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News Release from: KBA | Subject: Rapida 205
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 13 February 2006
First KBA Rapida 205 In Eastern Europe
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Prestige Vision Group (PVG) celebrated its 10th anniversary with the unveiling of its new five-colour super large 151cm x 205 cm format KBA Rapida 205 press .
Prestige Vision Group (PVG) celebrated its 10th anniversary with the unveiling of its new five-colour super large 151cm x 205 cm format KBA Rapida 205 press General director Alexander Artyomov, said: "We are not simply starting up a super-modern printing press today, we are also repositioning our business and offering our customers a new standard." KBA sales director Dr Jargstorf commented: "We can see here that the technical modernisation of the Russian print industry is still not at the end of the road, even though we have already travelled a long way." Alexander Artyomov underlined that PVG is planning active expansion of its presence on the market for outdoor advertising in the CIS countries
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 18 Mar 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Its fifth printing unit is said to make it possible to apply an opaque white primer, or metallic inks and spot colours for the reproduction of Pantone shades.
The five-colour Rapida 205 installed at PVG is over 18 metres long, 6.17 metres wide and 3.71 metres high and weighs a total of 61 tonnes.
The guests at the presentation were able to assess two print samples - parts of a poster which were first printed at a resolution of 150 lines per inch (lpi) using the four standard colours CMYK and a spot colour (Pantone).
Subsequently, all the colours of the image were converted to a five-colour system, with the result that the colours acquired an even more intensive appearance, with even greater contrast and saturation, said KBA.
The official production start-up of the first KBA Rapida 205 in eastern Europe was attended by print company managers from St Petersburg and Moscow and representatives of networked advertising agencies and Russian advertising clients.
With its investment in the new press, the Prestige Vision Group believes it has strengthened its position as a supplier of outdoor advertising in Russia and the other CIS countries.
PVG operates plants in Russia and Ukraine and is represented through agency offices in Moscow and Kiev.
The total factory space available for the production of advertising materials amounts to 30,000 square metres.
The group's activities are divided in to three main fields - large-format printing (PVG-Print), outdoor advertising (PVG-Outdoor) and metal-plastic constructions and building design (PVG-MPK).
The list of clients includes Coca-Cola, Kraft Foods, Gallina Blanca, the Gillette group, Henkel, Nestle, Ferrero, Sally Hansen and Wimm Bill Dann, advertising holdings, tobacco merchants and mobile communications providers such as Beeline, Tele2, MTS and Megafon. Request a free brochure from KBA ...
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