Printers Install Heidelberg Solutions to Expand Their Business Prospects

“It was a pleasant surprise to find that the feeder on the SM 52 fed envelopes at up to 15,000 per hour without a third-party stacker/feeder,” said Bob Atwell, Cavanaugh’s president. “We now routinely do 100,000 runs in full color without the need for time consuming conversion of flat sheets.”

The company’s first small-format press joins a lineup that already includes a two-color Speedmaster SM 102 perfector, a six-color Speedmaster SM 102 with coater, and a six-color Speedmaster XL 105, installed in 2007. On the front end, Heidelberg’s Prinect Prepress Manager JDF-based prepress workflow forms a seamless interface with the company’s MIS and powers an environmentally friendly thermal Suprasetter 105 platesetter used to image Heidelberg Saphira plates.

“Heidelberg’s complete workflow integration affords us an opportunity to makeready to proof matching color on press in 15 minutes, including auto-plating,” Atwell explained. “All color is then stored for reprints in perpetuity. The main benefit is having perfect plates that fit, consistent color densities, and no requirement to have to assign work to a certain press just because it ran there the last time. The guesswork has been eliminated from this amazing, time-saving workflow.”