WEB OFFSET REPORT -- Make Ready for Change

In a bit of surprise, GATF's Prince believes the industry does "need" direct imaging (on-press), rewritable cylinder/plate technology. "It is one of the few ways to achieve a strong reduction in makeready time," he explains. "That technology, in part, is already on the market with the DICOweb (from MAN Roland). It may constitute a large segment of the market in the future, say in the next five years."