SHEETFED PRESSES -- Sizing Up the Options

MAN Roland's Cerfontaine advises printers to look at the even bigger picture when equipping a press. "Networking separate pieces of equipment within a printing plant to create a computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM) system is the most important development to implement in order to increase uptime, get more out of the equipment and push JIT (just-in-time) production. This concept incorporates the CIP4-developed JDF workflow," he explains.