Offset Printing

Drupa press to go to Bamberg

Walter Schweinsberg (l), managing director of Frankischer Tag, and Ralf Sammeck (centre), KBA executive vice-president for sheetfed sales, affixing the "sold" notice on the Rapida 106 attended by Jörg Schild-Müller (r), head of Fränkischer Tag's sheetfed division

Wednesday 11. June 2008 - First Rapida 106 for Fränkischer Tag

When Drupa closes its doors, the Rapida 106 on the KBA stand in hall 16 will head for the Fränkischer Tag in Bamberg. The German media house’s commercial arm provides a complete range of services relating to the generation and production of catalogues and price lists, school textbooks and picture books, specialist publications and corporate magazines, brochures and promos.

The eight-colour Rapida 106 perfector press for four-backing-four has an array of DriveTronic modules (sidelay-free infeed, simultaneous plate changing, Plate Ident) along with equipment for closed-loop quality control (QualiTronic Professional 100% sheet-inspection system). It will be the first KBA sheetfed press at the Bamberg printing plant. Negotiations with KBA have been running for the past two years, originally for other press formats and configurations. What finally persuaded the company to plump for the B1 (41in) “makeready champion”, the Rapida 106, were the press demonstrations management attended at Stuertz in Würzburg.