The digital race for computer centers has begun / Heidelberg's new software invades Xerox's territory

Heidelberg/Hanover, Germany (PROTEXT) - HeidelbergerDruckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg), the leading solution provider forthe entire print industry, is presenting the latest developmentsin the digital printing industry at CeBIT. Heidelberg iscurrently equipping its digital Digimaster 9110 black and whitepress with software with the capacity to recognize and processpractically all the popular file formats used in computer centersin industry, administration, banks and insurance companies. Thistakes Heidelberg into a market for which, up till now, Xerox waspractically the only supplier. "The potential for possible newinstallations constitutes around 12,000 digital presses in thenext five years. We are well on our way to becoming market leaderin the digital printing industry. We are currently looking at theplanning figures for the sale of our Digimaster 9110 and we havealready sold 2000 machines," states Holger Reichardt,Heidelberg's Marketing Director, at the company's CeBIT pressconference in Hanover. Heidelberg obtained the new software fromthe Karlsruhe company CSP. Sales of the NexPress 2100 digital color press are to open inSeptember at Print 2001 in Chicago. Heidelberg is presenting its products in Hall 1 over a totalarea of around 900 m2. The former 150 m2 stand had become toosmall to display the full Heidelberg digital product portfolio."Here at CeBIT we are showing how the digital workflow fromprepress through to finishing is set up in an integrated printand media house. Many printshops are just waiting for a universalsoftware provider to emerge with a complete product portfolio inthe graphic arts industry," states Holger Reichardt. The tremendous increase in productivity of digital and analogpresses makes an efficient workflow even more important - theadministrative work and prepress data handling therefore take aslice of the time spent on the overall production process. Thecorresponding software for optimizing the workflow helps savetime and money and thereby safeguard the company'scompetitiveness. Heidelberg and its commitment to software arepaving the way into an important new growth market.

For further questions: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG HansDieter Siegfried Phone.: +49 6221 92 50 63 E-mail: hans-dieter.siegfried@de.heidelberg.com

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