Now, Mauk says, the presses hold registration during paster cycles, paster misses are down to less than two per 100, and newsprint waste has been more than halved to 6 percent. The major task ahead, he said, is sticking to a stringent program of preventive maintenance. Ill. The only major limitation is that such hybrids are not equipped to handle registration-critical junctures. They are, however, ideal for adding units in a money-saving way, he said, and can reduce the length of color web leads. Coupling shaftless units to an existing press relies on a mechanical encoder attached to its shaft.
Computer software interprets the shaft's rotation, synchronizing the shaftless units' motors.
No more collect runs. In addition, the page count can go up in increments of two, not four. Shaftless Many newspapers have found that switching to a press reliant more on electronics than mechanics can be difficult. Getting cutting-edge, shaftless presses running at full capacity doesn't happen overnight. It's a common problem.