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Williamson, a perennial fixture at the Premier Print Awards, won 121 total awards in the 2005 competition for products and services ranging from direct mail to annual reports, product brochures, calendars and posters.
The company's equipment list is equally diverse.Although Williamson has an impressive array of Heidelberg sheetfed presses and finishing equipment, it also has four web presses (two MAN Roland Rotomans and two Heidelberg Harris models), an Esko Scope workflow driving Kodak platesetters, Metrix job planning software and Prism's WIN management information system (MIS) keeping track of it all.
Williamson also faces the same challenge confronting every printer in an overcrowded market.
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This past June, with the help of Esko, LithoTechnics, Prism and Heidelberg, Williamson achieved its goal.
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Using Metrix, Williamson can respond on the fly to equipment, stock and other changes - new layouts can be recalculated almost instantly.
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"With JDF, rather than print out a work order, Williamson launches JDF files from its MIS to Scope," explains Pieters.
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Pieters further notes that detailed imposition information contained in the Metrix-appended JDF job ticket enables Williamson to automate its entire prepress department.
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Prior to the JDF implementation, Williamson relied on a cumbersome three-step imposition process.
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Although Williamson has made great strides in its mission to eradicate islands of automation, Novak says the company still has more to do, particularly as the JDF requirements for postpress operations evolve.
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Williamson also is one of the few companies that can accept and process JDF from customers.
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It's not just for Williamson
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Today, brothers Jerry and Jesse Williamson are in charge.
Jerry (CEO) and Jesse (COO) have won countless accolades for their industry leadership and technical innovations.Jerry received both his undergraduate and law degrees from Southern Methodist University and served as an assistant city attorney for the city of Dallas prior to joining the family business in 1968.Since the 1970s, Jerry has served in various capacities with Printing Industries of Texas and Printing Industries of America (PIA), including PIA chairman of the board in 1998.
Jesse Williamson, also an SMU alumnus, joined the company in 1970 as a sales representative.Jesse invented or co-invented several groundbreaking printing techniques, including PackMAG, a magazine and direct mail insert carrier; WIMS, a process for integrating metallic inks with process color; Litholux, which enables flexo printing and coating interstation on sheetfed offset presses; and GloKote, a process for applying glow-in-the-dark slurry on offset presses.
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"I have to thank Jerry and Jesse.
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Williamson has used Prism across multiple locations since 2002.
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"One of the challenges is that Williamson is innovative, always at the cutting edge," says Morgan.
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James Mauro, Prinect product manager, Heidelberg USA (Kennesaw, GA), adds that about a year ago, Williamson began investigating the logistics of using Prism and Heidelberg's Prinect Data Control to generate an electronic job ticket to preset its presses.
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The Heidelberg and Prism people converged upon Williamson to install and integrate the system, and it's been going well."
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