Heidelberg

Commercial printer and bindery news from Across the Nation, including items on Standard Printing and Caramundi, in Printing Impressions April 2010 edition.

Bramkamp established partnerships with several companies that each operate independently, but can work in tandem to offer customers a wider range of products and integrated marketing services.

Few commercial offset printers, if any, can lay claim to growing their businesses organically by 45 percent in 2009, let alone up another 60 percent in the first quarter of this year.

Heidelberg USA announces new prepress, press and bindery product installs, including Moquin Press, The Little Print Shop, Graphicolor Printing, and Bestprint and Design.

HEIDELBERG, GERMANY—03/30/2010—Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg) has completed the restructuring announced in November 2009 and identified further potential for improving efficiency. From April 1st forward, the company will be split into the Heidelberg Equipment, Heidelberg Services, and Heidelberg Financial Services divisions. "We are starting the new financial year with a leaner and more efficient organization. This…

More than 10,000 customers, including printers from nearly every state as well as Canada and Mexico, covering the packaging, commercial, trade and government sectors, have visited the Technology Center in the last five years.

Printing Impressions Editor-in-Chief Mark Michelson recently spoke with Jim Dunn, president of Heidelberg Americas, to discuss topics ranging from Heidelberg's future trade show participation to its role as the distributor of a digital press offering, to the current state of sheetfed offset press sales and the ability of printers to secure capital equipment financing.

The Printing and Imaging Association of Georgia (PIAG) partnered with Heidelberg USA to sponsor the event.

TUCKER, GA—The first U.S. implementation of Heidelberg's Prinect interface linked with EFI's Monarch print production and management solution recently went live at Bennett Graphics here. The company is using the linkage to facilitate fast, accurate machine setups and harness real-time production data from its Heidelberg presses, based on the bidirectional exchange of JDF/JMF presets and job costing information between the company's existing Prinergy workflow, Prinect Pressroom Manager and Monarch MIS.

The new "North American Print and Packaging Technology Center" name is intended to reflect Heidelberg’s response to a shift in customer preference to an unhurried, in-depth learning experience.