Offset Printing - Sheet-Fed

RADEBEUL, GERMANY—12/01/06—In its November session Koenig & Bauer’s supervisory board approved changes at the executive level. On 31 July next year, at his own request, Andreas Mössner (43) will step down from the parent company‘s board of directors, resigning the position he has held since January 1998 as executive vice president for sales at KBA’s sheetfed division in Radebeul (Dresden). He will be replaced on 1 August 2007 by Ralf Sammeck (44), who has guided KBA North America’s sheetfed division to new heights since being appointed president and CEO in October 2002. Mössner has accepted an appointment by the supervisory board of KBA’s Austrian

MINNEAPOLIS—November 29, 2006—KBA North America, a leading sheetfed offset press manufacturer based in Williston, VT, is announcing that Bolger Vision Beyond Print, a 220-employee, $30 million printer based in Minneapolis, has installed the first-of-its-kind press configuration of a KBA Rapida 105 ten-color perfecting press that prints and coats both sides of the sheet at once using UV inks. It also features coating towers after the fifth and tenth unit for special effects. “In our intensely-competitive industry, it’s critical to differentiate ourselves from the competition, “ exclaims dik Bolger, executive officer at Bolger Vision Beyond Print, a 220-employee, $30 million printer based in Minneapolis. “In

KENNESAW, GA—November 30, 2006—Heidelberg USA announces the following sample of new product installations: New Speedmaster CD 74 Makes Impressive U.S. Debut at Colorado Print Shop Colorado Printing Company in Grand Junction, Colorado is the first U.S. print shop to install a Speedmaster CD 74-4+LY-P-4+LX, which prints four over four and applies aqueous coating on both sides of the sheet in a single pass. Owner Mike Antonucci said the all-Heidelberg shop jumped on the opportunity to buy the new CD 74 as soon as the technology was available. The shop traded in two older presses (a 4-color and a 5-color) for the new 8-color CD

HIROSHIMA, JAPAN/LENEXA, KS—November 21, 2006—Driven by strong U.S. and worldwide demand growth for offset printing presses, Ryobi Graphic Systems of Hiroshima, Japan, said it will begin construction on a new press manufacturing facility in January 2007. The new facility will be the third at Ryobi’s Hiroshima East central production center. Ryobi also recently reported that its second factory, completed earlier this year, is running at full operation. Ryobi is one of the world’s leading producers of multi-color, mid-size offset printing presses. Ryobi’s newly expanded 215,000 square foot manufacturing center—known as Hiroshima East Plants 1 and 2—generated a 60% increase in production capacity when

ADAMOV, CZECH REPUBLIC—ADAST a.s., one of the world’s leading manufacturers of multicolor offset printing presses, announced that response to its exhibitor participation at Graph Expo 2006 exceeded the company’s expectations. A stream of attendees and customers to the ADAST booth (#3046) showed positive response, which included ADAST receiving a pending order for the Model 757 5-color press it demonstrated live on the show floor. Attendees and customers responded enthusiastically to the ADAST “Automation Affordable” feature set, which the company combines with CIP3/CIP4 compatibility and perfecting options to offer quality offset presses for short-run multicolor work at affordable prices. The Automation Affordable feature set includes:

KENNESAW, GA—November 15, 2006—Moquin Press of Belmont, CA, has increased its pressroom capacity by 30 percent in just six weeks after installing its second Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 105, according to President Greg Moquin. The San Francisco Bay Area trade printer, which installed its first Speedmaster XL 105 last year, does a fast-paced, high-volume business serving print brokers, in-house print shops, designers and other trade professionals with high production standards and even higher expectations. “Our steadily increasing volume demanded that we do something to keep pace with customer demands,” Moquin said. Thanks to the new Speedmaster XL 105, the company has opened a window of production

WESTMONT, IL—November 8, 2006—Wynalda Litho in Rockford, Michigan is growing larger with a six-color ROLAND 900XXL with inline coater and extended delivery. The company has over three decades of experience in commercial printing and packaging for a variety of different industries including pharmaceutical, healthcare, food, cosmetics, software and most prominently, entertainment. “These industries have very high standards for quality and require experience, quick turnarounds, specialized security, certifications and creative solutions,” Wynalda states. The new ROLAND 900 XXL was chosen to help satisfy those demands. About MAN Roland MAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG is the world’s second largest printing systems manufacturer and the world’s market leader in web

Incoming orders 13 percent up on previous year Sales six percent up at 1.628 billion Euro Considerable improvement in result of operating activities at 118 million Euro Outlook for full financial year 2006/2007 confirmed HEIDELBERG, GERMANY—11/07/2006—For the first six months of financial year 2006/2007 (April 1 to September 30, 2006), Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg) increased its sales and earnings over the previous year. Heidelberg Group sales in the first six months were six percent up on the comparable figure for the previous year at 1.628 billion Euro (previous year: 1.529 billion Euro). Incoming orders in the period climbed 13 percent to 1.996 billion Euro

FRESNO, CA—11/07/06—Big3D.com Worldwide of has ordered a six-color ROLAND 500 press with inline coating and an extended delivery from MAN Roland Inc. The privately held company is the industry leader in lenticular and three-dimensional printing processes. The versatility of the ROLAND 500, which can handle the widest range of substrates in the industry and stock thicknesses from onionskin to 40 pt board, will be put to good use on lenticular jobs at Big3D.com. The technique involves placing special lenses over a two dimensional print, allowing the eye to simultaneously view alternating sections of multiple images. “Today’s lenticular 3D graphics are a vast improvement over the

DALLAS—11/06/06—While the demand for six-color sheetfed presses remains strong, many commercial printers that strive for differentiation in a commodity-driven market find presses with unique attributes of 10 or more printing, coating and drying units increasingly more attractive. Buchanan Visual Communications went further—and longer—than that. The Dallas-based firm installed a 12-color Mitsubishi Diamond 3000R convertible perfector with twin coaters. Known as the Double Diamond perfector, this 40-inch press incorporates 17 total units, the largest number of units of any commercial sheetfed press currently in operation. “This is truly a one-of-a-kind press,” remarked David Johnson, president. “The ability of the Double Diamond perfector to print six