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News Release from: KBA | Subject: Cortina Press
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 01 September 2004
Ifra To See Latest Newspaper Waterless
Presses
KBA is majoring on the developments it has made with its Cortina waterless newspaper press at the Ifra Expo in Amsterdam.
KBA is majoring on the developments it has made with its Cortina waterless newspaper press at the Ifra Expo in Amsterdam The company said that numerous installations of the compact KBA Cortina have since been sold to customers in Germany, Holland and Belgium, whilst the first 48-page press will be starting up at Rodi Rotatiedruk near Amsterdam just a few weeks after the fair
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 13 Feb 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Cortina has in the meantime been equipped with minigap blanket cylinders and fully automatic KBA Platetronic A plate changers, providing for extremely fast plate changing in less than 100 seconds, irrespective of the number of plates to be replaced according to the press manufacturer.
A true-to-life functioning model of the Platetronic plate changer will enable practical demonstrations of the change cycle to Ifra visitors.
KBA remains convinced that computer-to-press technologies still represent no genuine alternative to the Cortina concept.
The company added that it could not be overlooked that CTPress faces further hurdles in the uncertain availability and suitability of process-free plates for the specific conditions of newspaper production.
Following successful commissioning of the first sections of the highly automated KBA Commander 6/2 installation at Tamedia AG in Zurich and with the further orders of similar type by Belgian newspaper publishers Rossel (Le Soir) in Brussels, the concept of triple-width newspaper printing, which is similarly geared to greater cost-effectiveness, will be the subject of continued intensive discussions in Amsterdam according to KBA.
To illustrate developments, KBA will be showing its new automatic roller locks which, it claimed, can be preset and adjusted remotely from the press control console.
Such locks have already been fitted successfully to the Cortina in Offenburg and to the Commander 6/2 in Zurich, where they not only ensure constant optimum printing conditions, but also reduce maintenance requirements considerably.
A further range of single-width and double-width presses include the 4/1 Prisma, which can be visited at the Wurzburg works.
In addition, the company will encompass the special demands of specific projects, such as 3/2 presses, web width flexibility, semi-commercial print and automated paper logistics, for instance. Request a free brochure from KBA ...
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