Chinese newspaper production switches to KBA Comet
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Edited by the Printingtalk editorial team
Nov 30, 2009
Beijing Daily Group has switched to KBA for a new press line following a detailed market comparison and a tour of inspection in Germany.
Comprising three reelstands, three towers and one folder, the KBA Comet will go live next summer printing a free title launched last year for distribution in the Beijing underground (subway).
The Comet press line, which will be Beijing Daily Group’s first KBA press, will go live in summer 2010
Provision has already been made for the addition of three more towers for printing further titles.
According to Beijing Daily Group, what tipped the balance in favour of a KBA Comet was its quality and productivity.
The press line for Beijing will be capable of handling web widths from 635mm - 880mm (25in - 34.64in) have a cylinder circumference of 1,092mm (43in) and a maximum rated output in straight production of 78,000 copies per hour.
It will also feature fan-out compensation, automatic ink pumping and blanket washing.
The highly automated KF 3 jaw folder will be fed via two stacked formers.
The press line will be controlled from three KBA consoles with ink-key pre-setting software, a RIP interface and a diagnostics PC for remote maintenance.
Beijing Daily Group publishes nine daily newspaper and three magazine titles, among them Journalism and New Writing, China Campus and Beijing CPC Party Monthly.
The newspaper titles have a combined daily circulation of around two million copies in the Beijing metropolitan area alone.
Alongside the Beijing Morning Post, Beijing Suburbs Daily, Beijing Business Today, Beijing Social News, Capital Construction News, Beijing Daily Messenger and The First the group also owns the Beijing Evening News and Beijing Daily.
The Beijing Daily's circulation of 400,000 copies per day makes it the capital's most popular newspaper.
In addition to maintaining its own foreign correspondents the Beijing Daily co-operates with the China Press and International Daily News in North America, The Australian Chinese Times, China Today in Canada and the Europe Times and also distributes news items under the name Beijing Today.
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