Heidelberg Hosts Long Perfecting Seminar

More than 50 printers traveled to Kennesaw, Ga., to attend a customer event at Heidelberg’s U.S. headquarters. The topic: “Straight Printing vs. Long Perfecting.”

The event focused on helping printers determine which production process, and ultimately which equipment configuration, is best for their business.

The event began with an in-depth look at Heidelberg’s Prinect integrated workflow and color management solutions and a virtual demonstration of a job passing through the Prinect workflow. Printers then “followed” the job to the pressroom for a series of live runs of the same job produced on two different presses: on the Speedmaster SM 102 10-color perfecting press in a single pass and on the ultra productive Speedmaster XL 105 straight printing press in a 6-color, coater configuration in two passes. In addition, the covers were printed on the Speedmaster CD 74 eight-color perfecting press with coating unit. Once the jobs were printed, guests watched as the final products were finished on the Stitchmaster ST 350 saddlestitcher.

Visitors were also given an exclusive walking tour of Heidelberg’s systemservice training and dispatch areas, where they saw regional service teams in action. The day ended with a press productivity analysis and discussions about the results of the production comparison.