WOA 06 Special Report — Rolling With the Changes

“There now is a much greater impetus than most printers realize to have a very good preventive maintenance program to ensure their presses are always reliable and predictable.”

Printers also may want to rethink the mindset of equating fewer operators with pressroom efficiency, he adds. “Run lengths coming down so rapidly may merit a bit of a reevaluation of the benefits of saving a man on a press crew. You don’t want to compromise your overall costs by skimping on crews. You may actually want more crew on hand for the more frequent makereadies.”