In print, sign and LFP companies, profitability is not determined solely by production, but above all by the decisions made beforehand. Businesses that combine orders intelligently make better use of materials and achieve higher returns from every run. In practice, however, this process often remains time-consuming and complex. Estimators have to work through countless variables, planners must weigh up different options, and translating everything into imposition requires additional effort every time.

With Workflower, you automate that entire logic in one smart chain. While traditional gang-run solutions help you combine work during production, Workflower connects costing, planning and imposition in one continuous automated workflow. That is what makes Workflower fundamentally different.

 

Where exactly does Workflower make the difference?

A great deal of print work is still costed too highly or produced less efficiently than it could be, simply because the possibilities for combining jobs are not considered early enough or thoroughly enough. As a result, quotations are often based on production costs that are not truly accurate. This limits your commercial flexibility and puts pressure on your margins.

Workflower turns that around. The engine calculates the optimum combination of your print jobs at an early stage. This allows you to prepare more competitive quotations without unnecessarily sacrificing returns. For print, sign and LFP companies, that means a double benefit: a greater chance of winning orders and a production process that is smarter, leaner and better organised.

 

From costing to imposition in one logical flow

The strength of Workflower lies in its closed-loop process. The same intelligence that calculates the best combinations for the quotation also drives your production logic. As a result, manual handovers between costing, planning and pre-press disappear. You produce in a technically correct way and your error rate decreases.

 

Additional leverage for commercial pricing

Workflower is also a commercial asset. Businesses that base quotations on the sharpest possible production costs are in a much stronger market position without pricing recklessly. You start from a scenario that takes real combination opportunities into account. Your pricing becomes more accurate, and your chances of winning an order increase.

 

Calculations that are technically feasible

Workflower does not search for theoretical combinations, but for production methods that are genuinely feasible in practice. In every calculation, the engine takes account of the technical capabilities and limitations of machines: minimum and maximum sheet sizes, gripper margins, colour bars, working styles, print speeds by grammage and run length, finishing requirements such as cutting, die-cutting and punching, and so on.

 

 

4 specialised engines, each tailored to a specific production environment and workflow logic

 

Offset

For offset print work with guillotine, punching or die-cut finishing. This engine combines jobs on the same print carrier in an optimum sheet layout, reducing makeready time, minimising paper waste and lowering production costs.

Large format

For large-format production on flatbed machines. The engine optimises the arrangement of multiple jobs on board materials such as Dibond, reducing material consumption and making small orders more profitable to produce.

Digital

For digital press environments in both small and large format. The digital engine combines short runs, language versions, variants and different formats on the same paper, reducing set-up time and ensuring that small print runs remain economically viable.

CSD (Colour Spread Die-cut)

For complex jobs involving colour, distribution and die-cut logic. This engine intelligently distributes print jobs across multiple impositions to reduce overproduction while preserving technical die-cutting possibilities.

What are the benefits for your company?

 

  • Sharper pricing
    You calculate your quotation on the basis of the most accurate production costs, rather than rough assumptions.
     
  • Superfast calculations
    Even with technically complex combinations, Workflower delivers results in a matter of seconds.
     
  • Lower production costs
    Automatic optimisation reduces total costs compared with manual processes.

 

  • Less material waste
    By combining jobs optimally, you make better use of sheets, boards and carriers, while limiting waste.
     
  • Less manual work
    Calculations and combinations are carried out automatically, without time-consuming manual puzzle work for your team.
     
  • More efficient production
    Orders are combined intelligently, allowing you to make better use of the capacity of your machinery.

 

The nesting engine can be integrated into any ERP

Workflower’s combination technology is fully integrated within MultiPress. The engine supports your entire process, from costing to imposition. Even at the costing stage, Workflower calculates the optimum combination before an order has been confirmed. This allows you to base your quotation on accurate production costs. As soon as an order goes ahead, Workflower drives the production flow and the imposition is automatically built on the basis of the calculated sheet layout, without duplicate input.

Workflower’s powerful nesting engine can also be deployed in other ERP software. In that case, the solution works as an intelligent black box between ERP and pre-press. This enables you to add combination intelligence to other ERP environments as well, without having to rethink your software landscape.

 

Workflower makes intelligent ganging truly pay off

Print, sign and LFP companies are under pressure to quote faster, price more competitively and at the same time protect their returns. That is only possible when automation does not stop at administration, but also drives production intelligently.

Enter Workflower. The engine automates one of the most complex and valuable decision-making processes in print production: determining which combinations are technically and economically the most effective. It is not just an optimisation tool, but a genuine growth accelerator for your business.

Workflower is already commercially available today.