Together with customers, associates, and the trade press, Paul Steidle, executive board member Webfed Printing Systems at manroland, officially opened the new Print Technology Center. Described by the company as an advancement and development centre for newspaper and commercial web offset printing, it offers linked training courses for all aspects of web offset.
More than 1000 customers and partners come to Augsburg every year to participate in training courses, PraxisSeminars, and PraxisDialogs. In order to create optimal conditions for these activities, a long etsablished hall on the Augsburg factory premises was converted over the past few months into a Print Technology Center. At the end of the 19th century, this hall housed the turning shop of the August Riedinger engineering works, which became a secret ammunition factory during the Second World War. At the end of the war it was used as an assembly hall for Poly automatic presses, and in more recent times as a testing site.
Paul Steidle says, “The PTC Augsburg is an investment in the future of web offset. The market demands ever more complex solutions from press manufacturers for workflow optimisation. Groundbreaking system solutions and highly-trained staff provide a printing company with decisive advantages in the marketplace.”
According to manroland the PTC offers training under practical conditions. The programme is primarily aimed at all printing company staff who are directly or indirectly involved with presses. The three-step training program – basic training, in-depth training and advanced workshop – covers all areas. For the practical training sessions a Colorman, XXL with APL and APL logistics and ultramodern control console technology is available, along with a heatset printing system and a complete prepress department for newspaper and commercial web offset printing. The PTC Augsburg also offers special management training courses and PraxisSeminar or PraxisDialog events for management personnel.
In the Print Technology Center the emphasis is on practical solutions to optimise all areas of their printing companies. Stiedle says, “From development to marketability, from prepress to postpress, and from printnet Publishing Workflow to printnet Commercial Workflow, the PTC offers extensive research and development that links all disciplines: electronics, mechanics, printing and process technology, spare parts and wear parts, control console and prepress.”
“In the printcom laboratory, experts convey the latest technical findings for inks, dampening solution and types of paper. Coordinated process components form the basis for outstanding print results and sustained production cost reduction. Working together with manroland experts, trainees develop new solutions for web offset printing. So ideas and concepts can be thoroughly tested, further developed and made marketable.”
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