Presses

Building on from the Speedmaster 74 that was launched just before it, the Heidelberg Speedmaster (SM) 52 claimed many firsts. Launched at Drupa 1995, it was the first B3 machine ever to have autoplate...

If there's any part of the UK print industry that's intact at the moment, it's the B3 sector. Smaller, more flexible, and therefore more able to react to tough trading conditions, B3 printers are...

Heidelberg has recorded a 23% rise in incoming orders to Euro1.151bn (911.6m), but has experienced a drop in sales in the three months to 30 June.

B&B Press has marked the purchase of two Sakurai presses in its 50th anniversary year with a sake drum ceremony attended by Ryuta Sakurai, the Japanese manufacturer's president.

High-end printer D2 has said that Heidelberg's Speedmaster XL 75 "wipes out the potential for digital" with its faster makereadies and quality.

An un-named French printer has signed up for the first sale of the Goss M-600 Folia press.

Direct mail printer Fingerprint has defied the economic gloom with a 1.5m investment in two Heidelberg Speedmaster perfector presses and is expected to consolidate its two Wiltshire sites.

Heidelberg's chief executive has said the company may be the subject of a takeover approach as its share price continues to fall.

Interprint has brought the majority of its four-colour work in-house by investing in a Shinohara 66 press.