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.
• More than 50,000 belongs to web-fed offset litho presses, though XL sheetfed presses are challenging the low end of these runs.
Overlaps exist because:
1. 40˝ (eight-up) presses compete with 26˝ presses (four-up) and now six-up presses.
2. So-called XL presses (60˝ to 80˝) compete with narrow web presses and some wide web presses.
Frank Romano is Professor Emeritus at RIT School of Media Sciences.
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