Strategic Investment is NCL's Key to Success

As noted above, CutStar in-line sheeters at the front of the XL feeders combine the cost benefits of web offset with the flexibility of sheetfed offset by allowing NCL to use inexpensive reel stock rather than more costly sheeted stock.

In the 1980s, Klopp explained, NCL pioneered the use of offset, roll-fed heatset web technologies for cut-and-stack paper labels. "While the industry was using sheetfed presses, NCL was perfecting the science of stabilizing paper on high-speed heatset webs, offering its clients quicker turn times and competitive cost advantages over our traditional sheetfed competitors. Our addition of the CutStar inline sheeter has allowed NCL to transfer the in-line roll-fed technology it developed for its heatset webs to the sheetfed printing process."