Gang run printing

Benefits is a term from the field of printing and paper processing industry. He refers to the number of products on the print sheet copies of a printed product. In order to optimally use the space on a printed sheet and inexpensive to print several copies of the same or different, for example, labels, posters, packaging, etc., spread over the available space in the rule. The problem is the allocation of the benefit, if it is not, for example, is rectangular shapes, but folding cartons. This must be calculated exactly how the benefits are compiled formatlich optimal. The important thing is compliance with the direction of paper and cardboard.

From a nesting is used when there are on the sheet different jobs with differing requirements. This must first be calculated how much benefit per job are necessary to print a corresponding number of sheets. A double or triple benefit is a processing form in which the product is treated as if it were a single value. In a later process step, the mold is separated. A simple example is the printing of two A4 pages on one A3 sheet of paper. After printing the entire stack with a corresponding machine, such as a guillotine cutter, cut through and the two stacks is simply superimposed.

In the paper processing have also speaks of benefits when a predetermined layer of paper, which are several sheets of an overlapping paper cut during the cutting process. The paper web may be cut, for example, during the processing ( in the longitudinal direction) in stripes 8. Then one speaks of an 8 -benefit machine, with stripes as the final product.