Heidelberg’s Postpress Commercial Information Days Draws Printers, Bindery Firms

During the installation of every machine, experts from Heidelberg provide professional training at the customer’s site. Additional training services from the Print Media Academy (PMA) sites in Leipzig and Ludwigsburg help operators get the most out of the machines.

What’s more, consumables from Heidelberg are perfectly matched to the machine requirements to ensure high-quality end products and enable customers to dispense with their own time-consuming material tests. Saphira glues, whose open process times are precisely matched with the machine requirements of the Eurobind adhesive binders, are just one example of this.

Postpress operations for long, medium-sized, and even very short print runs - produced in offset or digital printing
The enormous pricing pressures facing print shops in the production of classical signatures with long print runs and high-productivity presses are leading to calls for press output to be processed on just a single folding machine by one operator. Heidelberg has been able to increase the productivity of its folding machines by up to 30 percent by using new imposition schemes and oblong feeding as familiar from the press. Oblong feeding is made possible thanks to the innovative, pneumatic twin lay device used in the Stahlfolder. Oblong feeding, combined with new imposition schemes, increases productivity by 12 percent along the entire production chain. Instead of 32 pages in A5 format, this solution makes it possible to accommodate 36 pages on a single print sheet.