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News Release from: KBA | Subject: Prisma press
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 28 May 2007
First Prisma Press In Asia Boosts News
Flexiblity
The first KBA Prisma in Asia - a 4/1 press - has produced its first editions of the Thai business daily, The Post Today.
The new KBA Prisma installation incorporates four Pastostar RC reelstands, with Patras M reel handling, four towers for 4/4 or two x 2/2 production and a KF 3 double folder The press is monitored and controlled from three EAE consoles and features also the Print PP production scheduling and pre-setting system, the VIP statistics system and a diagnostics PC
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 19 Oct 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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A few weeks after official production with the Prisma press started, representatives of the Thai Printing Association visited the new print facility.
KBA said they were unanimous in their praise for the investment decision taken by the Bangkok Post, whose commitment to the print medium was seen as the ideal response to growing competition from TV, radio and the internet.
The decision to invest in a new press was one of the core elements in Post Publishing's strategic plans to move to a new production location, added KBA.
It was not only the advancing age of the two existing Goss Community presses, which had been in service for over 15 and 20 years, respectively but also a lack of additional space at the company's previous headquarters in the centre of Bangkok that stood in the way of its growth targets.
A production floor space of 1,100 square metres left no options for further expansion.
Project manager Lersak Jaturapol, who is operations director at Bangkok Post, said: "We had to act quickly and looked around for a site that not only supported our logistics concept but also offered sufficient freedom for further expansion in the future.
We soon found a suitable location and were able to begin the detailed architectural and design planning in April 2005.
Our new print centre is situated in the Samut Prakarn province, 30 kilometres from the centre of Bangkok.
With production space totalling 8,500 square metres and an additional storage area of 1,200 square metres, we have much more room to breathe than at our old location." He added: "Installation and commissioning of the new KBA Prisma were completed with minimal hitches, not least thanks to the professional support received from KBA headquarters in Germany and the specialists at KBA Asia Pacific in Kuala Lumpur.
That meant that we were still ready on schedule despite an initial delay in the construction work.
We have invested around US$30 million in the building, CTP pre-press, press equipment and a new on-line and off-line mailroom concept." Jaturapol explained that the switch from the two old single-width Goss Community presses to the new KBA Prisma was a leap forward for the company and its staff.
Howver, KBA's training programme for the printers was helpful and smoothened the potentially difficult transition.
After a few weeks of production, the company's expectations have been met.
He further commented: "Our decision in favour of the 4/1 KBA Prisma was based on a dozen or more different criteria.
Alongside the high print quality and the production output of 75,000 copies per hour, it was the convincing value for money and the ease of handling of the whole press line that tipped the scales.
We already knew the high quality of the KBA folders, having involved in a purchase of a Compacta 213 web press several years ago before joining the Bangkok Post." And he said: "With the balloon former on the new KBA Prisma, we are able to produce four sections simultaneously.
The super-panorama pre-fold facility, furthermore, enables us to fold four broadsheet pages side by side, either for insertion in to the newspaper as a separate product, or for integration as a centre-spread display advertisement, an option which is becoming increasingly popular with advertising customers." With the press's cut-off length of 546mm, the web width can be varied in two-inch increments between 1,219.2mm (48") and 1,574.8mm (62") which lends greater format flexibility.
Jaturapol explained: "We currently run our new Prisma 4/1 press in one shift between 6.30pm and 130am and will add the second shift from June 1.
In this way, we can satisfy the journalists' demands for a late editorial deadline and the distributors' wish to have the newspapers on the ramp as early as possible.
Our mid-term investment policy includes further expansion of the KBA Prisma with additional towers and a second folder. Request a free brochure from KBA ...
We will also be adding to the mailroom, where we consider three insertion and mailing lines per folder to be ideal.".
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