Presstek Inc.

Presstek Company Overview video

The Benefits of Print: A Fresh Look The numerous changes in communications technologies and preferences have blurred the many reasons why print remains a viable and important medium in what often seems to be an over communicated marketplace. In light of the communications upheavals of the last decade, it is important to reiterate the benefits of print.

The move to computer-to-plate has increased the productivity and efficiency of printers by simplifying the production process and streamlining workflow. Despite the cost savings achieved by moving from film-based plate making to CTP, there are still important costs incurred in getting the plate from the platesetter to the press. Most printers accept these as unavoidable costs of doing business, and therefore do not track these costs very carefully.

Presstek has named Todd Chambers as Chief Marketing Officer. He will be responsible for directing Presstek’s worldwide marketing. Chambers has more than 20 years of experience in the technology sector. Prior to joining Presstek, he served as Chief Marketing Officer at Onyx Software, a leader in customer relationship management (CRM) solutions; as Vice President of Marketing at Authoria, a leader in HR enterprise software solutions; and as Vice President of Americas Marketing a Parametric Technology Corporation. Chambers was Senior Partner at Ogilvy & Mather Advertising in Asia, and held global marketing and business development positions at Digital Equipment Corporation.

Even as its new Presstek 52DI direct imaging press brings World Bank Printing Services into the short-run four-color offset market, the busy in-plant is expanding its digital printing business with the addition of Océ and Kodak equipment. The new capabilities, all added within the past six months, have caused a reshuffling of work inside the 41-employee Washington, D.C.-based operation. The July addition of a two-color Océ 9220 roll-fed printer allowed the in-plant to move black-and-white book text and other short-run web jobs off of its web presses. At the same time, longer-run book pages were transferred to the 9220 from the shop’s cut-sheet digital

THE WORLD of the printing press has changed. Color printing once mandated longer runs because the setup time (makeready) was an hour or two. When the first direct imaging (DI) press was introduced in 1991, its makeready was at 20 minutes, and over time it came down to less than 10 minutes. Today older presses are at about 60 minutes for makeready. On newer presses, Komori has a user who was quoted with six-minute makereadies. Heidelberg introduced a press with a seven-minute make­ready—and heading to five minutes. MAN Roland customer Vista­Print boasts three-minute setups. KBA claims to be in the same league. A run

HUDSON, NH—December 15, 2006—Presstek, Inc. announced the 2007 first quarter schedule for its popular open house events. These local open houses provide a relaxed atmosphere where printers can see Presstek’s digital offset solutions in action and witness first-hand how they deliver a smarter, more productive and profitable way to print fast turnaround, high-quality color offset printing. Demonstrations of Presstek DI presses, chemistry-free CTP systems, and workflow solutions are featured throughout the day. In addition, a short presentation is scheduled several times a day on how to take advantage of the current market trends. The first events are scheduled for January 30-February 1 in Tempe, AZ

IPG Editor Bob Neubauer takes a tour of Mellon Financial’s Philadelphia in-plant with Mike Renn, assistant VP of Core Services.

IPG Editor Bob Neubauer takes a look at the chemistry-free CTP and DI press equipment at Presstek’s Graph Expo booth with Ed Marino, president and CEO.

A glimpse of the excitement and bustle of Graph Expo, with interviews of some of the in-plant managers in attendance.