Heidelberg Business Printing Solutions

Although there are fewer and fewer prints in the current job, customers want more colorful prints, faster production, and lower prices. This market demand has brought severe challenges to small and medium-sized printing companies. Their services range from business stationery, forms to flyers and high-quality pictures. Therefore, these companies need to maintain a high degree of flexibility in production.

At the Beijing International Printing Exhibition, Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg) demonstrated through its business printing solutions how to overcome this problem. The solutions presented were tailored specifically to the business scale and needs.

All solutions are based on the needs and goals of the printing company. Whether you want to be fully prepared for the increasing demand for color and post-press processing; whether you want to remove it through additional investment in the bottleneck of the process; and whether you want to expand your business to a new format market? The audience saw a demonstration of individual printing and prepress, printing, and finishing components embedded in the end-to-end workflow.

In a modern printing factory, its production system should be suitable for the company's own job and customer structure, and can reliably and economically support the company's core business. Based on the tailor-made guiding ideology, the concept of the operation process based on the Press & Speedmaster series has been very mature. It can be applied to both entry-level users and companies with targeted development strategies. The workflow provides customers with a variety of choices for A3 and A2 formats, starting with various types of scanners and imagesetters in the prepress stage and continuing to postpress machinery.

The GTO 52-5 is a primary printer with eight open format specifications and expandability. The Printmaster PM-74-2 is suitable for four open format specifications. The Speedmaster SM 52-4 is a high-volume solution for small format jobs, while the SM 74-2 is suitable for medium format jobs.

One of the key features of the Pressmaster GTO 52 Series presses is the ability to gradually expand functionality as needed. This series of printing presses has been widely used in the world-class high-end A3 web offset press market. Its versatility and innovative design have once again won industry acclaim at the Drupa 2000 exhibition. New applications for operator concepts, improved ergonomics, removable on-line coater, paper rollover mechanism, and optional marking and caged features make these presses the most flexible Sexuality, so that users have new potential for development.

If the printing company wants to stick to the A3 format, the Speedmaster SM 52 will be the ideal upgrade option. It is characterized by excellent quality, highest productivity, cost-effectiveness of short-lived jobs, and economy due to short lead times and high automation. Despite the increasing demand in the general business market, with the help of SM 52, printing companies can always maintain a fast and flexible response.

After the drupa 2000 exhibition, this model and the CP2000 Center printing control system and the online coating system that represent cutting-edge technology have already begun to supply at the same time. With the help of the CP2000 Center print control system and optional software such as Presetlink, the Speedmaster series has been used in digital workflows. A variety of options for connecting with the prepress stage make the workflow quick and reliable, and customer service is also faster.

In addition to the five-color GTO and the Speedmaster SM 52, Heidelberg also demonstrated the Indiana QM 46 as part of a business printing solution. It can save multi-color printing presses from single-color and two-color jobs, allowing each job to be produced in the most economical way.

The Heidelberg Printmaster PM 74, which was presented for the first time at the Drupa 2000 exhibition, is an entry-level choice for the four open format market. The two-color model shown is an entry-level good choice for a medium-sized range, and it can have the best productivity through a reasonable additional investment.

For printers with high-volume requirements, Heidelberg offers the Speedmaster SM 74 as a two-color printing press. Thanks to its high degree of automation and high production speed, Heidelberg's Speedmaster presses can achieve considerable profit and excellent quality in both ultra-short and long-run versions.

In terms of post-press processing, Heidelberg will launch the Polar 66 and Polar 92 paper cutters and the Stahlfolder Ti 55 paper origami machine. Once a small and medium-sized general-purpose business printing company has these machines, it can complete all the tasks for the following four jobs.