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News Release from: KBA | Subject: Rapida 74 G
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 10 January 2005
Another Prize For Innovation For Rapida
Press
KBA's Rapida 74 G press has gathered another prize.
KBA's Rapida 74 G press has gathered another prize The press has already received the first innovation award of the EWPA and the emission-tested and emission reduced waterless offset environmental certificates
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 12 May 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Seven months after KBA unveiled its Rapida 74 G waterless offset press at Drupa 2004, a four-colour coater version with delivery extension went live at Pinguin Druck, Berlin.
It has now added a further prize in the readers' poll for the inaugural innovation prize of the German print industry in the printing technology category.
It was the only press among the prize winners selected by 1,300 readers of the German trade journals Deutscher Drucker, Publishing Praxis and Grafische Palette.
KBA said that the Rapida 74 G is the first unit-design sheetfed offset press to feature the patented keyless Gravuflow TM inking system in place of conventional roller towers.
Because of that, it is claimed to combine the advantages of the flexible unit-based design with the recognised benefits of the short-train inking technology and a waterless offset process.
Minimal start-up waste and process stability even for difficult images, standardised production and ease of operation thanks to the elimination of the ink keys and dampening units are features of the press said KBA.
The first presses of the half-format series machines have already been operational in Sweden and Denmark, for example, for several months.
Two more installations of the Rapida 74 G are currently approaching completion in Germany at Wolfgang Klinger in Munich and at Pinguin-Druck in Berlin.
At the 2005 Print Forum to be held on January 28 at the Haus der Wirtschaft in Stuttgart (Germany), KBA will be giving a presentation of the Gravuflow keyless inking technology, which is used not only for the Rapida 74 G, but also on the Genius 52 and the digitally-integrated 74 Karat presses. Request a free brochure from KBA ...
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