TOPPAN PRINTING AMERICA -- Hitting with Power

Cleaning Up

"The contributions of the 10-color press have been tremendous," Ohkado remarks. "This press has greatly improved our efficiency and has helped us control costs. It gives us a unique advantage over our competitors."

By being able to print 10 colors inline or any combination up to five-over-five, Toppan America is able to seize the metro market by producing high page count, short-run catalogs effectively and snare work that "falls under the radar screen of half-webs," notes Peter Grant, senior vice president of sales and marketing. "It's very difficult for other sheetfed printers to compete with us, simply because of the fact that we're producing two sides of the sheet on 40˝ equipment, while they're producing one side.