Offset Printing
Being green and lean is the focus for Heidelberg open house
Wednesday 24. September 2008 - Dale Wallis of the BPIF and Richard Gray of Vision in Print will be among the guest speakers at Heidelbergs national open house which runs from 7 to 9 October at its Tamworth showroom. Visitors can call at any time between 9am to 5pm with lunch available from noon to 2pm..
Heidelbergs sales director Jim Todd says: “We are flagging up this event as a Drupa review and we will show printers what they can do to reduce waste and improve their makereadies. We are delighted that Dale Wallis is able to join us to give a presentation on carbon foot-printing and that Richard Gray will outline his view of lean manufacturing. This open house has the right equipment and the right people to make it the must see event of the year.”
For the first time in the UK a Speedmaster SM 52 Anicolor long perfector will be shown. The ten-colour press will demonstrated so that printers can see just how quickly this press can get to sellable sheets with minimal waste and just how great productivity can be with B3 one pass productivity.
At B2 format visitors will see both the new 18,000sph Speedmaster XL75-5+L (five-colour with coater) with Inpress Control on press spectrophotometry. Alongside this press, which handles the broadest range of stocks, will be the SM 74-5, its commercial counterpart which now features the new Prinect Press Center and Intellistart . Not only is the Press Center a fine looking console but this new technology reduces set up stages by up to 70%.
The Speedmaster XL 105-5+L, a B1 coating press, completes the press line up.
The Suprasetter range, with speeds enhanced this year, will be shown along with a full range of Prinect modules including the latest trio: Prepress Manager; Postpress Manager; and Scheduler. Workflow is seen by Heidelberg as a critical issue in the quest for production and business efficiency.
Finishing products will include a highly automated Polar 137XT cutting line, a Eurobind EB 600 perfect binder equipped to run PUR glues, a Stitchmaster ST350 and the Varimatrix commercial die-cutter.
Mark Summers, MidWest sales manager, says: “We anticipate a great turn out for this open house. Printers who went to Drupa are keen to look again at the developments and many others will come for their first view. They will discover a tremendous leap forward in technology, particularly in press and workflow sectors. With expert presentations on environmental and business issues alongside the machine demonstrations no one should go away without some new ideas for their business.”