Small- & Medium-Format Sheetfeds — Small Presses, Tall Orders

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Doug Schardt, product manager, Komori America, observes some other related trends, including increased specialization of the press-to-work relationship, better managed workflow, and rapid and agile responses to print customers’ needs.

“Increased specialization may include a printer dedicating a press to plastics, or targeting lenticular work, or focusing on some new screening technology,” Schardt reveals. “The workflow issues are generally intershop and tend to focus on improving the utilization rate of the asset. As far as the responses to the customer needs, printers are seeing tighter delivery times, lower prices and even more services included in the cost, such as job preflighting. We are also seeing more of a trend toward perfecting or one-pass printing.”