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News Release from: KBA | Subject: Cortina press
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 18 October 2004
German Newspaper House Goes With
Waterless Flow
The publisher of gazettes and newsletters, Nussbaum Medien in Weil der Stadt, is making the transition to waterless offset with the purchase of a KBA Cortina press.
The publisher of gazettes and newsletters, Nussbaum Medien in Weil der Stadt, is making the transition to waterless offset with the purchase of a KBA Cortina press The German company, which took MAN's first Dicoweb press, placed the order for the keyless mini tower press following exhaustive tests and trial runs to check its suitability for printing large numbers of low-circulation copies - Nussbaum's typical production scenario
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 13 Feb 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Standing just 3.7m (12 feet) high, the floor-mounted Cortina for Nussbaum has a claimed maximum hourly output of 70,000 full-colour 32pp tabloids or 16pp broadsheets in straight production.
Cut-off is 450mm (17.75") and maximum web width is 1,260mm (49.5").
The ultra-compact tower press features automatic plate changing, central ink pumping and automatic blanket washing.
It is configured with a KBA Pastostar RC reel stand, KBA KF 3 jaw folder and a new-generation KBA console.
It will be erected late next year at the company's existing printing plant.
At present Nussbaum Medien prints 140 different publications between Karlsruhe and Esslingen, Tubingen and Heilbronn, at a total weekly output of 450,000 copies split into runs of between 500 and 23,000 copies with 16 to 196 pages apiece.
Most of its several hundred production staff are part-timers.
In addition Nussbaum has facilities in St Leon-Rot, Rottweil and Uhingen.
Its St Leon-Rot plant serves the communities in the Rhine-Neckar region and around Karlsruhe and prints 46 titles with a total circulation of just fewer than 200,000 copies.
Founded 45 years ago, Nussbaum's printing operation, Nussbaum Medien Weil der Stadt, serves local towns and communities with 20,000 inhabitants or less. Request a free brochure from KBA ...
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