Rochester, NY-based label and packaging printer Hammer Lithograph is no stranger to "firsts." The company installed a Heidelberg Speedmaster CD 102, an 8-color, 40-in. offset press with both aqueous-and UV-coating capabilities, closed-loop scanning spectrophotometry and Heidelberg's CutStar roll-to-sheet feeder. That early May 2004 installation represents two firsts: Hammer's first Heidelberg, and the first US CutStar installation geared to print on lightweight oriented-polypropylene film from rollstock. The configuration lets Hammer produce sheets of cut-and-stack labels faster-running its Speed-master CD at 15,000 sph-while trimming production costs and waste. Founded in 1912 as Genesee Valley Lithograph, Hammer Lithograph affiliates include New Frontier Packaging (a producer of roll-fed flexo labels); and J. MacKenzie, Ltd. (a sheeter/converter of on-demand print papers). New Frontier was profiled in Converting, Feb. 2000. Hammer Lithograph's $56 million in sales represents 70 percent of the three firms' $80 million in combined revenue.
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