Heidelberg

Effective from Sept. 1, 2012, Dr. Gerold Linzbach will be the CEO of Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG. Current CEO Bernhard Schreier will not be extending his management contract and will be leaving the company at the end of 2012. Schreier

After 23 years of hard work, the Stahl folder at Carleton University Graphic Services was showing its age. Coming from the pre-automation era, setup was entirely manual on the 25˝ folder, which led to some lengthy makereadies. Plus it was very noisy. So in May, the 15-employee in-plant installed a new Standard Horizon AFC-566FKT folder.

Take a stroll through the halls of drupa and you will see more finishing equipment than you have ever imagined in your life. Most of those machines, sadly, are unavailable here on the other side of the Atlantic. So we've decided to focus on the equipment that is, and have provided a quick look at some of the new bindery and finishing systems that made their debuts at drupa.

When Jimmy Friend stepped onto the stage at last month's IPMA conference to accept the In-Print 2012 Best of Show award in the non-offset categories, he was on familiar ground. It was the third consecutive Best of Show award for University of North Texas Printing & Distribution Solutions, an achievement no other in-plant has attained.

Watch as the In-Print judges go through all the offset Gold-winning entries and pick the Best of Show winner.

Held in the sleepy state capital of Harrisburg, Pa., in late April, the 47th annual Association of College and University Printers conference brought together nearly 100 higher-ed in-plant managers from all corners of the country—and from four other countries.

It’s always refreshing to learn about regional in-plant networking groups that are bringing managers together. In Sacramento, Calif., one such group has been meeting quarterly for the past year. It boasts 35 active members from 25 government agencies all around the state capital. 

Not many in-plants can boast they’ve been around for 100 years, but this year University of Virginia (UVA) Printing and Copying Services got to join that elite club. The in-plant got its start in 1912, when William Howard Taft was president and the first World War was still two years away.

Digital inkjet printers on display seemingly everywhere, let alone all the buzz surrounding Benny Landa and his Nanographic Printing process, may have captured many of the headlines during drupa 2012, but that doesn’t mean there weren’t a host of new lithographic press introductions, technology demonstrations and productivity enhancements shown within the stands of traditional press manufacturers.

Taking place only once every four years, the drupa international printing trade fair is a huge show. By the time it wrapped up its two-week stint in Düsseldorf, Germany, last month 314,500 visitors from more than 130 countries had walked its 19 halls and visited its 1,850 exhibitors.