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News Release from: KBA | Subject: Cortina press
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 07 January 2008
Newspaper Printer Orders Second KBA
Cortina Press
Newspaper printer Nussbaum Medien, in Weil der Stadt (Germany), has ordered a second Cortina press from KBA following Nussbaum Medien's satisfaction with its first Cortina.
That first Cortina press, which was commissioned in 2006, marked a transition to waterless, keyless production with automatic plate changing throughout The second Cortina tower press, which will have a 450mm (17.75-inch) cut-off on a web width of 1,260mm (49.5"), will be erected alongside the first but in a mirror-image configuration
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 13 Feb 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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KBA said that the new Cortina press will increase printing capacity by 35,000 tabloid copies per hour, with a maximum of 32 full-colour A4 pages.
It will be possible to link the two presses to print titles with up to 64 A4 pages in one pass.
The new press will feature KBA's Platetronic automatic plate changers, KBA Rollertronic automated roller locks, the company's Niptronic remote-controlled bearings, centralised ink pumping and automatic blanket washing.
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German Newspaper House Goes With Waterless Flow
The publisher of gazettes and newsletters, Nussbaum Medien in Weil der Stadt, is making the transition to waterless offset with the purchase of a KBA Cortina press.
KBA - The Case For Waterless Newspaper Production
The recent economic recession has severely affected advertising spend and thus on newspaper revenues.
Reel alignment, cut-off register control and web guidance, in conjunction with waterless offset technology, will ensure that start-up waste is kept to a minimum, added KBA.
The floor-mounted press will be configured with a KBA reelstand, one of the company's KF 3 jaw folder and an Ergotronic console with diagnostics PC.
The absence of fount solution and ink mist, together with the low level of waste, underpin the Cortina's green credentials, claimed KBA.
Nussbaum, which was founded in 1959, is a publisher of gazettes and bulletins in Baden-Wurttemberg.
Publisher Oswald Nussbaum, his managing director daughter Brigitte Nussbaum and her husband, Thomas Buck, the printshop manager, were unanimous in their choice of press.
Brigitte Nussbaum said: "We serve around 150 cities and communities extending from Karlsruhe in the west to Esslingen in the east and from Tubingen in the south to Heilbronn in the north.
We provide a unique breadth of products with a total weekly circulation of around 550,000 copies.
The individual editions vary between 500 copies and 28,000 copies, with anything from eight pages to 156 pages apiece." She added: "Our overall output is steadily increasing and if we are to comply with rigorous quality standards whilst maintaining our market agility and cost-efficiency we need highly automated yet dependable press lines with short make-readies and minimum waste.
Although our KBA Cortina waterless press was one of the first on the market, it fulfilled all our expectations and those of our customers, particularly in terms of product quality. Request a free brochure from KBA ...
So when a new press line was mooted we had every reason to go for another Cortina.".
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