Half-size press bound for Dubai after Drupa order

Asiatic Printing Press in Dubai (United Arab Emirates) will install a new KBA Rapida 75 half-size 3B (29-inch) press in September following the order it placed at Drupa 2008.

The full-service print provider already has operated half-format and medium-format KBA presses for many years now alongside presses from other manufacturers.

In 2006 it began operating a KBA Rapida 105 universal five-colour coater press.

Like the Rapida 105 the new Rapida 75 will be configured with five printing units, a Harris and Bruno coater and an extended delivery.

It will also feature non-stop facilities at the feeder and delivery, automatic plate changing, remote adjustment of diagonal register and washing systems for the rollers and blankets.

KBA said that pre-press data for pre-setting the ink keys will be be downloaded at the control console via a JDF interface.

Asiatic Printing Press will install the Rapida 75 with to shorten make-ready times and improve image quality.

The company added that the support provided by KBA's sales agency, Giffin Graphics, was a factor that influenced its choice of a Rapida.

In addition to offset litho Asiatic Printing Press also runs digital and screen-printing presses.

Apart from the typical printing and bookbinding work it takes on the company also provides industrial photographic and creative services for products it prints.

Corporate magazines, for example, can be produced entirely in-house, from the original design to the finished copy, including editorial content and graphic layout.

Direct contact to customers is maintained via a customer centre in the heart of Dubai.

And thanks to Asiatic's proximity to the seaport and airport it can also promise high-speed delivery to customers abroad.

Established in 1993, it prints a broad spectrum of products with the main focus on commercials, from business reports to brochures and magazines, posters, postcards and greetings cards.

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