No Lethargy for Letterpress

While in-line stations can be moved to any position on the press, a CI design's situation is more fixed, Little emphasizes. Adding stations may require adding an entire press unit, and hot stamping units must be located at the end of the press unit.

In addition to touting printing station flexibility, Yates underscores such in-line design advantages as portability of inking units, higher productivity with more curing units, easier handling of multiple webs, and easier accommodation of wider webs. Disadvantages can include press length. "More web can increase waste, and cost," he comments.