Sharing High Tech Press Advances

摘要

In preparing its slate of drupa offerings, KBA has distributed automation technologies across various sizes of its press platforms automation. Its new41.75″wide 18,000 sph Rapida 106, for example, incorporates DriveTronic SPC technology already in use on more than 300 of its model 105 units since it was introduced in Sept. 2007. For the 106, ink trains and plate cylinders are controlled by DriveTronic SPC, a dedicated plate cylinder drive system. This eliminates ink gearing, so plate changing and ink wash-up are unrestricted by press drive speeds. Ink trains in unused units, say on a 5-color run on an 8 unit press, can be disengaged, reducing drag, wear, and the need to lubricate and then clean up the idle units. Multiple units can clean up and change over in under 60 seconds. Shown at a March open house (with other machines described here) was an 8-color perfector Rapida 106 that ran three 500-sheet four-over-four jobs and changed over all in a total 16 minutes.