Two identical Manroland 905 LV-8 presses now anchor the Donauwörth floor of Staudigl-Druck, a family-run large-format printer in Bavaria. The second press was sourced through allaoui — giving Staudigl two 130 × 185 cm five-color presses with coater on a single production floor.
Staudigl-Druck was founded in 1979 in Donauwörth, on the Danube in Bavaria, and specializes in large-format offset printing — posters, calendars, and other commercial work that calls for physically large sheets.
An identical twin, just younger
The existing Manroland 905 LV-8 had been on the Staudigl floor since 2016, installed new that year. The case for a second, identical machine was straightforward: Staudigl's biggest customers run posters at industrial scale and calendars on multi-month production windows. Big jobs of that profile depend on a press being available, with no fallback.
Staudigl puts the strategic logic plainly:
"With two identical offset presses, we guarantee our customers absolute production security with the latest printing technology."
A second 905 — same format, same five colors, same coater — delivers exactly that. The press, found in Berlin, was a 2016 build just like the one already on the floor, but with only 27 million impressions on the counter. An identical twin, just younger.
The anatomy of a heavy move
Moving a 905 is not a routine job. At the seller's site in Berlin, the press came apart unit by unit — five printing units, the feeder, the coater extension, the long delivery — and each major component went onto its own oversized low-loader. Nine trailers in total: seven for the printing units, one for the feeder, one for the delivery. Roughly 200 tonnes of machinery moving under permits, with escort vehicles and route planning of the kind a wide-load convoy requires. Before the press left Berlin, an IPM print-out confirmed the machine's condition at full speed.
Side by side in Donauwörth
The press was reassembled alongside its twin. A second IPM print-out at the customer site, this time after acceptance, confirmed it was producing to the same tolerance it had shown in Berlin. For Staudigl's operators, who already knew the existing press inside and out, no new training was needed — the two presses are the same machine, twice. The older 2004 Manroland 905 LV-8 came off the floor as part of the same deal. The age gap closed.
