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News Release from: KBA | Subject: Colora
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 14 August 2006
Three KBA Colora Presses For Italian
Newspapers
Italian media group Poligrafici Editoriale in Bologna has ordered three KBA Colora web presses that are due to start 4/4 tabloid production in Bologna, Florence and Milan next year.
Italian media group Poligrafici Editoriale in Bologna has ordered three KBA Colora web presses that are due to start 4/4 tabloid production in Bologna, Florence and Milan next year The contract continues a long-standing link between KBA and Monrif, Poligrafici Editoriale's parent organisation, whose heatset operation, Grafica Editoriale Printing in Bologna, already runs KBA Compacta 618 and 417 webfed commercial presses and a KBA Rapida 162a large-format sheetfed press
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 23 Feb 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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At Loreto-based Rotopress International, a joint venture by Grafica Editoriale Printing and Tecnostampa Industria Grafica, a KBA Comet press with heatset specification, prints newspapers alongside high-quality semi-commercials.
According to KBA, the order from Monrif boosts its sizeable share of the Italian market and confirms its prominence in the high-tech newspaper press sector.
The Colora units now on order will print split-run editions of the Quotidiano Nazionale (QN) at all three locations.
Extra editions of Il Giorno will be produced in Milan, of La Nazione in Florence and of Il Resto del Carlino in Bologna for the Emilia-Romagna region.
Whilst the basic specifications for the three 75,000 copies per hour (cph) press lines are the same, each will have four KBA reelstands, four H-type towers, a cylinder circumference of 1,197mm (47"), a maximum web width of 1,520mm (59.75") and a 2:5:5 KF 5 jaw folder for up to 128 four-colour tabloid pages collect.
The two project teams have also come up with some customised features to support different production scenarios.
Equipped with two ribbon stitchers apiece, the Coloras' automation includes reel handling, ink pumping, colour and cut-off register control, web guidance and wash-ups for the inking units and blankets.
The control consoles are configured with EAE's Print job scheduling and press pre-setting system plus RIP interface.
Monrif group's activities range from newspapers, magazines and print production to advertising, multimedia, property and hotels. Request a free brochure from KBA ...
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