The World of Wide-web

"In turn, these specialty mid-web presses moved the short-run jobs, previously produced less efficiently on wide-web presses, off the large presses, enabling the bigger machines to run longer run jobs that they were better suited for," Flathmann says.

Fischer &amp Krecke's new Flexpress 16S is a gearless, servo-driven CI flexo press offering the ability to provide infinitely variable repeats. The press features cleanliness and simplicity of design, strength and stability, compactness, ease and speed of changeover, and quiet operation at all speeds. It incorporates a direct-drive design, a new plate cylinder system, plate cylinder sleeves, and anilox sleeves or rolls.