Progress Printing -- Boom, Not Gloom

"All that technology and the automation we've been able to purchase was the driving force behind acquiring the MAN Roland presses," Smith says. "This equipment, with the same press crews, allows us to do higher volume work more efficiently."

Sims adds that a major thrust for Progress Printing was to provide clients with what he calls "on-demand web printing," allowing for enough press capacity to satisfy quick turnarounds on jobs. "We want to be ready and able to service a customer if he or she needs a big job done on the web two or three days from now," Sims remarks. "Our goal is not to max out press time on our second ROTOMAN; it's to streamline our internal efficiencies through fewer make-readies and getting product to the bindery better."