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Printing Impressions National Commercial Printing Industry News for June 2009

What makes a visit to your favorite restaurant even more enjoyable and memorable, notes Frank Tantillo, is when the staff brings you "a little extra touch of something." Be it a complimentary glass of wine or a dessert, the gesture—no matter how small—is enough to bring the customer back.

Millennium Press, Agawam, Mass. installed its first Heidelberg press a decade ago and its most recent – a 6-color Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 75 with Prinect Press Center and Prinect Peak Performance Package – in 2007. In between, in a prescient move, the company added Heidelberg’s Prinect Prinance MIS, as well as a Suprasetter 75 thermal CtP system with Prinect Printready prepress workflow (since upgraded to Prinect Prepress Manager). It has continued to extend and build its suite of Prinect workflow solutions in modular fashion to become the first fully “Prinected” print shop (MIS to press with web connectivity to Millennium customers) in the U.S. last year.

As a result of the global financial and economic crisis and the dramatic collapse in order levels in the mechanical engineering sector, the financial year 2008/2009 (April 1, 2008 to March 31, 2009) proved extremely difficult for Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg).

Heidelberg USA announces the following new product installations.

Printing Impressions' Upfront Commercial Printing Industry News for May 2009

K&D Graphics welcomed customers during an open house recently to view its new 12-color, 41? Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 105 which, at 120 feet in length, is one of the world’s longest sheetfed printing presses. The 150-ton press is capable of perfecting six colors on both sides of the sheet in a single pass. It also features double in-line aqueous/UV coaters and a Cutstar roll feeder.

Printing Impressions' Commercial Printing Industry National News for May 2009

WHEN JOHN Sandstrom passed away in 1990, his eight children were suddenly left in charge of his printing operation. Having grown up in the graphic arts business, the Sandstrom siblings took the reins of their family’s Milwaukee-based business, HM Graphics.

Printing Impressions' Bindery & Finishing News for May 2009