Inca Digital Printers have launched an analytics application, the Inca Reporter Pro, designed to help managers understand the productivity and efficiency of their wide format printers.
The application will run with the Inca Onset and Spyder wide-format printers and will give production managers the ability to monitor their flat-bed printers and access a wide range of production statistics from a web browser-based interface.
The software provides a detailed overview across a range of metrics and can generate a variety of internal management reports, allowing managers better insight to fine-tune production schedules and increase efficiencies.
It provides job, customer and machine production data, either dynamically or at predetermined intervals through a user-friendly dashboard. Different users can set up their own dashboard view, displaying their preferred choice of job metadata. Using standard SQL database queries, users can search on multiple criteria such as filename, job number or customer name and have the results regularly updated on their dashboard, or used to generate reports.
The system can deliver specific data such as individual machine uptime, quantity of ink used per job and productivity, such as total number of sheets printed and job production time. Users can generate production reports for a single machine focusing on a specific timeframe, or they can examine data relating to jobs for a single customer that are printed on a number of different devices.
The information can be used to improve the accuracy of job estimating and assist with production planning. If required, the data can be imported into a spreadsheet, estimating system or even an MIS. This facility allows the user to manipulate the data using existing IT applications.
‘Today more than ever, print service providers need fast, accurate production data in order to maximize profits, increase efficiencies and reduce waste,’ said Heather Kendle, sales and marketing director. ‘Inca ReporterPro gives users desktop or network access to comprehensive insights and metrics on printer use and performance across multiple machines, helping deliver increased transparency on job costs and production efficiency.’
