Heidelberg

KENNESAW, Ga.—Heidelberg USA will host a one-day event at its state-of-the-art Print Media Demonstration Center (PMDC) in Kennesaw, Ga. on Dec. 3.

One company that successfully made the move into packaging is St. Paul, Minn.-based Impressions Incorporated (www.i-i.com). It made the move more than ten years ago at a time when its base business was on a steady increase.

When Proteus Packaging became the first U.S. company to purchase and install a Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 145 VLF press earlier this year, it marked a giant step.

Roundup of recent equipment, software and service purchases by packaging producers from across the United States.

KENNESAW, Ga.—Print shops that use Heidelberg’s Prinect Pressroom Manager to control production and manage production data now have the ability to connect with the Pace and Monarch print production and management solutions from EFI.

MENOMONEE FALLS, Wis.—Enercon Industries Corp. announced the addition of PPC Technologies and Solutions (PPCTS) of Pewaukee, Wis., to its distribution network. The two companies see specific opportunities in the folder gluer marketplace.

A look at state-of-the-art and future technologies for packaging printing.

Broadly speaking, there are two kinds of ink-substrate interactions: desirable and undesirable. Desirable ink-substrate interactions are defined by their outcome: satisfactory ink adhesion; appropriate scuff-, weather-, or moisture-resistance; light-fastness, color-fastness, printability, etc. Undesirable interactions fail on one or more counts.

Kennesaw, Ga.—Heidelberg’s Prinect Press Center™ featuring an innovative Wallscreen™ and Intellistart™ process-oriented operating platform is the winner of a 2009 InterTech Award presented by Printing Industries of America (PIA).

KENNESAW, Ga.—For printing company CEOs and senior managers, few production issues have greater potential to ruin an innocent night’s sleep than anxiety about money, specifically, how to save more of it by doing things faster and more efficiently. In a series of seminars scheduled to take place in five U.S. cities this summer, Heidelberg will show printers how to optimize production and raise all-around shop efficiency.