The required parameters must be known and may be passed to the binding equipment and the cutting preparation area.However, the size of the paper as an organic material may change during the printing process and it is beyond control.Spicer Grant is working on the paper after printing The measurement, which is a percentage of the difference from the pre-printed size, can be used as the data for CIP3 regulation.†Mr. Hirst said: “We hope to conduct the test before and after next month. In other respects, although Hirst said that in the recent Pira incident, he is observing the possibility of MIS and CIP3 "connecting at some point," but Spicer Grant must connect CIP3 with MIS. The difference brought by CIP3 seems to be Software to automatically move plates or manage plate replacements.At first you may consider why and how this spend is reasonable when there is a satisfactory method of performing tasks, but then you will ask why it does not work. The reason is quite clear: "The biggest problem with CIP3 is that there are many printers who don't think printing has been digitally operated. They still think it is the same as 15 years ago. This is an obstacle that CIP3 has to overcome to achieve a breakthrough. It is not like the introduction of automatic plate change, because it cannot be seen directly in printing, and it provides customers with tangible savings. Using CIP3 is not so dramatic in terms of economy. The change, and this is a software solution that integrates with other systems, it is difficult to distinguish those profits that are caused by CIP3.The experience of those who use CIP3 can be compared with the experience of early adopters of APC technology, and the situation is similar. One day, CIP3 was accepted by most printers, and its era began.