WOA 06 Special Report — Rolling With the Changes

One finding of his industry research that mystifies the consultant: those web printers that have gone CTP yet still haven’t implemented ink fountain presetting. “The payback is clearly there,” he observes.

Web printers in this group offer one of two reasons for not making the move, according to Lamparter. They either don’t think the technology will work or think their old presses can’t be upgraded to support digital presetting of ink fountains. “Both are wrong,” the consultant adds.