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The CutManager allows to link high-speed cutters on-line to Heidelberg’s Prinect Postpress Manager and, consequently, integrate them into the digital printing workflow. For this purpose, the Postpress Data Terminal is incorporated into the Polar high-speed cutter. With the touch of a finger you can switch between machine control system view and Data Terminal view. The Prinect Postpress Manager automatically sends the operator a work routine list for his machine, which allows him to start, interrupt or finish operations.
Additionally, the machine control system returns status messages and counter readings directly to the Prinect Postpress Manager. Such counts are picked up, for example, by the optional CountMonitor. In this way, a complete data capture of the cutting process is possible. Any data which formerly had to be input manually from the daily work slips is now automatically collected while the production is in progress. By exchanging the job and production data the P-Net service ‘CutManager’ is ensuring a perfect transparency of cost and performance. CutManager supplies all the departments involved in the cutting process with the same level of information. This is required for making a precise cost analysis based on the collected production data. CutManager is only available together with Compucut, and exclusively for high-speed cutter models X equipped with the Xplus option and XT models.
At IPEX, Polar will also be premiering its Xplus high-speed cutter to the general public. The Polar Xplus, which is available for all machine types from Polar 78 upwards, includes a Polar X high-speed cutter, equipped with touch screen and process visualization option.
From 0 up to 45 in 60 minutes
Polar will also be showing the world's fastest cutting system. In a contest organised last November, the automated Polar PACE System (pictured) cuts 45 reams of paper in sixty minutes. That is only eighty seconds per ream for a four-side trim with a one man operation.
At IPEX, you will find Polar, as usual, on Heidelberg’s stand in Hall 8.
Additional information can be found at: www.polar-mohr.com.
© Graphic Repro On-line, 10 March 2010.
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