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Heidelberg is the world's leading solutions provider for the print media industry with roughly 19,000 employees in 170 countries.
Headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany, the company manufactures sheetfed press systems as well as prepress and postpress components, software and consumables for all printing applications.
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Early on, printers strove to make their offset presses print the same. Later, they labored to make early inkjet proofs look like the press sheet. More recently, their goal was to make digital press output look like offset printing. Now, the color of the logo on a 24-foot banner must look the same as the corporate logo color on all the other printed material produced for a specified campaign. But because color variance is unavoidable in campaigns printed on multiple devices, the beating heart of hybrid workflows—and the source of considerable added value—is the degree of color management expertise a printer can demonstrate in ensuring that color is consistent from device to device.
With Anicolor, Heidelberg’s (Booth 1214) innovative and unique zoneless short inking unit with dampening system, printers can give customers what they expect: perfect offset quality at “digital” prices.
Speedmaster SM 52 with Anicolor Inking Unit
Product From Heidelberg USAThe Anicolor inking unit of the Speedmaster SM 52 from Heidelberg (Booth 1241) is the answer to shrinking print runs. Your press begins to pay for itself from the first job. Dramatically short makeready times means you can print more jobs each day at significantly lower cost. Anicolor is a short inking unit that adjusts ink volume zonelessly across the entire sheet for 100 percent offset quality. The Anicolor inking unit cuts your makeready times because you no longer need to set ink zones. It allows you to use conventional printing plates. You achieve time savings of up to 40 percent compared with conventional inking units, and produce up to 90 percent less waste at much lower cost. This delivers a 25 percent increase in press capacity for more jobs. You earn significantly higher margins. Let us show you how it works! Heidelberg’s Anicolor Three-Minute Makeready Challenge is being presented twice daily in the booth during GRAPH EXPO 2012.
Linoprint Pro C901 Graphic Arts Edition Press
Product From Heidelberg USAThe Linoprint Pro C901 Graphic Arts Edition press from Heidelberg USA (Booth 1241) fulfills commercial printers’ need for high-quality, digital color printing. With production speeds of 90 pages per minute, it is the fastest, most productive solution in the digital value segment. Providing high-quality output, the Linoprint C901 Graphic Arts Edition press meets the growing demand for shorter print runs, variable data printing, and fast delivery on a wide range of substrates. Presented at Graph Expo with Heidelberg’s newly enhanced Prinect Digital Print Manager, which enables printers to manage their offset and digital print jobs from a single workflow and route jobs quickly to the most cost-efficient production equipment. Also shown with Bookletmaker and Cover Interposer for high-quality in-line finishing.
The sturdy, new programmable cutter POLAR 56 (NET version) from Heidelberg USA (Booth 1241) with hydraulic drive is equipped with an 18.5'' touch-sensitive display and is designed for one-shift operation. It can be connected to a house current wall outlet Easily cuts small formats up to SRA 3 and is the ideal machine for digital printers. The cutter comes with P-NET, Compucut, Bar Code Reader and Process Visualization. Repeat sequences can be saved and adapted at any time. To do so, the system has 1,998 memory positions available. With digital workflow integration, Compucut takes the cutting data supplied as ppf or jdf files direct from prepress. Compucut generates the cutting program automatically. In order to start the cutting program automatically, the machine is furnished with a barcode reader, enabling near-zero setup times. Process visualization gives the operator a graphic indication of the material handling, greatly minimizing the possibility of error.
The Stahlfolder TH 56 fromHeidelberg USA (Booth 1241) sets a new standard in folder productivity for smaller formats and is an ideal tool for digital printers. The TH 56 is being shown at GRAPH EXPO in a pile-fed 6/4 configuration (Six plates with pre-slitter shaft in the first station and double rear mounted slitter shafts with lift kit; and four plates in the second station) with Level 3 automation and pressing, batching and counting stream delivery and HHS gluing system. Demonstrations emphasize the ease with which users can change over from job to job to compete in the short-run arena. The modular platform of the TH series offers unmatched flexibility and the fastest makeready while delivering superior fold quality. Accessories can be adapted to suit changing business requirements, for example: pre-slitter shafts in the first, second, or third station; single-mount rear slitter shafts; lift kits on the folding station; even popular rear-mounted slitter shafts lift kits. An EAP crossbar for timed perfs, as well as slitting and gluing heads, can be installed on the folding stations. All of these features are designed to deliver maximum flexibility, productivity, and performance while keeping the investment at the most economical level.
Prinect Performance Benchmarking
Product From Heidelberg USAHeidelberg’s 2012 InterTech Technology Award-winning Prinect Performance Benchmarking (Booth 1214) is a subscription-based application for printers that have adopted a variety of lean manufacturing and continuous improvement initiatives based on the concept of Overall Equipment Effectiveness or OEE. This approach has been highly successful for increasing numbers of progressive printers who want not only to stay in business, but also to sharpen their competitive edge, improve their sustainability, and increase profits.
Digital Print, Commercial Print and Packaging Printing
Product From Heidelberg USAHeidelberg (Booth 1214) will showcase the Linoprint C901 hybrid printing press as well as the Speedmaster SM52 with Anicolor Inking Technology at GRAPH EXPO. Heidelberg is the world-wide leading provider of solutions and services for the print media industry. The company offers comprehensive solutions in the fields of sheetfed offset printing, digital printing and in the production of sophisticated parts and assembly groups in the realm of precision mechanical engineering.
PFX pallet feeder for Stahlfolder TH/KH folding machines
Product From Heidelberg USAHeidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg) presented its new PFX pallet feeder for the Stahlfolder TH/KH folding machines at drupa 2012 in Düsseldorf. PFX stands for Pallet Feeder eXtended. This new feeder can boost a folding machine's output by up to 50 percent compared with conventional cross-fold production. Despite this much higher output, the entire unit still operates at the same machine speed, thereby ensuring precise folding quality and stable production conditions.
Stitchmaster ST 500 Saddlestitcher
Product From Heidelberg USAHeidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg) presented the new Stitchmaster ST 500 saddlestitcher at drupa 2012 in Dusseldorf. Its individual drive technology, centralized control system, and wide range of feeder models make it suitable for rapid, all-purpose use in industrial saddlestitching. Short runs, time-critical jobs, products of varying complexity, numerous format changes, and long runs in monitored high quality are all possible with the Stitchmaster ST 500, providing flexibility while nevertheless ensuring cost-effectiveness. Extensive automation options for the feeder, trimmer, stitcher, and compensating stacker cut makeready times and enable extremely efficient, high-output production. The Stitchmaster ST 500 has a mechanical capacity of up to 13,000 cycles an hour and is ideally equipped to handle all commercial print shop and bookbinder needs.
