KBA heats up the show with Rapida 145’s Asian debut

At the world’s second-largest trade show a five-colour Rapida 145 with coater, DriveTronic SIS sidelay-free infeed and non-stop facilities will produce high-quality posters and packaging on paper and board. Visitors will be able to experience fast job changes first hand. With its energy-saving VariDryBlue-IR/hot-air dryers the press meets the demands of a growing ecological awareness amongst Chinese printers.

The second press, which will be highlight of KBA’s stand, is already popular throughout China. Rapida 105 with maximum sheet size of 29x42-inch was launched at the All in Print trade show in Shanghai in November 2011. At China Print 2013, a five-colour version with coater, extended delivery and board capability will engage audience with live print demonstrations.

The Rapida 105 is equipped with Ergotronic Colourdrive automatic colour measuring at the console and Qualitronic Professional for inline colour control and sheet inspection, features that according to KBA have not yet become standard in China. The Rapida 105’s eco-package upgrade with an emission-extraction system targets the industry’s increasing focus on the environment, claims the company.

Along with sheetfed demonstrations and information about current developments in web offset and newspaper printing, the high-volume KBA Rotajet 76 digital press will be indirectly represented at the show by its printed products. Books and other digital print samples, produced on the KBA Rotajet web-to-web, will be finished on the Müller Martini stand (stand no-- E1-050). KBA experts will be on hand to distribute the Rotajet’s print work and inform visitors about the technology of this high-volume inkjet web press as well as its possible business models.