On the Straight and Narrow-web

Raney believes, in the U.S. market, the majority of narrow-web installations seem to be made by smaller companies entering the folding carton segment who want to bypass the traditional sheetfed offset route.

"In many cases this has been successful," Raney says, though he admits the success is sometimes limited by difficulties in diecutting the cartons accurately, due to the quality of the flat bed diecutter in use.