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News Release from: KBA | Subject: Colora, Comet
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 04 August 2005
Australian Heatset-Coldset News Contract
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KBA has landed a prize contract from West Australian Newspapers Holdings (WANH) in Perth for a Colora press line and semi-commercial Comet press to replace its existing Goss installations.
KBA has landed a prize contract from West Australian Newspapers Holdings (WANH) in Perth for a Colora press line and semi-commercial Comet press to replace its existing Goss installations The A$70m-plus (US$53m) package encompasses 24 reelstands, 24 towers with a total of 192 couples, six folders and automated reel handling systems, installation work on which will commence early next year
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 29 Nov 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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Ian Law, WANH managing director and chief executive officer, said: "We spent a lot of time checking out the options and finally came down in favour of KBA because the company offered a customised product and first-class support.
The combination of double-width Colora and single-width Comet allows plenty of room for growth.
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The two heatset towers will have two separate ink pumping systems so we can run inks with different viscosities, say for smooth or matt paper.
We think the combination will offer a much broader choice in terms of the types of products we can publish for our own newspapers, or for external customers." The flagship publication of West Australian Newspapers Holdings is The West Australian, which is the only daily newspaper in Western Australia.
First published in 1833, The West Australian has a current circulation of 210,000 copies for the weekday editions and 385,000 for its Saturday edition, which has more than one million readers.
The Saturday edition of The West Australian averages approximately 500 pages.
WANH also publishes 19 regional newspapers across the state and prints publications for a range of external customers.
The Colora four-high tower press line will be engineered for a 578mm (22.75") cut-off, a web width variable between 1,220mm and 1,728mm (48"-68") and a maximum rated output of 75,000 copies per hour (cph).
The flexible configuration is said to allow ribbons to be assigned to different formers, according to job specifications.
The press package includes 18 KBA Pastostar RC reelstands with KBA Patras A automated reel-handling systems, 18 H towers for 4/4, 17 turner bars and four folder superstructures with two formers apiece, four KF 7 jaw folders with a 2:7:7 cylinder ratio for tabloids with a maximum of 224 pages collect and diverse optional extras including ribbon and section stitchers, length and cross perforators and a quarterfold capability.
The Comet semi-commercial press will have the same cut-off and a maximum web width of 1,000mm (39.5").
It will be configured with six KBA Pastostar RC reelstands, six towers for 4/4, two folder superstructures with one former and two KF 3 SC jaw folders each, as well as two thermal dryers with a heatset capability.
The press can deliver 64-page coldset tabloids, 96-page coldset and heatset tabloids or 32-page heatset tabloids.
It will feature a gluing unit, plough fold, length and cross perforators, section stitcher and quarterfold capability, said KBA.
A peculiarity of the parallel press configurations specified is that they will allow two heatset webs from the Comet to be diverted to the Colora alongside, enabling it to deliver coldset tabs with heatset covers or inner sections.
The automation extends to the ink pumping system, colour and cut-off register controls, inking-unit and blanket washing systems, dust extractors and new-generation console technology with EAE's Print job scheduling and press presetting software, as well as RIP interface.
An optional proofing system, also provided by EAE, allows the correct page sequence to be checked rapidly at a separate monitor installed at the console, said the company.
WANH chose the automated reel handling systems - which will embrace all the existing reelstands as well as the new ones - to rationalise its production flow.
The reels will be conveyed from the main store to the stripping station by clamp truck.
Initially the stripped reels will be prepared for splicing manually, but provision has been made for the addition of a KBA Easy Splice automatic splice-preparation unit at a later date.
Reel transfer to the pick-up hub will be initiated by push-button control.
Laser-guided AGVs will transfer the reels to the daily store and from there on demand to Patras trolleys at the reelstands, where they will be positioned and loaded automatically.
The expired reels will also be removed automatically.
All storage and transport movements will be controlled using warehouse and logistics management software interfaced with press scheduling systems.
WANH's business activities include web offset commercial printing and radio communications.
In addition it owns 50 per cent of the Hoyts Cinema group, which operates 431 cinema screens in Australia and New Zealand.
The Hoyts operation includes Hoyts Distribution and Val Morgan Advertising. Request a free brochure from KBA ...
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