Offset Printing

RR Donnelley and KBA Announce Agreement to Develop and Deliver Next Generation Digital Print Platforms

Wednesday 02. March 2011 - KBA to License, Integrate RR Donnelley's Digital Imaging Technology Into New Presses; Enables RR Donnelley to Expand Capabilities in New Markets

R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company (Nasdaq:RRD), and KBA AG of Wuerzburg, Germany announced today an agreement to develop, manufacture and sell next generation piezoelectric digital inkjet printing solutions to the packaging, securities, commercial, and newspaper segments. Under the terms of the agreement, RR Donnelley will license its Apollo and other digital imaging technologies to KBA which will incorporate them into its press offerings. KBA’s new digital presses will be introduced in May 2012 at the DRUPA International Print Show in Dusseldorf, Germany. Further details on the cooperation will be published later.
“RR Donnelley and KBA have long been leaders and innovators in our respective industries,” said Thomas J. Quinlan III, RR Donnelley’s President and Chief Executive Officer. “We look forward to having the combined R&D resources of nearly 1,000 engineers and imaging scientists bring forward the next generation of digital imaging technologies. This relationship will benefit the customers we serve today and enable RR Donnelley innovations to be introduced to customers in segments that we do not yet address.”
“Seeking to expand the industry’s broadest product range, KBA has spent the last 18 months assessing both current and future digital printing technologies from around the world,” said Helge Hansen, CEO of KBA. “In our analysis, it was clear that RR Donnelley was uniquely positioned to partner with us from a digital print technology, experience, and scale perspective. It’s more than a sales and service agreement for existing technology. We look forward to jointly reinvigorating this industry with new digital imaging platforms.”