Heidelberg

The Northeast United States has seen a surge of Speedmaster XL 75 press installations, showing the growing popularity of Heidelberg’s XL platform in a flexible, half-size format.

Frank Defino Sr., founder and CEO of Tukaiz in Franklin Park, IL, longed to play professional baseball. He shuttled around the left side of the infield, eventually settling on third base. But, Defino soon found something he loved more than baseball...a girl he called Lilly. She would change his life, as would a newspaper ad in January of 1963 that offered a lithographic plate shop that was for sale.

KENNESAW, GA—There is no sugar coating the challenging economic climate that exists in the printing industry, and Marcel Kiessling is well aware of it. Kiessling, a member of the management board of Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG who also heads up the sales and service segments, doesn't think that is cause for taking a negative outlook, however, and it's not a case of pollyanna hopefulness.

LOS ANGELES—Anderson/LA, a Consolidated Graphics company, recently installed a new Heidelberg Speedmaster CX 102-6+LX UV press. The six-color model features Prinect Axis Control for closed-loop, inline color measurement and control, which ensures spectral data measurement and exact color reproduction. A Plastic Kit was added throughout the press, which enables printing on diverse substrates such as plastic, synthetic, static-cling and magnetic materials.

The addition of a new Heidelberg Speedmaster CX 102-6+LX UV press will allow Anderson/LA, a Consolidated Graphics company in Los Angeles, to meet the increasing demand by its retail and restaurant clients for a wider variety of in-store graphics, point-of-purchase applications and related printed materials, with increased flexibility, improved quality and shortened turn times.

Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg) has improved its operating result in the first quarter of financial year 2013/2014 (April 1 to June 30, 2013), which puts it on the right track for meeting its target of a positive net result for the year.

Heidelberg has received very positive feedback from its customers who use Heidelberg Saphira consumable products. In order to deliver best in class support to its growing consumables customer base, the company has strengthened its local consumables organization through product and application training, improved logistical solutions, as well as training and support of print instructors and product specialists.

In the current "Speedmaster. Unbeatable." advertising campaign by Heidelberg, up-and-coming small businesses, industrial-scale commercial and packaging printers, and multimedia service providers from all over the world, share their success stories at www.SpeedmasterUnbeatable.com.

Designers' Press has added two new printing presses at its 36,000-square-foot facility in Orlando, FL. The first addition is a Ricoh-Heidelberg Linoprint (C901 Graphic Arts +) for the digital printing department. The second addition is a Komori LS 540 press, which complements a Komori LS 640 that is already in production at Designers' Press.

PRINT 13, like the industry in general, will not be what it was in its heyday, but it still serves as the largest gathering of people and equipment in the Americas—making it well worth your time and money to attend.