Special Editions — The Joy of Printing

“The press is amazing! We’ve finally got a fast, high-tech press. It runs up to 15,000 sheets per hour, and it’s got all sorts of automation: paper presets, scanning densitometer, semi-automatic plate loading, and blanket and roller washers. Our makeready (vs. our older press that didn’t have aqueous coating) went from half an hour to about 10 minutes. Also, the six-up format of the new Ryobi allows us to compete against the big boys,” says Esser, who notes that he got a lot of help from xpedx, Ryobi’s U.S. distributor, as well as the local distributor, GSS Graphics.