How many press hours went to setup, and how many to printing?

A label job cannot run until the customer approves the colour. That is not negotiable and never will be.

What is negotiable is how long it sits. A proof goes out, and then it is in somebody's inbox, and nobody is counting the days because nobody owns the counting.

Approvals are now a stage with an owner and a clock, not an email somebody sent.

Label runs are short. That is the business. And on a short run, setup time is bigger than run time, plates, dies, colour matching, web tension.

So the real question is not how fast the press runs. It is how many setups you did this week, and how many were for jobs you could have grouped.

Once setups were logged per job, the scheduler could see which jobs shared a die and group them.

Everything is ready. The job is scheduled. The die is with the vendor, or somewhere on a rack, or it was never ordered.

Nobody knew because tooling is not part of the job. It lives in somebody's memory and a cupboard.

The die became a field on the job. If it is not confirmed, the job cannot be scheduled.