Great idea! In the meantime, here are a few interesting demo's on YouTube that may help:
Variable Braille & Text Demo
Variable Labels on Web w/ Barcodes & Text + Dynamic Ganging
Scripting with Dynamic Marks :)
No, we focus on imposition, nesting, and planning.
You should check out Motionanalysis — they have a nice app that lets you design boxes parametrically on MacOS & Windows.
By far the best imposition solution for packaging is Tilia Labs product tilia Phoenix. Dynamic CAD-based ganging and nesting 👌. I am of course a bit bias, but you should definitely check out the website and let me know if you have questions - www.tilialabs.com
Check out Tilia Labs (www.tilialabs.com) imposition product — tilia Phoenix. We have had many customers who have recently purchased KM1’s move to our product to dynamically gang and optimize the larger sheet of the KM1 without needing to build imposition templates for every job 🙌.
Have a look at Tilia Labs (tilia Phoenix) software for creating dynamic barcodes/text and generating each variable ‘print frame’ based on existing dies for labels. You can easily generate sequential numbers or drive the dynamic text from a spreadsheet and drag a d drop the spreadsheet into the...
What imposition solution are you using? In most cases, the software which is creating the imposition layouts will be responsible for barcoding the printed sheet to track the job as the job progresses through print/lamination/finishing/etc...
In full disclosure, I work for Tilia Labs and we...
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Have you checked out the planning and imposition product tilia Phoenix by Tilia Labs (http://www.tilialabs.com)? Tilia Phoenix will handle all of your offset flat and folded imposition work. Further, Tilia Phoenix works as a stand-alone product exporting JDF...
@SteveSuffRIT What are you using to step your file?
There are two options inside of Plato (and I think somewhere in Automation Engine if you are using AE to step). Make sure you check the option 'Reset for each external file' if you want exact screening on each repeat.