SPECIAL REPORT -- The State of Web Printing - Web Printing At Mid-Decade

Binderies benefit from automation, as well. Doyle, who runs both web and sheetfed equipment, notes that he is already using JDF data to set up buckle folders, flatbed cutters and saddlestitchers.

But the real payoff, he feels, lies in getting information back from the machinery. With a modern print business management information system, printers can monitor manufacturing operations such as run time and impressions, as well as those as diverse as web and ribbon alignment and registration, gathering data throughout the press run and determining the nature of problems or the reasons for profitability.