Vögeli pressure on the rise
Print The Vögeli printing company in Langnau celebrated a world premiere with customers and guests.
Print Langnauer Druckerei Vögeli celebrated a world premiere with customers and guests The family-owned company Vögeli AG in Langnau im Emmental, which employs around 40 people, recently celebrated the completion of an important phase in its company history. After moving into an additional new building, which was completed at the end of November 2005, the print shop has since put one of the most modern sheet-fed offset presses in Switzerland into operation. On September 1, the print shop invited customers to view the expanded production facility and see the enhanced technical capabilities for themselves. Among the 250 or so guests was Bernhard Schreier, CEO of Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, the supplier of the press.
Vögeli invited its customers and partners with a mailing based on a flight ticket and travel program. Depending on personal preferences, there were two highlights at the customer event in the hangar or machine room: The cabaret duo FlügZüg, who provided various flights of fancy and top entertainment with acrobatic interludes combined with Bernese charm and humor - or the new "Dreamliner", a Heidelberg Speedmaster that takes graphic design operations to true heights thanks to technical finesse.
The high-flyer - a world premiere, by the way - has the mysterious name Heidelberg Speedmaster CD 74-5+L+LY-P-5+L. In technical jargon, such press configurations are called LPL for short, which refers to the options of coating application, perfecting and coating application (then on the reverse side of the sheet). The 21-metre-long ten-color offset press in the configuration installed at Vögeli can produce five-color printed, coating-finished sheets on both sides in a single pass.
Technically high-flying and yet a soft landingThere was no need to be afraid of flying at the event, because after check-in and on the guided tour of the premises, there was more talk of high-altitude flights, preflighting and soft landings than usual in print shops.
Employees of Vögeli AG acted as flight captains. They informed customers about the modern prepress department, which spares customers from blind flights thanks to data checks. Almost half a terabyte of data is available for direct access, and 2 x 6 terabytes of data are managed at Vögeli, explained flight attendant Martin Schlegel, who works in the office during non-flight times.
A photo studio designed for professional requirements, a litho department, state-of-the-art DTP workstations and a Prinergy workflow including impositioning station as well as a Creo CtP imagesetter round off the prepress department. In order to shorten set-up times during printing, color profiles are generated during impositioning, which are called up at the printing press and shorten the presetting times there. A Polar 115 Autotrim cutting line positioned centrally in the machine room ensures precise cutting.
The "handling" of printed matter at Vögeli is also state-of-the-art. Modern saddle stitchers, folding and collating machines, inserting and addressing machines, coupled with old but well-maintained Heidelberg letterpresses, allow the company to respond to a wide range of customer requirements.
The company literally took the cake with the presentation of its new CI. The somewhat antiquated-looking "Vögeli-V" has given way to a modern logo. And Vögeli has gently landed in the modern age.
Jürgen Franck
Vögeli invited its customers and partners with a mailing based on a flight ticket and travel program. Depending on personal preferences, there were two highlights at the customer event in the hangar or machine room: The cabaret duo FlügZüg, who provided various flights of fancy and top entertainment with acrobatic interludes combined with Bernese charm and humor - or the new "Dreamliner", a Heidelberg Speedmaster that takes graphic design operations to true heights thanks to technical finesse.
The high-flyer - a world premiere, by the way - has the mysterious name Heidelberg Speedmaster CD 74-5+L+LY-P-5+L. In technical jargon, such press configurations are called LPL for short, which refers to the options of coating application, perfecting and coating application (then on the reverse side of the sheet). The 21-metre-long ten-color offset press in the configuration installed at Vögeli can produce five-color printed, coating-finished sheets on both sides in a single pass.
Technically high-flying and yet a soft landingThere was no need to be afraid of flying at the event, because after check-in and on the guided tour of the premises, there was more talk of high-altitude flights, preflighting and soft landings than usual in print shops.
Employees of Vögeli AG acted as flight captains. They informed customers about the modern prepress department, which spares customers from blind flights thanks to data checks. Almost half a terabyte of data is available for direct access, and 2 x 6 terabytes of data are managed at Vögeli, explained flight attendant Martin Schlegel, who works in the office during non-flight times.
A photo studio designed for professional requirements, a litho department, state-of-the-art DTP workstations and a Prinergy workflow including impositioning station as well as a Creo CtP imagesetter round off the prepress department. In order to shorten set-up times during printing, color profiles are generated during impositioning, which are called up at the printing press and shorten the presetting times there. A Polar 115 Autotrim cutting line positioned centrally in the machine room ensures precise cutting.
The "handling" of printed matter at Vögeli is also state-of-the-art. Modern saddle stitchers, folding and collating machines, inserting and addressing machines, coupled with old but well-maintained Heidelberg letterpresses, allow the company to respond to a wide range of customer requirements.
The company literally took the cake with the presentation of its new CI. The somewhat antiquated-looking "Vögeli-V" has given way to a modern logo. And Vögeli has gently landed in the modern age.
Jürgen Franck
