SHEETFED PRESSES -- Sizing Up the Options

Packaging work still is the dominant application for larger format sheetfed presses, but high-volume, dedicated commercial printers have been showing more interest in the machines, reports Bob McKinney, director of marketing at KBA North America, Sheetfed Div., in Williston, VT. "The installations started about a year ago and are growing in number," he says. "We're talking about the top end of the printing world. These are three-shift operations running the big machines side-by-side with 40˝ presses," he says.