Heidelberg Advances

It was also announced that Heidelberg Prepress has been able to notch some excellent sales on a worldwide basis. There are now 1,000 Tango drum scanners and 5,000 Topaz flatbed scanners operating at customer sites worldwide.

For conventional offset printing, Mehdorn added that the "heavy metal" market has been robust. "The United States, Great Britain and Germany account for 57 percent of sheetfed sales," he revealed. Sheetfed machinery still accounts for the majority of Heidelberg's revenues. Web offset and prepress offerings account for 30 percent of sales, and digital printing is expected to gain a growing share in the sheetfed market.