Four Printers Among the Latest Heidelberg Product Install Sites

The Foresight Group in Lansing, MI, reports the installation of a Speedmaster SM 52 four-color press to handle its short-run color work, including the production of full-color envelopes that it couldn’t handle in-house prior to the installation. According to Foresight’s president, Bill Christofferson, the installation was part of a plant-wide upgrade undertaken in connection with consolidation of the company’s operations, previously housed in four separate buildings, into a single facility.

“We had no loading docks, and for years had been driving paper all the way around the block to our different buildings,” Christofferson said.

The company, which also had outsourced its envelope work to a converting facility 90 miles away, is pleased to be able to bring that capability back in house, thereby regaining an important measure of quality, cost control and convenience. Foresight’s new, 30,000-square-foot plant also made room for a new Polar 137 XT cutter with P-Net and Compucut, two lifts, jogger, and scale, along with several pieces of used equipment, including a Heidelberg Stitchmaster ST 270. The company also has a Printmaster QM 46 two-color press.