Web Offset Presses--The Hottest Of the Heatset

Printers shopping for web offset presses all agree on one thing: less is more. Less makeready time, less manpower and less paper waste equal more profitability.

"Right now, [web printers] are looking for a number of things," reports Joe Abbott, director of technical support at MAN Roland. "The first is makeready features—the ability to change plates more quickly and generate less waste. Another, of course, is flexibility. Printers want to be able to produce a variety of sizes and pages out of the delivery system.