Automated press speed optimization
AssigneeGoss International Americas, Inc.
InventorMichael Raymond Rancourt
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Abstract
A method of operating a web printing press is provided. The method includes storing productivity data, press speeds and paper types of past print jobs run on the web printing press in a database; comparing a paper type of a new print job with the paper types of the past print jobs stored in the database to identify past print jobs with similar or the same paper type as the new print job; selecting a press speed for the new print job based on at least the productivity data of the past print jobs with similar or the same paper type as the new print job; and printing the new print job on the web printing press at the selected press speed.
Claims15
A method of operating a web printing press comprising:
- storing productivity data, press speeds and paper types of past print jobs run on the web printing press in a database;
- comparing a paper type of a new print job with the paper types of the past print jobs stored in the database to identify past print jobs with similar or the same paper type as the new print job;
- selecting a press speed for the new print job based on at least the productivity data of the past print jobs with similar or the same paper type as the new print job;
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- printing the new print job on the web printing press at the selected press speed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.