Press Makers Hush-hush As Label Expo Nears

摘要

Getting narrow-web press manufacturers to talk about their newest narrow-web press technologies just six months prior to Label Expo '98 is akin to Saddam Hussein blurting out to U.N. weapons inspectors where he's hiding his cache of biological weapons—you know they exist, but mum's the word. In the months leading up to this year's show, narrow-web press makers are working at fever pitches to put the finishing touches on prototypes or working models of their newest and most production-efficient, operator-friendly, quickchangeover, easy-to-maintain, cost-containing, chock-full-of-bells-and-whistles, have-it-in-your plant-before-the-next-fiscal-quarter narrow-web presses.