Presses got faster. Finding people didn’t. Now commercial printers are turning to robotics to keep production — and their workforce — moving.
For years, automation in the commercial printing industry has been about making presses faster. Automatic plate changes. Closed-loop color control. Smarter workflows. Better scheduling. Those investments dramatically reduced manual touch points throughout production and transformed what a single press operator could accomplish.
But that level of automation didn’t solve the problem that’s now keeping many plant managers awake …