I would like to add to my comment above, some background info. I understand quite a bit about the problem of press design as it relates to performance. I demonstrated the fundamental cause and potential solution of ink water balance on a press back in 1991. I have also developed several methods to analyse problems and with technical solutions. Of course, none of this is of interest to the printing industry. Back in 2015, I wrote a letter, not an email, directly to Tony Langley, about the problem of lack of innovation due to poor knowledge of the process within press manufacturers. I suggested that since the manroland engineers are not receptive to thinking in new directions, maybe his engineers at Langley, could learn and demonstrate what was possible, to the manroland engineers, with my guidance. Of course this suggestion was ignored and I suspected that some day, this was going to problem for Langley. That day has come. Why do companies think they are so clever and don't need to look into the opinions of others who just might know something important? Stupidity or arrogance? The result is the same. Reality eventually has the last word and it can hurt a lot.

I am not surprised. This has happened so many times over the years and they deserve what they get. Sorry to be so blunt. Press manufacturers are stupid and poor business people. They stick to old concepts and refuse to even investigate new ideas, knowledge and technical approaches that potentially could improve performance at a lower cost to their customers. The lack of imagination is incredible and Langley has also been apart of this ignorant management of manroland. So what happens. Manroland's lost business will go to other press manufacturers, who are survivors. They will think their increased business is due to their own good efforts but it is only due to attrition. What you don't see in this industry is the success of a press manufacturer who provides better perfroming technology at a lower cost. They all have the same business model with little actual innovation of the process. They can't learn and they don't want to learn. Very sad IMO.