Sheetfed Solutions

"There was a trend a few years ago to downsize to 40" presses," McKinney recalls, noting automation on larger presses was then unavailable. "But today, larger presses run the same speed as the 40" presses—the makeready time is the same, the manning is the same, but at the end of the eight-hour shift you have double the output, with a machine that is not nearly double the cost."