This One's for Ladies Only --DeWese

The printing industry has another unfavorable characteristic: the job shop manufacturing system. This simply means we are not manufacturing 200,000 Ford Explorers in a plant (continuous flow manufacturing) or 200,000 gallons of chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream (batch flow manufacturing). The equipment in automotive and ice cream facilities gets set up and runs forever. Printing equipment has to be set up (made ready), then washed up after every job—plus every job is different.