WOA 06 Special Report — Rolling With the Changes

“If a printer has gone CTP and is not doing ink fountain presetting, it’s leaving money on the table. Every analysis we’ve done says it pays out. The technology cuts makeready time, reduces paper waste and gives you truer color. It eliminates variation from one press operator to another,” he says.

Color variation clearly needs attention, Lamparter asserts, given the results of PrintCom’s ongoing study of the catalog sector—“Analysis of Catalog Production Trends—Paper, Selective Signature Assembly, Personalization/Ink-jet Imaging.”