Heidelberg Advances

For the web market, it was announced that the new MainStream 80—a gapless blanket cylinder newspaper press—is now being tested and will be shown to North American printers later this year. It is suitable for shorter runs and is said to weigh less than conventional newspaper presses.

Also on the new product front, two German printing operations were visited by the group to illustrate Heidelberg's new Speedmaster 102 CP 2000 Control Console with touchscreen color display. This technology enables customers to further streamline, automate and boost production.