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Boxes Galore

More and more commercial printers are turning to packaging printing as a second pillar. After all, this segment is growing almost twice as fast as the traditional market. Heidelberg's Prinect Signa Station Packaging Pro makes the production of sheet layouts in package printing fast and easy.

Be it pizza, pens or bicycle tubes: almost all products are packaged in boxes. Even during economically turbulent times, the packaging market ensures a stable volume of orders. Commercial printers want to profit from that as well. "Our customers include an increasing number of smaller commercial businesses that want to enter into packaging printing. Packaging Pro helps them do so," says Sabine Roob, Product Manager of Prinect Preprint Applications & Packaging.

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FREE Webinar - Three Methods to Improving Your Color Match with ISO/TS 10128

Heidelberg and Rochester Institute of Technology's Printing Applications Laboratory will be hosting a FREE webinar on Wednesday, July 1st from 2:00 pm-3:00 pm discussing the three compensation methods to improve your color match with ISO/TS 10128-tone value increase, near neutral scales, and device link profiles. Today's digital environment enables you to adjust for your specific, production conditions to meet a standard reference printing condition such as ISO 12647-2. Learn more about how you can simplify your calibration techniques with tools that can improve your color match, consistency and predictability.

Topics to be covered:

Why customers are requesting printers to meet ISO 12647 Series standards, Including GRACoL®/ G7™ Specifications.
Digital compensation techniques with Tone Value Increase, Near Neutral Scales, and Device Link Profiles.
How to optimize gray balance and pressroom color match to any open ICC profile.
Use of Prinect Color Toolbox v3.5 to objectively analyze and validate your proof/print results.
Review an independent case study, that highlights the improved color match and economic savings gained by using ISO/TC 10128 techniques.

Register online at the RIT Printing Application Laboratory and advance your color matching techniques.

Remarketed QMDI Specials

For a limited time you can receive unprecedented discounts on the Heidelberg Quickmaster QMDI 46-4. Save up to 20% for our 90 day parts and labor warranty, installation and instruction discount package.

Contact us for details. Offer Ends June 30, 2009.

Heidelberg USA is hosting a FREE seminar: "10 Things Keeping Print CEO's Up at Night"

If you're a printing company executive wondering how to increase profits in a down economy, this is the best two hours you can possibly spend.

In a fast-paced two-hour question and answer format, Heidelberg experts will present the answers to questions like:

How can I actually reduce makeready times, saving labor and material costs, with my existing equipment?
I think I'm making money, but how do I truly find my actual production costs for specific customers?
How do I go about getting this "G7 certification" my clients are asking me about?

Information you can use to propel your company to profits when all others are struggling.

Register for an up-coming session:
• June 23	Pittsburgh, PA	Click Here
• June 29	Roseville, MN	Click Here
• June 30	Des Moines, IA	Click Here
• June 30	Coralville, IA	Click Here
• July 15	Dallas, TX	Click Here

Prosetter: "52 for 52" & "74 for 74" Special

As the name suggests, you can purchase a complete 2-up CtP solution for $52,000, or a complete four-up CtP for $74,000. Both offers include three years of full warranty coverage, and an additional 2 two years of coverage for the CtP lasers, to ensure your Prosetter keeps running smoothly. Combine this with our discounted pricing for violet plates, and your savings will continue to grow over time.

Contact us for details. Offer Ends June 30, 2009.

Show Us Your Heidelberg

"We're a Heidelberg shop." It's always been a mark of distinction in the printing industry, and the Heidelberg users on these pages are proud to claim it. We salute them!

POLAR Loyalty Special

Have a POLAR cutter 5 years of age or older? Heidelberg values your loyalty and offers you the opportunity to replace your POLAR cutter with a brand NEW X/XT/XS generation cutter at special discounted pricing.

Contact us for details. Offer Ends June 30, 2009.