Jonathan Murkin, Lead Hand Platemaker
My Job
Calculating Combinations
We print about 10 jobs a day and I decide the layout for each one.
For instance, our waffle carton customers have 100 different types of cartons so a typical order would be 20 different cartons in quantities of 10,000 or 5,000.
The press can only run 4 process colours and 2 special colours, at a time, so I use quantities ordered and the number of colours in each carton to determine how many we can run on one layout, or sheet.