So after acknowledging that a new press would be too costly, he and his team tried a new approach and looked at used equipment. The press they found had 68 million impressions on it, but Komori, through a third party, replaced worn parts and had it thoroughly cleaned.
“We had the opportunity to go through the machine too and request that things be replaced during installation,” Dettloff says.
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- Komori America
Bob has served as editor of In-plant Impressions since October of 1994. Prior to that he served for three years as managing editor of Printing Impressions, a commercial printing publication. Mr. Neubauer is very active in the U.S. in-plant industry. He attends all the major in-plant conferences and has visited more than 180 in-plant operations around the world. He has given presentations to numerous in-plant groups in the U.S., Canada and Australia, including the Association of College and University Printers and the In-plant Printing and Mailing Association. He also coordinates the annual In-Print contest, co-sponsored by IPMA and In-plant Impressions.