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KBA and manroland complain. It was bound to happen. Printweek.com's article
German rivals voice concerns over Heidelberg's 'government bailout' | printweek.com | Latest Print Industry News, Jobs, Features, Product Reviews, Used Printing and Packaging Machinery
comments on concerns KBA and manroland have with government help for Heidelberg.
This is again an example of the present trend for governments to support the foolish at the expense of the slightly less foolish businesses.
Instead of letting the market decide what manufacturer has the most innovative approaches, the powers that be have stepped in to upset the balance by supporting a "too big to fail" foolish business.
The move is understandable to save jobs but it can perpetuate mediocrity. Having other businesses survive, that also don't innovate enough is no victory for the industry. Even with all the new technology, the industry vendors are still backwards but don't know it and this is because they are not really scientifically based.
In another article on Printweek.com, manroland is looking for the oldest of their press technology in the UK for the upcoming IPEX exhibit.
Manroland hunts for oldest serving UK press | printweek.com | Presses News, Used Machines and Jobs from the Press Machinery Sector
For sure, when they find this press it will have the basic 150 year old technology that is still on modern offset presses and that is also the fundamental cause of density variation in print.
This will also show that press manufacturers have shown no effort to understand the fundamental problems in the press and are happy to continue with inadequate technologies.
I would be much happier to see press manufacturers succeed over others by innovating rather than by winning by just attrition. Maybe the government's misguided move to help Heidelberg will actually be good for other press manufacturers. It might force them to innovate to beat the competition instead of hoping that the competition will die due to running out of cash. More innovation would be good.
German rivals voice concerns over Heidelberg's 'government bailout' | printweek.com | Latest Print Industry News, Jobs, Features, Product Reviews, Used Printing and Packaging Machinery
comments on concerns KBA and manroland have with government help for Heidelberg.
This is again an example of the present trend for governments to support the foolish at the expense of the slightly less foolish businesses.
Instead of letting the market decide what manufacturer has the most innovative approaches, the powers that be have stepped in to upset the balance by supporting a "too big to fail" foolish business.
The move is understandable to save jobs but it can perpetuate mediocrity. Having other businesses survive, that also don't innovate enough is no victory for the industry. Even with all the new technology, the industry vendors are still backwards but don't know it and this is because they are not really scientifically based.
In another article on Printweek.com, manroland is looking for the oldest of their press technology in the UK for the upcoming IPEX exhibit.
Manroland hunts for oldest serving UK press | printweek.com | Presses News, Used Machines and Jobs from the Press Machinery Sector
For sure, when they find this press it will have the basic 150 year old technology that is still on modern offset presses and that is also the fundamental cause of density variation in print.
This will also show that press manufacturers have shown no effort to understand the fundamental problems in the press and are happy to continue with inadequate technologies.
I would be much happier to see press manufacturers succeed over others by innovating rather than by winning by just attrition. Maybe the government's misguided move to help Heidelberg will actually be good for other press manufacturers. It might force them to innovate to beat the competition instead of hoping that the competition will die due to running out of cash. More innovation would be good.
