Offset Printing--Pressing Ahead

Komori also displayed its System 38SII, a 16-page, 1:1 web press. The System 38S, as well as the eight-page System 20, feature 23˝ cutoff models for the U.S. market, which gives commercial web printers the ability to print 81⁄2x11˝ products, full bleed with color bars. The System 38S is new to the states but not internationally, where the 38SII was unveiled. Rated at 50,000 iph, it features auto plate changers and push-button product changeover on the folder. Using KHS pre-inking software, the press demonstrated what was touted as the world's fastest makeready with stock change, folder changeover and form change in under 10 minutes.