Offset Printing in the Modern World
In this short-run era, where a third of all jobs have run lengths of just 250 sheets, how are sheetfed offset presses faring? Industry observer Frank Romano offers his view.
The participants took an average of 110 minutes in prepress time to process the 4C-over-4C 19x25˝ poster. The best of them took about 70 minutes and the worst took three hours. The 2006 prep throughput was much better than the 138-minute average in 1998, when most participants were still handling film rather than CTP. Thus, CTP and CTP workflows were the reason for much of the improvement.
Frank Romano is Professor Emeritus at RIT School of Media Sciences.
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