From the Editor: Offset Still Thriving
Well, that may be true for many in-plants, but at a number of shops, large and small, offset is alive and well.
"We easily do 10 times more offset than digital," says May, whose shop averages a couple million offset impressions a month, versus a few hundred thousand monthly digital impressions.
The same is true at the University of Oklahoma, where an eight-color Heidelberg and a five-color manroland reign. Administrator John Sarantakos estimates that 90 percent of his in-plant's volume is done on the shop's offset presses, with just 10 percent printed digitally, mostly on a Kodak NexPress 2500.
- Companies:
- Heidelberg
- Manroland
- People:
- Bill May
- John sarantakos
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.
