Nashville facility adds KBA Rapida 145 large format press

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KBA North America announces that Marshall & Bruce Printing Company, a specialist in general commercial printing, packaging and fulfillment services, has made a critical move into the large format arena by adding a new KBA Rapida 145 57-inch six-color press with coater and UV capabilities at its facility in Nashville, Tenn. The new press – installed in late summer – joins an existing KBA Genius 52 20-inch press and a KBA Rapida 105 41-inch seven-color press.

"Our decision to move into the large format market with the Rapida 145 57-inch press will help to separate ourselves from the highly-competitive general commercial printing industry and bring value-added services to our existing customer base," says Chip Smith, president of Marshall & Bruce. "We're seeing great interest in having this amazing press at our fingertips and able to offer even more capabilities to our customers. We're using the new Rapida 145 to more efficiently print our high-end point-of-purchase and packaging work on a variety of substrates and allow the Genius to focus on short-run jobs and our KBA Rapida 105 press to focus on high-end commercial work."

The press, which made its official debut at Drupa 2012, features such automation as the KBA SIS Sensoric sidelay-free infeed, the CleanTronic Synchro system (two washing beams) for simultaneous washing of ink rollers, blankets and impression cylinders parallel to plate changing, and additional parallel makeready processes that contribute to significantly higher net production output. 

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