CORNERING THE SHEETFED MARKET

Sheetfed offset press manufacturers are well aware of this fact, and each is ready with a game plan. "With run length continuing to drop, faster, more accurate makeready with less waste is the priority goal of every customer," states Jerry Manzi, packaging sales manager at MAN Roland. "To address this issue we not only supply presses with enhanced automation, but have installed numerous PECOM networks which introduce computer-integrated manufacturing into the pressroom. By preparing the job data prior to production, and entering operating parameters along with CIP3 data, we effectively allow every new job to run with the ease of a previously run job."