On request of a customer, the production run entailed 14 complete makereadies. For the press operators this meant changing all eight plates 14 times, washing the blankets and changing the feeder and delivery piles. They took less than four minutes to make ready and print each of the 15 jobs.

Incidentally, following the customer’s spontaneous request for a demonstration of high-speed production, 120 plates were pumped out at short notice on Kodak’s Magnus CTP system and exposed on the KBA stand.

Also in the news, Indian packaging specialist York Print has purchased a six-colour Rapida 105 coater press with UV, cartonboard and plastic printing capabilities. KBA says the medium-format Rapida will be the first UV press for printing plastic in the whole of the eastern subcontinent.

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