The Future Of Offset - Part II

Press setup, however, is getting faster as automation streamlines the process.

"It's getting to be more of a push-button operation," remarks Dan Gilham, of the Pennsylvania Department of General Services, in Harrisburg. "Everything's going totally automated."

Though this in itself is hardly news, press automation is changing in-plants by compelling them to retire older presses and buy new models. In Waltham, Mass., the New England Journal of Medicine recently installed a new, automated four-color, 23˝ Heidelberg Speedmaster 74.