T
he top ten entries in the ‘Be unbeatable. Be a Speed-
master.’ video competition have been chosen. From
a wealth of outstandingly creative videos submitted
fromacross the globe, a panel of judges representingHei-
delberg selected ten of the best.
The entries that made it into the final cut included
videos from Germany, Spain, Brazil, Indonesia, the Phil-
ippines, and New Zealand. From 1 June 2014, the ten
videos have their own playlist on the Heidelberg YouTube
channel where viewers can vote for them:
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com/heidelbergerdruck. The number of ‘likes’ will deter-
mine the final three winners.
The winners will be announced on 2 July 2014. First
prize is a printing unit guard in an exclusive design. The
overall winner will also be featured in the next possible
issue of the ‘Heidelberg News’ customer magazine. Sec-
ond prize is a unique picture that, like the printing unit
guard, is based on the design elements of the ‘Speed-
master. Unbeatable.’ campaign. Third prize is a valuable
Montblanc pen.
The ‘Be unbeatable. Be a Speedmaster.’ video com-
petition took place between 3 February and 13April 2014.
Customers were invited to submit video clips showing
them and their Speedmaster presses in action. In video
clips lasting around threeminutes, customerswere asked
to explain what makes their Speedmaster unbeatable.
The video competition is integrated in the ‘Speed-
master. Unbeatable.’ advertising campaign that was
launched in summer 2013. The site
terUnbeatable
.com offers numerous examples of cus-
tomersrecountingsuccessestheyhaveenjoyedwiththeir
Speedmaster presses. The website is constantly updated
with new features. In addition to the success stories, the
‘Indemand’categorycontainscustomerstatementsinthe
form of short video clips.
A
gfa Graphics has announced that its Adobe Gold
Solution Partner appointment has been extended
and that it continues to be a member of the Adobe
Partner Connection.
Withthisdesignation,AgfaGraphicsanditsworkflow
software development team clearly confirm that Adobe
Systems Incorporated is a strategic technology partner for
its current and future software portfolio. Both the Apogee
and Asanti workflow software teams will benefit from
this alliance and gain access to additional resources and
support from the Adobe teams.
‘Intheendourcustomerswillbenefitmost,’saidAndy
Grant, global head of software, Agfa Graphics. ‘The alli-
ance which we joined more than twenty years ago now
– even before PDF was introduced – allows us to share
expertise and exchange experiences about trends in our
industry such asworkflows for sign and display producers
with integrated web-to-print solutions.’
‘Adobe is excited to have Agfa Graphics as a contin-
ued and very activeGoldmember of the partner program,’
said Raman Nagpal, senior director, print and scan busi-
ness at Adobe. ‘We look forward to continuing this rela-
tionship and to creating newand exciting solutions for our
common customers.’
AgfaGraphicsbenefitsfromamulti-yearsrelationship
with Adobe and boasts an enormous number of APPE
based systems installed worldwide. Newest develop-
ments are Apogee in commercial prepress environments
and the recent introduction of Asanti with APPE 3.0, dedi-
cated to wide-format printers to integrate wide format
workflows fromweb-to-print up to finishing activities.
Heidelberg calls on internet community to choose the
three best videos
Agfa Graphics maintains gold status in the Adobe Solution
Partner program
Successful interpack 2014 for KBA Group
T
he companies belonging to the Koenig & Bauer
Group (KBA) were all very pleased with the results
of their first joint appearance under the banner ‘KBA:
The Right One’ at trade show Interpack 2014.
Many visitors from Germany and abroad, who had
previously only worked with one company in the press
manufacturing group, were amazed by the breadth of the
range on offer for the extremely diverse packaging mar-
ket. Analogue and digital coding technology from KBA-
Metronic, UV film and card printing from KBA-MePrint,
full-colour metal decorating from KBA-MetalPrint, fold-
ing carton and corrugated printing from KBA Radebeul,
digital decorative and industrial printing from KBA Wür-
zburg, printing systems for flexible packaging from KBA-
Flexotecnica, and finally direct decoration of glass and
hollow containers fromKBA-Kammann – the high-quality
product samples on show from each segment were all
received with great interest. KBA staff from the various
companieswere on hand to discuss possible combination
solutions and a lot of new ties with representatives from
the packaging industry the world over were established.
This first joint trade show presence at interpack also
encouraged the KBA companies involved to exchange
ideas. According to the old saying ‘The whole is greater
than the sum of its parts’, in the future greater advantage
will be taken of possible potential for synergies arising
from different technologies for packaging printing as well
as the transfer of know-how will increase between the
different sites. This much is already clear today: The com-
panies belonging to the KBA Group which target packag-
ing printers will be present together again at interpack
2017 with a raft of innovative packaging solutions.
Six companies belonging to the KBAGroup shared
KBA-Metronic’s stand for the first time at interpack
2014. Together they presented their individual
printing solutions for the extremely diverse
packagingmarket
Oliver Volland (l) and Thorsten Schnatz (r) from
KBA-Metronic presented a certificate to Félix
Prieto, managing director of Spanish partner
Impryma, in celebration of the firm’s
30th anniversary
Pressmanufacturer Koenig&Bauer emphasised
its high level of competence for the growth
segment packagingwith themotto
“KBA: The Right One”
The ten best entries in the ‘Be unbeatable. Be a Speedmaster.’ video competitionwill be available in the
Heidelberg YouTube playlist
from1 June 2014, with the three
overall winners to be chosen by viewers.
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