Does anyone use AI within the Print Industry

[chriscozi]

All good points. I guess I mention it because after many years I have yet to find ANY off the shelf quoting software that I have been happy with. All seem to have an inability to translate real world time to a quote.
eg. time difference to cut x1000 business cards made up of x3 different names against time difference to cut x1000 business cards made up of x4 different names. Yes I know! time should (in theory) be the same. Only difference being sorting time. but in the "real" world it does not work like that. This is just one small example of many.
Probably unrealistic to expect Ai to cope with this. Just my 2cents worth.

Oh I don't doubt that a complex enough system COULD solve most 'printing' quote and production issues and probably will at some point. There may even be some models that are available right now that just need enough specific training.
If/when that happens we can expect the scope of what you can actually use it for to be much narrower than our current person to person or business to business model. (See the 4over4 business model as an example - 'you can have any color as long as it's black' - with apologies to Ford)
But the ROI does not seem to be there yet as we are pretty much an edge case these days.
Won't stop people from trying.

 

[BigSi]

Oh I don't doubt that a complex enough system COULD solve most 'printing' quote and production issues and probably will at some point. There may even be some models that are available right now that just need enough specific training.
If/when that happens we can expect the scope of what you can actually use it for to be much narrower than our current person to person or business to business model. (See the 4over4 business model as an example - 'you can have any color as long as it's black' - with apologies to Ford)
But the ROI does not seem to be there yet as we are pretty much an edge case these days.
Won't stop people from trying.

Yes, I agree. I have to keep telling myself not to sweat the small stuff. Some jobs I'll quote a fraction over and some a fraction under. In the big picture it will even out.
Getting back on topic-,
It might be fun to have a bit of a play with AI and just see how close a relatively complex quote is to a conventional quoting software.

 

[narseman]

IMHO.. The more you farm out to AI, the dumber you get.
It's the struggle that makes you better, not necessarily the result.

 

[tngcas]

IMHO.. The more you farm out to AI, the dumber you get.
It's the struggle that makes you better, not necessarily the result.

Society itself will get dumber. In the sense that we will lose the ability to know how certain things are done.
Just like the other thread mentioned. Certain skillsets are dying out and everyone assumes that someone knows how it's done but once those people leave the field people truly are going to have to reinvent the wheel (or wheels) again because the people who knew how it was done are gone and the machines that were designed to do it will be gone.

Once AI learns how to do something and then the people who programmed it to do it are gone and out of the field then eventually AI won't know how to do it anymore either and nobody will know how to teach AI to do it and we have to begin again.

 

[motormount]

i ''made'' a standalone app to change pdf page sequence, so i don't ask it again and again.

I 'd like to see how could run easy imposition tasks, even though more than 15 years ago, i could do a lot of thinks in prinect, so today i suppose with a hot folder you could cut a lot of repetitive tasks.
And with scripts you can do a lot of work in photoshop and illustrator as well ( production work, not design )

 

[ThePrintStack]

i ''made'' a standalone app to change pdf page sequence, so i don't ask it again and again.

I 'd like to see how could run easy imposition tasks, even though more than 15 years ago, i could do a lot of thinks in prinect, so today i suppose with a hot folder you could cut a lot of repetitive tasks.
And with scripts you can do a lot of work in photoshop and illustrator as well ( production work, not design )

That sounds cool. is it always the same page order, or can you give it different variable each time.