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Heidelberg News • Editorial<br />
Quality – A Dynamic Constant<br />
Quality has long been just as important to politicians, media scientists,<br />
and artists as it has to engineers, management experts and consumers.<br />
The pearls of wisdom that have emerged over the years – such as “quality<br />
comes at a price,” “quality is a matter of taste” or “quality remains<br />
long after the price is forgotten” – reflect this diversity. Nowadays,<br />
the concept of “dynamic quality” provides food for thought for many<br />
a philosopher.<br />
Whatever your personal feelings on the matter, you will know from<br />
experience that your customers expect specific qualities under defined<br />
conditions – particularly in times such as these. Clearly, a highly<br />
productive manufacturing operation is needed to impress both particularly<br />
discerning clients and walk-in customers, or to bring in new<br />
orders while also ensuring regular customers are happy.<br />
We are committed to helping you succeed by providing ideal solutions<br />
– whether you are looking to print extremely long runs on<br />
super-fast presses, manufacture highly complex print products with<br />
top-quality consumables, make frequent job changes in the shortest<br />
possible time, or explore new fields of business with a previously owned<br />
but reliable machine.<br />
This issue of Heidelberg News provides a few examples of such<br />
solutions. As indicated above, quality is very much a dynamic concept,<br />
but for us it has been a constant corporate value for more than<br />
150 years – all the more reason why I hope you will once again<br />
find something of interest among our latest quality products.<br />
Yours,<br />
Jürgen Rautert<br />
Management Board, Markets<br />
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG<br />
2 • • Issue Ausgabe 268 265 • 2009<br />
• 2008<br />
Contents<br />
Heidelberg News • No. 268 • 2009<br />
Profiles<br />
6 Top of the League<br />
Bob Coppinger, eddie Kelley and Will Winship are huge baseball<br />
fans and put just as much energy and enthusiasm into running<br />
their print shop. in no time at all, they have made Kirkwood<br />
Printing in Boston one of the most successful commercial print<br />
shops in the U.s.<br />
14 Gilded Wine Labels from Bordeaux<br />
france’s top-quality wines from the Médoc region not only taste<br />
exquisite, they have the looks to match – thanks to the Pujol family<br />
print shop, which specializes in making gold-embossed wine labels.<br />
sPeCtrUM<br />
20 News & Reports<br />
from the world of Heidelberg<br />
solUtions<br />
24 Performance Pure and Simple<br />
Peter tix from the Consumables division at Heidelberg talks<br />
about saphira and the company’s ambitions on the global<br />
consumables market.<br />
30 Second Hand, First Choice<br />
Cutting costs, handling production peaks, and minimizing the<br />
risk of trying out new equipment – there are many good reasons<br />
for buying a remarketed press from Heidelberg, especially when<br />
it comes directly from the manufacturer.
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