Practical tips for professionals

 
Printing Koenig & Bauer's customer magazine, KBA Report No. 31, and a publication on inline coating provide a wealth of information.  
In just over three months, Drupa, the world's largest trade show for the print media industry, will begin. On 52 pages, KBA Report No. 31 deals with the central Drupa topics such as the increasing automation and digitalization of process sequences in offset printing with JDF, MIS through to CAM. Other topics include the growing importance of inline finishing, the high productivity potential of modern large-format presses in commercial, display and packaging printing, current brand protection options, book, telephone book and waterless offset printing for sheetfed and web, UV applications, eco-printing and much more. In the age of the Internet, however, major trade shows are no longer the only showcase for innovation. New products and processes are increasingly being presented at open house events. Back in September 2007, for example, KBA unveiled the new, compact and highly automated Commander CT wet offset press and DriveTronic SPC plate cylinder direct drive technology for the high-tech Rapida 105 medium-format press, which is geared to shorter runs. The user benefits of both innovations are described in practical terms in the KBA Report. Coating compendiumThe 4th edition of the KBA Process trade publication contains useful information on inline coating enhancement. The latest edition provides a comprehensive overview of the many variants of inline coating enhancement, types of coating, their properties and areas of application, film formation and drying, and interactions between the products used for printing and coating. It is also devoted to the structure of modern coating units and includes an excursus on offline gloss finishing. Other topics include physico-chemical relationships to coating transfer and application, flow and wetting processes, and requirements for consumables and auxiliary materials used in coating. Numerous overviews provide a comprehensive overview of the criteria to be observed when selecting coating types or anilox rollers, the properties of commercially available coating forms, and much more. The coating compendium is "spiced up" with reports on successful users and many practical tips from the KBA coating seminars held in the recent past. Business models for coating round off the 60-page technical information. Both brochures can be requested by e-mail: [email protected]
Sabine Flaxman