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News Release from: KBA | Subject: Rapida 105
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 09 February 2005
Czech Firm's 10-Colour Press Has Data
Management
Czech Republic printer Vychodoceske Tiskarny (VCT) has occupied the same historic building in the centre of Pardubice since 1906.
Czech Republic printer Vychodoceske Tiskarny (VCT) has occupied the same historic building in the centre of Pardubice since 1906 The various extensions that have been added over the years have given rise to storage and logistics problems caused by lack of space
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 24 Mar 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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When KBA unveiled a new Rapida 105 at Drupa, a similar press had already been put through its paces for several months at the pharmaceutical centre run by the Rob Leunis and Chapman Group (RLC).
Press manufacturer KBA said that a few months later VCT became the first printing house in the country to install a five-over-five perfecting capability, in the form of one of the German company's Rapida 105 universal 10-colour machines.
Officially inaugurated last November, the press has automation features that include a video system for monitoring sheet travel, a shaftless drive for the feeder (Drivetronic Feeder) and automatic plate changers.
An automatic ink-pumping system also ensures a continual supply of fresh ink to the 10 inking units.
In addition the 105 is equipped with a dual-purpose temperature control system for the inking unit and fount solution.
The dampeners support print production with reduced levels of IPA.
A differential drive between the inking and dampening forme rollers and the plate also helps eliminate the build-up of hickeys said KBA.
Along with the new Rapida 105 VCT installed a Logotronic Professional data management system that enables the older Rapida presses to be integrated in a JDF-compliant workflow.
The scheduling departments job has been made much easier by an electronic scheduling board in conjunction with Presswatch and Speedwatch software systems, while to facilitate registration the press features ACR video register plus a Densitronic S closed-loop densitometry and spectrophotometry system for monitoring and controlling print quality and colour.
VCT was established in 1897 in Pardubice.
Even then, the printing house was able to expand well beyond its regional borders thanks to the technological skill of its owners and the quality of its products.
That attitude has been preserved to the present day.
In 1910 VCT was one of the first printers in Europe to install an offset press.
In 1948 the company was nationalised and from 1950 to 1990 it formed part of a print conglomerate, along with 98 other printing plants, under the name Vychodoceske Tiskarny.
In the early 1990s the descendants of the company founder started a privatisation process which, in 1994, culminated in the company being reborn in a different form but under its existing name.
In 1995 VCT installed a B1 (41") Rapida 104 four-colour press, which was joined a year later by a five-colour version.
Two more Rapidas followed in 2003 but this time the company chose a five-colour version and a two-colour perfecting model of the B2 (28") Rapida 72.
That same year the typesetting and pre-press department was refurbished and new systems installed in the bindery. Request a free brochure from KBA ...
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