If you or a member of your staff operate a production printer, it’s probably in an environment where tasks are time sensitive. Perhaps you work with a high volume of incoming tasks, and maybe each of those tasks have different requirements, ranging from various media types and sizes, to precise color calibrations and alignment settings… all of which, of course, need to be adjusted for each job.
Needless to say, it can get a little hectic.
But what if you could automate and optimize one of the major steps to getting a great finishing print—the configuration settings for your stock media types? What if it saved you a ton of time and made your job immeasurably easier?
Good news: that’s possible. Here’s how:
Xerox PredictPrint Media Manager – a Powerful Tool for Automating Stock Setup for Your Production Printer
Xerox PredictPrint Media Manager makes it possible for even beginners to operate a production press and get great results (and for the pros, it makes their day-to-day tasks even easier). The software platform is capable of automatically adjusting the production printer’s settings for a given stock media type, ensuring the best possible print.
The way it works is quite unique. With PredictPrint, you need to use a barcode scanner. You use this scanner to scan the barcode on the stock media you want to configure the printer to use. After scanning, the printer is automatically set up to receive that particular stock type—and the settings are really accurate.
PredictPrint is broadly compatible with advanced Xerox presses like the iGen 5, Iridesse, or Versant series.
The Biggest Advantages of PredictPrint? Time Savings, Waste Reduction, and Ever-Improving Accuracy
So, how does PredictPrint “know” what settings to apply to a given stock type, anyway? It’s a combination of data sources, ranging from crowd-sourced data, artificial intelligence, and Xerox’s own database of preferred settings. This has the hidden benefit of configuration settings being malleable; or in other words, they can be iterated on over time and improved to be as close to perfect as possible.
This process, of course, helps to reduce or outright eliminate manual intervention for stock type settings. This represents time savings. But operators will enjoy other time-saving benefits: imagine you’re processing an order when in the middle of it you’re given a request for a media substitution (i.e., the client wants a different type of stock). Previously, this may have represented quite the inconvenience, but with PredictPrint, media substitutions are no big deal—last-minute changes don’t hold the power they did before.
PredictPrint will also reduce waste in your print environment. Fewer misprints or configuration-related mistakes will happen, which as any professional production printer operator will tell you, can happen in high-pressure environments. Cutting back or eliminating this kind of waste is beneficial.
Discover More About PredictPrint and the Power of Upgrading Your Work Environment to Xerox
PredictPrint and Xerox tools like it aren’t just designed to save time and money—they give you better flexibility. The ability to adapt in fast-moving work environments is what can set you apart from the rest and give you an edge in competitive marketplaces.
If you’d like to learn more about production printers, MFPs, PredictPrint, or any other kind of Xerox technology, our team of polite experts would love to start a conversation with you. Feel free to contact us today or request a free online quote.
