Integrating a Modern MIS
The company had one person in the prepress department doing just about everything, from receiving and cleaning one-up artwork to sending out proofs for approval, to imposing every job for their digital presses. “One individual was doing all of the prepress tasks until we added some half-time help. It was a lot of work,” remembers Phil Herington, Blue Label Digital Systems Manager.
Blue Label had been using an MIS system, but it was difficult to generate the reports they wanted to use. They decided to invest in a Cerm MIS because the flexibility of its database allowed Blue Label to select data the way they wanted to. “As a smaller company, Cerm made it easier to let MIS work for us. It was also scalable. From a nerd perspective, the SQL database was much easier to work with,” recalls Boyd. “Cerm allowed us to grow faster, with the goal to link up with our Esko Automation Engine production workflow. Cerm, with MIS systems, and Esko, in label and packaging production systems, are de-facto leaders who share the largest installed base in these domains: more than sixty integrated systems globally that operate digital, conventional and hybrid label presses. When they made the purchase, they merged the systems as quickly as possible.
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