Open house for packaging printers at KBA in Radebeul

Tracking down production reserves: Rapida 142 or Rapida 185/205?

“XL or XXL^plus?” was the question dominating the agenda of an open house targeting large format and packaging printers at the Radebeul facility of KBA on 11th March. Some 160 representatives of this market segment accepted the invitation to discuss the technical and economic implications of production in large format (XL) as opposed to superlarge format (XXL^lus) in respect of prepress (Kodak), press (KBA) and postpress equipment (Bobst).more...

MittMedia Print greens up with waterless offset

KBA’s eighteenth Cortina earmarked for Sweden

MittMedia Print, a subsidiary of Sweden’s fourth-largest media group MittMedia Förvaltnings in Gävle, is gearing up for sustained growth and expanding its product spectrum with a compact waterless KBA Cortina whose hybrid coldset/heatset capabilities enable it to print semi-commercials (supplements and magazines) alongside newspapers.more...

Weber Druck+Display in Weyhe near Bremen

Lenticular and more with a medium-format UV Rapida

Weber Druck+Display in Weyhe near Bremen has been producing advertising and POS materials for over 50 years. Originally a silk-screen business, the family-run company was expanded to incorporate full-colour offset printing in the 1970s. With 55 employees, Weber Druck is already one of the larger players in the branch.more...

Greener print production in sheetfed and web

German print enterprise Heider Druck in Bergisch Gladbach makes no secret of its driving passion, and this is reflected in its logo, “Ecological printing”. The owners have been vigorously greening up their production chain since the turn of the millennium. New technology promoting this goal has broadened their options for conserving natural resources while at the same time enhancing efficiency and profitability.more...

Alderson Thinks POS-itive!

2009 may have been the printing sector’s ‘annus horribilis’ but Alderson Print Group MD Peter Alderson remains as committed to the cause as the day he and brother Ron set out on their business odyssey fifty years ago.more...