Offset Printing - Sheet-Fed

“WE KNOW our competition. And, it wasn’t who we thought it was!” reveals Bo Forbes, owner of Ironside Press in Vero Beach, FL. “We realized that we’re no longer in the business of simply providing printed ink on paper. At the end of the day, our tangible product is printing, but what exactly are we providing? “Ironside Press isn’t merely a printing company. It’s a marketing services group,” Forbes contends. “We provide a solution for customers who need to communicate something to a target audience: design ideas, production estimates, mailing lists, response management strategies and, ultimately, the tools clients will use to communicate and

ORLANDO—07/17/08—Central Florida Press (CFP), a division of The MATLET Group - the largest minority owned commercial printing company in the U.S. - is installing the first ROLAND 700 DirectDrive. A leader in new and innovative approaches, CFP was the first company in the region with half web and full web presses. “We are extremely pleased to be the first printing operation to install manroland’s DirectDrive press,” said John Glick, CFP Vice President of Sales. “We saw the DirectDrive prototype at drupa four years ago. We returned to Germany about a year ago to see the press and were impressed by what we

KENNESAW, GA—July 14, 2008—Proteus Packaging has become the first U.S. company to purchase Heidelberg’s new Speedmaster XL 145 press — one of two very large format (VLF) press models Heidelberg unveiled at drupa 2008. The Franklin, Wis.-based folding carton producer chose the 6-color Speedmaster XL 145 press with inline aqueous coater to upgrade its pressroom and keep the company competitive in a challenging marketplace. The new machine will be the first VLF press from Heidelberg installed in North America. Proteus expects to replace two older VLF presses with the XL 145, thanks to major gains in efficiency expected with the new press. “Our existing

WESTMONT, IL—07/02/08—The North American headquarters of manroland, Inc. was the scene for the newest chapter in the company’s long and successful history on June 30. One of the world’s most influential printing press manufacturers played host to a rededication ceremony as part of the company’s rebranding, and several local dignitaries participated in the event. Joining manroland CEO Vince Lapinski for the occasion were Kirk Dillard, Illinois State Senator of the 24th District, Patricia R. Bellock, Illinois State Representative for the 47th District, and Polly Jensen, President and CEO of the Printing Industry of Illinois Association. All made brief statements to a crowd of

WILLISTON, VT—07/01/08—KBA North America, a global press manufacturer, pronounced Drupa 2008 a resounding success with a capacity crowd and sales success at the KBA booth during each of the 14 show days. Attendance figures soared and KBA’s spacious show booth surrounded by four litho presses was often so packed that it was almost impossible to push one’s way through. “Drupa 2008 exceeded our expectations in many ways,” says Holger Garbrecht, president and CEO of KBA North America. “According to group president and CEO Albrecht Bolza-Schünemann, the 14-day print media trade fair held in Düsseldorf in late May to early June, has brought in

ALTHOUGH MANY industry pundits were quick to label Drupa 2008 as The Digital Ink-Jet Drupa—given the technology previews shown there by the likes of Kodak, HP, Océ, Screen and Fujifilm—traditional sheetfed and web offset press manufacturers were just as diligent in showcasing their vision regarding the print shop of the future. Based on the sampling of new press offerings highlighted here, the massive trade show could just as easily have been called The Large-Format Press Drupa; The Short-Run, Fast Makeready Offset Press Drupa; and even The Value-Added Press Drupa. These themes were very apparent from Heidelberg, which filled two entire halls that were

VAUGHN, ONTARIO—06/23/08—Michael Mugavero’s 37-year career begins a new chapter today as vice president of sales for manroland Canada Inc., in addition to maintaining responsibilities for Eastern U.S. sales. Mugavero will now be based out of the company’s Canadian headquarters. He will manage and direct sales for sheetfed and assist with sales on the web end of the business. “There are a number of opportunities, including delivering market awareness of the ‘new’ manroland and demonstrating our culture of reliable partnerships and continued ground-breaking technology for the print industry,” Mugavero said. “manroland is a total resource company offering new business concepts with printservices

WÜRZBURG, GERMANY—06/19/08— At the 83rd AGM of German press manufacturer Koenig & Bauer AG (KBA), group president and CEO Albrecht Bolza-Schünemann revealed that Drupa, a 14-day print media trade fair recently held in Düsseldorf, had brought in orders worth more than €200m, surpassing the figure for the previous Drupa in 2004. Most of the contracts were for batch-produced sheetfed presses, sales of which had been badly hit in the first five months by a slump in the key US market. Judging by the response to KBA’s product launches, post-Drupa business also promises to be brisk. The total volume of sales generated by the fair

MIAMI—June 19, 2008—Solo Printing, Inc., a Miami-based commercial printer, recently completed a major facilities expansion giving the company a total of 100,000 sq. ft. of production, office and warehousing space, and is currently in the process of installing a Komori 38S 6-unit, full-web press along with additional high speed saddle stitchers, cutters and folders. The expansion during an economic downturn underscores the company’s continued growth - the result of increasing market penetration throughout the entire Eastern seaboard. Manny Hernandez, president, stated, “Our investment in facilities and in new technology enables us to increase our dominant position in providing quality, cost effective products and

WILLISTON, VT—06/19/08—KBA North America, a global press manufacturer currently based in Williston, VT, is announcing that its corporate headquarters will be moving to Dallas, TX, in the summer of 2009. The relocation will join the KBA sheetfed and web divisions under one roof along with the sales, service and parts departments as well as the corporate demonstration center. “We’ve been headquartered outside of Burlington, Vermont for more than 20 years,” says Holger Garbrecht, KBA North America president and CEO. “But with our continued growth in all market segments it is the ideal time for us to move to a more central location to better