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News Release from: KBA | Subject: Cortina 6/2 press
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 19 June 2007
Newspaper's Added KBA Press Follows 9
New Machines
KBA has booked an order from Druckzentrum Nordsee in Bremerhaven (Germany) for a Cortina 6/2 press following the sale of nine 4/2 versions of the machine.
The printing company has plants in Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark and Switzerland and the first Cortina 6/2 for the company will print the Nordsee-Zeitung along with other in-house and external titles The press will be configured with two, four-high towers for a maximum web width of 2,100mm and 48 broadsheet or 96 tabloid pages
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 9 Mar 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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Alongside the Nordsee-Zeitung and associated titles the Zevener Zeitung and Kreiszeitung Wesermarsch, the press will print freesheets and external titles, such as the Cuxhavener Nachrichten.
The Nordsee-Zeitung, with a circulation of 71,000 copies, is the leading daily in Bremerhaven and the surrounding region.
The Rhine-format Cortina will have a cylinder circumference of 1,020mm (40-inch) a 510mm cut-off and a maximum rated output of 40,000 48-page full-colour copies per hour.
The two towers, which are four metres (13 feet) high, will feature automation that extends to the two under-floor KBA Pastomat RC reelstands and the KBA Patras A automated reel-handling system that supports them.
The press will be configured with two double turner bars, a triple-former folder superstructure, cut-off register controls and a KBA KF 5 jaw folder with section stitcher.
It will be controlled from a KBA Ergotronic console with interfaces to upstream systems and a service PC for online maintenance.
Druckzentrum Nordsee will be printing waterless wide-web production because there is no fan-out and registration is so good that there is no need for the more complex nine-cylinder satellites that are normally necessary, said KBA.
The Cortina's blanket-to-blanket towers have no steel impression cylinder as there would be on a satellite and they can be configured with heatset dryers for printing semi-commercials, which KBA described as a handy option for broadening the product base and reducing volatility in a changing media market.
Since the option can also be retrofitted, Druckzentrum Nordsee is free to adopt it at any time.
Unlike conventional wet offset presses, the Cortina can switch between coldset and heatset production with no change of inks and can print coldset and heatset hybrid titles via a common folder, with fewer limitations than in wet offset, as Belgian Cortina user EPC in Lokeren has demonstrated, added KBA. Request a free brochure from KBA ...
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