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

“Newspapers are focusing on efficiency and workflow integration to take costs out of their production, much as the commercial side of the business has been doing for years,” says Lapinski. “Now it’s all about automation and bringing computer integrated manufacturing to newspaper production.” He points to CIM projects that MAN Roland has been driving in the U.S. and Europe through the integration of its flagship automation system, printnet, including a recent major order for printnet at The New York Times and one in Denver, in which the client will see a return on investment within a year’s time.