Prepress

Hafner Printing Company Finds Prepress Success with New Suprasetter from Heidelberg

Wednesday 03. December 2008 - When Mike Shallberg, owner of Hafner Printing Company in Chicago, recently decided to upgrade his prepress production equipment, he and his team of prepress specialists looked far and wide for the best solution available for their eight-person shop.

“We were very impressed with the Suprasetter A52 from Heidelberg, even though we had never before worked with Heidelberg prepress equipment,” Shallberg said. The company installed the platesetter early this fall, along with Heidelberg’s Prinect MetaDimension RIP and additional Prinect workflow software. According to Shallberg, the prepress department is “extremely happy” with the positive results they have experienced since installing the Suprasetter, and are equally impressed with Heidelberg’s service team. “Heidelberg’s reliable team of service experts has us covered, even though we are a small shop,” Shallberg said. “It is nice to know that someone from Heidelberg is always available and willing to help us with any problems that may arise.” The company, which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2007, also runs two Heidelberg GTO presses – in both 2-color and 5-color models. The new Suprasetter is used with Heidelberg Saphira Chemfree thermal plates. Hafner Printing primarily produces short-run, general commercial products and business materials for nonprofit organizations in the Chicago area.