KBA will be sending what is claimed to be the largest sheetfed offset press in the world, to the Middle East - a Rapida 185.

　　The Rapida 185 is in the XXXL-plus format - 130cm x 185cm - with a total of 12 units, comprising seven colours followed by a coater, two intermediate drying towers and a final coater and drying tower.

　　KBA said that the press will have a production output of 9,000 sheets per hour (sph).

　　Trade and media group Al Bayan in Riyahd, UAE, ordered the Rapida 185.

　　The company was the first to use a four-colour press with UV coating facilities, and has invested in the latest equipment to cover the whole production chain from pre-press to finishing.

　　The Rapida 185 will be the company's first sheetfed offset press from KBA.

　　With its length of 33 metres, the Rapida 185 may not be the longest large-format press that KBA said it has delivered so far, but it weighs 320 tonnes and is claimed to be the largest and heaviest press in the superlarge format class.

　　Slightly longer Rapida 142 presses (with maximum sheet formats of 102cm x 142cm, and a maximum speed 15,000sph) which reach a length of more than 40 metres with their 13 units and triple-length extended delivery, are already in production in Australia and the USA.

　　The Rapida 185 press is to be used to print posters and large-format packaging, including direct printing on corrugated board, and has been configured with dedicated board handling facilities, automatic non-stop pile changing and pile logistics.

　　The first printing unit and the second coater have been prepared for UV production, and hybrid in-line finishing will also be possible.

　　An ICS slitter in the delivery will permit the freshly printed sheets to be split for convenience at the downstream finishing stage.

　　Further automation components include KBA's Ergotronic ACR (video-based register adjustment), the colour measuring and control system Densitronic professional, and Logotronic networking between the press and the pre-press department.

　　The superlarge-format series Rapida 185 and Rapida 205 (151cm x 205cm) were initially used above all by poster and screen printers in Europe, the USA and Asia, though more presses have been installed for book and packaging production over the past few years.

　　Most of their number were four and five-colour coater configurations, in individual cases with an additional perforating tower, said KBA.

　　In the American market, presses with six colours, coater and drying tower have also been a quite popular choice.

[时间：2009-08-27  作者：未知  来源：互联网|#]