Web Offset: Shorter Runs, Technology Innovations Enable Competitiveness in a New Print World

“Web presses are reaching down into run lengths that people have not previously associated with webs,” says Bob Brown, CEO of Goss International. “There used to be a cleaner run-length break between sheetfed and web jobs, but the gray area is getting larger.”

“On commercial web presses today, we have customers sometimes running down to 5,000 impressions, which is amazing,” agrees Vincent Lapinski, Chief Operating Officer, Web Operations North America, MAN Roland. “No one ever thought you would see that on a web press.”