Digital Output Devices: A Digital Printing Redux
Presstek has been contributing to the "big iron" at Graph Expo in recent years by having its 31x23.6˝ 75DI on the show floor, but this year it opted to display just a single tower of that press in its booth along with a four-color 52DI digital offset press. Another carryover demonstrated in the states for the first time was Virtuoso, an in-line color management and sheet inspection system for the Presstek 75DI that performs a complete inspection of each sheet as it passes through the press at full speed.
John Parsons (john@intuideas.com), former Editorial Director of The Seybold Report, is an independent writer, ghostwriter, and editor. He is the co-author of the interactive printed textbook, Introduction to Graphic Communication, on the art, science and business of print, which has been adopted by Ryerson, Arizona State, the University of Houston, and many other schools and vocational training centers. Custom editions of the book are under consideration by major printing companies and franchises for internal training purposes.
