Modern Litho Focuses on Short-run Work with Speedmaster Press

“We originally budgeted for 3 percent growth, but actually grew more than 10 percent in 2012 with sales of $17.6 million,” said company president Darrell Moore. “We couldn’t have done it without the new press. It’s everything we hoped for and more.”

Stress-Busters
Among the problems Modern Litho hoped to resolve with the addition of a second Speedmaster XL 105 was the backlog created when jobs intended for its existing presses stayed on plate too long—up to three or four days in some cases—before moving to press. Since the new machine was installed, “Our bindery now gets the job much earlier in the cycle. That takes away a lot of the stress we’ve been dealing with.”