Knepper Press: Extreme Makeover

The Roland 700 (710 to be precise) is actually the second such model to be installed at Knepper Press, the first arriving five years ago. The newest machine boasts five-over-five printing, the roll sheeter and closed-loop color control with an in-line spectrophotometer.

"The productivity of printing one pass instead of two passes seemed to make sense for a lot of the sheetfed work that we do," Ford remarks. "Putting the roll sheeter on it adds to the economic advantage we have in buying rolls; U.S. manufactured paper instead of Asian paper."