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The focus on the customers was laid at the Heidelberg booth at Igas. The German company showed the modular workflow components of Prinect as well as industrial and digital print solutions, commercial & quick print and package and label solutions. For the first time, a 10-colour Speedmaster SM 102 was shown in Japan which provides new opportunities for printers to utilise one pass productivity for outstanding results and faster turnaround and is enhancing the existing product portfolio, as Heidelberg claims. An Asia-Pacific first showing was the Probinder, which is available in three different configurations – online, nearline and offline. Another launch was the Nexpress J, which especially for the Japanese market shows different features for the use in Japan such as two-byte fonts and special profiles.The entire portfolio of the digital print solutions, a Quickmaster 46DI and the Digimaster 9110 were presented at Igas. For the packaging and label industry, the Speedmaster CD74-6+LX as well as the Speedmaster CD 102-6+LX were present at the booth and attracted much interest. Another first was the SM 74 in a configuration with ten colours, which gives the printer the opportunity of printing 10 straight or five over five, as Günter Zorn, President Heidelberg AsiaPacific said. All shown machines at the booth were star products which, as Zorn claims, gives them a decisive advantage, as especially the Japanese market is very environmentally conscious.
