Cover Story?Sheetfed offset, providing best overall value

There is also a question of how fast the technology is moving. Just like PCs, the technology is changing and improving at a fast pace, and a printer needs to decide the right time to make the move.

As offset printing takes its proven quality leadership into the 21st century, it is still incumbent for package printers to blend the new digital technologies into this age-old printing process—just as is being done at Caraustar's Chicago Carton Plant. It is the combination of the new and the old that will be needed to stay a step ahead in the competitive printing industry.