Service Up Front

She also contends that the gravure process must meet the customer demand for shorter runs. “The presses being manufactured today are ready. All we need is quick turnaround image carriers, hopefully chromeless,” she says.

Fontaine suggests that streamlining current processes through automation, lean efforts, and parallel designing for print, and specifying gravure to mirror SWOP (specifications web offset publications) for offset are ways gravure printers can begin to improve front-end costs of the print job.