Small- & Medium-Format Sheetfeds — Armed To Compete

“The competition from the web market is becoming more noticeable, but when it comes to the short-run color market, web presses have a number of things going against them,” contends Michael Iburg, product manager, KBA North America. “On a sheetfed press, makeready time is much shorter, waste in terms of paper, ink and other consumables is much less, and the manpower required to run a sheetfed press is less. And, last but not least, there is still a remarkable difference in the quality achieved with a sheetfed press compared to the quality on a web press.”