Sheetfed’s Future Analyzed by PRIMIR

Commercial sheetfed printers interviewed report they plan to increase their dependence on automation in the coming years. Several printers attributed stabilized print prices and higher profit levels to on-press automation and technological advances. “Our all-time record is 14 jobs in a single eight-hour shift on one of our new six-color sheetfeds with an average run length of 2,500 with complete job changeover and startup. On our older presses, we were lucky to finish three or four jobs per shift.”