J.S. McCarthy — Driving Out Costs, Waste

"In doing our analysis, we determined that half of our day consisted of makereadies, the other half production," Rick Tardiff notes. "With the Komori, we've actually reduced our makeready time by 50 percent, and the amount of paper we use for a makeready by 50 percent, as well. That equates to 750,000 sheets of paper a year on one press that is running virtually 24/7.