US Printshop Steketee-Van Huis Installs Millennium Trendsetter
11/29/1999
1,000th Heidelberg/Creo Computer-to-Plate system delivered
The 1,000th Heidelberg/Creo Computer-to-Plate (CtP) system was delivered to Steketee-Van Huis (SVH) in Holland, Michigan, USA. The US printshop not only installed the new Trendsetter Spectrum™ 3244 digital proof system, but also a Trendsetter 3244 Autoload (AL).
SVH is one of the leading commercial and packaging printshops in Michigan. The company was founded in 1928 and employs a staff of 110. Its range of products includes catalogs, annual reports, folded boxes, medicinal packaging, book covers, greetings cards and CD inlay cards. Its subsidiary, "The Printery", also offers high-end commercial printing services. Both companies have been using Heidelberg presses for years. SVH plans to use the Trendsetter AL as its primary plate copying system, while the Spectrum will be used for proof production and to assist the Trendsetter AL during peak periods.
A celebration was organized at SVH to mark the installation of the 1,000th unit. "Heidelberg/Creo is the watchword in CtP", said company manager Ted Etheridge in his speech. "People no longer ask whether you use CtP; they ask whether you use units from Heidelberg/Creo. If you've got anything else, everybody thinks you chose second best."
Heidelberg/Creo - two years of successful partnership
For two years now these market leaders have been pooling their strengths in the development, production and marketing of co-branded CtP systems and advanced workflow solutions for the printing industry. Heidelberg/Creo has sold almost three times as many systems as any other CtP vendor.
"Around the world, hundreds of printshops and prepress companies rely on CtP systems from Heidelberg/Creo to deliver the best possible results", declared Bernhard Schreier, member of the Management Board of Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG. "The sale of the 1,000th system brings us one step closer to our goal of making our CtP solutions the de facto standard in the printing industry", added Amos Michelson, CEO of Creo.
Together, Heidelberg and Creo have opened up the world of CtP for companies of all sizes, including small printshops and prepress studios. Although over 100 of their CtP systems are used by the world's ten largest commercial printshops, more than half of the 1,000 CtP systems installed by Heidelberg/Creo are in small and medium-sized printshops. And the number of units appearing in prepress companies and in the packaging/processing sector is growing fast.
Heidelberg and Creo are therefore expecting the number of CtP installations to continue rising. In a recent GATF study, 78 percent of current CtP users said that they were planning to make further investments in CtP. Industry sources project the total number of CtP systems installed will be approaching 5,000 by the end of next year. This represents an increase of 100 percent on the end of 1998, when there were around 2,500 systems in operation.
Heidelberg/Creo believes it stands a good chance of being able to announce the installation of its 2,000th CtP system in 2001. Over 40 new Heidelberg/Creo systems are currently being installed around the world each month, which is more than one system per day. And further new developments which will completely change the face of the prepress process are in the pipeline for drupa 2000.
The 1,000th Heidelberg/Creo Computer-to-Plate (CtP) system was delivered to Steketee-Van Huis (SVH) in Holland, Michigan, USA. The US printshop not only installed the new Trendsetter Spectrum™ 3244 digital proof system, but also a Trendsetter 3244 Autoload (AL).
SVH is one of the leading commercial and packaging printshops in Michigan. The company was founded in 1928 and employs a staff of 110. Its range of products includes catalogs, annual reports, folded boxes, medicinal packaging, book covers, greetings cards and CD inlay cards. Its subsidiary, "The Printery", also offers high-end commercial printing services. Both companies have been using Heidelberg presses for years. SVH plans to use the Trendsetter AL as its primary plate copying system, while the Spectrum will be used for proof production and to assist the Trendsetter AL during peak periods.
A celebration was organized at SVH to mark the installation of the 1,000th unit. "Heidelberg/Creo is the watchword in CtP", said company manager Ted Etheridge in his speech. "People no longer ask whether you use CtP; they ask whether you use units from Heidelberg/Creo. If you've got anything else, everybody thinks you chose second best."
Heidelberg/Creo - two years of successful partnership
For two years now these market leaders have been pooling their strengths in the development, production and marketing of co-branded CtP systems and advanced workflow solutions for the printing industry. Heidelberg/Creo has sold almost three times as many systems as any other CtP vendor.
"Around the world, hundreds of printshops and prepress companies rely on CtP systems from Heidelberg/Creo to deliver the best possible results", declared Bernhard Schreier, member of the Management Board of Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG. "The sale of the 1,000th system brings us one step closer to our goal of making our CtP solutions the de facto standard in the printing industry", added Amos Michelson, CEO of Creo.
Together, Heidelberg and Creo have opened up the world of CtP for companies of all sizes, including small printshops and prepress studios. Although over 100 of their CtP systems are used by the world's ten largest commercial printshops, more than half of the 1,000 CtP systems installed by Heidelberg/Creo are in small and medium-sized printshops. And the number of units appearing in prepress companies and in the packaging/processing sector is growing fast.
Heidelberg and Creo are therefore expecting the number of CtP installations to continue rising. In a recent GATF study, 78 percent of current CtP users said that they were planning to make further investments in CtP. Industry sources project the total number of CtP systems installed will be approaching 5,000 by the end of next year. This represents an increase of 100 percent on the end of 1998, when there were around 2,500 systems in operation.
Heidelberg/Creo believes it stands a good chance of being able to announce the installation of its 2,000th CtP system in 2001. Over 40 new Heidelberg/Creo systems are currently being installed around the world each month, which is more than one system per day. And further new developments which will completely change the face of the prepress process are in the pipeline for drupa 2000.
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