Offset Printing - Sheet-Fed

Incoming orders for third quarter seven percent up on previous year Sales around six percent up at 2.589 billion Euro Operating result up to 202 million Euro Outlook for full financial year 2006/2007 unchanged HEIDELBERG, GERMANY— 01/31/2007—In the first nine months of financial year 2006/2007 (April 1, 2006 - December 31, 2006), Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg) returned figures for sales, incoming orders and operating result that were up over the previous year. Sales by the Heidelberg Group during the period under review climbed around six percent to 2.589 billion Euro (previous year: 2.437 billion Euro). Incoming orders after nine months amounted to 2.913 billion

KENNESAW, GA—January 31, 2007—Heidelberg USA announces the following sample of new product installations: Advance Graphics and Printing Sees Advanced Results with Printmaster PM 52 Jim and Naomi Tuttle, owners of Advance Graphics and Printing in Chandler , Oklahoma , say the primary focus in their printing business is customer service through efficiency and automation. To keep up with their growing business, they installed a Heidelberg 5-color Printmaster PM 52 with perfector and a Prosetter 52 with SCL and prepress interface for increased speed and quality. The Tuttles say results have been “fantastic” and noted that they can now keep more jobs in-house due to

KENNESAW, GA—January 24, 2007—Heidelberg USA today announced that Primary Color, a $50 million, high-end commercial printer based in Culver City, Calif., recently purchased a new Speedmaster XL 105 eight-color press with extended delivery as well as multiple bindery equipment additions from Heidelberg as part of a companywide upgrade of printing and bindery operations. New bindery additions include an automated Stahlfolder TH-82 folder, a Stitchmaster ST 90 six-pocket saddle stitcher with cover feeder and hand feed station, and a POLAR RA-4 jogger with pile turner and Transomat. The installations will take place in conjunction with the planned relocation of the company’s Culver City facility to

FAIRFIELD, NJ—01/23/07—Cooper Printing Co., Inc., a family owned, 30-employee commercial printer, added a Mitsubishi sheetfed press to its 32,000-square-foot facility. The 40-inch press, a six-color Diamond 3000S, is equipped with a Harris & Bruno anilox coater and will augment capacity for the $4 million firm. “Presses in general have improved dramatically over the past few years,” observed Tom Cooper Sr., who started the printing company in 1975. “The new technology on the Mitsubishi press outperforms earlier models. The difference in print quality, makeready speed, time savings and materials usage is tremendous.” Cooper Printing purchased a six-color, 40-inch Mitsubishi press in 1995 and another six-color,

WILLISTON, VT—01/16/0—As a result of integrating the North American web and sheetfed business units into one combined entity, KBA North America has announced the following sales staff changes, effective immediately: Heinz Schmid assumes the position of senior vice president, web press sales. Gary Owen has been appointed vice president, sales and communications newspapers – regional. Bruce Richardson and Steve Brown have become sales managers, East and West, respectively. Ralf Sammeck, president and CEO of KBA North America, commented that, “The combined experience of over 100 years of our dedicated newspaper sales staff demonstrates to our customers the serious commitment that we have made to

ENGLEWOOD, NJ—January 12, 2007—United Graphic Systems, Inc., the Northeast Factory Direct Dealer for the ADAST line of high quality sheetfed offset presses, has expanded its territory to become the exclusive ADAST Factory Direct Dealer for the Eastern USA. This expansion broadens United Graphic Systems’ territory to include the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern states along the eastern seaboard and enables United Graphic Systems to provide ADAST sales and service from Maine to Florida. United Graphic Systems provides a full range of sales and services for the entire ADAST line of affordable offset presses, as well as for InkPRO accessories, Maxima cutters and HighWater violet-laser Python CTP systems.

SAN FRANCISCO—Watermark Press, a member of the Consolidated Graphics (CGX) family, has installed an eight-color Komori Lithrone S40P sheetfed perfecor.The printer expects the Lithrone to reduce production time for double-sided printing and enable over-print coating. Watermark Press serves design agencies, publishers and direct marketers in the Bay area. It was founded in 1989 and acquired…

WESTMONT, IL—Al Reijmer was named general manager of MAN Roland’s central region sheetfed operations. He replaces George Fisher, who is moving to a corporate position at MAN Druckmaschinen in Germany.Reijmer is now in charge of all central region sales operations for the sheetfed line of presses. He will report to CEO Vince Lapinski.Previously, Reijmer was…

ONTARIO, CA—Lincolnshire, IL-based Mitsubishi Lithographic Presses has announced the relocation of the company’s West Coast Headquarters from its previous location in Torrance, CA, to the city of Ontario, CA. The move substantially expands Mitsubishi’s ability to service customers in the Western states due to the significant press shipments by Mitsubishi to the Western Sales Region. The new West Coast office is located immediately south of the Ontario International Airport at: 1620 Fremont Court Ontario, CA 91761 Phone: (909) 947-5725 Fax: (909) 947-5919 Ontario is 35 miles east of downtown Los Angeles. The Ontario facility offers approximately 12,000 square feet of space, more than twice

KENNESAW, GA—December 18, 2006—Heidelberg recently hosted a customer event at its U.S. headquarters in Kennesaw, Ga. on the topic of long perfecting versus peak performance straight printing. Attended by more than 50 high performance printers from across the country, the event focused on helping printers determine which production process, and ultimately which equipment configuration, is best for their business. As a surprise announcement during the event, Heidelberg conducted a drawing and awarded the winner with a scholarship endowment in his name through The Print and Graphics Scholarship Foundation (PGSF). “We were pleased to host an esteemed group of printers at our Print Media Demonstration