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Koenig & Bauer AG (KBA)
Druckmaschinen / Printing Presses
Presseinformation / Press Release
Autor / Author:
Gerhard Renn
Nr. / No.:
05-095-R
Rückfragen / Enquiries:
Klaus Schmidt
Datum / Date:
25.08.2005
Telefon / Phone:
+49 931 909-4290
E-Mail:
[email protected]
Sperrvermerk / Release:
-
Zeichen / Ref.:
VM/Re/KSC
Bilder / Photographs:
7
Seiten / Pages:
3
Rapida 105 joins networked LF fleet at Printer Trento
Quality books for the world
Printer Trento in South Tyrol, Italy, started its jubilee year 2005 as a
full-service company with increased print capacity. Founded in 1980,
the company originally specialised in pre-press and press. The
acquisition of a 40 per cent stake in a Trento bookbinder, IGF, in
2004 and of a Rapida 105 six-colour with inline coating and board
facility earlier this year has enabled Printer Trento to bring work inhouse that it formerly had to outsource.
Running in two shifts, the new medium-format Rapida 105 prints
covers and other high-quality jobs. It joins a fleet of four KBA Rapida
162a large-format presses for four and five colours that were installed
between 1999 and 2002 and have contributed in no small measure to
the company’s success.
Books and maps for export
Printer Trento’s 58 staff generate sales worth €24 million ($29m),
mainly with illustrated books for customers around the globe.
Subsidiaries in Germany, France, the UK and the Netherlands have
helped raise the export level to 98 per cent of production, with
prominent publishers like Axel Springer and Elsevier among the
company’s regular customers. In addition to books, Printer Trento has
made a name for itself in northern Italy, and beyond, with atlases,
maps, travel guides and catalogues.
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“Be the best and the quickest”
“Be the best and the quickest – that’s our motto because it’s the only
way we can keep pace with market demand,” says managing director
Dario Martinelli. “In practice, this means going for the best possible
quality and maximum automation. Replacing our previous sheetfed
offset presses with four big Rapidas set the basic course. But
increasing competition from the Far East made the market climate
much tougher and called for further action.”
He continues: “The new challenge for our company was to speed up
and coat, to enhance performance. Both issues were met by KBA’s
Rapida 105, which has a maximum rated output of 18,000 sheets per
hour, ultra-short makeready times and leading-edge coating and
drying systems. The press came pre-equipped with IR and hot air
modules plus provision for UV modules so that we can run hybrid inks
if that’s the way the market moves. The Rapida 105 is tailor-made for
our typical job structure of 2,000- to 100,000-sheet runs and stock
weights of between 70 and 150gsm. For cover production we added a
CX package which enables us to print substrates up to 1.2 mm thick.”
These were not the only changes the company has made. Dario
Martinelli explains: “Having placed pre-press, press and post-press
under one command, we extended our digital network and are now
poised to adopt CIP4, with most of our equipment already able to
handle files of this type.”
High-speed data transfer throughout
Production manager Giovanni Girardi takes up the tale: “We
embedded the four large-format KBA presses in a data network, and
we did the same with the Rapida 105, using high-speed internal
communications to rationalise the workflow. The new press is linked
to the others via central CIPLink modules for ink-key presetting and
Densitronic S software for closed-loop colour quality control. On top
of this a KBA Opera open-architecture automation system supports
printshop networking from pre-press right through to management
level.”
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Girardi continues: “KBA’s production management system, Logotronic
Professional, ensures fast, company-wide data transfer among
management, production, purchasing, logistics and administration.
Optimised procedural organisation within and among departments
allows a large volume of preset data to be generated. A link to
commercial IT and industry-specific management information
systems yields a wide variety of protocol functions for data analysis
and statistical cost accounting. All key job data are promptly stored
for repeat use. Taking KBA technology on board has enabled us to
optimise our entire workflow.”
Photo 1:
Printer Trento’s 58 staff produce illustrated books for customers
around the globe. 98 per cent of output is exported
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Printer Trento became a full-service company at the end of 2004
following the acquisition of a bookbinder, IGF
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Printer Trento’s managing director Dario Martinelli (right) was quick to
recognise the huge rationalisation potential afforded by digital
networking
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Printer Trento’s production manager Giovanni Girardi (l) and
managing director Dario Martinelli flanking KBA-Italia marketing
director Dario Braschi at the new KBA Rapida 105
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The Rapida 105 six-colour coater press is the fifth KBA sheetfed
offset press Printer Trento has installed since 2000
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The high quality and performance delivered by the four Rapida 162a
presses have contributed in no small way to the company’s success
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Leading-edge CTP technology in pre-press supports an integrated
workflow