It is almost exactly one year since a Rapida 106 started production for Oskar Görner in Chemnitz. The five-colour press with inline coater and extended delivery is the largest sheetfed offset press in use at the company, and easily surpasses the machinery used at all the other commercial printers in the city in terms of sheet format.
The Koenig & Bauer Compacta S80 short-grain heatset press is known for its robustness, dependability and high print quality. Even though these presses were manufactured decades ago, its still a hot candidate for service-life-extensions and automation upgrades.
At the German championships held from October 19 to 22, 2020, in the Print Media Center of Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg) in Wiesloch-Walldorf, twelve skilled workers demonstrated their high level of knowledge. Six media designers and six print media technologists took on the challenging competition tasks.
Speedmaster sheetfed offset presses, the XL 106-DD rotary die cutter, and the label systems of Heidelberg partner Polar are perfect for making wet-glue labels, cut-and-stack labels, and also in-mold labels (IMLs). Heidelberg is now using an innovation initiative to step up its activities in this segment and is also further expanding its position on the growing labels market.
The trends in packaging printing are obvious: ever-declining run lengths, an ever increasing number of stock keeping units and more demanding embellishments are used in order to attract attention at the point of sale, and all of this against the backdrop of extremely short delivery times and sustainability.
GlobalVision announced the release of its new product Verify, a redesigned quality inspection web application built for a faster and more integrated review process. Users can now run automated inspections through Verifys web-based platform to ensure their work is free from unintended changes as it moves through the creation process.
Constant commitment to the environment pays off: For the second time, Aumüller Druck in Regensburg received the biennial environmental prize for companies awarded by the city. In 1995, the companys exemplary waste management concept was honoured – in 2020, its many and varied measures to achieve largely CO2-neutral production.
