SMALL-FORMAT PRESSES -- Small, But Powerful

While two-color press sales may be dropping at Sakurai, Don Trytten, vice president of xpedx/Import Group, informs that his company's two-color Ryobi press sales are holding steady. Even so, xpedx does the bulk of its business in selling four-color machines.

"We are offering two- and four-color presses with greater degrees of automation and continuous dampeners," Trytten says. "We are also introducing our four-color DI press for the direct-to-press market. We feel that the quality of print, registration, fast imaging and ease of maintenance make this machine very desirable to the market. The Ryobi product line will continue to offer presses to meet the increasing demands of the market."