All Digital, All The Time

"But now we're just taking the PDF and printing exactly the number they need, and usually an extra 20 or so," he says.

With run lengths dropping, and customers' speed expectations getting ever more stringent, many managers find that their in-plants' offset presses are becoming specialty items. And for those in-plants that don't require massive print runs, or even those that find they can save more money by outsourcing that work, an all-digital shop has become an attractive goal.