South East Asian Order For Rapida Presses

Indonesia's PT Gramedia Printing Group has ordered two eight-colour perfector versions of the Rapida 106 press from KBA that were exhibited at Drupa 2008.

According to KBA, whilst eight-colour perfector presses for four over four production are not a novelty in south east Asia, it is unusual for them to have a high level of automation and performance as that specified for the two identical Rapida 106 press lines at PT Gramedia Printing.

In addition to automatic plate changing Gramedia has opted for KBA's Densitronic S closed-loop densitometric colour measurement and control, a Logotronic Basic management information system, a lightweight print capability and Drivetronic SPC dedicated plate-cylinder drives, which are claimed to allow all eight plates to be changed simultaneously in 60 seconds.

In conjunction with various other contemporaneous processes those facilities are said to make for fast job changes, as KBA said that it demonstrated at Drupa by printing 15 jobs of 520 sheets apiece in less than 60 minutes.

The two presses are scheduled to be delivered in September.

When they have been commissioned they will position Gramedia at the forefront of medium-format press technology, not just in Indonesia, where the company is busy consolidating its market leadership, but in the south east Asian region, added KBA.

Between 2001 and 2007 Gramedia installed four, four-colour KBA presses.

Two were medium-format Rapida 105 universals, whilst there was also one Rapida 105 and one half-size Rapida 74 machine.

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