What is gang printing?

At IBS we use gang printing to maximise efficiencies. On any particular run, we may have up to 120 individual business card jobs on the one sheet. This means you save money, as you’re sharing the cost of the plates, make-ready and press time. Paper waste is also reduced. The only drawback of gang run printing is its incapability to control the ink thickness for the neighbouring images. Unfortunately, there is very little control over colour variations that have occurred during the gang run printing process. The best result that can be achieved is an average colour of every different piece that is printed on the sheet.