We finished printing the school photos today. Some of the ladies at work were discussing the last time we were done before December and it has been over 5 years at least.
The new printer coming late put us four weeks behind on the printing before we even started, so it was great that we were able to get it done. Next year, we are going to be sitting around waiting for the cheques to clear.
Apart from the speed of the printer itself, several other factors sped up printing and packaging.
For example
Photo editors don't have to split their time between editing and printing the photos. Now the editors only edit the photos, which lowers the switchover time between editing and printing.
The person operating the printer works independently of the editors. This means that anything that needs to be reprinted can just be reprinted. This reduces interruptions to the photo editors, and there is less waiting around for reprints.
The new printer is can have a much longer print queue. The machine can print unsupervised once the jobs are entered, allowing the operator to do other things while waiting for the queue to finish.
We don't laminate the photos anymore and cutting the prints to separate them has been mostly eliminated by the new printer. We will likely be able to eliminate all the cutting once we have more time to make templates and tweak the printer a little more.
There are a few more things that we could do to improve, but for the most part, many of the bottle necks have been removed.
3 comments:
What sort of photo editing occurs for school photos? I never imagined that was part of the process.
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