EDITOR'S notebook

Sheetfed offset presses on display were decked out with double coaters, mark-free perfecting, enhanced feeders and deliveries, gravure and flexo printing capabilities, shaftless drives, simultaneous plate changers and even printing units that can be diverted for dispersion coatings and—as MAN Roland displayed—for use as an in-line cold foil stamping system. Proving that bigger can be better, several manufacturers debuted super-large-format presses, led by the massive 803⁄4˝ KBA Rapida 205 sheetfed press. Digital press vendors featured more in-line coating and finishing capabilities, new monochrome platforms like Xerox's Nuvera and rising ink-jet technology for industrial printing. For their part, commercial webfed presses incorporated variable cutoffs, breathtaking makereadies and new folder designs. JDF was apparent here, too, with Komori, for example, setting up its entire System 38S web press—including the fold format—solely through JDF data transfer.