Heidelberg secured £9m of orders at its two day 20/20 Vision open house last week. This included five press orders.

Jim Todd, sales director, says: "The open house attracted 450 printers and there was a real buzz about the showroom. The tours were well attended and seminars resulted in some interesting discussions. There is a great deal more confidence in the printing market and several capital investment projects are now moving ahead. In addition to the machine sales there was strong interest in the Saphira consumables products and support services, including training and consultancy."

Book your front row seat at upcoming 'Pure Imagination" event taking place in Lecco, Italy, next May 6, 7 and 8, 2014

OMET has presented in years a great number of innovations with the objective to support label and packaging printers worldwide to be competitive in their own markets, pursuing the highest quality and efficacy. To this aim, and with great conviction, OMET has come to the design and production of an extensive range of multi-process machines, OMET is now proud to present in its entirety during the 'open doors' event "Pure Imagination", where all customers from the whole Europe and the rest of the world are invited in Lecco, Italy on 6 to 8 May, 2014.

Problematic quality constraints in the printing of lightweight paper.

Printing with lightweight paper on sheetfed offset, presents print compa- nies with consistent productivity and product quality challenges.

The in-plant shop at the New York State Bar Association is the first operation to take advantage of the strategic sales partnership between Colter & Peterson and the KomoriKare program of Komori America Corporation. Founded in 1876 and the largest voluntary state bar association in the nation, NYSBA completed installation of a custom built C&P Saber® 37.4" paper cutter on February 10, in addition to a Prism® automatic stack lift system.

"The speed of the Saber is incredible and so is the automation of the machine. Our operators absolutely love it," said Gordon Ryan, Director of Design, Printing and Fulfillment Services at NYSBA www.nysba.org, and an industry veteran since 1985.

Flexo Concepts  announced today that Nilpeter is now shipping all new FB Series press installations worldwide with the TruPoint Orange doctor blade.  The prominent narrow web press manufacturer has replaced steel with Orange due to its superior metering performance and ability to eliminate UV ink spitting.

Available in 10", 13" and 16" web widths, Nilpeter's FB series models are among the fastest narrow web presses in the industry at 750 F/min. 

Nuova GIDUE confirms its presence at the next INFO*FLEX event in Baltimore. Taking place between 28th and 29th April at Baltimore Convention Center, it is entirely dedicated to the North America's package printing and converting industry.

Maurizio Trecate, GIDUE Vice President Sales, together with Mat Jones, GIDUE USA Managing Director, will be glad to welcome all visitors at GIDUE booth 1318 to present GIDUE Digital Flexo Excellence™ technology, the latest revolution signed GIDUE.

Bruehlsche Universitaetsdruckerei in Giessen (Germany) and Severotisk in Usti (Czech Republic) get latest control console technology from manroland web systems

manroland web systems develops integrated solutions for retrofits, custom-made for older printing presses. The solutions are designed to reduce downtimes and cancellation expenses and, at the same time, to increase the performance of the printing system. Retrofits assure the availability of the press for the customer and upgrade the automation. A retrofit of the control system enables a significantly better performance with higher product quality and less interruptions of the production run.

The open-house season 2014 kicked off on 13 March with a KBA Nordic Day event at the plant in Radebeul. Printers and potential customers from Sweden and Finland were invited to find out more about the latest developments regarding medium and large-format Rapidas.

The day began with a presentation on the latest innovations and trends in sheetfed offset. The visiting Scandinavian printers were treated to a series of print demos starting with HR-UV on a Rapida 75.

• New web offset press with inkjet capability will complement existing sheetfed print operation
• Productivity to improve dramatically with new inline facility
• Web system will deliver transformative capabilities for servicing retail clients

REVO is a Project Team which collects 7 industry Leaders cooperating to drive flexography towards the new "digital" world of Printing and Converting. Process consistency, efficiency and cost reduction are the objectives of REVO Digital Flexo Revolution, to win the Labels and Packaging challenge for short runs, global quality and total flexibility.

The REVO Project Team members have started to cooperate in December 2013, officially announcing the project in February 2014.

Successful start to new cooperation with Optimus

Following the recent announcement of KBA's partnership with Optimus for the worldwide sales and distribution of their management information systems (MIS), this new collaboration has already started to bear fruit in Singapore. A local printing house will be implementing the Optimus Dash MIS in the near future.

UK based manufactures of printing presses and converting equipment, Edale, can announce their official expansion into the final unit at their head office based in Hampshire.

This new expansion will result in an additional 20,000 Sq. ft being added to the already sizable factory, taking the total space to 50,000 Sq. ft, allowing Edale to increase production ensuring alignment with current and future growth plans.