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Fiery launches AI-assisted EBB adds Lecta
Adestor sheets

workflow platform Elliott Baxter (EBB) has
Paper and board supplier

Fiery has unveiled a systems and email. An addi- started stocking Adestor Self-
brand-new AI-assisted work- tional feature is a drag-and- Adhesive Sheets from Lecta.
flow automation platform drop workflow editor, The Adestor range includes
that aims to redefine job designed to make it easier to both split back and solid back
preparation in print produc- build and modify workflow face materials, offering con-
tion. Fiery JobFlow Pro without scripting knowledge verters and printers flexibil-
promises a “ground break- or IT support. The platform ity across a raft of labelling
ing” approach to print work- can also be connected applications.
flows, by automating directly to Fiery servers, A variety of adhesive speci-
decisions not just steps, to accessing presets, monitor- fications are available and the
deliver “greater speed, con- ing queues and tracking product is suitable for multi-
sistency, and control” to device activity through Fiery ple end uses, from standard
print operators of all skill JobFlow Pro can automatically analyse incoming jobs Command WorkStation. identification labels to pro-
levels. organizations around the guage that reflects your motional and retail sticker
By providing world are looking for how AI experience level.” Weiss added: “From auto- production. “Designed to
AI-assistance, the software can help them increase pro- JobFlow Pro can use its AI mating manual steps to vastly deliver excellent printing
aims to reduce manual ductivity,” said Toby Weiss, feature to translate complex reducing the time require- results, Adestor supports
touchpoints, increase Fiery CEO. preflight results into opera- ment to onboard new opera- consistent, high-quality out-
throughput, and scale opera- “That’s why we built Fiery tor-friendly language so tors, JobFlow Pro put, making it an essential
tions without adding head- Job Flow Pro with an issues are easier to under- revolutionizes the print component within print
count, and has been AI-centric architecture that stand, Fiery highlighted, workflow process — setting operations producing labels
designed to handle future automatically analyses while the system can intake the groundwork for the and stickers at scale,” EBB
high-volume demands in incoming jobs, chooses the jobs from multiple sources future of digital print to be stated. Adestor Self-Adhesive
digital print. “AI is a ground correct job settings, and tells including drop zones, hot smarter, faster, and easier Sheets are now held in EBB’s
breaking technology, and you what’s going on in lan- folders, MIS or web-to-print than ever before.” UK warehouses.
Friedheim adds Digibook to Meteor Inkjet in

expand offering nozzle health first

Friedheim International Meteor Inkjet has
has taken on the exclusive launched what it claims is
UK agency for Swiss- the first commercially avail-
headquartered Digibook able system to provide real-
Technology, further bolster- time health monitoring of
ing its portfolio and giving every nozzle in an inkjet
Digibook an official UK printhead. Nozzle Health
sales channel. The strategic Technology is said to
deal with Digibook will improve the visibility of Improves the visibility
enhance Friedheim’s portfo- nozzle performance, giving NozzleFix software or
lio with digital and short- The strategic deal with Digibook will enhance Friedheim’s portfolio manufacturers the ability to pause production for tar-
run bookmaking machinery cut waste, reduce down-
optimised for book-on- three-side trimming, case- Digibook Technology time and maintain maxi- geted maintenance before
problems occur.”
demand and digital print making and casing in. machinery will be available mum productivity.
Meteor said that without
workflows. Friedheim said key bene- for demo, sales and UK “The system measures the new technology, nozzle
Digibook Technology’s fits of the equipment installations through the impulse response of faults are noticed only after
equipment enables digital includes the ease and flexibil- Friedheim’s national sales each nozzle in fractions of a producing perceptible errors
print companies to perform ity of producing on-demand- and service network. The kit millisecond, instantly iden- but with the technology the
all phases of book manufac- book quantities with a high supplier said its customers tifying issues such as wet- nozzles can be checked with-
turing in-house, from per- degree of automation and will benefit from compre- ting, blockage, or air out producing any faulty
fect binding including end simplicity. While rapid hensive installation support, ingestion,” Meteor said. print. It said the new tech-
sheet and backlining, to lay- changeovers and setup for training and after-sales ser- “Users can automatically nology will decrease the fail-
flat binding for photobooks varied job runs are said to vice, backed by its technical compensate for missing ure rate of any inkjet
and children’s books, plus reduce waste and downtime. team. nozzles using Meteor’s production process.

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