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News Release from: KBA | Subject: Compacta 215, Rapida 105
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 20 July 2006
Web And Sheetfed Presses Bound For
Ukraine
Two KBA Compacta 215 16-page commercial web presses and two eight-colour Rapida 105 sheetfed presses will be installed by Blitz-Inform in the Ukraine by the end of the summer.
Two KBA Compacta 215 16-page commercial web presses and two eight-colour Rapida 105 sheetfed presses will be installed by Blitz-Inform in the Ukraine by the end of the summer The two new KBA Compacta 215 web presses will be installed in Kiev over the next few weeks
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 9 Feb 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The 16-page commercial web presses, one in the left-right version, the second in the right-left version, will be assembled parallel to each other.
Both presses have four printing units with fully automatic plate change systems.
An in-line ink measuring and control system will ensure quick ink optimisation of print jobs.
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With the KBA Logotronic professional production management system, which also incorporates the sheetfed presses at Blitz-Inform, printers and management will have an overview of production status at all times.
The web presses are claimed by KBA to have high production flexibility and provide cost optimisation through minimisation of make-ready times and waste.
The two new eight-colour Rapida 105s are equipped for paper and cardboard printing.
UV and hybrid printing is also possible with one of the two medium-format presses in the 18,000 sheets per hour (sph) generation.
The presses' automation, user convenience and flexibility will open up new possibilities for Blitz.
The Kiev publisher is currently strengthening its leading market position.
The Blitz-Inform Holding is the market leader in its segment and is held in high esteem throughout the entire Ukrainian economy, said KBA.
Blitz-Print is the largest and most modern printing company in the Ukraine and is still growing.
The range covers all the possible options in relation to printing and services.
Blitz has been successfully using two Compacta 215 and several Rapida presses in-house.
Blitz-Inform founded in 1992 and it was followed by the Blitz-Print printing plant in 1994 and the Blitz-Pack and Blitz-Flex packaging printshops in 1996 and 1998.
In its four companies in Kiev and 28 offices throughout the Ukraine, the holding company has more than 4,000 employees and generates sales of more than EUR100 million.
Its main products are journals, advertising brochures, packaging and labels.
The main market is the Ukraine but Russia, Belarus, Moldavia and Kazakhstan are also served from Kiev.
The most well-known print products are the women's magazine 'Nataly' with more than 280 pages and a circulation of 700,000 copies, as well as the most widely read financial magazine 'Business' with more than 100,000 copies. Request a free brochure from KBA ...
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