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Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG () is a German precision mechanical engineering company with registered offices in 
By cooperating with Ricoh in 2011 Heidelberg entered a global distribution agreement contract to sell and support the Japanese company's latest production digital colour press, alongside their extensive
Heidelberg offers a wide product portfolio in sheet-fed offset presses, digital printing presses and label printing as well as service offerings, consumables and software solutions. Beyond the printing industry, the company is also addressing new markets with its digital platform for industrial customers.
Druckmaschinen Datenbank
Printing machines since 1900 – Summary of all offset and letterpress machines ever built, including Heidelberg models
Tool for the calculation of the year of manufacture codes (1950–2004) for used Heidelberg printing machines. * {{Authority control Engineering companies of Germany Printing press manufacturers German companies established in 1850 Druckmaschinen Companies based in Wiesloch German brands
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG () is a German precision mechanical engineering company with registered offices in Heidelberg
Heidelberg (; Palatine German language, Palatine German: ''Heidlberg'') is a city in the States of Germany, German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the river Neckar in south-west Germany. As of the 2016 census, its population was 159,914 ...
(Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...
) and headquarters in Wiesloch/Walldorf (Baden-Württemberg). The company offers products and services along the entire process and value chain for printing products and is the largest global manufacturer of offset printing presses. Sheet-fed offset printing is used predominantly for high-quality, multi-colour products, such as catalogues, calendars, posters, and labels. Heidelberg produces equipment for prepress Prepress is the term used in the Printing and Publishing industries for the processes and procedures that occur between the creation of a print layout and the final printing. The prepress process includes the preparation of artwork for press, media ...
, press and postpress.
Heidelberg is particularly well known in letterpress circles for the Original Heidelberg Platen Press
The Original Heidelberg Platen Press was a letterpress printing
Letterpress printing is a technique of relief printing. Using a printing press, the process allows many copies to be produced by repeated direct impression of an inked, raised ...
, commonly known as the "Windmill" after the rotating arms of the paper feed mechanism. It was both power-driven and power-fed. They were manufactured in enormous quantities from 1927 through 1985, and many are still in service well into the 21st century.
By cooperating with Ricoh in 2011 Heidelberg entered a global distribution agreement contract to sell and support the Japanese company's latest production digital colour press, alongside their extensive offset press
Offset printing is a common printing technique in which the inked image is transferred (or "offset") from a plate to a rubber blanket and then to the printing surface. When used in combination with the lithographic process, which is based on ...
portfolio.
Like much of the printing industry, Heidelberg has suffered and its employees have been subject to layoffs and pay cuts in past years.
Heidelberg is cooperating closely with Adolf Mohr Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG and acquired the Gallus Holding in 2014. This extends the existing portfolio in terms of Postpress production and label printing. Heidelberg also develops new fields of business by offering industry solutions such as charging stations for electric cars or software solutions for the digital networking of today's process chains across industry.
Products
Heidelberg offers a wide product portfolio in sheet-fed offset presses, digital printing presses and label printing as well as service offerings, consumables and software solutions. Beyond the printing industry, the company is also addressing new markets with its digital platform for industrial customers.
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*Druckmaschinen Datenbank
Printing machines since 1900 – Summary of all offset and letterpress machines ever built, including Heidelberg models
Tool for the calculation of the year of manufacture codes (1950–2004) for used Heidelberg printing machines. * {{Authority control Engineering companies of Germany Printing press manufacturers German companies established in 1850 Druckmaschinen Companies based in Wiesloch German brands