PATCHPLANNER

PATCHPLANNER is a web-based production tool for the corrugated plate industry to generate patches and optimize your platemaking process.

When producing corrugated boxes, in many cases only a small area needs to be printed although the box itself can be very large. To avoid too much waste of expensive flexo plates, PATCHPLANNER separates the layout of the printed areas into individual elements (patches) so that a much smaller plate can be used than the actual size of the job.

PATCHPLANNER automatically creates patches and positions them on a sheet in a way they take up as little space as possible. This data is exposed on a small plate and if needed, sent to a cutting machine. Next, the patches are mounted on a carrier sheet.

PATCHPLANNER works with Jobs (creating the patches) and creates Sheets, a combination of Job Patches on a sheet in order to give you optimum plate and film material usage.