WEB OFFSET REPORT -- Looking to Offset Losses

Printers face a difficult decision in the question of whether to invest in new equipment to take advantage of increased productivity or try to make do with a current system and risk falling even further behind. I don't know if there is a clearly right choice. The decision is even tougher today because many of the advances that speed makeready and reduce waste are only available on new heatset web presses. In the past, systems could be retrofitted to older machines. The bottom line: you can only justify any equipment purchase if you can fill the additional capacity.