Naimish Patel
7 Benefits Of Print Automation In 2021
Post Covid, printers are obliged to work in challenging conditions owing to restrictions such as social distancing, lockdowns and work-from-home. Automation, thus, becomes all the more important for SMEs operating with limited manpower and resources.
Automating your company’s print ordering and workflow or the job process can have a lasting impact on the business’s costs, quality, turnaround, delivery, ordering and reordering while optimizing overall production.
It is time for print businesses to choose smart work over hard work. The mere idea of manually managing a print order is not very pleasing. Besides, it consumes a lot of time and resources. By incorporating print automation print companies, big or small, can multiply their productivity and growth.
Are you still not sure about automating your print workflow? Take a look at these 7 benefits.
#1 Maximising Profit
Workflow automation helps reduce labour-intensive tasks such as estimation, prepress, job tracking, proof-reading and job tracking. This allows print companies to be competitive and serve more customers via improved production speed and productivity.
#2 Enhanced Productivity
Print companies with automated workflows can accept more jobs from customers via online submissions as opposed to those with less or no automation. From manual processing of each job to full automation workflow increases the print capacity. For instance, a print job processed in 3 to 4 days can be completed in just 2 to 3 hours.
#3 Improved Quality
In automated digital prints, the processes can be set to achieve high resolution or good quality, including colour measurements beyond the distinguished range of the human eye. Pre-defined tools of colour and image quality bring more reliability and speed to the print process.
#4 Customer-Friendly
Automation drastically reduces the turn-around time for print jobs. This helps to retain customers and even collect their feedback faster than ever before. Digital orders can be easily submitted by the customer, edited and tracked, in turn making your customer looped in by giving more control over their print orders.
#5 Brand Consistency
Online print jobs offer more control to the business to create consistent branding across jobs. The company’s brand reflects on every print produced. Be it reordering and reprinting jobs, they can follow the branding guidelines (in terms of using specific layouts, colours and brand images) set by your company.
#6 Serve More Clients
In traditional processes one can handle a limited number of clients only as every process starting from estimation, designing to approval requires human intervention. An integrated and automated print workflow smooths the internal as well as external communication even with clients located far away. This helps create new opportunities for marketing and sales. The enhanced productivity, hence, allows the print company to serve more clients, better and faster from ordering to delivery round the clock.
#7 Offer More Print Products
Introducing new products and services in traditional business is a challenge as more people and equipment are needed. The reduced manual intervention of automation lets the print jobs roll in more efficiently and free from errors. This sets the staff to devote their additional time to other value-added tasks while the business can innovate and diversify its product portfolio and partner with vendors and increase revenue.
To Conclude
Automation-led printing leads to increased engagement by shifting to technology the sort of rote tasks that stop your staff from picking up more work or devoting time to skills development exercises that may boost productivity.
Automation brings accountability to the process by allocating the tasks to each team member. This helps the business to identify productive and non-productive tasks. Further, every well-performed task plays a crucial role in the decision-making process.
A recent survey of more than 6,000 knowledge workers shows that Business Process Automation or BPA boosts not only productivity but satisfaction (ServiceNow). Thus, giving you all the more reason to get your print business automated in 2021.
