Digital Color Presses: If Only They Had Known...
Harty: We would have had more difficult print tests for the vendors to produce. Solids and heavy screens of a single color file would be helpful, to see if there are incon–sistencies.
What have you have learned after using your digital press for a while now?
Smith: In an offset environment, you are accustomed to running overs/extras. That same mentality in digital will cost you and sometimes make the difference between a loss and a profit. You must add some overs to your charges when calculating a digital job.
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.