Move Over, Makeready

A 10- or 11-color press with ProGlide stations may cost about 4 percent more than comparable presses, but operators can knock more than 50 percent off makeready time with the system, Faust notes.

Outer...limits?

Frank Laughlin, V.P. sales and marketing for Chromas Technologies, sees the drawer approach as "pretty much standard." Chromas' quick-change drawer system allows on-press changeovers as fast as three minutes per print station, for 7 1/2" to 26 1/2" press widths.