DRUPA 2000--Absorbing The Digital Impact

* The global move toward accepted, viable on-press imaging and true production digital color presses—built for even the most traditional of commercial printing operations.

Signalling a new direction for digital printing at DRUPA 2000, Presstek, supplying on-press imaging to its new allies, Adast, Ryobi, Sakurai and, announced at DRUPA, Didde Web Press, moved digital printing from the on-demand to the in-production status. Didde announced that the objective of its new alliance with Presstek is to create the first UV direct imaging (DI) web press for direct mail.