Offset Technology: Never Say Die

“CIM will not be ready for full widespread implementation until interoperability testing is much farther down the road.” —Lamparter

• Capital investment. “Sheetfed technology improvements are incremental at this point. There’s also a huge well of legacy equipment out there. A lot of attractively priced equipment comes on the market that’s less than three years old. Can the printer accomplish what he wants to accomplish more cost-effectively with a two-year-old press than with a new one? It’s very difficult to issue sweeping generalities, except to say that if you need a new press, you’d better do an evaluation of the best new and used equipment that fits your requirements, make a cost/time/productivity analysis, and buy what suits you.” —Lamparter