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News Release from: KBA | Subject: Rapida Press
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 16 February 2004
KBA Rapida In At Print Two Thousand
KBA UK is equipping Glasgow's Print Two Thousand for an explosion onto Scotland's quality colour market.
KBA UK is equipping Glasgow's Print Two Thousand for an explosion onto Scotland's quality colour market The company is to install a top of the range KBA Rapida 74 10P, said to be one of the most highly specified presses to reach the B2 commercial market
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 16 Feb 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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At Drupa KBA will be exhibiting a five-colour coater version of its revamped Rapida 74 with delivery extension.
It will be the first KBA B2 10-colour press in the United Kingdom and the first B2 10-colour from any manufacturer to be seen in Scotland.
Print Two Thousand, a £2m turnover, 24-employee colour printing business, has chosen the Rapida 74 despite being an existing Heidelberg and MAN Roland user.
Company owner and managing director Jim Stewart visited KBA's Radebeul plant and an existing Rapida 74 user in Austria before making his decision to order the machine.
The Rapida will be fitted with Densitronic S colour control, CIP3 interface, automatic air cleaning and Technotrans ink pumping from remote drums.
KBA UK sales director George Kendal said: "Naturally we are delighted to provide such an impressive machine for Jim Stewart.
Print Two Thousand is making its mark on the quality colour market in Scotland and this press is just the machine to take them even further forward." Print Two Thousand, which specialises in high-quality colour, mostly from design studio and agency sources for clients that include IBM, Royal Bank of Scotland, Kwikfit and Direct Line Insurance.
The company has seen consistent growth since its foundation in 1989.
Beginning with 5,000 sq ft (464.5 sq.
m.) in the Skypark Centre in Central Glasgow, the company has expanded to occupy 15,000 sq ft (1,400sq.m) and will now add another 2,000 sq ft (186sq.m) to accommodate the new press.
Jim Stewart explained his company's success: "Price, of course, is the issue and always will be.
So we must give our customers the very best prices possible.
But we take the view, and the majority of our customers share it, that the cheapest price is not always the best price.
We never let a customer down, we pay the maximum attention to detail and we deliver consistent quality. Request a free brochure from KBA ...
The new press and pre-press system will allow us to meet these criteria in previously unbelievable lead times.".
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