CIP4 Announces 2008 CIPPI Award Winners

Winning awards in three categories, Cox Target Media, combined the operations of three printing plants into one new plant, reducing labor 75% and reducing cycle time from four days to eight hours. Cox was supported by a team of vendors, including Muller Martini, Goss International, Bowe Bell + Howell, Kodak, Burgess Industries and Daifuku America Inc. in this $200,000,000 installation. This implementation includes JDF integration with corporate SAP ERP systems and includes numerous innovations such as automated plate delivery from the imagesetters to the presses, hands-off finishing and collating, mail sorting, and much more. “In my opinion this is the most integrated automated printing plant in existence anywhere,” said CIPPI Review Panel Judge, Bill Lamparter of Printcom Consulting. “The production philosophy is an example of what a 21st century printing plant should be like.”