Heidelberg, Germany―It only seems fitting to travel to the birthplace of printing and the home country of the world's largest printing trade show for a pre-Drupa press conference. And when the company you are covering is Heidelberg, the show's biggest exhibitor, there is no better place to be than Germany during the spring season of a Drupa year. The two-day international press event opened at the Heidelberg sheet-fed manufacturing facility in Weisloch with a speech from Heidelberg management board member Dr. Klaus Spiegel, who gave an overview of the company's recently announced deals―the selling of the Digital unit to Kodak and Web Systems to Goss International. Spiegel was reluctant to provide further details about the contractual agreement, but did say that the future of the company would focus strongly on the sheetfed, prepress and postpress sectors, including the associated workflow components, training and services.
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