IMAGE CAPTURE -- Market Goes Flat

Making a Big Exit

What the move symbolized, and the very public way it was carried out, made Heidelberg's exit from the market perhaps seem more dramatic than the actual implications for the industry. To many people, high-end scanning used to be all but synonymous with Hell drum machines, and now that lineage is coming to an abrupt end. Heidelberg had inherited that tradition with its acquisition of the Linotype-Hell Co.