Glossary → Changeover time
Changeover time.
the minutes a machine is down between two jobs
The minutes a machine produces nothing while it is switched from one job to the next: ink or screen swap, platen change, pretreat setting, purge, test print, first-piece check. It is the number that sets the shortest run worth putting on that machine, and the reason two identical presses can post very different daily output. Batching exists to spend it once instead of once per order.