The key is finding technology to make it feasible during production. We expect major advances in the next year. Along with eliminating dampening-system machinery, the process could also reduce makeready waste associated with adjusting balances during press starts. The best-known experiment took place from 1979 to 1988 at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, where staffers fed a premixed solution directly to the press. They found the ink-water balance difficult to monitor as runs progressed.
Some publishers already bank on a single-fluid future.
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