Taylor Publishing -- Capturing Memories

Helping student yearbook staffs create lifelong memories is just part of the Taylor Publishing success story. Taylor stepped up its hardware arsenal in early 2002 with the acquisition of a pair of four-over-four Komori Lithrone 440 Super Perfector (SP) sheetfed presses and an eight-color Lithrone 840. According to Bill Cheney, Taylor's vice president of manufacturing, the presses did the best job of addressing the printer's primary needs for multiple colors, heavy ink coverage and short run lengths.

"We also chose the Super Perfectors because there is no marking, which enables us to deliver high-quality printing," Cheney says, referring to the fact that, unlike typical perfecting presses where sheets are gripped on both ends, the SP grips the sheet on one end only throughout its passage from feeder to delivery. The SP presses allow printing on both sides of the sheet in a single pass, with no flipping of the sheet, for complete one- pass, two-sided printing.