Direct To Press

"Plates are our bread and butter," notes Schloff. "We see a tremendous future forward for that to continue."

"I wouldn't say [DI] is the future," adds Heidelberg's Daehnhardt. "But it is one of the futures.

Certainly those in-plants that own DI presses see a big future in them.

"Some of our customers...even ask for work to be done on that because of superior quality and turnaround time," says Jerry Wilson, of Alabama's Division of Printing and Publications. "So that's saying something there."