History
A reliable partner since 1946.
Fast, flexible and always top quality. From small jobs to large print runs, Stark is the right partner for all your print products. And has been for over 60 years.
In 1946 Erich Stark founded the Stark letterpress company in Pforzheim. The company has continued to grow from that moment on, first in letterpress printing then expanding into sheet-fed offset printing. From the very start, the film etching was handled by Stark’s partner, Meyle+Müller. The
original customers were mainly mail-order companies and jewellery manufacturers. With the takeover of the Stuttgart-based printing company Südwestrolle in 1999 the Stark printing company became the Stark Group. In the following year the prepress company Stark Digital was founded,
as was the web offset printer Stark + Wirtz in Speyer. In 2001 the Stark Group acquired Repro Küfer which was transformed into Küfer High Quality. Steady capital investment in leading edge technology and in personnel has made the Stark Group into a highly competitive and thriving business. And all these positive milestones in our history continue to inspire us to achieve greater things in printing. For the benefit of our customers.
Milestones
| 2008 | 5-colour sheet-fed offset press (74 x 105 cm) with dispersion- and UV-coating unit |
| 2007 | New building “BA 6”, new 16-page rotary press, second 72-page rotary press, Ferag UniDrum gatherer-stitcher und ETR insertion drum |
| 2006 | New building “BA 4”, world’s first 48-page short grain web offset press, 198 cm wide, 5 print units, fully automatic flying plate change both sides |
| 2005 | 32-page web offset, 72-page rotary press |
| 2004 | New building “BA 5” (5,000 m2 for finishing and despatch), fifth gatherer-stitcher, 2 new CREO CTP imagesetters |
| 2002 | Fourth gatherer-stitcher, administration building expanded by adding a further floor |
| 2001 | Latest generation of CTP very large format imagesetter, 5-colour sheet-fed offset press in 6 format with dispersion coating unit |
| 2000 | Stark Digital (prepress) founded, second 48-page rotary press, Stark + Wirtz founded (special web offset) |
| 1999 | Acquisition of Südwestrolle, Stuttgart, with 3 x 32-page web offset presses |
| 1998 | New building “BA 3” (web offset shop), first 48-page press, CTP |
| 1994 | Second 16-page press |
| 1989 | First 16-page press |
| 1985 | New building “BA 2”, web offset shop, second 8-page rotary press |
| 1983 | First web offset press, 8-page |
| 1981 | 6 format sheet-fed offset press added |
| 1979 | New building “BA 1" on the Altgefäll industrial estate |
| 1964 | First 4-colour sheet-fed offset press |
| 1959 | New premises, Gabelsbergerstrasse |
| 1958 | Sheet-fed offset printing added; first 2-colour press |
| 1946 | Stark letterpress company founded by Erich Stark in Pforzheim |
