Heidelberg Technologies Help Printers Get Ahead – from Prepress to Postpress and Beyond

Madison Area Technical College Gets “Prinected” with Signa Station 2.0
Soon the 36 printing students in the sheetfed offset litho class at the Madison Area Technical College in Madison, WI will have increased prepress training opportunities, thanks to Heidelberg’s recent donation of a Signa Station 2.0 imposition and sheet assembly station to the school. This software will impose jobs for the program’s Heidelberg Prosetter 74 platesetter using Heidelberg Saphira Violet Plates. According to David Stuber, printing instructor, Madison Area Tech’s printing curriculum is a well-established and highly respected program where instruction revolves around a pressroom equipped with no fewer than six Heidelberg Quickmaster 46 two-color presses, and a Heidelberg GTO. Finishing equipment at the site includes a high-speed programmable POLAR 66 cutter and two Heidelberg B20 Stahlfolders. The new Signa Station is part of a technology upgrade designed to maintain a state-of-the-art educational printing facility that educates well-rounded students who know their way around an entire print workflow from prepress to postpress. “Heidelberg’s support has been vital in helping the Madison Area Technical College educate the best and the brightest among our next-generation workforce. Having trained on the best equipment available, these talented young people will be especially well-prepared to carry the industry into the future.”