SMALL-FORMAT PRESSES -- Small, But Powerful

"Adding this together gives users a quicker makeready and a higher quality output at a faster speed," explains Vice President Walter Gierlach. "This, in turn, gives the small offset press a nice future and makes it a necessary piece of equipment to round out most print shops."

Ken Hilderhoff, vice president of sales and marketing for Diamond Press, prefers to look at small-format presses like they are larger presses. He feels that the smaller presses must live up to the same expectations as their larger cousins, specifically when it comes to flexibility, fast make-readies and high quality.