LARGE-FORMAT SHEETFEDS -- Size Matters

Getting to Color Quickly
While keeping focused on decreasing makeready time and increasing productivity, Komori America has honed in on the color portion of makeready, notes Doug Schardt, marketing manager.

"Long ago we automated the mechanical portion of a makeready, but nobody had automated the color portion of a makeready," he reveals. "That was still in the hands of operators. If they were skilled, they achieved a quality sheet very fast. If they were unskilled, it took longer. And getting to color was as individual of a process as the operators themselves. Every pressman did it a little different and, because of that, results between shifts and crews were differ-ent."