waterless

Presstek pioneering DI [waterless]

2008-07-21T23:08:00+01:00

During drupa direct impression offset press manufacturer Presstek launched a UV option, to provide new options for printers, as well as highlighting its green credentials.

Digital drupa developments [waterless]

2008-07-11T17:51:00+01:00

The halls of drupa were chock-a-block full of digital developments, reports Wayne Robinson highlighting the latest in digital print developments, with inkjet digital the key talking point of the show.

Presstek launched DI UV [waterless]

2008-06-06T14:00:00+01:00

Direct imaging press developer Presstek is introducing a UV printing option for the Presstek 52DI and 34DI digital offset.

Presstek announces UV printing option for its DI presses [waterless]

2008-05-22T14:00:00+01:00

Digital offset manufacturer Presstek announced this week that it will be introducing a UV printing option for its 52DI and 34DI digital offset presses. The company says by adding the UV option, the presses can switch between standard waterless inks and UV waterless inks for an increased competitive advantage.

Presstek announces UV printing option for its DI presses [waterless]

2008-05-09T14:00:00+01:00

Le Figaro orders biggest-ever KBA Cortina press line [waterless]

2007-06-10T14:00:00+01:00

Le Figaro, one of France’s leading national titles with a daily circulation of around 480,000 copies, is planning to make the technology leap to waterless with the biggest KBA Cortina installation to date – a six-wide version comprising two press lines with five towers apiece. KBA won the contract following an intensive screening of all the newspaper technology on the market.

Millennium Graphics: Harmony of Art and Science [waterless]

2007-06-05T14:00:00+01:00

“The Harmony of Art & Science” is the slogan of the printing company Millennium Graphics, which was founded just four years ago on the Thai holiday island Phuket. Its products already occupy an exclusive market niche, and dynamic growth has been the reward for a successful business concept.

Quick-fire production of coldset newspapers and heatset semi-commercials with the same inks. [waterless]

2007-03-22T13:00:00+01:00

Waterless expands business options

Open house: world’s first KBA Cortina with heatset capability in action at De Persgroep’s new Eco Print Center in Belgium.

Quick-fire production of coldset newspapers and heatset semi-commercials with the same inks Waterles [waterless]

2007-03-22T13:00:00+01:00

More than 100 representatives from European newspapers and their suppliers witnessed a world premiere on 22 March at Eco Print Center (EPC), Belgian media house De Persgroep’s gleaming new production plant in Lokeren, near Brussels.

Research update [waterless]

2007-03-16T13:00:00+01:00

Rod Urqhart explains how the current research at the Print laboratory will benefit the whole industry.

Waterless remains a core topic [waterless]

2007-03-06T22:00:00+01:00

First Cortina user meeting at Koenig & Bauer in Würzburg

“Waterless and keyless offset printing with the compact KBA Cortina press, despite the many parallel innovations for conventional wet-offset newspaper printing, will remain a core topic of development and marketing activities at Koenig & Bauer AG”. This was just one of the central messages to emerge from the first official get-together of the current Cortina users from Germany, Belgium, Holland and Switzerland, which was held in Würzburg in mid-February.

First waterless Rapida 74 in Spain [waterless]

2007-02-19T23:00:00+01:00

Who is not familiar with the small plastic cards that make life easier and pleasanter? Credit cards for cashless payment transactions, membership cards that open the doors to VIP areas at top events or payback cards with discount options that can turn into handsome premiums.

How the Cortina cuts press crew workload [waterless]

2007-02-06T23:00:00+01:00

Hermann Asal is shift foreman for the new Cortina compact tower press lines at Freiburger Druck, Germany. He made the transition to waterless, keyless offset at the beginning of February 2006 after working with a conventional wet offset press for sixteen years, so he is well placed to compare the two processes. In an interview with Klaus Schmidt he described the changes the transition has brought for him and his team.

Hybrid and UV in 3B and A3 format [waterless]

2007-01-23T23:00:00+01:00

The Graphispag show which takes place every four years in the Catalonian harbour metropolis of Barcelona will be opening its doors from 19 to 25 February 2007. Koenig & Bauer (KBA) will be represented on the stands of the Spanish sheetfed offset and reel distributors KBA-Ilasa España (stand no. C 351) and KBA-Lauvic España (stand no. D 430) in Hall 3 of Fira de Barcelona Monjuïc 2. In addition, subsidiary KBA-Metronic AG will demonstrate quality multi-colour printing on films and paper in A3 format with the Genius 52 UV on the stand of its agent Tecaprint Ibérica (Hall 2, stand no. B 270).

Innovation in depth key for KBA [waterless]

2004-05-12T07:00:00+01:00

German press manufacturing giant KBA claims to have the widest range of presses available, in just sheetfed applications they range from the 52cm Genius to the 2.05m Rapida 205, of which one printing unit was on display. KBA also highlighted its commercial and gravure presses, the biggest of which can now produce 240,000 A4 pages an hour.

KBA driving technology, workflows and processes at drupa [waterless]

2004-03-25T06:00:00+01:00

KBA will display under the banner, "People & Print: Driving Advances – Together", at this year’s drupa. The company says that it is designed to signal its initiative to reinvigorate the industry and set new benchmarks in professional print production.

World\'s waterless printers to converge on drupa [waterless]

2004-03-19T06:00:00+01:00

The World Waterless Printing Conference has been scheduled for May 12 at the drupa Conference Centre.

Innovation the drupa key for KBA [waterless]

2004-03-01T06:00:00+01:00

The drupa theme for giant press manufacturer KBA will be innovation. The company says innovations in conventional and DI sheetfed offset will embrace all the press sizes it manufactures, from B3 to SLF (20” - 80”), and will be shown complete with embedded workflows such as JDF.

Innovation the drupa key for KBA [waterless]

2004-03-01T06:00:00+01:00