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News Release from: KBA | Subject: Rapido 205 press
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 11 December 2006
POS Printer Sings For Second Jumbo KBA
Press
David Gill, managing director of large format and point of sale specialist printer Capital Print and Display,has signed for his company's second KBA four-colour jumbo Rapido 205 litho press.
David Gill, managing director of Stratford, London (UK) large format and point of sale specialist printer Capital Print and Display,has signed for his company's second installation of KBA's four-colour jumbo Rapido 205 litho press Capital's latest investment comes as it prepares to move out of its Marshgate Lane premises, which falls within the London 2012 Olympic park, by July 2007
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 9 Feb 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The four-colour press with additional coating and drying units for UV printing and coating will be installed at Capital's new site in Beckton near London City Airport.
The press will be delivered next March and is scheduled to go live by June.
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The firm's existing Rapida 205, which was installed early last year, will be relocated to the new facility by a KBA engineering team and re-commissioned by next September .
David Gill said that the investment would ensure continuity for customers and added: "We have two of every other machine, so it makes sense to have two Rapida 205s.
We're very focused on our customers and this will help avoid disruption and make the transfer seamless." He added that once both machines were up and running, the company would continue to move work to the litho side of the business.
KBA UK, managing director, Christian Knapp, expressed his pleasure at Capital's faith in KBA and the Rapida 205.
Knapp commented: "It is an exciting prospect to look forward to seeing these two giant presses operating side by side, a first for Capital and a first for the UK." Capital's GBP12m move to the new factory is being funded by the London Development Agency, which undertook to relocate all businesses on the 500-acre Olympic site at a cost of around GBP1.1 billion.
When the move was announced in July, the LDA also agreed GBP4.4m of funding to help pay for costs associated with the Capital Print and Display relocation.
Although Capital is the first company in the UK to order two KBA Rapida 205 presses, elsewhere in the world only poster printer Ellerhold in Germany has two Rapida 205s and one Rapida 185.
Worldwide, over 40 Rapida super-large 205 presses have been delivered or ordered n the last three years, said KBA.
The main markets beside the UK are North America, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. Request a free brochure from KBA ...
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