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

Initial installations of the new press size have occurred at printers such as Quad/Graphics with excellent results, notes Erbstein, who adds that the increased efficiency of the new presses enables printers to offer better pricing or to achieve greater margins.

According to long-time web industry watcher Ted Ringman, vice president of development for the Print and Graphics Scholarship Foundation, the increased productivity of the new wider presses, coupled with the quality improvements resulting from gapless technology, make web offset printers ever more competitive with rotogravure printers.