In-line Insights

Of course, printers need to look beyond overall trends and into individual facility and job characteristics to determine in-line's true appeal for their business. "Whether printers should run a product with laminating in-line on a flexo press or out-of-line is really dependent on run lengths," Deamer states, "and, frankly, with a trend towards smaller orders it may make more sense to have separate operations for printing, lamination and coating."