中文Workflowz used Visual Impact to introduce the Australasian print community to Enfocus Griffin+, an upgraded automation tool for nesting wide-format and signage workflows that the company says is engineered for the messy reality of diverse production rather than tidy textbook jobs. The upgrade is a meaningful step up from the original Griffin, and it targets the bottlenecks that wide-format and signage shops hit as job counts and media lengths grow.
The headline numbers tell the story. Griffin+ supports up to 500 unique products per job, compared with the original Griffin’s 100, a fivefold increase that matters for shops handling high-SKU personalisation and mixed-application work. It also accommodates print jobs up to 50 metres in length, another fivefold increase over its predecessor, while introducing advanced reporting options including PDF, XML, JSON and tiling reports to give operators and managers better visibility and control over what the machine is actually producing.
Nesting – packing many different jobs onto a single roll or sheet – is where wide-format profitability is won or lost. Poor nesting wastes expensive media; good nesting turns marginal jobs profitable. Griffin+ attacks the problem with an upgraded engine that now features advanced scheduling intelligence, enabling workflows to be triggered at specific times of the day. That lets printers align automation with peak production periods, streamlining operations and reducing bottlenecks without adding complexity to the operator’s day.
The software was developed in close collaboration with key resellers, including Workflowz itself, whose insight and expertise helped shape its expanded functionality and user-focused enhancements. That co-development model – a reseller feeding shop-floor reality back into the product – is increasingly how print software gets good, because the people specifying it are the ones installing it on real floors.
Alan Dixon, managing director of Workflowz, was clear about interoperability. “Griffin+ will work with all major cutting table solutions, including those from Kongsberg, Zund and Jwei,” he said. For a wide-format shop that has already invested in a finishing table, a nesting tool that is agnostic about the hardware downstream is a selling point; it means the software does not force a rip-and-replace of the cutting ecosystem.
The strategic context is the maturing of wide-format automation. A few years ago, nesting tools were specialist add-ons; now they are becoming the control layer that sits between the RIP and the cutter, optimising media use and reporting on outcomes. Griffin+’s jump to 500 products per job and 50-metre lengths suggests vendors expect job complexity and roll sizes to keep climbing as personalisation and large-format applications expand.
For ANZ print providers, the practical payoff is fewer manual decisions and less spoiled media at a moment when substrate costs and labour shortages are both pressing. A tool that can schedule nesting overnight, report in the format a management system expects, and talk to whatever cutter is on the floor is exactly the kind of unglamorous automation that protects margin. Workflowz’s Visual Impact demonstration put that story in front of the buyers who need it most.
Source: Print21 – “VI Workflowz: Next level automantion” by Wayne Robinson (2 October 2026).
As substrate costs and labour shortages both press on wide-format margins, a nesting tool that schedules overnight, reports in the format a management system expects, and talks to whatever cutter is on the floor is exactly the unglamorous automation that protects profit, which is why Griffin+ drew attention at Visual Impact.
The economics of nesting are unforgiving: a few percent of wasted media across thousands of square metres of expensive substrate is the difference between a profitable job and a loss-maker, and Griffin+’s jump to 500 products per job and 50-metre lengths meets a reality where personalisation and large-format applications keep growing. The scheduling-intelligence addition is the cleverest part, because letting automation run overnight against peak windows removes a human bottleneck without adding complexity to the operator’s day. By staying agnostic about the cutter downstream – Kongsberg, Zund, Jwei all supported – Workflowz avoids forcing a rip-and-replace of finishing hardware, which is exactly the kind of pragmatic interoperability that wins signage shops already invested in their tables.
As substrate and labour costs squeeze wide-format margins, unglamorous automation like smarter nesting is where the next point of profitability will be found, not in faster hardware alone.
Griffin+ shows where wide-format software is heading: from a helper that packs a sheet to a control layer that schedules, reports and talks to the whole finishing ecosystem. The shops that adopt that view will protect margin on exactly the high-SKU, long-run work that is becoming the norm, while those still nesting by hand quietly lose points of profit they cannot see.
The real test for Griffin+ will be whether the fivefold jumps in products-per-job and media length translate into measurably less spoiled substrate on busy floors, and Workflowz’s co-development with resellers is the right way to find out, because the people specifying the tool are the ones installing it. If the scheduling intelligence lets shops run nesting unattended against peak windows, the payoff is not just media saved but operator hours returned to higher-value work, which is the quiet win every wide-format manager is chasing.
