New print process for publication

[Ron Marshall]

The prints for the exhibit were prited using a Speedmaster XL 105.

http://www.heidelberg.com/www/html/e...90707_pma_expo


http://heidelberg.com/www/html/en/co...dmaster_xl_105

[Drew Wiley]

Heidelburg presses are big industrial offset machines, generally linked to expensive
proprietary software packages. Definitely not something for the home darkroom user
or conventional lab. This is commecial printing technology, not photographic printing
or anything resembling conventional inkjet. Heidelburg is a well-known name in that
trade.

[bvstaples]

The last Heidelburg I was involved in purchasing (a 102) ran about five million, with service contracts and what not. Oh yeah, it's half the size of your average house!

What will be interesting is to watch this technology filter down to smaller presses, especially the short run digital imaging presses. It'll be a few years, but it will most likely happen.

Imagine in ten years walking into a Kinko's and making a continuous tone print from your negative for a few bucks...

[Drew Wiley]

Probably someone like Magnolia Press in this neighborhood would be interested in
offering a service like this. Nice people, and I'm working with a fancy remodel project
in the vicinity, but they aren't interested in printing your work unless you are a brand
name NYC artist who can fetch 50K to a million per piece. Very restricted client list,
even snootier than Fresson. The trouble with hypothetically downsizing the hadware
end of this, is that when it finally does end up at Kinkos, some minimum wage gofer
will drop a banana peel or peanut butter sandwich in the works, and the machine will
be out of service 80% of the time, unless you like the particular hues of peanut butter
and jelly on your print! And you can't build a machine which is both precise and
durable with a bunch of cheap plastic parts!

[David Spivak-Focus Magazine]

First of all - it's Heidelberg, not Heidelberger! The XL 105 is what all high end books, magazines and printed materials are printed on, including Focus Magazine. The plates that are configured for this machine vary in line screen from 200 - 400. This sounds like quite an interesting opportunity for a publication that revolves around photography to research.