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Features such as an electronic double sheet detector (using fiber optics) and computerized automated adjustments provide such efficiency that, according to Hamburg, there's "almost nil" spoilage. And spoilage of any kind is a costly proposition, especially if an entire job is ruined.

"If a printer is going to produce a job that is costly in the front end, why have it torn up in finishing? You work too hard on a job in prepress and on press to have it ruined in the end process," he says, emphasizing that it pays to have good equipment.