Heidelberg USA recently completed the installation of an integrated Prinect Prepress Manager workflow anchored by an environmentally friendly thermal Suprasetter 105 platesetter at Wallace Graphics in Stone Mountain, GA. According to Prepress Manager Gary Foster, prior to installation, the company had a perfectly serviceable—if nonintegrated—prepress workflow system, as long as someone was there to make sure it ran.
Heidelberg details its latest workflow, CTP, press and postpress product installations at Heeter Direct in Canonsburg, PA; J.C. Weir in Reno, NV; Mayo Clinic inplant, Rochester, MN; PRP Companies in San Luis Obispo, CA; and Wallace Graphics, Stone Mountain, GA.
The Internet has proven to be something of an elixir, a cure-all tonic for trade printers that were either suffering or stagnating. It has played a large role in the growth, perhaps even salvation, of some trade firms. We’ve encapsulated three notable trade printers, along with a look at what’s fueled their fire and provided confidence in the foreseeable future.
Wide- and grand-format printers really stood out around the show floor, with the size of some devices giving them the impression of being the new “heavy iron” in the industry. Even the new crop of inkjet presses for high-volume page production was overshadowed a bit by their wider brethren, as fewer vendors elected to bring machines to Chicago.
Offset press output still comprises 90 percent of the printing done, by some accounts, but you wouldn’t know it based on all the attention given to digital inkjet- and toner-based devices at Graph Expo. Lithographic press manufacturers aren’t standing still, however.
Instead of seeing a gaggle of tire kickers, the printers and trade finishers who perused McCormick Place South during Graph Expo 2011 had more sober intentions. There is clearly pent-up demand in the marketplace, particularly for finishing equipment.
Commercial printer equipment installations and other news from Printing Impressions’ Oct. 2011 edition, featuring items on Docuplex Graphics, Haapanen Brothers and J.W. Boarman Co.
Commercial printing industry supplier company and personnel news from Printing Impressions’ October 2011 edition.
Heidelberg USA has issued “Data Protection for Printers,” a new white paper focusing on the unique issues printers face in keeping production running smoothly in the event of unexpected interruptions. It's a fact that 10 percent of hard drives fail every year—for an average of 130,000 each week in the United States.
At LabelExpo Europe 2011, which is taking place from Sept. 28 to Oct. 1 in Brussels, Belgium, Heidelberg is presenting its digital print solutions for label printers and packaging manufacturers. The trade fair will see the products of recently acquired digital printing system manufacturer CSAT offered under the Heidelberg umbrella for the first time. The CSAT iTS 6oo will be on display at LabelExpo on Stand 9F10.
