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News Release from: KBA | Subject: Drivetronic SPC plate cylinder direct drive
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 08 August 2007
Plate Cylinder Direct Drive Debut At KBA
Events
The Drivetronic SPC plate cylinder direct drive option for KBA's Rapida 105 medium-format presses will be introduced at open house events in Germany and Austria during September.
Drivetronic SPC is claimed to be designed to provide shorter job change-over times and has been developed over a long test phase KBA believes that Drivetronic SPC offers production and economic benefits at a time of falling print runs and frequent job changes
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 9 Feb 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Those benefits will be the focus of the theory and practical demonstrations given at the open house events.
In Austria the practical presentations will be given on users' premises, whilst in Radebeul (Germany) speakers from businesses that have been working with the Drivetronic SPC for some time will be reporting on their experiences with the system in everyday production.
The simultaneous plate change will also be demonstrated in the factory on a long Rapida 105 perfecting press.
KBA said that its design team spent almost two years observing the gearless plate cylinder direct drive technology of the Drivetronic SPC in operation at 10 European sites.
Those tests featured more than 135,000 plate change operations and over 100 million printed sheets produced on commercial offset presses with up to 10 printing units for 5-over-5 printing and on straightline presses with coated finish for packaging printing.
The drive technology, which has only recently been introduced in sheetfed offset printing, is a product of the experience gained by KBA with shaftless direct drives in the Rapida feeders since 2000 and with the no-sidelay SIS system of the Rapida 105 since the Drupa 2004 exhibition, said the company.
KBA had already launched the first presses to use shaftless technology in newspaper printing in 1995 and in the commercial web offset sector in 1997. Request a free brochure from KBA ...
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