Press prints 36 broadsheet pages per impression

Editorial, of Rome, Italy, has ordered a customised Colora tower press from KBA that will give it greater flexibility in printing its titles.

Instead of the usual four plates across the cylinder width the two-around press has a three - six per plate - cylinder, so that one tower can print 12 broadsheet or 24 tabloid pages per impression.

The press line can, therefore, print 36 broadsheet or 72 tabloid pages.

The floor-mounted 3/2 KBA Colora will primarily print tabloid copies and is engineered for the 620mm (24.4in) cut-off currently most common in Italy.

It has a maximum web width of 1,350mm (53in) and a maximum rated output of 75,000 copies per hour.

It will comprise three KBA Pastomat reelstands with Patras M reel handling, three four-high towers, and a KBA KF 3 jaw folder with a two-former superstructure.

The press will be controlled from one EAE console with diagnostics PC for online remote maintenance.

The Colora is scheduled to go on stream at Editorial, part of the The Colasanto Group, at a contract printing plant in Medicina in Italy at the end of this year.

The Colasanto Group prints 40 international, national and local newspaper titles, as well as diverse weeklies and monthlies.

In addition to Bologna the printing group operates plants near Milan, Rome and Naples (Benevento).

For greater customer proximity in central Europe Colasanto also has three production plants in Belgium - one in the north and two south of Brussels.

Michele Colasanto, head of the Colasanto Group, said: 'We are delighted with the KBA Continent that came on stream in 2005 at our plant in Oricola-Carsoli, near Rome.

Of the 20 or so presses we operate within the group, most of which are two-across and one-around, the KBA press is by the far the best in terms of print quality, output and production flexibility.

This, and our highly successful relationship with KBA, are what prompted us to invest in a second KBA newspaper press, especially since the new one is custom-engineered.

He added: 'The press's configuration will afford much greater flexibility in meeting the needs of our print customers.

As well as six single plates it can accept two full-width plates.

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