PRINT 05 Sheetfed/Web Offset presses -- Perfecting Personified
| Sealing the deal for nine new Komori six-color, 40˝ Lithrone presses at various Consolidated Graphics facilities are, front row from the left: Robert Birmingham, Consolidated Graphics; John Marotta, Komori America; back row: Yoshiharu Komori, Komori Corp.; George Abboud, Consolidated Graphics; Stephan Carter, Komori America; and Satoshi Mochida, Komori Corp. |
| Ralf Sammeck (left), KBA North America; Willy Herzig, Paragraphics Inc.; and Randy Perkins celebrate the sale to Paragraphics of the six-color, 41˝ Rapida 105 sheetfed press with coater and hybrid UV capabilities that ran in the KBA booth. |
| Standing in front of the Akiyama 10-color, 40˝ Jprint purchased by Millbrook Printing, Grand Ledge, MI, are (from the left): Robert Treadwell, Akiyama; Millbrook's Andrew Shackelford, Michael Mironiuk and Larry Winkler; and Ron Pohl from Akiyama dealer Mid-State Litho. |
| During a special ceremony, Lakewood, OH-based Phil Vedda & Sons Printing was presented with a certificate documenting its purchase of the 5,000th unit of the Speedmaster CD 74 press manufactured by Heidelberg. Pictured, from left, are: Dave Jaros, Heidelberg sales representative; James Dunn, president, Heidelberg USA; and Joe Vedda, Jim Vedda and their spouses with Bernhard Schreier, Heidelberg chairman. |
| The management teams of Monarch Litho and MAN Roland Inc. pose in front of a Roland 900 XXL, of which Monarch bought a six-color, 73˝ 900 XXL with coater as part of a five-press order for its three facilities. Shown, from the left: MAN Roland's Erwin Geyer, Yves Rogivue and Vince Laino; Monarch Litho's Jose Antonio Badia, George Lopez and Guillermo Lopez; and MAN Roland's Rick Parks. |
Lithographic sheetfed machines were abundant. Industry trends toward long and stacked 10-color perfectors, larger sheet size formats, merging commercial and package printing markets, UV and hybrid capabilities, roll sheeters for web paper savings and in-line finishing options were evident throughout the booths filling the South Hall of Chicago's McCormick Place.
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