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News Release from: KBA | Subject: Rapida 185 and Rapida 205
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 19 January 2005
Superlarge Presses Capture More Than
Poster Market
Since what German press manufacturer KBA described as its 'super large' Rapida 185 and Rapida 205 presses went on the market, the company believes there has been no stopping them.
Since what German press manufacturer KBA described as its 'super large' Rapida 185 and Rapida 205 presses went on the market just before Drupa last October, the company believes there has been no stopping them The first press lines in Germany and Switzerland were followed by installations all over Europe and in the USA
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 13 May 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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And it was not just poster printers who had been buying them as some of the sheetfed machines are configured with more than just four or five printing units.
So far the Rapida 205 for a sheet size of 1,510mm x 2,050mm (59.5" x 80.75") was the more popular model, accounting for most of the 20 press orders to date.
The four-colour perforator version at German printer Te Neues in Kempen, which passed its FOGRA tests last October, handles calendars as well as posters.
In some cases the entire calendar could be printed on just one sheet claimed KBA.
The 2006 calendar that Te Neues is planning to bring out in August this year will be 1,400mm x 1,960mm (55" x 77").
The six pages (one for two months) will depict five European capitals - Athens, Berlin, London, Paris and Rome, plus New York.
Two printers in the US and the UK - Amerigraph in Columbus, Ohio, and Augustus Martin in London - will use their Rapida 205 presses to print plastic and cartonboard.
Challenge Printing in Eden Prairie, Minnesota (USA), Capital Print and Display in London and a number of other printers, for example in Spain, are planning production runs with substrate thicknesses of up to 1.2mm (47pt) or even 1.6mm (63pt) said KBA.
That is why KBA believes that additional colours and inline coating play an important role.
Press configurations of six printing units plus coater and dryer have already been delivered and others will soon follow, for example to Challenge Printing and Lithographix in Hawthome, California (USA).
Printers in Germany, Switzerland, Spain, the UK and the USA are not the only ones to have taken the presses.
KBA has also booked orders to Italy (Rapida 205 four-colour version plus five-colour version with coater and dryer), Russia (Rapida 205 five-colour), Sweden (four-colour with coater and dryer) and France.
The company believes that the additional capabilities of the presses open up new markets and set new standards with which users could successfully raise their product profiles. Request a free brochure from KBA ...
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