Bernhard Niemela (left), editor in chief of the trade journal Deutscher Drucker, presented the German Print Industry Innovation Award to KBA Sales Director Klaus Sauer and Jürgen Veil (right), KBA head of sheetfed offset marketing
The KBA Rapida 105 collected first prize in the print category at this year’s German Print Industry Innovation Awards. The newly designed Rapida 105 is a medium format sheetfed offset press designed for commercial and packaging printers, and for a broad range of special applications.
Its extensive list of features includes an exclusive shaftless feeder and sidelay-free infeed (SensoricInfeedSystem); an even flatter sheet travel profile; additional blower air systems to further improve contact-free sheet transfer between the printing units; the extended delivery has been raised to the level of the suction roller; air settings are controlled via touchscreen displays; fast makeready is boosted by the new FAPC plate changer system; and a special function to disengage inking units not required for a particular job, reducing roller wear and energy consumption.
The Rapida 105 is ideal for digital workflow integration and further innovations for the press are already in the pipline.
Almost 100 presses of the new KBA medium format generation have been delivered worldwide since the launch at drupa 2004.
The press followed up KBA’s success at the German Print Industry Innovation Awards last year when its Rapida 74G was a winner.
This was the second year that the awards have been conferred by the trade journals Deutscher Drucker, Publishing Praxis and Grafische Palette.
