Planning of a make-to-order production process in the printing industry

P Baumann, S Forrer, N Trautmann - Flexible Services and Manufacturing …, 2015 - Springer
Offset printing is a common method to produce large amounts of printed matter. We consider
a real-world offset printing process that is used to imprint customer-specific designs on …

An integer linear programming model for the label printing problem

D Xu, Y Shen, Y Cao, L Xu, F Yang… - … in Operational Research, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
In a recent paper published in this journal, Alonso‐Pecina et al. collect several sets of
benchmark instances for the label printing problem from the literature and they also propose …

Iterated local search for the label printing problem

F Alonso-Pecina, D Romero… - Journal of the …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
In the label printing problem (LPP), a set of labels must be printed in specified quantities,
using n templates to be defined. Each template can accommodate a fixed number of printing …

Two heuristics for the label printing problem

F Alonso‐Pecina, J Arellano‐Verdejo… - International …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The label printing problem (LPP) arises in the printing industry, where we have a set of
labels that require printing. Each one has different demands and must be printed using a …

[HTML][HTML] Towards an efficient resolution of printing problems

D Tuyttens, A Vandaele - Discrete Optimization, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper addresses two different problems coming from the printing industry: the label
printing problem and the cover printing problem. In both cases, the problem consists in the …

[HTML][HTML] Ad hoc heuristic for the cover printing problem

D Romero, F Alonso-Pecina - Discrete Optimization, 2012 - Elsevier
We address an NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem arising in a printing shop. An
impression grid is composed by a set of plates. The cover printing problem consists in …

A hybrid simulated annealing/linear programming approach for the cover printing problem

F Alonso-Pecina, D Romero - Mathematical Problems in …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The NP‐hard cover printing problem addressed here consists in determining the number
and composition of equal size impression grids, as well as the number of times each grid is …

A two-phase heuristic algorithm for the label printing problem

E Çankaya, A Ekici, OÖ Özener - Top, 2023 - Springer
In this paper, we study the label printing problem (LPP) which has applications in the
printing industry. In LPP, the demand for a set of labels is satisfied by printing the labels …

A method to improve planning of product placement on a printing sheet

K Czerniachowska, K Żywicki… - Management and …, 2021 - yadda.icm.edu.pl
Production planners should be mindful of the production environment, the tools required,
and environmental practices when producing the product fully in line with customer's …

Efficient symmetry-breaking formulations for grouping customer orders in a printing shop

P Baumann, N Trautmann - 2014 IEEE International …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper deals with a real-world printing shop, where the offset-printing technology is used
to imprint customer-specific designs on napkin pouches. The optimization problem consists …